Privacy Policy
How PlainGovJobs handles data, cookies, and advertising, your privacy choices and your rights.
PlainGovJobs is a reference site that publishes federal workforce statistics. According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management FedScope dataset (March 2025), it presents data on 2,289,472 federal civilian employees across 115 agencies; this policy explains how we handle visitor information while doing so - see our methodology for the data itself.
Information We Collect
PlainGovJobs does not require user registration or collect personal information directly. We use third-party analytics and advertising services that may collect certain information automatically.
Analytics
We use privacy-focused analytics (Umami) and Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use our site. This includes anonymous data such as pages visited, time spent on pages, browser type, and general geographic region. This data helps us improve the site and understand which content is most useful.
Advertising
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and other sites on the Internet.
- Google's use of advertising cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie) enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this and other sites.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
- You may opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info/choices or the Network Advertising Initiative at optout.networkadvertising.org.
Learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services at Google's Privacy & Terms.
Cookies
This site uses cookies for analytics and advertising purposes. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.
Your Rights (GDPR & CCPA)
In the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives you the right to access, correct, or erase your personal data and to object to or restrict its processing; we obtain consent before setting non-essential cookies. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California residents have the right to know what personal information is collected and to opt out of its sale, PlainGovJobs does not sell personal information. To exercise any of these rights, contact us at hello@plaingovjobs.com.
Third-Party Links
Our site may contain links to external websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites.
Data Security
We implement reasonable security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of data. All connections to PlainGovJobs are encrypted using HTTPS.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.
Contact
For privacy-related questions, contact us at hello@plaingovjobs.com.
Who Publishes This
PlainGovJobs is operated by Kiznis Studio, an independent data-engineering studio (solo-operated). Questions, corrections, and accountability inquiries can be sent to hello@plaingovjobs.com.