Privacy: First Job Daily

Who is responsible

Mario Behrends is responsible for First Job Daily. Questions or data requests can be sent to hello@firstjobdaily.com.

Hosting regions: Vercel serves this page and runs its checkout and intake code from Frankfurt, Germany. Upstash holds the short-lived signup queue in Dublin, Ireland. Resend sends the confirmation and daily emails from its EU service, also in Ireland. The computer that reads the queue and sends the emails is in Germany. Paddle, which handles the checkout, is covered separately below.

Full postal address and legal notice: Mario Behrends, Caspar-Rudolf-Str. 7, 26802 Moormerland, Germany. See the Impressum for details.

What is collected

Your email address, so the job emails can reach you.
Your first name, if you gave one when the form still asked for it.
One to six job titles, one location, and a search radius.
For the sponsor pass: your yes or no answer to "Did you graduate from a Dutch university or university of applied sciences in the last 3 years?", and whether your email shows only employers that can sponsor or every employer. The answer is used only to leave out jobs that rarely reach the IND salary minimum that applies to you. It is kept with your search and deleted with it.
The time you gave consent, the consent version, and the exact wording you accepted.
Delivery and STOP records needed to prevent duplicate or unwanted emails.
Which version of the consent wording you agreed to, which decides whether the one follow-up email after your pass ends may be sent to you.
For a paid pass: the Paddle transaction id, payment status, amount, currency, and applied discount.
For the free trial: a one-way hash of your email address, recording that the one free trial for that mailbox has been used and when. Gmail dots and plus tags count as the same mailbox.
Counters that limit how many signups come from one network or one address. They hold a one-way hash of the IP address or email address, never the address itself, and expire on their own.

First Job Daily does not receive your full card or bank details. When the checkout opens, your email address is passed to Paddle so you do not have to type it a second time, and that happens whether or not you go on to pay. Paddle collects the rest of the checkout and billing information it needs to process the purchase and to work out the tax it must charge, which includes your country. No CV, work history, password, or other qualification data is collected. The page uses no advertising tracker.

Visit counts and page speed

Vercel Web Analytics counts page visits so basic usage can be checked without opening the production database. It sets no cookie and no persistent visitor id: a visit is identified by a hash Vercel derives from the incoming request, and that identifier is discarded after 24 hours. What it keeps per visit is the page, the referrer, browser and device type, and city-level location, none of it linked back to an individual, an email address, or a stored IP address.

Vercel Speed Insights measures how fast the page loads so a slow page can be found and fixed. It sets no cookie and records no browsing session across pages: what it keeps per page load is the page, network and device type, browser, country-level location, and load-time measurements, none of it linked back to an individual, an email address, or a stored IP address.

Both run without asking, because they store nothing on your device and cannot follow you between visits or between sites. Our basis is our legitimate interest in keeping the site working and understanding basic use (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). Vercel processes this data for us. The one thing that does need your permission is the 30-day label described next. The site remembers that choice for 180 days so it does not ask on every visit. Use Privacy choices at the bottom of any page to change or withdraw it.

When you describe the job in your own words

Two things on this site read what you type with an AI service:

The market check below the signup form. The job title and city you type are sent, with up to twelve example postings, so the service can score which examples fit your search.
The page where you describe the job in a sentence. The sentence you type is sent so the service can turn it into a job title, places and a distance, and the title and place you then confirm are sent again to score example postings.

The service is Jev, from TypeSafe AI, Inc., in the United States. It processes this text for us as our processor. No email address, name, or payment detail is sent, and nothing you type there is sent to it together with your signup. Please do not write your name or contact details into the sentence. TypeSafe states that it does not use this text to train AI models. A test version of the sentence page at /try-b sends the same text to OpenAI, L.L.C., in the United States, instead of TypeSafe.

Our basis is our legitimate interest in turning a description into a working search, which you asked for by typing it (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). You can use the signup form without it. The sentence and what the service made of it are kept in our own store for 14 days so we can check the answers were right, then deleted.

How you got here

When you arrive through one of our links, the address can carry a short label saying which one it was. For example, a video about Utrecht sales jobs sends you here with the label youtube, the campaign utrecht-sales, and a number for that video.

If you choose Allow, your browser keeps that label for 30 days so we can tell which of our own posts and pages actually help people. It is stored on your own device, not in a cookie, and it is sent back to us only when you pay for a search.

We also count how many people reached each step: the page, the form, the checkout, and a completed payment. These counts run without asking, because they are totals that store nothing on your device. Only the 30-day label waits for Allow.

Those counts are totals, not visits. There is no visitor number, no session number, no IP address, no browser name, and no record of the pages you looked at. A saved label says a visit came from a video about Utrecht sales jobs. It cannot say that it was you.

Only labels we recognise are stored. Anything else in the address is discarded rather than kept, and no email address, name, job title, or payment detail is ever part of it. Choosing Necessary only, withdrawing your permission, or clearing this site's browser storage removes the label. Nothing about the service changes if you do.

Why it is used

The information is used only to set up the search you requested, check for matching vacancies, send the confirmation and daily job emails, process STOP replies, and keep the service from sending the same work twice.

