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What Scout Jobs collects, why, who helps us run it, how long we keep it, and what you can do about it. Plain words, no tricks.
Effective November 6, 2026. BeChosen (Performance Marketer LLC) runs Scout Jobs at scoutjob.ai.
Who we are
Scout Jobs (“Scout”) is a job-search agent run by BeChosen, a d/b/a of Performance Marketer LLC (“BeChosen”, “we”, “us”). You use it through scoutjob.ai and through the AI apps you connect it to, like Claude or ChatGPT.
Contact: scout@scoutjob.ai, or by mail at BeChosen (Performance Marketer LLC), 1 Blue Hill Plaza, Suite 1509, Pearl River, NY 10965.
What we collect
Only what Scout needs to work for you:
- Your account: your email address, your name if you give it, and the sign-in ID from our sign-in provider. If you came through one of our sign-up pages, also the answers you gave there and the page you came from.
- Your Career ID: your resume (text or file), your LinkedIn profile or text, your answers to Scout's questions, your biggest challenge, your job preferences (titles, places, remote, pay, employers to skip), and what Scout learns about your strengths.
- Your work with Scout: notes, documents Scout saves for you (resumes, cover letters, Showcase drafts), job matches, companies you watch, and the applications you track and their status.
- Your phone number, only if you add it. Scout texts or calls it only after you tick the texts and calls box and confirm the number with a code.
- Consent records: what you agreed to (email, texts, calls, Telegram), the exact wording you saw, its version, which channels it covers, when, and the page or app where you agreed. For texts and calls we also keep the IP address the agreement came from, as proof of your consent.
- Connected AI apps: which apps you connected and when they last used Scout, and the access tokens and Scout keys that let them in (we store these as one-way hashes, not in readable form).
- Connected email and calendar: if you connect Gmail, Google Calendar or a Microsoft account (Outlook, Hotmail, Live or Microsoft 365), the address you connected, the permissions you granted, and the access tokens for it, stored encrypted (AES-256), never in readable form.
- Emails Scout sends for you: a copy of each email to a hiring team, kept in Scout's records (a blind copy to Scout's own log address) so we can show you what went out and handle any reply or opt-out. Deleted with your account.
- Payments: what you bought, receipts, and Stripe's customer and payment-method IDs. We never see or store your card number.
- Usage: which Scout outcomes you used and how often, and a log of what Scout's own AI work cost.
- Visits to our home page: when it is opened and which buttons are tapped, with the version of the page, the ad or link you came from and your country. Scout counts visits to its own site to see which pages help; team and test visits are left out. Each visit is saved with a random code your browser makes for itself, not your name or email. If you sign up, that code is kept with your account so Scout can see how you found it. We keep no name, email, IP address or browser details with the visits.
- Messages: the messages Scout sends you, and your replies to Scout's emails, texts and Telegram messages, saved as notes or answers (for emails, only your reply, without the quoted part). To check that emails really come from you, we keep a short sample of email headers.
Our hosting provider handles standard request data, like your IP address, to deliver and protect the service. We use your IP address briefly, in memory, to limit abuse of app sign-up and of home page visits; we do not store it, except with a consent to texts and calls, as described above.
Why we use it
- To run Scout for you: build your Career ID, find and rank jobs, prepare truthful applications, track them and brief you.
- To keep one memory across every AI app you connect.
- To send the alerts and messages you chose (email, text, phone call, Telegram), and service messages like receipts.
- To tell you about Scout and other BeChosen products and offers, by email, and by text or phone call only if you agreed to them (see Marketing messages).
- To take payments, send receipts and handle undo requests.
- To keep Scout safe: stop abuse, check that messages are really from you, and fix problems.
We do not use your account data for anyone else's advertising, and we do not sell it. Our home page's ad pixels are described under Cookies.
Marketing messages: email, texts and calls
Email. When you create an account you see: “Scout will email you job matches, updates, tips and offers from Scout and BeChosen. Unsubscribe anytime.” Our marketing emails say who they are from, carry a working unsubscribe link and our postal address, and never use a misleading subject or sender. An unsubscribe takes effect right away, and always within 10 business days.
