Career Club ("we", "us", "our") is a job hunt management platform operated from Lisbon, Portugal. We are the data controller for personal data collected through careerclub.cc.
Contact: [email protected]
We do not purchase or receive personal data from third-party data brokers.
| Purpose | Data used |
|---|---|
| Providing and operating the service | Account data, career profile, job search data, documents |
| Authentication (magic link sign-in) | Email address |
| AI-powered writing features | Career profile, CV content, job description text you provide |
| Sending transactional emails | Email address (sign-in codes, subscription receipts) |
| Processing payments | Payment data (handled directly by Stripe — we do not store card details) |
| Analytics and product improvement | Usage data, technical data (anonymised or aggregated where possible) |
| Security and fraud prevention | IP address, authentication logs |
| Customer support | Email address, account data |
We do not sell your personal data. We do not use your career content (CVs, letters, job data) for training AI models or any purpose other than delivering the service to you.
Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR, we process your personal data on the following legal bases:
We retain your personal data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with the service. Specifically:
When you request account deletion, we will delete or anonymise your personal data within 30 days, subject to any legal retention obligations.
We share your data with the following third-party processors who act on our behalf and under our instructions:
| Provider | Purpose | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Infrastructure, database, CDN, security, analytics | USA (SCCs apply) |
| Stripe | Payment processing | USA (SCCs apply) |
| Resend | Transactional email delivery | USA (SCCs apply) |
| Google Analytics | Website analytics | USA (SCCs apply) |
| Visitor Tracking | Visitor analytics | See their privacy policy |
| AI providers | AI writing features (processing career content you submit) | USA (SCCs apply) |
"SCCs" = Standard Contractual Clauses, the EU-approved mechanism for lawful transfer of personal data to countries outside the EEA.
We do not share your personal data with third parties for their own marketing purposes.
Career Club operates from Portugal (EU). Some of our third-party processors are located outside the European Economic Area. Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA or UK, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place — including Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and, where applicable, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA).
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies on careerclub.cc. For full details of what cookies we use, what they do, and how to manage them, please see our Cookie Policy.
In summary, we use:
Depending on your location, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority. In Portugal, this is the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD) at cnpd.pt. UK residents may contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at [email protected]. We will respond within 30 days.
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants you the following rights:
To exercise your California rights, contact us at [email protected].
Career Club is not directed at children under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 18 years of age. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 18, we will take steps to delete it promptly. If you believe we may have inadvertently collected data from a child, please contact us at [email protected].
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the "last updated" date at the top of this page and, for material changes, notify registered users by email or in-app notice. Your continued use of Career Club following notification of any change constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
For any privacy-related questions, requests to exercise your rights, or concerns about how we handle your personal data:
We aim to respond to all privacy enquiries within 5 business days.