Cookie policy

Last updated: 12 November 2026

In short

Three essential cookies run free searches, abuse limits and Google sign-in. We use no advertising or tracking cookies.
Three items in your browser's storage remember your choices and keep your work during sign-in.
Analytics are optional, off by default, and set no cookies.
Saying no to analytics never limits any feature. Change your choice at any time in Cookie settings.

1. What cookies and storage are

A cookie is a small piece of text a website asks your browser to keep and send back with later requests. localStorage and sessionStorage are places in your browser where a website can keep data. Data in localStorage stays until it is deleted. Data in sessionStorage ends when you close the tab. Insta Job never sends storage items to our server unless this page says so.

Everything listed below is first-party: it belongs to instajob.shrianshvikram.tech. The only third-party item is the optional analytics script described in section 4.

2. Essential cookies

These cookies are needed for features you ask for. They cannot be switched off in Cookie settings, but none of them is set just because you open a page. All three are HttpOnly (page scripts cannot read them), Secure (sent only over HTTPS) and SameSite=Lax.

Essential cookies
Name	Type	Provider	Purpose	Duration	Category
`ij_trial`	Cookie	Insta Job (first-party)	A random ID that counts your free AI searches and enforces abuse limits. Set only when you start your first search, never on page load or by other features.	90 days	Essential
`ij_session`	Cookie	Insta Job (first-party)	Keeps you signed in after Google sign-in. Our server stores only a hash of it.	7 days, or until you sign out	Essential
`ij_oauth`	Cookie	Insta Job (first-party)	Protects Google sign-in against forged requests by checking that the reply matches the sign-in you started.	10 minutes; cleared when sign-in finishes	Essential

3. Browser storage

These items stay in your browser. They are not sent to our server.

Browser storage items
Name	Type	Provider	Purpose	Duration	Category
`ij_consent_v1`	localStorage	Insta Job (first-party)	Your analytics choice (“Essential only” or “Allow analytics”) and the date you made it.	Until you change it or clear site data	Essential
`ij_adult_v1`	localStorage	Insta Job (first-party)	Remembers that you confirmed you are 18 or older and agreed to the Terms and Privacy notice, so we do not ask every time.	Until you untick the box, use Delete my data, or clear site data	Essential
`ij_career_draft`	sessionStorage	Insta Job (first-party)	Keeps your resume text and location only while you go to Google sign-in and come back, so you do not lose your work.	Deleted as soon as you return; otherwise ends when you close the tab	Essential

4. Optional analytics

Analytics are off by default. Nothing below runs until you choose “Allow analytics”.

Optional analytics
Name	Type	Provider	Purpose	Duration	Category
Cloudflare Web Analytics	Third-party script from static.cloudflareinsights.com that sends measurements to cloudflareinsights.com. No cookies or storage, according to Cloudflare.	Cloudflare, Inc.	Counts page views and visits, and measures referring sites, country, browser and device type, and page speed.	Nothing is stored in your browser	Optional
Anonymous feature counts	A request to our own server. No cookie and no storage.	Insta Job (first-party)	Records that a feature was used (the event name only, with no identifier), at most once per event per page session.	Daily totals kept on our server for 30 days	Optional

Cloudflare states that Web Analytics uses no client-side state, such as cookies or localStorage, and does not fingerprint visitors. Analytics never include resume files or text, names, email addresses, AI prompts or AI results. The policy pages, including this one, never load the analytics script.

5. What we do not use

No advertising or retargeting cookies.
No social media pixels or cross-site tracking.
No device fingerprinting.

6. Google sign-in

Signing in is optional. When you choose it, your browser goes to Google's own sign-in page. Google may use its own cookies there, under Google's privacy policy. We do not control those cookies.

7. Changing your choice

Open Cookie settings (also in the app footer) and choose “Essential only” or “Allow analytics”. Both buttons carry equal weight, and nothing is pre-selected.
Saying no, or changing your mind later, never limits any feature.
If you withdraw consent, analytics stop from the next page load.

8. Clearing cookies and storage

In the app: Delete my data in Privacy controls erases our server records for this browser (and your account, if you are signed in) and clears Insta Job's storage in this browser.
In your browser: use its settings to clear cookies and site data for instajob.shrianshvikram.tech. Your browser's help pages explain how.

Clearing cookies in the browser alone does not erase server records. Records linked to an old trial cookie then stay until they expire (see the retention periods), and we can no longer link them to you. To erase them first, use Delete my data.

9. Changes and contact

If we add, remove or change any cookie or storage item, we will update this page and its date in the same release. Questions: omshriansh16@gmail.com. More about how we handle data is in the Privacy notice.