Privacy Policy
Lodestar — lodestarjobsearch.io
Effective: September 24, 2026 Last updated: September 26, 2026
The Lodestar application (the “App”) and website, join.lodestarjobsearch.io (the “Website”), are operated by Silver Lining Technologies, Inc., a Texas corporation (“Lodestar,” “we,” “us”). This policy explains what we collect, what we do with it, who else touches it, and what you can do about it. This policy does not address the privacy practices of any third parties that we do not own or control.
If something here is unclear, email us at info@silverlining.tech.
Who can use Lodestar. Lodestar is currently available only to users in the United States who are 18 or older. If you reside outside of the United States, or if you are below the age of 18, you are not authorized to use Lodestar. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has created an account, contact us at info@silverlining.tech.
1. The short version
We collect your résumé, the profile we parse from it, your job preferences, and your email address.
We use that information to find jobs, assess your fit honestly, discover a relevant contact at the hiring company, and draft outreach documents for you to review and send.
We do not use your résumé, your profile, your job-search history, or the documents we draft for you to train AI models — ours or anyone else’s.
We do not pool your information with other users’ to build reports or data products, and no one pays us for access to you.
We do not send emails or other correspondence to anyone on your behalf. You send any desired communication from your own mailbox.
We don’t sell your personal information, and we don’t run advertising trackers. If Lodestar itself is ever sold or merged, your information may transfer with the business (Section 9).
You can export your data or delete your account from inside the App at any time (Profile → Account).
2. What we collect
Information you voluntarily give us
Your résumé. The PDF you upload, retained in its original form.
Your parsed profile. The structured information we extract from your résumé — work history, titles, dates, skills, education, and similar professional details.
Your job preferences. Titles, locations, seniority, compensation expectations, work arrangement, and other criteria you set.
Your email address, which is also your sign-in name, and your password. Your password is held only by our sign-in provider (Amazon Cognito); we never see or store it.
Any information you provide to us when you contact us — information you may disclose about yourself in support emails, website or contact forms, or other feedback.
Information we generate
Fit assessments, rankings, and the reasoning behind them.
Drafted outreach documents and application materials.
Records of the jobs you pursue and the contacts surfaced for those pursuits (see Section 6).
Information collected automatically
Basic product usage — features used, actions taken, timestamps — used to operate and improve the service.
Standard technical data associated with your requests, such as IP address and browser type, used for security, abuse prevention, and troubleshooting.
When you sign up or sign in, our security systems also record your approximate location (country), device and browser details, and a device fingerprint used to recognize devices you’ve used before. These are kept for security and abuse prevention for up to 90 days.
On our Website, cookieless analytics (Section 8).
Information from our Website
Your email address, when you join the waitlist.
An optional answer to “where are you right now?” — laid off, quietly looking, or actively searching. The question is optional and you can join the waitlist without answering it. We use the answer only to tailor the waitlist updates we send you.
Which form on the page you signed up through.
This information is held by our email provider, Loops (Section 5). Website analytics are separate and are covered in Section 8.
Payment information. When paid plans become available, payments will be processed by Stripe. Stripe collects and handles your card details directly, and Stripe’s handling of your information is described in its Privacy Policy. We never see or store your full payment card number. We will describe what Stripe shares with us, and how transaction records are kept, before paid plans launch.
3. How we use it
We use your information to:
Parse your résumé into a working profile.
Find and rank job opportunities against that profile.
Give you honest, decomposed feedback on your fit for a role — including where you fall short.
Discover a relevant professional contact at the hiring organization.
Draft outreach and application documents for you to review, edit, and send yourself.
Send you the emails described in Section 5.
Operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the product.
Comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms of Service.
We do not use your information for advertising, and we do not build profiles about you for any purpose other than performing the services you ask us to.
4. AI processing — and what we do not do with your résumé
Lodestar uses AI to parse your résumé, rank and assess jobs, and draft documents.
We do not use your résumé, your profile, your job-search history, or the documents we draft for you to train AI models — ours or anyone else’s. Our AI providers are engaged under commercial terms that prohibit training on your content.
AI processing runs on Amazon Bedrock, and on Amazon Textract for scanned files, both inside our own Amazon Web Services account. The full text of your résumé, including your contact details, is processed by these services to parse it, and again each time we prepare documents for a job you pursue. The original file you uploaded is kept until you delete your account. Amazon states that Bedrock does not store your content, share it with model providers, or use it for training; we have additionally opted out of all AWS AI service-improvement data use across our account.
