What we collect, and what we keep.
Gradaroo asks for a resume in two places. This page explains, in plain language, exactly what happens to it — including the parts people usually have to dig for.
Last updated August 2026
The short version
If you convert a resume while signed in, we keep it and the text we extract from it. We use that to run the feature you asked for, and to test and improve how well Gradaroo reads resumes. We are not in the business of selling it, and we don't publish it.
If you are not signed in, nothing is kept. Your file is converted and discarded. We only store resumes against an account, because an upload with no account behind it is one we could never confirm was yours — and so could never delete when you asked.
Where resumes are used
Resume Converter
You upload a PDF or Word file. We extract the text, an AI model restructures it into the Australian format, and you get an editable Word document back.
Gradaroo Search
GradIQ is optional. If you use it, your resume is read to work out which job areas suit you, and those matched areas drive your job results. Here the file itself never leaves your browser — the text is pulled out on your device and only that text is sent to us.
So the two differ, and it is worth being precise about how: the Resume Converter receives your actual file, while Gradaroo Search only ever receives text your browser has already extracted.
What we store
- The file you upload to the Resume Converter and the text extracted from it — when you are signed in. Files stay in private storage: there is no public link to them, and nothing is readable without a short-lived link issued to you.
- The structured result — the name, contact details, roles, dates, skills and sections our system read out of your resume.
- Job-area matches from GradIQ — the matched areas only, not your resume text. Your university only ever sees these as anonymous totals, never linked to you individually.
- Career Support attachments, if you send one — these are visible to the people you asked for help, as the feature explains.
- Event RSVPs, if you say you are going to something your university is running, and whether you were marked as having attended.
- Opportunity opens — that someone opened a posting their university published. Your careers team sees the count, never who.
- Your account details — name, email, role and, for students, your university.
Why we store it
- To run the feature. Converting or matching a resume needs the resume.
- To improve how Gradaroo reads resumes. Resumes vary enormously — a hospitality resume and a PhD resume look nothing alike. Real examples are how we test whether the system reads sections correctly, keeps your Volunteer or Research section intact, and never invents information that isn't in your file.
- To train and evaluate future versions of the system that converts and understands resumes.
Who can see it
- You — your own uploads and results.
- The Gradaroo team, to operate and improve the service, and to complete an expert review if you request one.
- Your university — aggregate, anonymous totals, with two exceptions, both of which happen only because you chose to approach them: Career Support shows your name so an advisor knows who to contact, and if you RSVP to one of their events your name appears on that event's attendee list, because nobody can run a room from an anonymous count.
- Service providers we rely on to run Gradaroo, including our hosting and database provider and the AI provider whose model reads resume text.
How long we keep it
We keep resume data while your account is active, and while it remains useful for testing and improving the system. If you delete something in the app — a Career Support attachment, for example — it is removed from the live service.
Deleting your data
Go to Account Settings. Under Your resume data you can see everything we have stored for you and delete it yourself, immediately. That removes the stored files as well as the records of them and the job-area matches read from them — not just the entry you can see on screen.
It will not affect documents you have already downloaded, and you can keep using Gradaroo afterwards. To delete your whole account, email contact@gradaroo.com from your account address.
Choosing what to upload
A resume is personal. If there is something on yours you would rather we did not hold — a home address, a date of birth, an ID number — remove it before uploading. Gradaroo strips date of birth, age, marital status and similar details from the resume it produces anyway, because they don't belong on an Australian resume.
This page describes how the system actually behaves. It is not a complete legal privacy policy: it does not state a lawful basis for processing, guarantee statutory access or correction rights, specify a fixed retention period, or list where data is stored geographically. Those need confirming with someone qualified before they are published as commitments — particularly because resumes can contain sensitive personal information.
Questions
Email contact@gradaroo.com. A real person reads it.