Free Resume Builder

Privacy policy

Last updated 11 October 2026

Free Resume Builder (freeresumebuilder.co.in) is run by an independent developer based in India. A resume is full of personal details, so I’ve tried to build this site to need as little of your data as possible, and to be plain about the few places where something does leave your device. This page explains exactly what happens to your information.

The short version

  • There are no accounts. I never ask for your name, email, or a password to use the builder.
  • Your resume draft is saved in your own browser, on your own device. It is not uploaded to a server I run.
  • The site shows ads from Google AdSense. Google may use cookies to serve and measure those ads.
  • Ahrefs Web Analytics counts page visits without cookies, so I can see which pages people use. It never receives your resume.
  • Two optional features — importing an existing resume and the “Make ATS-friendly” rewrite — send text to an AI service to do their job. Nothing is sent unless you use them.
  • I don’t sell personal information, and I have none to sell: I don’t keep copies of resumes.

What is stored in your browser

The builder uses your browser’s local storage — a small storage area that belongs to this site, on your device. It holds:

  • Your resume draft, saved when you click Save & Next or Skip, import a file, or download a PDF.
  • Your light or dark theme choice.
  • Whether you’ve already dismissed the builder’s quick tour, so it doesn’t keep reappearing.
  • A short timer if the AI rewrite is temporarily busy, so the button can tell you when to try again.
  • The two-letter code of the country you’re visiting from (for example “IN”), used to pre-select your phone dial code and the grading system for your education. It’s looked up once, and you can change both in the builder.

I can’t see any of this from my side. You can delete it at any time by clicking Start new resume in the builder or by clearing this site’s data in your browser settings. Because it lives on one device, a draft started on your laptop won’t appear on your phone, and clearing your browser will remove it — download a PDF of anything you want to keep.

Resume import and the AI rewrite

When you import a resume, the file is opened and read inside your browser. The plain text taken from it is then sent to the site’s server so it can be sorted into the right sections. If you click “Make ATS-friendly” on your summary, an experience entry, or a project, the text of that one item (for example, a job’s title, company, and bullet points) is sent the same way so it can be rewritten.

In both cases the server passes the text to Groq, an AI provider, gets the result back, and returns it to your browser. The server does not save the text, and its error logs record only error codes, not what you sent. Groq processes the request under its own privacy policy. If you’d rather none of your resume text leaves your device, don’t use these two features — everything else works without them, and import even has a basic offline fallback.

Advertising and cookies

The site is free because it shows ads served by Google AdSense. Some important points about how that works:

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a visitor’s previous visits to this website or other websites.
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
  • You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google’s Ad Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info.
  • Google explains what it does with data from sites that use its services in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

If you’re in the European Economic Area, the UK, or a US state with its own privacy law, you’ll see a consent message from Google before any advertising cookies are set. The ads never receive the contents of your resume — they only see what any web page sees, like your browser type and approximate location.

Visit statistics

The site uses Ahrefs Web Analytics to count visits — which pages are viewed, where visitors arrive from, and their browser, device type and approximate country. It doesn’t use cookies and doesn’t identify you, and it only sees the page, never what you type into the builder: your resume and cover letter stay in your browser.

Hosting and security

The site is hosted on Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare handles your IP address and basic request details (the page requested, the time, your browser type) to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse. The AI features also use your IP address, briefly and in memory only, to limit how many requests one visitor can make per minute. When you first open the builder, it asks the site’s server which country your request came from. Cloudflare works this out from your IP address; only the country code is sent back to your browser, and nothing about it is stored on the server. I can see basic request logs — which page or feature was requested and whether it worked — to fix problems. I don’t use them to identify anyone.

Children

This site is meant for people preparing job applications and isn’t directed at children under 13. I don’t knowingly collect information from children, and since there are no accounts, there is nothing for a child to sign up for.

Your choices and rights

Because your resume stays on your device, you already control it completely: you can edit it, export it as a PDF, or delete it. Depending on where you live, you may also have legal rights to ask what data is held about you, or to have it corrected or deleted. For data held by Google, Ahrefs or Cloudflare, their own privacy tools apply. For anything else, email me and I’ll help as far as I can — in practice I hold almost nothing that could be linked to you.

Changes to this policy

If the site changes how it handles data — for example, a new feature that sends information somewhere — I’ll update this page before that change goes live and change the date at the top.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email runsonyourdevice@gmail.com. More ways to reach me are on the contact page, and a plain-English summary of how the builder keeps your work private is on the private resume builder page.