Privacy policy

Last updated: 14 November 2026

Plied is a browser extension that helps you keep track of the jobs you save and apply to. Plied has no account system and no server that stores your data. Everything you save stays in your browser, on your device. We cannot see it.

1. What Plied reads

• Job pages you save. When you click “Save job” (toolbar button, right-click menu or Alt Shift S), Plied reads the current page once to fill in the job title, company, location, salary, posting date, description and link. You review and edit this before it is saved.
• Sites you grant access to (optional, you choose each group in Settings › Site access): job boards (LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor) and application systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workable, Recruitee, Teamtailor, Personio, Breezy HR, JazzHR, Pinpoint, Rippling, iCIMS, Taleo). On these sites Plied shows a save button, an “already applied” badge, a “possible ghost job” check and, on LinkedIn and Indeed search results, a dot on jobs you already applied to, and offers to log an application when you reach a “thank you for applying” page. Plied reads the job details on the page (title, company, location, salary, posting date, description, job ID) and compares them with your own saved jobs on your device. The page you are reading is not stored unless you save the job. To know which job you applied to, Plied remembers the last job page you opened in that tab (title, company, link) until the tab or browser is closed. Plied never reads what you type into application forms.
• Company careers sites you turn on one by one (optional): when a job you save runs on Teamtailor or Recruitee but on the company’s own domain (for example careers.acme.com), the save window offers to turn on the same badge and “thank you” detection for that one site. Chrome asks you first and names the site. You can remove any of these sites in Settings › Site access.
• Gmail inbox list (optional, off by default, only after you turn on “Gmail updates” in Settings, read a disclosure screen and allow access to mail.google.com): while a Gmail tab is open, at most every 5 minutes or when you click “Scan inbox now”, Plied reads the sender name, sender email domain, subject, short preview text, date and thread number of the rows already shown in your Gmail list, to suggest status updates such as “rejection” or “interview” for jobs you saved. Rows that look like job-search updates are kept on your device as suggestions (sender name and domain, subject, preview, date, the job it matched); all other rows are not kept. Plied does not open your emails, does not read email bodies or attachments, does not use the Gmail API, and never sends, deletes or changes email. A job’s status changes only when you click “Apply”, or automatically for very likely updates if you turn that on. You can delete all Gmail suggestions in Settings at any time. If Gmail’s page layout changes so that Plied cannot read it reliably, reading turns itself off and a local note is written to the diagnostics list on your device.
• Full page captures (optional, off by default): if you allow page captures in Settings and click “Save full page capture”, Chrome saves a copy of the current page, which Plied keeps with the job.
• Files you add: CVs and cover letters you attach, and copies of job descriptions kept when you apply (Pro). Plied does not read inside these files.
• Custom job sites (optional, only when you choose “Teach Plied this site”): Plied shows a helper on the page you are on and records where the title, company, location, salary and description are on that page (CSS selectors), plus the site’s address and the name you give it. Form fields are ignored. Next time you save a job from that site, Plied uses these selectors to read the job details.

2. What you type in

You can add details to each job yourself: pay you asked for and pay you were offered, contract type, how and where you applied (for example the email address you sent your application to, or who referred you), interview rounds (dates, type, interviewer names, notes) and offer details (bonus, equity, benefits, start date, reply-by date). These stay on your device like everything else.

Plied also keeps the country and city of each job, read from the location on the posting or picked by you, to fill in the location fields and filter your jobs by country.

Work-search log (Pro): a weekly list built from your own jobs (applications and interview rounds in that week) and from activities you add by hand (for example a job fair, a workshop or a meeting at your job centre: date, employer or event, position, contact person, contact method, address or website, result, notes). You can print it or export it as a CSV file to your own computer. Plied never sends it to anyone, including any job centre or unemployment office.

3. Where your data is stored

Everything is stored in your browser on your device (IndexedDB and chrome.storage.local). Plied does not upload your jobs, notes, files, pay details, interview notes, custom sites or email information anywhere. Pay comparisons (for example a day rate against a yearly salary) are calculated on your device; Plied does not look up exchange rates.

