Privacy
File storage is off on PasteApply right now. Temporarily off: saved profiles, the jobs board, referrals, the resume vault, draft history and Save. Nothing is charged for them. Your files come back with each draft and can be downloaded again for 2 hours. Free on PasteApply is a fixed sample right now: it shows what a tailored resume and cover letter look like, and no AI runs on free requests. Tailoring your own resume needs a plan.
What is kept, and for how long
Your Stripe customer record (metadata)
Holds: Only your own plan and usage: your Google account id (google_sub, to tie the plan to you) and one pa2 field with your plan, subscription id, status and start time, when it was last checked, its current billing period's start and end, that period's unlock count and the last few unlock receipts (hashes, no text).
Kept: While you have a Stripe customer record; Stripe keeps billing records as the law requires.
Your draft (posting, resume, tailored resume and letter)
Holds: Sent to the model provider (OpenAI) to tailor it, then returned to you in the response with the files.
Kept: Not stored on our side. The download link is an encrypted, signed token in your browser; it works for 2 hours and only for the same signed-in account.
Free samples
Holds: A fixed example posting and resume.
Kept: Nothing about you: no AI call, nothing stored.
Cookies
Holds: The Google sign-in session (signed); pa2_cus (signed link from your Google account to your Stripe customer, 30 days); pa_acct (signed count of this month's request allowance).
Kept: Until they expire or you sign out.
Request allowance counters
Holds: Per Google account, per UTC month, in server memory: free 300; $3 or $5 300; $10 Pro 3,150; $20 2,350.
Kept: Until the month ends or the server restarts.
Files saved before this change
Holds: Drafts, history, saved resumes and job posts stored before file storage was turned off.
Kept: Kept, not deleted, but they cannot be opened while storage is off. The automatic cleanup cannot run while storage is off either; it resumes when storage is back.
Who else sees it
Stripe (payments and the customer record above), Google (sign-in) and OpenAI (the tailoring for paid drafts). Card numbers go to Stripe only. We do not sell resume text.
Deleting your data
Account deletion on the site is temporarily off. Email support@pasteapply.com from your Google account's address and we will delete your data by hand, including your Stripe customer metadata. Cancel a plan anytime in Manage billing.