Privacy policy

Who this covers

This policy covers the Farro browser extension and this website. Farro is made by Emily Backes.

What Farro stores

When you save a job, Farro stores what you saved and anything you add to it later:

• The job: its title, company, location, workplace type, salary, employment type, link, the site it came from, and the posting’s description, up to 50 KB of text.
• What you add: dates (posted, applied and followed up), contacts (name, role, email and LinkedIn), the resume version you sent, notes and tags.
• Its status, and a history of each status change with its date.
• Your settings: the board’s columns, the reminder timings, your view and date range, and the date of your last backup.

Where it’s stored

In the extension’s storage in your browser (chrome.storage.local), in your Chrome profile on your computer. Farro doesn’t use Chrome sync, so nothing is copied to your Google account or your other devices. Farro has no server, so there’s no other copy anywhere. Anyone who can use your Chrome profile can open Farro and see your jobs.

When Farro reads a web page

Only when you ask it to.

• The toolbar icon or Alt+Shift+J. Farro reads the job posting in the tab you’re on and fills in the fields. You check them, then save.
• A pasted link, or “Track this job link”. The first time you add a link from a site, Chrome asks whether Farro may access that site. If you allow it, Farro fetches that one page from your browser and reads it on your computer. The request carries no cookies and no referrer, so the job site doesn’t learn which account you’re signed in with or which page you came from. Like any visit, it does see your IP address and browser.

Farro never fetches pages in the background, in bulk, or without you asking. To take back a site’s access, open chrome://extensions, choose Details under Farro, and change its site access.

What Farro doesn’t do

• It has no account, sign-in or email signup.
• It has no analytics, telemetry, crash reporting or ads.
• It doesn’t sell, rent or share your data. Your data never reaches anyone to share it with.
• It doesn’t load code from anywhere. Everything it runs, its fonts included, ships inside the extension.
• It doesn’t keep your browsing history, only the links of jobs you choose to save.

Backups and files

Exporting a JSON backup or a CSV spreadsheet saves a file on your computer, through Chrome’s downloads. Where you keep that file, and who you share it with, is up to you. Importing reads only the file you pick. A backup holds your whole search, contacts and notes included, so keep it somewhere private.

Reminders and the toolbar count

Once a day, a timer in your browser counts the jobs that are due for a follow-up and shows the number on Farro’s toolbar icon. It runs on your computer and sends nothing.

Deleting your data

• Deleting a job archives it first. Delete forever, in the Archived filter, removes it for good.
• Importing a backup with Replace deletes everything Farro has in this browser before it loads the file.
• Removing Farro from Chrome deletes all of its data. Export a backup first if you want to keep it. There’s no other copy, so nobody can get deleted data back.

Permissions

What each permission Farro asks Chrome for is used for:

storage

Keeps your jobs and settings in your browser.

unlimitedStorage

Lets a long search, with each posting’s description, grow past Chrome’s 10 MB default without saves failing.

activeTab

Reads the tab you’re on, only when you click the toolbar icon or press the shortcut.

scripting

Runs Farro’s own page reader in that tab, with the activeTab permission.

alarms

Recounts the follow-ups that are due once a day, for the toolbar count.

contextMenus

Adds “Track this job link” to the menu you get by right-clicking a link.

Site access (optional)

Asked for one site at a time, when you add a link from that site. None is granted at install.

This website

This site sets no cookies and has no analytics. It loads no scripts, fonts or embeds from other sites. Cloudflare hosts it, and like any host it handles each request, including your IP address and browser, to deliver the page and keep the site secure. Its privacy policy covers that.

If you email, your address and message are used only to reply to you.

Chrome Web Store

Farro’s use of data follows the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

Children

Farro is a tool for job seekers, and isn’t directed at children under 13.

Changes

This page changes when the way Farro handles data does. The date at the top says when it last changed.

Contact

Questions about privacy go to hello@roninand.co. For help with Farro itself, see Support.