Texts and calls. Scout texts or calls you for marketing only if you tick the texts and calls box yourself (it is never ticked for you) and confirm your number with a code. The box says: “Text and call me with job matches, updates, tips and offers from Scout and BeChosen (Performance Marketer LLC) at the number I give, including autodialed texts and calls and prerecorded or artificial voice messages. Msg & data rates may apply. Msg frequency varies. Consent is not a condition of purchase. Reply STOP to opt out, HELP for help. I can withdraw consent any time by any reasonable means.” Ticking it is your prior express written consent, signed electronically, to receive texts and calls from BeChosen (Performance Marketer LLC) at that number, including ones sent with an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice. Consent is not a condition of any purchase. Message and data rates may apply; message frequency varies. Reply STOP to any text to stop texts and calls, or HELP for help. Scout does not call during your quiet hours.
Changing your mind. You can withdraw consent to any channel at any time by any reasonable means: reply STOP, say so on a call, tell Scout, use the unsubscribe link, email scout@scoutjob.ai, or write to us at BeChosen (Performance Marketer LLC), 1 Blue Hill Plaza, Suite 1509, Pearl River, NY 10965. We stop within the time the law allows, and usually at once. A stop given through Scout stops that channel on every Scout site.
What we record. For each agreement: the time, the page or app, the exact wording you saw and its version, the channels it covers and, for texts and calls, your number and the IP address it came from. We keep it while your account is open and, after an opt-out, as long as we need to prove what you agreed to and when you stopped.
AI processing
Your own AI app (Claude, ChatGPT or another) reads and writes your Career ID through Scout when you use it. What you say there is handled under that app's own privacy policy.
Some of Scout's work runs on our side using Anthropic's API: tailored resumes, cover letters, fit reviews, your diagnosis report and short notes. For that we send Anthropic the parts of your Career ID and the job details the task needs. Under its commercial terms, Anthropic does not train its models on content we send through its API.
Scout does not use data from Google APIs or from your Microsoft account to develop, improve or train generalized AI or machine-learning models, and does not send it to anyone to do so.
Google Calendar and Gmail
If you connect your Google account on scoutjob.ai, Scout asks Google for these permissions and uses each one for one thing:
- See when you're free (calendar.freebusy): to show open times on your booking page. Scout reads free and busy blocks only, never the titles or details of your events.
- Add and change events (calendar.events): to put an interview on your calendar with a Meet link when an employer books one, and to update or cancel that event. Scout only touches events it created.
- Send email (gmail.send): to send the emails to hiring teams that you approved, and their follow-ups, from your own Gmail address. Each email's Reply-To is your Scout address (you@mailhaven.io), so replies are recorded on your application and a copy is sent to you. Scout sends at most 20 a day from your Gmail, each with an unsubscribe link. Scout cannot read your inbox, your contacts or any email it did not send.
What Scout keeps from Google: the free and busy blocks it just showed (not stored), the id of each interview event it created, and each email it sent, as Scout wrote it. Nothing is read from your Gmail. Google data is used only to provide these features to you; it is never used for advertising, never sold, never used to train generalized AI or machine-learning models, and never shared with anyone except the service providers that run Scout for you, listed below, and only as far as the feature needs, or when the law requires it. People at BeChosen do not read your Google data except with your permission to fix a problem, for security, or when the law requires it.
You can disconnect Google at any time on your Connections page (scoutjob.ai/calendar or scoutjob.ai/mail/connect), or at myaccount.google.com/permissions. Disconnecting revokes Scout's access right away; the emails and events already recorded stay in your account under How long we keep it, and go when your account is deleted.
Scout's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Outlook, Hotmail and Microsoft 365
If you connect a Microsoft account, Scout asks Microsoft for these permissions and uses each one for one thing:
- Send mail as you (Mail.Send): to send the emails to hiring teams you approved from your own address, with the same Reply-To, daily limit of 20 and unsubscribe link as Gmail.
- Your basic profile (User.Read): for your address and name on the From line.
- Offline access: so the connection keeps working without you signing in again.
Scout cannot read your mailbox. Tokens are stored encrypted. Microsoft data is used only for these features, never sold, never used for advertising and never used to train generalized AI or machine-learning models.
Disconnect on your Connections page (scoutjob.ai/mail/connect); to remove Scout fully, remove it in your Microsoft account's app permissions (account.microsoft.com, Privacy, Apps and services).
