What We Collect
On Our Website
TenureTracker collects minimal data to provide our service:
- Email addresses: Only if you subscribe to job notifications
- Search queries: Search terms and filter selections used to provide search and improve the service
Through Social Media Posts
When we post job listings to Bluesky and Threads, we include short URLs that redirect to cached job listings on our website. We count public page requests at our Cloudflare edge and pages made visible in a browser, including pages served from cache:
- Anonymous traffic events: Event time, public site and page path, response status, cache outcome, and coarse crawler or browser classification. Each event has a random delivery identifier to prevent duplicate counting; it does not identify a visitor.
- UTM ingress categories: The source, medium, campaign, and page path supplied in a shared link, and recognized AI referrer categories, so we can measure which distribution channels reach the site. We do not store visitor identifiers or the URL query string.
- Crawler detection: We inspect the request user agent and available Cloudflare bot signals, then store only a classification and agent family. We do not store full user agents, IP addresses, full referrers, cookies, or visitor identifiers in analytics.
- Retention: Individual traffic events are retained for 90 days and daily totals for 13 months. Collection uses no analytics cookies or browser storage. Infrastructure processes network addresses transiently to deliver and rate-limit requests.
We do not use advertising cookies or third-party tracking scripts on the public site.
Cookies and Browser Storage
TenureTracker uses a small number of cookies and browser storage features that are intended to be functional or strictly necessary under EU ePrivacy rules.
- Login and security cookies: If you sign in to an internal/admin area, the site uses session-related cookies needed to keep you logged in and protect forms.
- Advertise access cookie: If you use the advertiser request inbox, the site stores a functional cookie so the inbox session works at
/advertise/requests.
- Theme preference: The public site stores your chosen light, dark, or automatic theme in browser
localStorage.
- Interface state: Some homepage filter and scroll-state preferences are stored in
localStorage or sessionStorage to keep the search interface usable.
We do not currently use a public analytics, advertising, or social-tracking cookie on the site.
How We Use Your Data
- Email addresses: To send you job notifications based on your preferences
- Search queries: To understand what jobs people are looking for and improve our search
- Traffic counts: To compare distribution channels and distinguish likely browser visits from detected crawlers. These are estimates and do not identify unique people.
Data Sharing
We don't sell, share, or give your data to anyone.
The public site does load some third-party static assets, currently Google Fonts and Font Awesome via external CDNs. Those providers may receive standard technical request data such as your IP address when your browser loads those files.
We may post anonymized job market statistics on social media (Bluesky, Threads), but these contain no personal information.
Your Rights
You can unsubscribe from emails at any time or contact us to delete your data.
Under GDPR, you have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data.
Security
We use HTTPS encryption and secure database storage.