Cookie Policy

The short version

ResumeQuill sets one cookie of its own, and it is there to keep you signed in. Everything else it puts on your device is browser storage rather than a cookie, it stays on your device, and it is there so the editor does not lose your work between page loads.

There is no advertising cookie, no cross-site tracking pixel, and nothing that follows you to another site.

The sign-in cookie

When you sign in, an authentication cookie is set by NextAuth. It holds a signed token identifying your account and your current plan status, so the server can tell whether to open the editor without reading the database on every request.

It is required. Blocking it means sign-in cannot complete, and with it the editor, downloads and the dashboard are all unreachable.

It is cleared when you sign out. Signing out also clears the editor draft and the session items described below, so a shared or public computer is not left holding the last person's draft.

What the editor keeps on your device

These are browser storage, not cookies. They are never sent to the server on their own, and they are readable only by this site in the browser that wrote them.

"resume-storage" holds the resume you are editing along with your template, color, font and photo choices. It exists so that a reload does not lose an unsaved draft, and so the preview can paint immediately rather than after a round trip.

"resume-import-pending" is a one-word marker, kept only for the current browser tab, that notes your resume was just imported from a file. The first save after an import reads it and clears it, so the version history can label that save as an import.

A resume you upload before creating an account is kept in your browser's IndexedDB storage, with a small "pending-cv" marker beside it, for up to 24 hours. It is what lets you upload first and sign up afterwards, rather than being asked for an account before the product has shown you anything.

"pending-interview-answers" holds the answers you give to the guided questions before creating an account, for up to 24 hours, so they are not lost while you sign up.

"ai_suggestions" and "ai_target_role" hold the state of an AI review while you are deciding on it, so moving between tabs does not discard the suggestions you have not answered yet.

"editor-tab" remembers which editor tab you had open, so returning to the editor puts you back where you were.

The demo keeps a note that you closed its walkthrough, so it is not shown to you again.

You can clear all of this at any time through your browser's site-data controls. Doing so loses any draft, upload or answers that have not been saved to your account yet, and nothing else.

Requests a page makes to other companies

Some pages load resources from third parties, and those companies can see the request, which means your IP address and browser.

Checkout is hosted by Stripe. Starting a purchase sends you to Stripe's own page, where Stripe sets its own cookies under its own policy. Card details are entered there and never reach ResumeQuill.

Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, on the site and inside generated PDFs.

Signing in with Google is optional and only contacts Google if you choose it.

The landing page and the dashboard load avatar images from an external avatar service, DiceBear. On the landing page they are decorative and carry no account information. On the dashboard, if your account has no profile image, a generated avatar is loaded instead, and that request includes your email address as the value the picture is generated from.

Analytics

ResumeQuill sets no analytics or advertising cookies of its own.

Where the application is deployed behind a platform that provides its own request logging, that platform may record standard access information such as IP address, path and user agent. That is infrastructure logging rather than a cookie, and it is not used to build a profile of you.

Managing all of it

Every browser can block or clear cookies and site data, usually under privacy or site settings, and can do so for this site alone.

Blocking the sign-in cookie prevents sign-in, checkout and every paid feature from working. Clearing browser storage is safe for anything already saved to your account and loses only what has not been saved to it yet.

Changes

If the storage this site uses changes, this page changes with it. The date below is the last time it was revised.

If you have questions about anything here, contact us.