Privacy policy

Short version: without an account, your documents never leave your browser. With an account, we store your email, a hashed password and the documents you save. No ads, no analytics, no tracking, and nothing is sold.

Who we are

ScholarlyVitae (scholarlyvitae.com) is an online builder for CVs, resumes and cover letters. Questions about privacy go to help@scholarlyvitae.com.

Using the site without an account

• Your documents are saved only in your browser's local storage on your device. They are not sent to us.
• One cookie, vid: a random identifier kept for one year. It contains no personal information. Its only purpose is to link a pass to your browser if you buy one.
• Your theme choice (light or dark) is saved in your browser's local storage.

Using the site with a free account

• Email address: to identify your account.
• Password: stored only as an Argon2 hash. We can't read your password.
• Documents you save to your account: stored so you can open them on other devices.
• Session cookie, sid: keeps you logged in for up to 30 days. Logging out deletes the session.

We use this information only to run your account. We don't sell it, share it for advertising, or use your documents for anything other than showing them back to you.

Cookies

We use only the two strictly necessary cookies described above (vid and sid). Both are first-party, HTTP-only and sent only over HTTPS. There are no advertising or analytics cookies, so there is no cookie banner.

Services we rely on

• Fly.io hosts the site and its database. Like any web host, their network may briefly process your IP address to deliver pages.
• Cloudflare provides our domain name service and forwards email sent to our addresses.

Fonts are served from our own server, so loading the site makes no requests to Google or other font services.

Payments

Passes are not on sale yet. When they are, payments will be handled by a payment provider, and we will update this policy before then. We will never see or store your full card details.

How long we keep data

• Account documents stay until you delete them or your account.
• Expired login sessions stop working automatically.
• We keep daily backups of the database for 14 days, so deleted data can remain in backups for up to 14 days.

Your choices and rights

• Export: download any document as PDF, plain text or a JSON backup from the editor.
• Delete documents at any time from My documents.
• Delete your account: email help@scholarlyvitae.com from your account's email address, and we will delete the account and its documents.
• Browser-only data can be removed by clearing this site's data in your browser.

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR in the EU/UK or the CCPA in California), you may have rights to access, correct, delete or port your data, and to object to processing. Email us to use any of them.

Children

The site is not directed at children under 16, and we don't knowingly collect their information.

Changes

If we change how we handle data, for example by adding payments, we will update this page and the date at the top before the change takes effect.