What we do with your data.

Last updated: August 14, 2026

This update explains the optional LinkedIn connections import, the seven-day no-card trial, and which plans may use opt-in automatic submission.

Litos is a Chrome extension and web dashboard. Open a job posting yourself, or pick one Litos found for you, and it builds a resume tailored to that posting, fills out the application form, and drafts an outreach email to a real person at the company. This policy says exactly what that requires us to read and store, in plain language. Some of it happens in your browser and some of it happens on our servers, and the sections below say which is which. It will grow as the product does, and the date above changes every time it does.

Policy history

  • August 14, 2026: added LinkedIn connections import, trial and Litos+ billing behavior, and paid automatic-submission access.
  • August 11, 2026: disclosed the filled-form and confirmation-page pictures, and set a 7-day window for the filled-form one.
  • August 10, 2026: added the cookie inventory and control path.
  • July 31, 2026: clarified analytics identity, deletion, and connection-code handling.

What the extension reads

Only the page you are looking at, and only when it is a job on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday or LinkedIn, or a LinkedIn profile you opened. We do not read anything in the background. If you are not on a job page, we read nothing.

What we store

We store your email. If you sign in with Google, we store an ID that tells us it is you. Signing in never gives us your Google password, your files, or your inbox. (Connecting your email so Litos can find a sign-in code is a separate thing you switch on yourself. “Codes sent to your email”, below, says exactly what that lets us see.) We store the facts we read out of your resume. We read the file once to get them, then we throw the file away. We store your answers, which reach us two ways: what you type in Settings, and what Litos watches you type into your first form. The next part explains that. We also store the people we found, the emails we wrote, and the resumes we made, so your dashboard can show them to you.

We also take two pictures of the company's own page. One is of the form after Litos fills it in, so you can check every answer before you send it, and so you can see what happened if it stops partway. The other is of the confirmation page after you send, so you have proof it arrived. Both are pictures of a whole page with your details already on it, so treat them as you would the application itself. “How long we keep it”, below, says how long each one lasts.

Private answers are locked up: your phone, where you live, your citizenship, your birthday, when you can start, and the pay you want. Your yes or no answers about being allowed to work are stored as plain yes or no, not locked.

Product analytics

We use PostHog to understand which Litos website pages and Chrome extension actions are useful, such as opening the extension, completing sign-in, generating or filling an application, recording a submission outcome, drafting outreach, or starting checkout. When a page fails to load and shows you a recovery screen, we send the name of that screen and a reference code for the failure, without the error text. When a job-title search returns no matches, we also send the normalized job title and selected location, remote, and visa-sponsorship filters so we know which job sources to add. Entries that resemble an email address, phone number, or website are discarded instead. PostHog receives a random browser or extension installation identifier, the website page path, basic browser and device information, and the named action with limited context. For extension fills, that context can include the application platform, field counts, and whether an opt-in submission completed. It does not include the job URL, company or role name, resume, or form answers. The extension queues up to 50 sanitized events on your device while delivery is unavailable and removes each one after PostHog accepts it. The extension identifier changes when you sign out.

When you are signed in on the website, we send PostHog your Litos account identifier so that the pages you visit before signing in and the actions you take afterwards can be read as one journey. That identifier is the random internal ID your account already has in our database. We do not send your email address, your name, or anything you have typed. Our backend also reports the single fact that an account was created, against the same identifier, because ad and privacy blockers stop that report reaching us from the browser and we would otherwise be unable to count sign-ups accurately. If you delete your account, we delete the linked PostHog profile as part of the same request.

Automatic click and form tracking and automatic error capture are turned off. Session recording is on: PostHog stores a recording of what happens on your screen during a visit, with typed input values masked. It does not mask rendered page text or images, so content already on screen, such as a resume or application details, can appear in a recording. We do not send resume text, job descriptions, application answers, contact messages, passwords, codes, or other form contents as analytics events. PostHog acts as our analytics service provider and may process network information needed to receive these events.

Learning your profile from your first application

From version 0.4.0, Litos learns by watching instead of asking. The first job form you fill in by hand teaches Litos your answers. While setup is open and you are on a real form, Litos reads what you type and saves it, so you never type it again. Older versions do not do this. They only save what you type in Settings.

Litos only watches. It never types, clicks, or sends anything on its own. It only saves what you typed yourself. There are seventeen things it can learn, and nothing else:

  • Phone, city, state, zip, country
  • LinkedIn link, GitHub link, portfolio link
  • Citizenship and birthday
  • Start date, and how long you can work
  • The pay you want
  • GPA, GPA scale, major
  • How you heard about the job

Anything else, including anything that looks like an essay, is not saved.

Three promises. One: it never learns your answers about being allowed to work, needing sponsorship, or your race and gender. The extension says no, the server says no again, and there is nowhere to put them even if it tried. Two: it never writes over you. What you type in Settings always wins. Three: it stops. Learning ends when setup ends, and it never starts again.

