Terms of Service

1. The agreement

These terms are a contract between you and MeritLog LLC, which operates MeritLog at mymeritlog.com. Using the site means you accept them; creating an account confirms it.

You must be at least 16 and legally able to enter a contract. MeritLog accounts are personal. There is no business tier, so nobody accepts these terms on behalf of a company.

2. What MeritLog is

The public side is a free job search. We aggregate listings from public sources we have reviewed, and we show them for information only. MeritLog is not the employer behind any listing. We do not guarantee that a listing is accurate, still open, or will lead to an interview or an offer. A listing can close, change, or turn out to be wrong the day after we index it.

The private side is Career Memory: a signed-in account where you keep career records and documents, and where AI-assisted tools help you draft material for your own applications.

Some features are paid. Paid plans bill through Stripe, monthly or annually, and the pricing page states the current prices. Where the pricing page and an older screenshot disagree, the pricing page wins.

3. Your account

One person per account. Register with accurate information and keep it current. You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for what happens under your login; tell us straight away if you think someone else has access.

MeritLog is for job seekers only. We do not offer employer or recruiter accounts, and using a personal account to source, screen, or contact candidates breaches these terms.

4. Acceptable use

Use MeritLog for your own job search and career record. Do not:

• scrape the service at abusive rates, or in ways that degrade it for others
• repost the job catalog, in whole or in substantial part, as a competing dataset or feed
• create or submit false credentials, records, or documents
• use the service for anything unlawful
• attempt to identify other users, or to reach private data that is not yours

5. Your content

Everything in your Career Memory stays yours. You grant us a limited licence to host, process, back up, and display it in order to run the service, including the AI-assisted features you use on your own content. The licence exists to operate MeritLog for you; it ends when you delete the content or the account, except for backups still inside their expiry window.

AI drafting is help, not a shield. You are responsible for the truthfulness of any application, résumé, or letter you produce with MeritLog's assistance. Review before you send.

6. Job listings and third-party sites

Applying happens on the employer's or applicant-tracking system's own site, under that site's terms, not here. MeritLog is not a party to any application, interview, or hiring decision, and has no influence over the outcome.

Links to third-party sites are provided for convenience. A link is not an endorsement of the employer, the listing, or the site behind it.

7. Your data

Our Privacy Notice, published at /privacy, governs how we handle personal data, and it is part of this agreement. Optional public analytics and advertising stay off everywhere until you explicitly allow both. Global Privacy Control keeps both off even when a previous preference allowed them.

Place names and coordinates in location search come from GeoNames, used under the CC BY 4.0 licence. To prefill your location we use a coarse, city-level estimate from your IP address; it is a starting point you can change, not a record of where you are.

8. Paid plans

Paid plans bill in advance through Stripe, on the monthly or annual cycle you pick, and renew automatically until you cancel.

Cancel whenever you like. The plan runs to the end of the period you already paid for, then stops. We refund only where the law requires it; part-used periods are otherwise not refunded. Consumers in jurisdictions with statutory cancellation or refund rights keep those rights in full.

If a price changes, we tell you before the change applies to your renewal, with enough notice to cancel first.

9. Ending the agreement

You can delete your account at any time from settings, and the deletion flow removes your Career Memory data as the Privacy Notice describes.

We can suspend or close an account that breaches these terms or that the law requires us to act on. For anything short of a serious breach, we warn you first.

Sections on your content licence wind-down, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and disputes survive the end of the agreement.

10. Disclaimers and limits on liability

MeritLog is provided as is. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that any listing is accurate or open, or that using MeritLog will get you a job. Implied warranties are disclaimed to the extent the law allows.

Where enforceable, our total liability for all claims in any 12-month period is capped at the fees you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose. We are not liable for indirect losses such as lost profits or lost opportunities.

Some places do not allow these limits, and this section does not try to override them. Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. If you are a consumer in the EU, the UK, Australia, or another jurisdiction with mandatory consumer protections, you keep every statutory right and guarantee that law gives you.

11. Disputes, governing law, and the rest

Talk to us first. Before either side starts formal proceedings, write to privacy@mymeritlog.com describing the dispute, and we will try to resolve it informally within 30 days.

If that fails, these terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, and disputes go to the state and federal courts located in Delaware. If you are a consumer, this does not remove the protection of the mandatory law where you live, or your right to bring a claim in your local courts.

If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest stands. These terms and the Privacy Notice are the entire agreement between us about MeritLog.

This is version 2, effective 2026-09-04. We give at least 30 days' notice before a material change takes effect, and you can close your account before it does.