Cookies
To sign you in and keep forms safe, Scout uses:
- scout_session: keeps you signed in for 14 days after your last visit.
- scout_auth_csrf and scout_csrf: protect sign-in and forms from forgery, for 15 and 30 minutes.
- scout_switch: remembers for 2 minutes that you chose to switch accounts.
- scout_pkce: secures the sign-in handshake, for 10 minutes.
To know how you found Scout:
- sj_attr: set by our home page on scoutjob.ai. For 90 days it remembers how you first and last came to the page (the ad, link or partner you came from, the page you landed on and the site that sent you) and which version of the page you saw, with a random code for your browser. The sign-up buttons carry the same random code, so a sign-up can be credited to it. The page keeps the same details in your browser's local storage (sj_ft, sj_lt and sj_ref), and the name and email you enter for your diagnosis (sj_lead). Until you close the tab, it also keeps your first name and your diagnosis in session storage (sj_diag), so a refresh shows your diagnosis again.
- scout_ref: remembers for 90 days the creator whose link you followed, so they are credited if you sign up.
- sj_team: only in the browsers of Scout's own team and test accounts, for a year, so their visits are left out of our counts.
Ad pixels: when we run ads, our home page also loads Meta's pixel and Google's tag (and TikTok's pixel, if we add it). They tell those companies when someone opens the page, adds a resume or leaves an email, along with your IP address and their own cookies (such as _fbp and _ga), so we can see which ads work. Those companies may also use this for their own advertising. They load only on the home page, never on the rest of scoutjob.ai, and only while one is turned on in the page's settings.
While sign-in moves between providers, the sign-in page loads Clerk's sign-in tools and Cloudflare's bot check, which keep their own cookies on their own domains. Other than these, Scout uses no advertising or analytics cookies and no outside analytics scripts.
How long we keep it
- Reply addresses in Scout's emails stop working after 30 days, and we delete them 30 days after that.
- Email header samples: deleted after 14 days.
- The résumé and answer you give for the free diagnosis on our home page, before you have an account: kept for about 48 hours. If you create your account in that time in the same browser, they become the start of your Career ID, so you don't give them again; if not, they are deleted. If that browser asks us for a sign-in link or creates an account, the link we email carries a code for them that works only for that email address, so when you open it in another browser and sign in with that address, we can ask whether to use them. We store nothing more for this.
- Records of finished AI tasks and daily AI cost logs: deleted after 30 days.
- Everything else (your account, Career ID, notes, documents, applications, copies of the emails Scout sent for you, consent records and purchases) is kept while your account is open, so Scout can keep working for you.
Scout does not delete accounts on its own. To delete your account and data, email scout@scoutjob.ai from your account email. We delete it within 30 days, except records the law requires us to keep (such as payment records) and the record of an opt-out, which we keep so we never message you again by mistake.
Your choices
- See or take your data: ask Scout in your AI app for an export of everything Scout holds about you.
- Fix it: tell Scout, or edit it in your AI app; your Career ID changes only when you say so.
- Delete it: email scout@scoutjob.ai.
- Stop messages: unsubscribe from any email, reply STOP to any text (it stops calls too), or send /stop to the Telegram bot. Any other reasonable way of telling us works too.
- Disconnect your email: on your Connections page (scoutjob.ai/mail/connect), or in your Google or Microsoft account's permissions.
- Disconnect an app: sign Scout out of it under Sign in and sign out on your Account page (scoutjob.ai/app/me/more/account), where you can also sign out everywhere, or remove Scout in that app's settings. Turn off a personal Scout key at scoutjob.ai/account/keys.
We will not treat you differently for using any of these choices.
Security
Connections are encrypted. Access tokens and keys for AI apps are stored as one-way hashes. Tokens for the Google or Microsoft account you connect are stored encrypted (AES-256) and used only to do what you turned on. Anything that sends, applies, publishes or charges needs your own tap on a scoutjob.ai page, or a schedule you set. No system is perfectly secure; if something goes wrong that affects you, we will tell you.
Age and location
Scout is for people 18 and older, and it is built for job searches in the United States. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 18; if you think we have, email us and we will delete it.
Changes
If we change this policy, we update the date at the top. If a change matters, we tell you before it applies. This version: November 6, 2026.
Questions? Email scout@scoutjob.ai.