Transparency

How Resumetricx Tracking Works

A plain-language explanation of what recruiters see when they view your CV, and how we track engagement.

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Sections in this document; the ring is the words in each, in order.

Words906

Counted rather than estimated; the ring is how they divide between the longest parts.

Minutes to read5

At 200 words a minute; the ring is each part's share of the time.

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Section 01 / 05

What We Track

When Your CV is Opened

We record the exact timestamp when a recruiter opens your CV link. This helps you understand response times and engagement patterns.

Time Spent on Each Section

We track how long recruiters spend reading each section of your CV (Experience, Education, Skills, etc.). This shows you what captures their attention.

Section Engagement Metrics

We measure which sections get the most attention, scroll depth, and re-reads. This data helps you optimize your CV structure.

Example reading · one CV10 sections · 73s held

PersonalHobbies

SkippedHeld

An illustration of the shape, not a recording of anyone. Every bar is a section of the document and the time it held — there is no bar here for who you are, because none is ever recorded.

Copying Something

If you select text and copy it, we record that a copy happened and which section it came from — usually a sign someone wanted to keep a phone number or an email address. We do not record what you copied. The text itself is never read and never sent to us; only its length is checked, and only to tell a real copy from a stray keystroke.

Device & Country

We record the device type (mobile, tablet, desktop), the browser, and the country the request came from. Nothing narrower than a country is ever stored — no city, no coordinates — and the IP address the country is worked out from is not kept.

Less, If It Is an Uploaded File

Some documents shared through Resumetricx are PDFs their owner uploaded rather than built here. For those, only the open, the time held, the device and the country are recorded — not which parts you read, because a PDF has no section markers in it to measure. The notice on the document tells you which kind you are looking at.

Your Name — Only If You Type It

Beneath this notice on the CV itself there is a card asking whether you would like the person whose CV it is to know you read it. It never blocks the document, it asks once, and ignoring it costs you nothing. If you fill it in, they see exactly what you typed — your name, and optionally a company, an e-mail address and a line of your own — labelled as coming from you and not verified by us. If you don’t, they see a reading with no name against it, which is what the overwhelming majority of readings look like.

Recruiter
Opens the link
The moment the CV is opened is recorded, with device type and the country the request came from.
Their browser
Watches the page
Which sections are on screen, and for how long. Scroll depth and re-reads.
In transit
Section times only
A single batch of section names and seconds. Nothing about who is reading travels with it — if a reader chooses to give a name, that is a separate thing they send on purpose.
Our server
Added to this CV
Totals are kept against the document, not against a person.
You
Read the report
When it was opened, for how long, and which sections held attention.

Never measured, at any stage

Any name they did not type in themselves
Anything in another tab
Keystrokes or clipboard
Behaviour after they leave

The four things the section above describes are stages of one pipeline, not four separate collections. The row beneath is the boundary: those things are not measured, so there is nothing to send.

Section 02 / 05

What We DON'T Track

No Working Out Who You Are: Nothing here tries to identify you, and on a tracked CV link nothing recognises you either. Each reading is given a random id that exists only for that page session, so the same person opening the CV twice is counted as two readings, not as one person who came back. There is no lookup of your address against a database and no matching you to a profile. The one exception is a tracked PDF link — the kind that opens a file rather than a page — which keeps one scrambled value, worked out from your browser, your language setting and your network address, so that several clicks from one device are not counted as several devices. It cannot be turned back into your address, it is not matched against any list, and it means nothing outside that one document. The single route by which a name ever reaches the CV’s owner is the card described above, which you fill in yourself or ignore.
No Browsing History: We don't track what recruiters do outside of viewing your CV.
No Third-Party Sharing: Your analytics data is never sold or shared with third parties.
No Cookies on Recruiter Side: Recruiters viewing your CV don't get tracking cookies installed on their devices. The one thing we may store is your objection, and only if you ask us to below — it stays on your device and is never sent to us.

Section 03 / 05

How It Works

1
You Create Your CV
Build your CV using our platform and generate a unique shareable link.
2
Share with Recruiters
Send your unique CV link to recruiters via email, LinkedIn, or job applications.
3
Recruiter Views Your CV
When a recruiter clicks your link, they see your beautifully formatted CV. Our analytics engine quietly records engagement metrics in the background.
4
You Get Insights
View real-time analytics in your dashboard: when your CV was opened, for how long, which sections held attention — and who was reading, in the cases where the reader chose to say.

Section 04 / 05

Stop your opens being recorded

Read tracking runs on legitimate interests rather than on your consent, which means you have the right to object to it at any time and we have to honour that. This is where you do it — no account, no form, no e-mail to anyone.

Objecting also removes the card that asks who you are. You asked to be left alone; following that with an invitation to introduce yourself would be the same request in a friendlier font.

Your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track
Tracking is already off
Honoured automatically, before you arrive. There is nothing to press, and we do not offer a way to override it.
You object using the control on this page
Tracking is off
The objection is written to your own device. It is never sent to us, so it needs no account and identifies nobody.
Your browser blocks that storage
We say so, and name what does work
The choice cannot be remembered here, so the control tells you instead of silently failing — and points you at Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, which we honour.
You do nothing
Reads are measured
On legitimate interests, not consent — which is exactly why the objection above has to work.

Two of these four end with tracking off, and the first of those needs nothing from you at all. The third is the case most consent flows hide: when the choice cannot be stored, the control says so and names the setting that does work, rather than showing you a switch that quietly does nothing.

Checking this browser’s setting…

Section 05 / 05

Our Privacy Commitment

Resumetricx is built on trust and transparency. We believe job seekers deserve to know what happens to their applications, and recruiters deserve a seamless, non-intrusive experience.

All tracking is done ethically and in compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations. We never work out who a recruiter is: the only identity we ever hold is one a reader chose to type in, and it is theirs to withhold.