AI processing runs within Amazon Web Services regions in the United States. Depending on capacity, a given request may be handled in any of several US regions. We do not process your content outside the United States.
We do not send your résumé content to any third-party service outside our AWS environment. The outside services we rely on receive narrowly scoped inputs and nothing more:
Our job-data provider (TheirStack) receives your search criteria and the city or town you enter as a work location, to match postings near it.
Our contact-discovery provider (Apollo.io) receives only a company domain or company name and role filters.
Our email-verification provider (MillionVerifier) receives only email addresses for contacts we have discovered, including addresses we construct from a company’s usual email format in order to check them.
We do not provide your résumé or profile content to any analytics tool.
5. Emails we send
Daily digest. Job matches and pursuit activity. Every digest includes one-click unsubscribe. Unsubscribing takes effect for the next digest; a digest already being sent may still arrive. Unsubscribing stops digest emails only — your scheduled searches continue, and package-ready notices still send.
Transactional and account emails. Account confirmation, sign-in codes, password resets, security notices, export-ready notifications, package-ready notifications, billing receipts (when paid plans exist), and service announcements. These are necessary to operate your account and are not subject to marketing unsubscribe, though you can end them by deleting your account.
Product updates and promotional information. Occasionally, we may inform you about upcoming promotions, product developments, or other updates via email. You can unsubscribe from these emails at any time.
Product and account emails — including the daily digest — are delivered by Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) from within our AWS environment. Waitlist and certain marketing emails are delivered by Loops, which holds your email address, the optional answer you gave to “where are you right now?”, and which form you signed up through. Loops uses this information to send and tailor those messages (Section 2).
We do not send email to a discovered contact on your behalf. Lodestar drafts; you send, from your own mailbox, under your own name.
6. Information about third-party contacts
To help you reach a real human rather than an applicant-tracking void, Lodestar surfaces professional contact information for people at hiring organizations. Because this is information about people who are not our users, we want to be direct about where it comes from and what we hold.
Where it comes from. This information comes from two kinds of sources. The first is aggregated business contact data obtained from our contact-discovery provider, ZenLeads Inc., d/b/a Apollo.io, which compiles it from publicly available professional sources. The second is information employers publish themselves: a name, title, or email address in the job posting, in the employer’s public job listing, or on the employer’s public careers or team pages. From a name we find, we may also construct a likely email address using the company’s usual email format, and we check it before showing it to you. We do not collect this information from the individuals themselves, and we are not the origin or owner of it.
What we store. For a given pursuit, we store the candidate contacts we evaluate, along with our internal ranking and outcome. For contacts we actually surface to you, we store the contact’s name, professional title, LinkedIn profile URL, email address, and verification metadata.
Phone numbers are never stored or displayed. Our systems have no field for them.
How it’s scoped. Contact records are attached to a single pursuit — one user pursuing one specific job. There is no shared or company-keyed contact database. If two users pursue the same company, each triggers independent discovery and results in independent records. Contact records are deleted in full when you delete your account (see Section 12 for backups).
Verification. Discovered and constructed addresses are checked via a verification service (MillionVerifier), which may hold an address for up to seven days before deleting it automatically.
We do not contact these individuals. Lodestar sends no email to a discovered contact. Any outreach comes from the user, from the user’s own mailbox.
If you are a contact and have questions. We accept and process inquiries about contact information at info@silverlining.tech. Because this information originates with third-party data providers and public professional sources rather than with us, requests to be removed from the underlying data set need to be directed to those sources: for data from Apollo.io, to Apollo, whose privacy and opt-out processes are published on their website, www.apollo.io; for information an employer published on its own pages, to that employer.
7. Where your data lives and how it’s protected
Your data is stored in Amazon Web Services data centers in the United States. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit. Access is limited to what’s necessary to operate the service. Some of our service providers may process information outside the United States; what each receives is described in Sections 4, 5, and 6.
No system is perfectly secure, and we won’t claim otherwise. We use industry-standard controls appropriate to the sensitivity of the information involved. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases or the databases of the third parties with which any of your information may be shared, nor can we guarantee that the information you share will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the internet. In particular, email sent to us may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email.
8. Analytics and cookies
Our Website uses cookieless, privacy-preserving analytics (PostHog). We do not use advertising trackers or cross-site tracking, and nothing is stored on your device by the Website.
