Privacy policy

Silent Ridge exists so you can look for work without being seen. This policy says what we collect, why, and who sees it. We follow the Australian Privacy Principles.

The short version

• Employers can’t see who you are until you apply.
• We don’t sell your data, and we never use it to train AI.
• Our website metrics are blind: no cookies, no tracking, nothing that identifies you.

What we collect

• Your request: when you ask for access or contact us, what you type into the form.
• Your profile: built from your resume. Career history, skills, education, location, work rights and salary band.
• Your identity: name, email, phone, LinkedIn and suburb, kept separate from your profile.
• Your activity: roles you show interest in, applications, blocks and reports.

Who sees what

• Before you apply, employers see an anonymous profile only: no name, contact details, employer names, institutions or dates.
• When you apply for a role, only the company that posted it sees your full profile.
• Companies you block never see you, and aren’t told.
• Our team doesn’t browse profiles. Support access needs your request, and every view of your identity is logged.

Blind metrics

We count visits to this website with PostHog, set up so it can’t tell who you are:

• no cookies, and nothing stored on your device
• your IP address isn’t kept
• no session recordings, and no tracking across sites
• each visit gets a random ID that’s forgotten when you leave the page

We see totals, like how many people opened a page or pressed a button. Never who.

Who helps us

We share data only with the services that run Silent Ridge, and only what each one needs:

• Cloudflare hosts this website.
• Resend delivers form submissions to our inbox.
• PostHog counts visits, as above.
• Clerk handles sign-in.
• OpenAI reads your resume to build your profile. It doesn’t keep it or train on it. Your application letters are never read by AI.
• DigitalOcean hosts the app and its database in Sydney.

Some of these services are in the United States, so your data may be processed outside Australia. If you connect an AI assistant to Silent Ridge, what you ask passes through that assistant under its own terms.

Your choices

• Edit your profile and block companies at any time.
• Download your data, or ask us for a copy or a correction.
• Delete your account and you leave every pool straight away. Applications you’ve already sent stay with those companies.

Keeping it safe

Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. If a breach affects you, we’ll tell you, as the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme requires.

Questions or complaints

Contact us and we’ll reply within 30 days. If you’re not happy with our answer, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.