4. Network requests

Plied only ever makes these requests:

1. Licence check (paid release only, and only if you enter a Pro licence key): when you click “Activate”, Chrome asks you to allow access to live.dodopayments.com. Plied then sends your licence key and a random installation id (not linked to you) to Dodo Payments, our payment provider, and gets back an activation id for this browser. About once a week Plied checks the key again (key and the same activation id) and gets back only whether it is still valid; “Deactivate” frees this browser’s slot. Dodo Payments’ activation answer also contains the buyer’s name and email; Plied does not keep them. Nothing about your jobs is ever sent.
2. Google Drive backup (Pro, optional, off by default, coming soon): only if you click “Connect Google Drive” in Settings › Data and allow it. Chrome then asks you to allow the identity permission and access to www.googleapis.com, and Google asks you to sign in and allow access to “files created by this app” (drive.file). Plied cannot see any other file in your Drive, and it does not ask for your name or email address.
   • What is sent: one file per browser, in your own Google Drive, holding all your Plied data (jobs, notes, files, Gmail suggestions, work-search activities). The file is compressed and encrypted on your device (AES-256-GCM, key made from your passphrase with PBKDF2-SHA256) before it leaves the browser. Google, and we, cannot read it.
   • Your passphrase is kept in this browser so the daily backup can run; it is never sent. If you lose it, the backup cannot be opened.
   • When: when you click “Back up now”, and once a day at your reminder hour if “Back up every day” is on. “Restore” downloads a backup file and adds what is missing.
   • Google’s sign-in token is kept only in memory for the browser session.
   • “Disconnect” forgets the sign-in, the passphrase and the settings and removes the permissions. The backup files stay in your Drive until you delete them there. You can remove Plied’s access in your Google account’s security settings at any time.

There is no analytics, no tracking, no advertising and no error reporting service in Plied.

5. Insights, reports, calendar and email

Insights, the monthly report and the work-search log are calculated on your device from your own jobs. “Print or save as PDF” uses your browser’s print dialog; exports are files saved to your computer.

Interview prep notes and questions are stored with the job on your device. “Add to calendar” offers two choices: an .ics file saved to your computer, or a Google Calendar link. If you click the Google Calendar link, your browser opens Google Calendar with the interview’s title, time, job link, interviewers, your questions and prep notes filled in, so that information goes to Google only because you chose to open it there. Plied itself sends nothing.

Plied can show one notification a day about follow-ups that are due. Email templates are filled in on your device; Plied never sends email. If you click “Open in Gmail” or “Open mail app”, your browser opens a new message with the text, and you decide whether to send it.

6. Buying Pro

Plied Pro is sold through Dodo Payments, our merchant of record. When you buy, you enter your name, email address and payment details on Dodo Payments’ checkout page, not on this website and not in the extension. Dodo Payments processes the payment, handles taxes, sends the receipt and emails you the licence key. We receive the order details Dodo Payments shares with sellers (for example your name, email address, country, the product and the amount) so we can answer support and refund requests. We never see your full card details. Dodo Payments’ own privacy policy applies to the data it collects.

During the free beta nothing is sold, so none of this applies yet.

7. This website

• plied.app has no cookies, no analytics, no ads and no third-party scripts or fonts. Everything it loads comes from plied.app itself.
• If you use the light / dark switch, your choice is saved in your browser’s local storage on that device only.
• Like every web host, our hosting provider (Cloudflare) handles basic request data, such as your IP address and browser type, to deliver the pages and protect the site from abuse. We do not use this data to track you.
• If you email us, we use your message and email address only to answer you.

8. Sharing

We do not sell, rent or share your data. We cannot see the data in the extension.

9. Your control

• Export all your data at any time (JSON or CSV), free forever. “Export JSON with files” also puts your stored CVs, cover letters and job snapshots in the file; it is saved to your computer and sent nowhere.
• Import reads the JSON or CSV file you pick, on your device, and adds the jobs to Plied.
• Settings › Diagnostics shows a local log of problems (for example a page Plied could not read, or a failed licence check), with only the website’s host name. It is never sent; you can copy it into an email if you ask for support.
• Delete all data from Settings › Data, or by removing the extension. Your licence key is kept by “Delete all data” so you do not lose what you paid for.
• Revoke site access at any time in Settings › Site access or in your browser’s extension settings.
• For data we hold about a purchase or an email you sent us, write to us to see, correct or delete it.

10. Changes to this policy

If Plied starts reading, storing or sending anything new, we update this page before that version is released and change the date at the top. Material changes are also listed in the changelog.

11. Contact

Questions about privacy: support@plied.app. Plied is made by Haythem Mejri.