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Privacy-First Public Resumes

Privacy-First Public Resumes (2026-07-13): Public downloads are privacy-safe PDFs, email/phone stay private by default, and recruiters request contact for you to approve.

·5 min read·Honestify Engineering

Feature area: Privacy-First Profiles

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This release covers Privacy-First Public Resumes Version 2.4.0, shipped 2026-07-13. Status: shipped. No breaking changes.

Summary

Your public profile can still offer a downloadable resume — without exposing your personal contact details by default. Honestify now keeps an original resume for your assistant, serves a privacy-safe public PDF to visitors, and lets recruiters request contact that only you can approve.

Sharing a profile used to mean choosing between helpfulness and privacy. Recruiters need a PDF; candidates do not want email, phone, or home address on the open web. This release separates those concerns.

What Changed

Privacy-safe public PDF

New

Visitors download a sanitized resume; your original stays private for the assistant.

Email & phone controls

New

Private by default. Set either field public only when you want the assistant to share it.

Contact requests

New

Recruiters request contact from chat; you approve or reject from the Privacy tab.

Share-on-approve fields

Improved

Configure which email and optional phone are sent when you approve a request.

  • Dual resume storage — Original PDF for your account and AI indexing; generated public PDF for visitor downloads.
  • Always-private address — Street / home address is masked on the public resume and never offered as a public assistant field.
  • Contact-request flow — Name, company, work email, optional LinkedIn, and a short reason; transactional email to both sides.
  • Public contact injection — When email or phone is Public, the assistant uses your configured share values — not whatever happened to appear in resume text.

Why We Built It

Public AI profiles work best when recruiters can download a resume and ask follow-ups. That only scales if candidates trust that personal contact details are not broadcast by default.

We designed privacy as a product surface — settings, sanitized downloads, and an explicit approve path — rather than hoping the model “remembers” not to leak a phone number from a PDF.

User Impact

AudienceHow you benefit
Engineers / candidatesShare a live profile and optional PDF without putting personal contact on the open web by default
RecruitersStill get a professional PDF when download is enabled; request contact when details are private
Profile ownersClear Privacy tab: visibility toggles, share-on-approve fields, and an inbox of contact requests
PlatformPrivacy Policy and Terms updated for dual resumes, contact requests, and share fields

Relevant skills: typescript, react, system design, prompt engineering.

Technical Highlights

  • Resume text scanning masks email, phone, and address when building the public PDF (@react-pdf/renderer on Vercel)
  • ProfileVisibility stores email/phone/resume modes; address is always treated as hidden for public surfaces
  • contactShareEmail / contactSharePhone on the user record — used for approve emails and for LLM injection when fields are public
  • Assistant answers redact private contact fields; public fields are injected as authoritative PUBLIC CONTACT DETAILS
  • Contact-request APIs with owner approve/reject and Resend transactional mail

Database migrations are additive (visibility, contact requests, share fields). Existing uploads keep working; public PDFs regenerate from the stored original when needed.

Before

Privacy-First Public Resumes: before vs after

Before

Enabling resume download meant visitors received the uploaded PDF, including whatever contact details were on the page.

After

Visitors get a privacy-safe public PDF. Email and phone stay private unless you opt in. Recruiters can request contact; you decide what to share.

How to use it

  1. Upload your resume in the dashboard (as before).
  2. Open Privacy — leave email/phone private, or set them public if you want the assistant to share your configured values.
  3. Set Share on approve email (defaults to your account email) and optional phone.
  4. When a recruiter requests contact, approve or reject from the same tab.

Review the latest Privacy Policy and Terms for how contact requests and public resumes are described.

Future Improvements

What we are building next

  • Owner preview of the public PDF side-by-side with the original
  • Richer contact-request history and filters
  • Optional city/region sharing without street address

Known limitations

  • · Public resume layout is regenerated from parsed text, not a pixel-perfect clone of every custom PDF
  • · Phone is only shared when you enter it in Share on approve

Feedback welcome: Use in-app feedback if a public PDF misses a section or over-redacts something you meant to keep.

This update connects to other Honestify work:

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