Privacy policy

• We collect what you give us to match you with jobs, and use it for that.
• Employers see your credentials and whether we’ve checked them. They never see photos of your cards or card numbers.
• We don’t sell your information, and we don’t show ads.
• You can delete your account, and everything in it, from your account page at any time.

Your account. Your email address and password (the password is stored scrambled by our sign-in provider; we never see it), whether you’re a worker or an employer, and, if you add them, your name, city and state, trades and years of experience.

Your credentials. The cards you add to your pass, such as a CDL, OSHA card or trade license, with the details you enter: level or class, trade, state, card number and expiry date. If you upload a photo of a card for us to check, we keep that photo, along with whether we verified it and, if not, why.

Applications. Which jobs you apply to on TradeConnect, the note you send with an application, and where it stands (sent, opened, hired, not selected or withdrawn).

Employers. Your company’s name, website and location, and the jobs you post.

Email settings. Whether you want notification emails, and how often you want job alerts and for which state.

If you don’t sign up. The credential pass you fill in as a guest stays in your own browser. It isn’t sent to us unless you create an account.

How the site is used. We count page views and a few actions (such as an application being sent or a job posted) with Vercel Web Analytics, which doesn’t use cookies, and measure how fast pages load with Vercel Speed Insights. We use this to improve the site, not to build a profile of you.

• To match your credentials against each job’s requirements and show you which ones you qualify for.
• To send your application to the employer you apply to.
• To check card photos you send us, so employers can see which credentials are verified.
• To send the emails you’ve asked for: account emails, application and review updates, and job alerts.
• To keep the site working and secure, and to remove fake jobs or misuse.

Employers you apply to see your name, email address, city and state, trades, years of experience, your note, and the credentials on your account with their details and whether each one is verified, under review or self-reported. They don’t see card photos or card numbers. Employers you haven’t applied to see nothing about you.

Workers see each job’s details and the employer’s company name, website and location.

TradeConnect admins see card photos and numbers you upload, only to verify them, and review job listings to remove fake or misleading ones.

Service providers run parts of the site for us and handle data only to do that: Supabase (database, sign-in and file storage), Vercel (hosting, analytics and speed measurements) and Resend (sending email).

Nobody else, unless the law requires it. We don’t sell or rent personal information and don’t share it for advertising.

Many listings come from public job sources such as Adzuna and USAJOBS. When you follow a link to apply on another site, that site’s own privacy policy covers what you give it.

We use cookies only to keep you signed in. Your browser also stores your guest pass and a few display preferences. We don’t use advertising or tracking cookies.

We keep your information while your account is open. When you delete your account, your profile, credentials, card photos and applications are deleted right away; for an employer, so are your company and its jobs, including applications to them. Copies can remain in our providers’ backups and email logs for a short time before they expire.

• Change your profile, cards and email settings on your account page and My credentials.
• Turn emails off with the link at the bottom of any email we send.
• Delete your account and everything in it from your account page.
• Email support@tradeconnect.website to get a copy of your information, to correct something you can’t change yourself, or with any other privacy request. We’ll answer within 30 days.

The site uses HTTPS, card photos are stored privately where only you and our admins can reach them, and database rules limit each person to their own data. No system is perfectly secure, but if your information is ever exposed, we’ll tell you promptly.

TradeConnect is for people looking for work or hiring. It isn’t meant for anyone under 16, and we don’t knowingly collect their information.

If we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top. If a change affects how your information is shared, we’ll email you before it takes effect.