Privacy notice
What happens with your data at Alpaca IQ – in plain words. Version of 1 November 2026.
The short version
- We read your CV only to find jobs that fit you and to suggest CV changes.
- Your CV file is deleted after 30 days. Your badge stays until you delete your account.
- No ads, no tracking, no selling of data. One cookie keeps you logged in.
- You can download or delete everything at any time under Your data.
1. Who is responsible
Mercury International GmbH, [address] – email: [contact email].
2. What we store and why
| Data | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address | To log you in with a link, send "results ready" emails and answer questions | Until you delete your account, or after 12 months without log-in |
| Your CV (file and text) | To create your badge and to match jobs | 30 days after upload |
| A CV uploaded on the front page without giving an email | To show your badge and the jobs that fit, before you decide to search | 2 days – unless you give your email and start a search; then as above |
| Your badge (title, skills, languages, short profile text), your notes, job title and city | To match jobs on every search | Until you delete your account |
| Your searches, scores, picks and "applied" marks | To show your results, CV tips and stats | Until you delete your account |
| Payments (amount, date, number of searches) | Bookkeeping – required by Swiss law | 10 years, without your name once your account is deleted |
| Re-checks of your searches ("new jobs only") | When you start a re-check, the search looks for newly posted jobs and can email you when it finds a Top or Great job. You can switch the emails off under Your data or with the link in every email | Until you delete your account |
| A scrambled form of your IP address (the address itself is not stored) | To stop spam and abuse – e.g. too many log-in emails or free accounts from one place | 2 days |
| Technical logs (errors) | To fix problems | Up to 90 days |
| Backup copies of all of the above | So nothing is lost if a disk breaks | 14 days – deleted data is gone from all backups after that |
We do not use your data for advertising and do not sell it. We do not make decisions about you – the scores are suggestions for you only.
3. Who else gets data
We use a few services to run Alpaca IQ. They only get what they need:
- Anthropic PBC (USA) – the AI that reads your CV and the job ads to create your badge, the scores and the CV tips. Under its terms for business customers, it does not use this data to train its models.
- Apify Technologies (Czech Republic) – collects public job ads. It only gets the job title and city you search for, never your CV.
- Stripe Payments Europe (Ireland) – handles payments. Your card or TWINT details go to Stripe, never to us.
- Infomaniak Network SA (Switzerland) – sends our emails, so it sees your email address and the email text.
- Cloudflare – carries the traffic to our server, which is in Switzerland.
Some of these companies are in the USA. Data goes there only on the basis of the Swiss–US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses approved for Switzerland.
4. Your rights
You can ask what we store about you, have it corrected or deleted, and object to processing. The fastest way: Your data – download everything or delete your account in one click. Or write to [contact email]. You can also complain to the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).
5. Cookies
One technical cookie keeps you logged in (30 days). We use no analytics and no tracking cookies, so there is no cookie banner.