The App stores your sign-in session and a remembered-device key on your device so you stay signed in and so we can recognize devices you’ve used; nothing on your device is used for tracking.
If we ever change how analytics work in a way that stores information on your device, we will update this policy and provide the appropriate consent controls before doing so.
9. We don’t sell your personal information
We do not sell, rent, or license your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
We share information only with the service providers described in this policy, who process it directly or indirectly on our behalf under contract and may use it only for the purposes specified in that contract. We also share information where required by law, valid legal process, or to protect the rights and safety of our users or the public.
The one exception is a business transfer. If Lodestar is ever involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may transfer with the business. We will notify you before your information is transferred and before it becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
10. We don’t pool your data with anyone else’s
Lodestar builds a picture of your career in order to work for you — and only for you. We do not combine your information with other people’s information to build products, insights, or reports. This is a commitment about how Lodestar is built, not a description of our current plans.
We do not build aggregate data products from user information, anonymized or otherwise. No market reports drawn from our users. No benchmarking built on other people’s résumés, searches, or outcomes. No cross-user model training or tuning of any kind.
We do not show you to employers or recruiters. No one pays us for access to you.
We are not paid by any employer. Lodestar is paid by you, and by nobody else. That is the whole design.
Three things sit outside this commitment. We would rather name them than have you find them.
What we learn from you, for you. Everything we learn about your search is used to improve your results — yours, and no one else’s. That is the product (Section 3).
What your searches cost us. We track the cost of running your searches — how many postings we pulled, contacts we revealed, and documents we generated — so we can operate the business. After you delete your account, these survive only as anonymous totals with no link to you (Section 11).
Job postings from our data providers. Job listings come from third parties and are not your or our data. They remain in our catalog after you leave, carrying no connection to you.
We do not sell, rent, or license your personal information except as otherwise stated in this Policy (Section 9). We do not use your résumé, your profile, your job-search history, or the documents we draft for you to train AI models (Section 4). Your rights to export and delete information are set forth in Section 11.
11. Your rights and controls
Export. You can export your data from inside the App at any time (Profile → Account). We generate a zip archive containing your information, available for download for 7 days. The download link expires, and it works only for you.
Deletion. You can delete your account from inside the App at any time (Profile → Account). We disable your sign-in upon your deletion, then permanently destroy your résumé files, parsed profile, preferences, pursuits, fit assessments and rankings, contact records, and drafted documents. Three things survive, and we want to be plain about each: anonymous cost totals with no link to you; a one-way scrambled version of your email address, kept for at least 30 days purely to stop abuse of our free tier and then removed by the next daily sweep; and, if you joined our founding waitlist, a one-way scrambled version of your email address in our founding registry, so your founding price is honored if you ever come back. Neither scrambled version contains your email in readable form, and they cannot be joined to each other.
Cancelling a paid plan is not the same as deleting your account. If you cancel a subscription, your account continues on the free plan and your data stays. Deletion is a separate, deliberate action you take in the App.
Correction and access. You can view and correct your profile in the App. If you need something we don’t expose directly, email us.
California residents. If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information we collect and how we use it, to request a copy, to request deletion, to request correction, and to opt out of sale or sharing (we do neither). You also have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. Exercise them through the in-app export and deletion tools, or by emailing info@silverlining.tech. We will verify requests through the email address associated with your account.
12. How long we keep things
Active accounts. We retain your information for as long as your account is active, on any plan, free or paid. Job searches are episodic — people come back years later — and we keep your profile so you can pick up where you left off.
Dormant accounts. If an account has no activity for 24 months, we email you at least 30 days before deletion, giving you the chance to sign in and keep your data or export it. If the account remains dormant, we delete it on the same terms as user-initiated deletion described above.
Email delivery records. We keep records of email bounces and complaints for your address while your account exists, so we stop sending to addresses that reject our mail. These are purged with your account.
Billing records. We will describe how transaction and billing records are kept here before paid plans launch.
Backups. Deleted data may persist briefly in encrypted backups before being overwritten in the ordinary course.
13. Changes to this policy
If we make material changes, we will notify you by email and update the date at the top of this page before the changes take effect. Continued use after that means you accept the updated policy.
14. Contact us
Silver Lining Technologies, Inc.
1005 Congress Avenue, Suite 925-F49, Austin, TX 78701, United States
info@silverlining.tech