Privacy Policy
Career Assistant is a text message assistant that helps students and early-career people with internships and jobs. It is operated by Tinkly LLC ("we", "us"). This policy covers the assistant you text and this website, and explains what we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have.
What we collect
- Account details: your phone number and the name you gave when you signed up.
- Messages: the texts you send us, our replies, and delivery details such as timestamps and whether a message was delivered.
- Things you tell us: short notes the assistant saves so it can help you later, such as your school, goals, target companies, deadlines and interviews, plus your timezone and a short summary of how you like to text.
- Connected accounts: if you choose to connect an account such as Google, Notion or Slack, we store the access token that service gives us, along with basic details such as which service it is and when you connected it. Tokens are encrypted on our server.
- Emails the assistant writes for you: a copy of every email draft the assistant saves for you and every email it sends after you approve it, including the recipient, subject and message.
- Technical details: when you open a link to connect an account, our server logs your IP address and browser type for security. We do not use advertising or analytics cookies.
How we use it
We use your information only to run the assistant for you: replying to your messages, remembering context you shared, sending follow-ups you asked for or that relate to your search, and finding information in accounts you connected when it helps with a request.
To write replies, your messages and relevant context are sent to an AI model provider. We only use providers that do not store your data or use it to train models.
Connected accounts
You choose whether to connect any account, and you can connect them one at a time. The assistant uses a connected account only when it helps with something you asked or a follow-up related to your search. Here is exactly what each connection lets the assistant do:
- Google: search and read your Gmail, save email drafts in your Gmail, send an email from your Gmail after you approve it, see your Google Calendar events, and search your Google Drive to find files by name and link.
- Notion: search and read the Notion pages you choose to share when you connect, and inside those pages, create new pages and databases (such as an application tracker), add and edit text, check off to-dos, and add or update database rows. It cannot see or change pages you did not share.
- Slack: search messages you can see in your Slack workspace, and send a Slack message as you after you approve it.
The assistant never deletes anything in your connected accounts. It only creates or changes things in three ways: saving email drafts, sending emails or Slack messages you approve, and editing the Notion pages you shared when you ask it to or when it follows from something you asked (for example, keeping a tracker you asked it to maintain up to date). It tells you what it changed. It only sends an email after it shows you the exact recipient, subject and message, and only sends a Slack message after it shows you the exact message and the person or channel it goes to. You approve each one by text. It never sends an email or Slack message on its own.
- We do not copy your emails, events, files, pages or messages into our database. They are read at the moment they are needed and passed to the AI model to write a reply. The one exception is emails the assistant writes for you: we keep a copy of each draft it saves and each email it sends.
- Our replies are saved with your conversation, so if a reply mentions something from a connected account, such as the time of an interview, that reply is saved. The assistant may also save a short note based on what it finds, the same way it saves things you tell it.
- We do not sell data from connected accounts or use it for advertising. We do not use it to evaluate, fine-tune, train or improve AI models, and we do not let any AI model provider use it for those purposes.
- People do not read data from your connected accounts, except with your permission (see "How we improve the assistant" below), for security reasons, or when required by law.
Career Assistant's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
How we improve the assistant
Our team reviews conversations to fix problems and make the assistant more helpful. We use AI tools, including Claude by Anthropic, to help with these reviews.
- Before a review, we hide every reply that used information from your connected accounts, so reviewers do not see it.
- Emails the assistant writes for you are reviewed only if you say yes. The assistant asks you once, the first time it writes an email for you. You can change your answer at any time by texting the assistant.
- Reviews are used only to improve Career Assistant. They are never used to train AI models.
Who we share it with
We do not sell your information. We share it only with service providers that help us run the assistant:
- Sendblue, to send and receive text messages. Sendblue keeps its own copy of messages under its own privacy policy.
- OpenRouter and the model hosts it routes to, to generate replies, limited to hosts that do not store or train on your data.
- DigitalOcean, which hosts our servers.
- Anthropic, whose AI tools our team uses to review conversations as described above, under settings that do not allow Anthropic to train models on them.
- The services you connect, such as Google, Notion or Slack, when the assistant reads from them for you, or when it saves a draft or sends an email or Slack message you approved. A Slack message you approve is visible to the people in that conversation or channel, like any message you send.
We may also share information if required by law. We do not sell your personal information or share it for advertising. Our servers are in the United States.
How long we keep it
We keep your account details, messages, saved notes and copies of emails the assistant wrote for you while you use the assistant. Backups are kept for 14 days. If you ask us to delete your data, we delete it from our systems, and it ages out of backups within 14 days.
Your choices
- Text STOP at any time to stop all messages. Text START to turn them back on.
- Ask the assistant to disconnect any connected account at any time. You can also remove access from the service itself, such as your Google account permissions. Deleting your data also removes every connection.
- Ask the assistant what it knows about you at any time. Ask it to delete your data and, after you confirm, it deletes your messages, saved notes, copies of emails it wrote and connected accounts right away.
You have the right to know what personal information we have about you, to correct it, and to delete it. California residents have these rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, and we honor them for everyone. We respond to requests within 45 days.
Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply.
Security
Data is encrypted in transit, account tokens are encrypted at rest, and access to our servers is restricted.
Children
Career Assistant is not meant for anyone under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Changes
If we change this policy in a meaningful way, we will update this page and let you know by text.
Contact
Career Assistant is operated by Tinkly LLC. For privacy questions or requests, email arnav@arnavbonigala.com or text the number you use with Career Assistant.