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Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2026

1. Introduction

JobScamScore is owned and operated by Niche Outcomes Limited ("we," "our," or "us"), a company incorporated in Samoa. JobScamScore is a trading name of Niche Outcomes Limited. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our job scam detection service (the "Service").

Our role. When you use JobScamScore directly through this website, Niche Outcomes Limited is the data controller. Where the Service is instead made available to you inside another company's product, under a partnership or bundled offering, that company is the controller and we act as a processor on its documented instructions under a separate written agreement. This policy describes the first case.

By using our Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Service.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide

  • Account Information: Email address and password (stored as a hashed value)
  • Job Posting Data: Whatever you submit for scanning. This is typically a job title, description and company name, but because you choose what to paste it may also include recruiter names, email addresses, phone numbers, message threads, screenshots and any other content contained in the material you submit
  • Usage Information: Your account and scan history

What we strip, and what we do not. Before your text is sent anywhere or stored, we automatically remove payment card numbers, bank account and IBAN numbers, sort codes, and national identifiers such as social security or National Insurance numbers. These are replaced with a placeholder, so the analysis can still tell that such details were requested without us holding the values.

We do not remove names, email addresses, phone numbers or company details, because those are exactly what the scam check examines. Whether a recruiter's address matches the company's real domain is one of the strongest fraud signals we have, and stripping it would stop the Service working rather than make it safer. This means anything else in the text you paste, including your own contact details and any private correspondence, is sent to the AI provider named in Section 4 and stored with your scan. Please remove anything you would rather we did not process before you submit it.

2.2 Automatically Collected Information

  • Usage Data: Scan history, timestamps, and service interaction data
  • IP Address: Collected for security and rate limiting purposes
  • Browser Information: User agent and device information for compatibility
  • Technical Data: Browser type, device information, and access times
  • Session Data: Authentication cookies and session tokens

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for the following purposes:

  • To provide, maintain, and improve our Service
  • To process your job scans and deliver analysis results
  • To manage your account
  • To send you service-related communications
  • To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
  • To comply with legal obligations

Marketing email. When you create an account we enrol you by default into a short sequence of onboarding and product emails. You can opt out at any time using the unsubscribe link in any of those messages, or by contacting us. We do not sell your address or pass it to third-party advertisers.

4. Third-Party Services

The following is our complete list of subprocessors: third parties that receive personal data as part of operating the Service. We keep this list current. If you spot something we use that is not named here, please tell us.

4.1 Vendors that receive scan content

  • xAI (SpaceXAI LLC), United States: receives the full job posting content you submit, together with our analysis prompts. This is the core of the Service. Under our agreement, submitted content is not used to train their models by default. We do not send your account email or password to xAI.
  • Jina Reader (Elastic N.V.), Netherlands and United States: used when you scan a URL rather than pasted text. It fetches and converts the target job page. It receives the URL you submit and the content of that page.
  • Google Cloud Vision (Google LLC), United States: used only when you upload a screenshot. It receives the image in order to extract text from it.
  • Serper.dev, United Kingdom: used to run verification searches. It receives short search strings only, typically an employer name and a job title. It does not receive the body of your posting or any screenshot.

4.2 Infrastructure

  • MongoDB Atlas (MongoDB, Inc.): our database. Stores your account, your scans and the content of those scans.
  • Vercel Inc.: hosting. Receives technical data including IP addresses and request logs.
  • Upstash, Inc.: stores rate-limiting counters. These are keyed on IP address, so an IP address is written here for a limited period.

4.3 Operations

  • Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.): error monitoring and session replay. See Section 6 for exactly what this captures, because it is more than most error tools.
  • Resend (Plus Five Five, Inc.): sends our transactional and sequence emails. Receives your email address.
  • Stripe, Inc.: payment processing. Receives your payment details directly. We never see or store your card number.
  • Google LLC: optional sign-in with Google. Receives authentication requests if you use it.

4.4 Not subprocessors

To verify that a job really exists we may query the public job-board endpoints of Greenhouse, Lever and Workable. Only a company identifier travels in those requests. No personal data of yours is sent, so we do not treat them as subprocessors.

5. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell your personal information. We may share your information only in the following circumstances:

  • Service Providers: With third-party vendors who perform services on our behalf (as listed in Section 4)
  • Legal Requirements: When required by law, court order, or government regulation
  • Business Transfers: In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets (with notice to users)
  • Protection of Rights: To protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our users

6. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information, including:

  • Passwords hashed with bcrypt
  • HTTPS enforced for all data transmission, with HSTS preload
  • Access controls and authentication requirements
  • A content security policy, clickjacking protection and strict referrer policy
  • Cloud infrastructure operated by MongoDB Atlas and Vercel

What we do not have. We are a small independent product. We do not hold SOC 2, ISO 27001 or any equivalent third-party attestation, and we have not commissioned an external penetration test. Our security review to date has been internal. We would rather tell you that than imply a level of assurance we cannot evidence.