Contacts and outreach

We find work emails on public work profiles and check them. Every person is labeled with how sure we are. If we cannot check an email, we say so. We never make one up, and we never sell this data.

Outreach emails are sent by you, from your own Gmail account. Drafts wait in your drafts folder and never send themselves.

Applications are sent only when you click Submit, unless you have active trial or paid Litos+ access and have turned on the separate setting that lets Litos send without asking you each time. Free filling never requires this setting: Litos fills the form, then waits for you to use the employer site's final submit control. With the setting on, Litos may send an application you started once it has checked that every answer is backed up and that the page puts nothing in the way. In the extension you get a 15-second countdown, and one click cancels it. From the dashboard it can go as soon as those checks pass. Missing or conflicting facts, anything you have to swear to, a check that you are human, a page Litos cannot drive, and any confirmation it is unsure of all stop it and wait for you.

LinkedIn connections import

Network import is optional and starts only after you open Network, read the consent screen, and choose a LinkedIn connections CSV file yourself. Uploading the file does not send a LinkedIn message, change your LinkedIn account, or connect Litos to your LinkedIn password.

Litos validates the export before importing it and shows you an accepted and rejected row preview before anything is committed. We use imported names, public profile links, companies, roles, and connection facts to show people you already know, connected companies, and possible referral paths. Premium network insights require active trial or Litos+ access. Network management and deletion remain available if that access ends.

The raw CSV is deleted after parsing and no later than 24 hours. Disconnect stops future use. Imported data stays retained after disconnect so you can delete it later. Delete removes imported network data, including people, relationship edges, company matches, and derived indexes, within 24 hours.

Codes sent to your email

Some job sites email you a code before they will take your application. If you turn this on, Litos can look in the Gmail or Outlook you connected and find that code while the form is waiting for it. It only takes a code that just arrived, and only from the site you are applying to. It uses the code once. It never saves it, and it never uses this to read or send any other mail.

You choose this, and you can turn it off in Settings. If it is off, Litos stops and waits for you whenever a code is needed. It also stops for the puzzles that check you are human, for a code sent to your phone or your authenticator app, and for any step it is not sure about. Litos never sneaks past those checks.

Sending applications without asking, and finding codes, are two separate choices. You can turn either one off in Settings.

You connect Gmail or Outlook on a page run by Composio, a company we use to hold that connection for your account. Your password never goes through Litos. If you disconnect in Settings, we ask Composio to cut the connection and we remove it from our side.

Questions about race and gender

The extension's setup screen asks for these, and they are optional. Whatever you enter is stored and used to answer the same questions on application forms, so you never type them twice. Leave them blank, which is what happens if you skip that section, and Litos picks “I would rather not say” every time. It never works an answer out from anything else about you.

Billing

Stripe handles payments. We never see or keep your card number. A new account's seven-day Litos+ trial does not require a card and does not schedule a charge. Paid Litos+ renews for the selected one-week, one-month, or three-month period until you cancel. Cancelling takes the same number of clicks as signing up. The link is in Account.

How long we keep it

We delete each original rendered resume file after 30 days. The immutable generated content stays with its application. If you later choose Download, Litos creates a fresh, short-lived rendering from that content. Old capability links still expire and stop working.

We delete the picture of the filled-in form after 7 days. You only need it while you are checking the form, or working out why it stopped, and it holds everything that was on the page at once, so it goes sooner than anything else.

We keep the picture of the confirmation page for as long as your account is open. It is your proof the application arrived, and that is worth having long after you sent it. Deleting your account deletes it with everything else.

A link to a resume file stops working after about an hour. If a link ends up somewhere it should not, it is already dead.

The resume you upload is read once to build your profile and is not kept as a file. Account-linked product data described above is kept for as long as your account is open. Product analytics is retained separately by PostHog. Events recorded before you sign in are not linked to your account; events recorded while you are signed in on the website carry your account identifier, and that profile is deleted when you delete your account.

A file you attach to an application yourself, like a transcript, is different. We encrypt it and keep it until you remove it or delete your account, so a later application can use the same file without us asking you for it again.

Export and deletion

Email support@trylitos.com from your account address to export or delete your account-linked Litos data.

Deleting removes all account-linked product data. Your account. The facts we read from your resume. Your answers, both the ones you typed and the ones we watched you type. Your emails. Your form history. Every resume we made, files and all. The files you attached yourself. Your PostHog analytics profile goes too, along with the events recorded against it while you were signed in. Events recorded before you ever signed in carry no account identifier, so there is nothing there to find or remove. You cannot undo this.

People are the one thing that stays. A person at a company is a real person. We save them once, and everyone who looks up that company sees the same one, so it is not yours to delete. Which people you saw, and what you wrote to them, is yours. That does get deleted.

We also keep notes on which kinds of emails get replies. Your name is stripped off, so they cannot lead back to you.

Questions

Same address: support@trylitos.com. You will get an answer from a person.