Payment information is used to take the one-time payment, prevent fraud, keep required transaction records, and confirm that the paid service may start. That processing is necessary to perform the purchase contract and meet applicable accounting and tax duties.

Legal basis

The signup and email delivery use the consent you give by ticking the box. The box is not preselected. You can withdraw that consent at any time by replying STOP. Withdrawing consent does not change the lawfulness of processing that happened before you withdrew it.

That consent also covers one email after your pass ends, asking whether you want to continue. It is a single message about the search you already had, not a newsletter and not a subscription. Replying STOP stops it like anything else. People who signed up before 24 August 2026 agreed to different wording and are never sent it. The free trial gets no email after it ends. The note sent before its last email says how to continue, and that is the only one.

The free-trial record and the signup counters rest on our legitimate interest in preventing abuse: without them, the free offer could be taken again and again from new addresses or by a script. Your IP address is used only for the moment it takes to compute its hash. The hash is still personal data, so it is kept only as long as described below. You can object to this processing by emailing us.

The email address, titles, location, and radius are required because the requested search cannot work without them. Your name is optional.

The optional question

After signup, the page may ask which future improvement would help most. Answering is optional. The answer is stored separately with no name, no email address, no user id, and no link to your search. It cannot change the search or the pass you bought.

Because the answer is deliberately anonymous, it cannot later be connected back to you or deleted as your personal answer.

Where it goes

Vercel holds the anonymous page-visit counts and load-time measurements described above, from Frankfurt, Germany, and serves the page. Upstash holds the short-lived signup queue in Dublin, Ireland. A private computer at the operator's home in Germany collects the request, stores the search locally, and sends the emails. TypeSafe AI, Inc. (and, for the /try-b test page, OpenAI, L.L.C.), both in the United States, process the typed descriptions described above. The transfer to TypeSafe rests on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses in its data processing addendum. These providers process only the information needed for their part of that flow.

Payments are handled by Paddle.com Market Limited, which sells this service to you as the merchant of record and is the seller for these purchases. Paddle is responsible for collecting and remitting any applicable VAT. Paddle applies its own terms and privacy notice to the payment method you use, and is a controller of the payment data it holds, whether you entered it at the checkout or it reached Paddle from the signup form when the checkout was opened. See Paddle's privacy notice. A 100% access code does not open Paddle's checkout and asks for no payment method.

The queue removes the readable signup after the local computer has accepted it. A short dated handling record remains without the email address in readable form.

The edit link in your emails works the same way. Upstash holds your job titles, location, and radius for as long as the link lasts, so the page can show you what to change. It does not hold your email address or your name, and the link itself is a random value that says nothing about you. Using the link removes what it held. Paddle's own regions and transfer safeguards for paid purchases are covered by its privacy notice, linked above.

YouTube

First Job Daily runs a YouTube channel and uses YouTube API Services to publish its own short videos to it.

Nothing about you is sent to YouTube. Your email address, name, job titles, location, and radius never leave the flow described above, and no visitor or subscriber information is shared with YouTube or Google.

The only information involved is about our own videos: the identifier YouTube returns after an upload, its watch link, and whether YouTube has finished processing it. It is stored on the same private computer described above and is deleted with it.

Google's handling of data it collects is described in the Google Privacy Policy. Access granted to applications can be reviewed and revoked at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

How long it is kept

The web queue keeps the readable request only until it is accepted and acknowledged.
An unpaid pending signup expires from the web payment queue after 24 hours.
Payment records are kept for the periods required for transaction, tax, fraud-prevention, and legal obligations.
The search runs for the number of days you bought and does not renew.
The local search and email history normally remain for a matter of weeks, then they are deleted.
The free-trial record (the one-way hash of your address and the date the trial was used) is kept for 12 months after your trial ends, then deleted. After that, the same address may take a new trial. It is kept even if you reply STOP or buy a paid search.
The trial signup and confirmation counters, one per network, expire after 24 hours. They allow five trial requests and five trial confirmations per network in that time.
The other signup counters expire after 1 hour (per network) and 24 hours (per address). The counters on the feedback question, the market preview and the sentence page expire after 1 hour.
A sentence typed on the sentence page, and what the AI service made of it, is kept for 14 days.
The anonymous product-feedback count remains while it is useful for deciding what to build next.
The label saying which of our links you arrived through stays on your device for 30 days, and the totals counted from it are kept for 90 days.
Your analytics choice stays on your device for 180 days so the site can respect it.

Your choices and rights

Reply STOP to any email to withdraw consent and stop future delivery. That also cancels unsent work already queued for you.

You can also ask to see the personal information held about you, correct it, delete it, limit how it is used, or have it provided in a portable form where that right applies. Email hello@firstjobdaily.com.

If you ask for deletion after using the free trial, everything about you is deleted except the one-way hash of your address and the date the trial was used. That hash is kept until its 12 months run out, so deletion cannot be used to take the trial a second time, and the reply to your request says so.

You can also complain to your local data-protection authority. In the Netherlands, that is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.

The service does not profile you, decide whether you are qualified, or make an automatic decision about you. It only checks vacancy pages against the title and location you entered.