6.1 Error monitoring and session replay

We use Sentry to detect and diagnose faults. You should know what this captures, because it is more than a plain error log:

  • We record a replay of roughly one in ten browsing sessions, and a replay of any session in which an error occurs.
  • Replays have text masking and media blocking enabled, so the job text you type and any screenshot you upload are not captured in readable form. What is captured is the shape of your interaction: pages, clicks and timings.
  • If you are signed in, your account email address is attached to error events so we can trace a specific report.
  • Sentry traffic is routed through our own domain, which has the side effect of not being blocked by ad-blocking extensions.

However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your data, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

7.1 General Rights

  • Access: Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you
  • Correction: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
  • Deletion: Request deletion of your personal information
  • Portability: Request transfer of your data to another service
  • Objection: Object to processing of your personal information

7.2 GDPR Rights (EU Users)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have additional rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

7.3 CCPA Rights (California Users)

If you are a California resident, you have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including the right to know what personal information is collected and the right to opt-out of the sale of personal information (we do not sell personal information).

7.4 How to actually exercise them

Rights that exist only on paper are not rights, so here are the working routes:

  • Access and portability: sign in and use Your data and privacy to download everything we hold on your account as a JSON file, immediately and without asking us.
  • Deletion: the same page permanently deletes your account, your scan history, your reports and your subscription records. If you have an active subscription, cancel it first so billing stops cleanly.
  • Correction, objection, and anything else: email privacy@jobscamscore.com. We aim to respond within 30 days.

One honest limitation. Scans run without signing in are stored with no link to any person, so we cannot locate them in order to export or erase them. If that matters to you, sign in before scanning.

8. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to:

  • Provide our Service to you
  • Comply with legal obligations
  • Resolve disputes and enforce agreements

Retention Periods:

  • Account Data: retained until you delete your account.
  • Job scans, including the posting content you submitted: retained indefinitely until you ask us to delete them or delete your account. We do not currently apply an automatic expiry to scan records.
  • Performance cache: a separate short-term cache of scan results expires automatically after 7 days.
  • Rate-limiting counters: held by Upstash for the length of the relevant rate-limit window only.
  • Diagnostic logs: retained indefinitely at present. We do not yet run an automatic purge, and we would rather say so than quote a schedule we do not enforce.

You may delete your account at any time, which deletes your account record and your scan history, subject to legal retention requirements. See Section 7 for how.

One limitation you should know about. Scans run without signing in are stored with no link to any person. Because there is nothing connecting such a record to you, we cannot find it in order to delete it on request. If you want a scan to be deletable, run it while signed in.

9. Information about people who are not our users

This section is for recruiters, hiring managers and company representatives whose details appear in job postings that other people submit to us. You will not have given us this information yourself, and you may never have heard of us. Data protection law requires us to explain what we do, so here it is plainly.

9.1 What we hold and why

When a user submits a job posting, it often contains a contact name, email address or phone number. To detect scam networks, which typically reuse the same contact details across many fake postings, we keep a record of those details along with the companies they have appeared alongside, when we first and last saw them, and a reputation score derived from the postings they appear in. Our lawful basis is legitimate interests: specifically, protecting job seekers from recruitment fraud, which is a serious and widespread harm. We have weighed that against the privacy interests of the people recorded.

9.2 The consequences

A record in this database can influence how future postings associated with the same contact details are scored, and can contribute to a posting being assessed as higher risk. No decision with legal or similarly significant effect is made automatically about you. Our published pages are reviewed by a person before anything appears publicly, and we do not publish a directory of scored individuals.

9.3 Your rights, and how to use them

You have the right to ask what we hold about you, to have inaccurate information corrected, to object to this processing, and in certain circumstances to have your information erased. Because we hold contact details rather than accounts, the quickest route is to email us from the address in question, or to tell us the name, email address or phone number you are asking about.

Contact privacy@jobscamscore.com. We aim to respond within 30 days. If you believe a posting has been wrongly associated with you, tell us and we will review it: we would rather correct a record than defend one.

10. Children's Privacy

Our Service is not intended for users under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you believe we have collected information from a child under 18, please contact us immediately.

11. International Data Transfers

Niche Outcomes Limited is incorporated in Samoa. Several of the subprocessors listed in Section 4 are established in the United States, and others in the United Kingdom and Europe. Your information is therefore transferred outside the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area whenever you use the Service, and it is processed by companies in more than one country.

We are being specific here because the position matters. We rely on each vendor's own published data processing terms, which in several cases incorporate Standard Contractual Clauses. We have not yet executed our own separate transfer agreements, such as an International Data Transfer Agreement or a UK Addendum, with each vendor, and we have not completed a formal transfer risk assessment. That work is in progress. We would rather describe our actual position than assert safeguards we cannot produce on request.

If this matters to your decision to use the Service, please contact us before submitting anything, and please do not submit content you would not want processed in the United States.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us: