57 platform terms read
Australia first
#ownvoice
Your account is not ours to gamble with.
Auto-sign up, search, and apply tools use your login, your identity, and your professional brand to chase volume. If a platform objects, the consequence lands on you.
We care about job seekers, and weren't willing to put you at risk. So we did our research on 57 of the top platforms, line by line.
49of 57 restrict automated access
42can terminate your account, not the vendor's
01The red lights
It's not good. Here's the proof.
The direction is clear: 2026 terms of service changes deliberately target automated account creation/submission tools, while platforms add fingerprinting and fraud detection. Your account has never been more at risk, but who's admitting it? WroteItMyself is putting you first, not something we're trying to sell.
| Platform | Scraping | Auto-apply / account creation |
Risk to candidate | Finding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 - Australia · boards and government | ||||
| SEEKBoard · AU #1 | BANNED | BANNED | High | The decisive one. Bans applying on behalf of another party by name, bans credential sharing, can suspend. Names device fingerprinting. Updated 20 Jul 2026. |
| LinkedIn AUBoard · Microsoft | BANNED | BANNED | High | No AU-specific terms - Australians contract under California law. Bot ban and termination right apply unchanged. |
| Indeed AUBoard · Recruit | BANNED | BANNED | High | Same document as global: bans automated submission, automated account creation, and agentic AI. |
| CareerOneBoard · AU | BANNED | BANNED | High | Expressly forbids applying for a job on behalf of another party; bans non-browser navigation tools. |
| Workforce AustraliaGovernment · federal | IMPLIED | IMPLIED | High | Blanket robots disallow, express right to refuse access, and myGov Digital ID sign-in. Mutual-obligation data. |
| APSJobsGovernment · federal | IMPLIED | IMPLIED | High | Silent on bots. Real exposure is not a ban - APS applications carry declarations and a merit process. |
| Defence Jobs AustraliaGovernment · ADF | IMPLIED | SILENT | High | ToS silent, but ADF applications carry sworn declarations feeding a security clearance. Not a ToS problem. |
| GradConnectionBoard · graduate | BANNED | IMPLIED | High | No robots or screen-scraping absent written consent; real-name requirement; termination without notice. |
| Prosple / GradAustraliaBoard · graduate | IMPLIED | IMPLIED | High | No scraping clause, but bans letting others use your account and allows suspension at absolute discretion. |
| JoraAggregator · SEEK | BANNED | SILENT | Medium | Scraping banned and robots.txt disallows all unlisted agents, but there is no account to lose. |
| Adzuna AUAggregator | IMPLIED | SILENT | Medium | Terms silent on automation and give no user-termination right, but datacentre traffic is hard-blocked. |
| I Work for NSWGovernment · NSW | UNREAD | UNREAD | Medium | Terms unreadable behind Cloudflare; robots.txt names ClaudeBot. Applications finish on agency ATS platforms. |
| 02 - Australia · agencies, major employers, AU vendors | ||||
| Hays AustraliaAgency | BANNED | SILENT | High | Explicit scraping ban plus a right to deny access "at any time without explanation". Already fingerprints clients. |
| Randstad AUAgency | BANNED | SILENT | High | Explicit harvesting/scraping ban plus termination "in our absolute discretion and without any explanation". |
| Robert Half AUAgency | BANNED | IMPLIED | High | Bans any "mechanism to access" the site - broad enough to catch a submitting agent, not just a scraper. |
| LiveHire / HumanforceATS · AU vendor | BANNED | IMPLIED | High | Screen-scraping ban, one account per person, express bar on a third party acting through the account, suspension right. |
| Commonwealth BankEmployer · Workday | BANNED | BANNED | Medium | CBA publishes no website terms; every prohibition comes from Workday's own ToS, whose reach to tenants is arguable. |
| TelstraEmployer · Workday | IMPLIED | IMPLIED | Medium | No robot clause, but Telstra may suspend access for any breach and its recruitment privacy statement bars password sharing. |
| Qantas GroupEmployer · SmartRecruiters | BANNED | SILENT | Medium | SmartRecruiters candidate agreement governs and allows immediate termination of the candidate portal. |
| Michael Page AUAgency | IMPLIED | SILENT | Medium | No robot clause, but the licence is non-commercial/personal use and accounts cancel at discretion. |
| Woolworths GroupEmployer · Avature | BANNED | SILENT | Low | Robot ban sits in Group T&Cs scoped to a different domain; the careers robots.txt expressly allows /apply. |
| Coles GroupEmployer · Phenom + SF | SILENT | SILENT | Low | No candidate terms at all. Privacy policy actively contemplates third parties "authorised to act on your behalf". |
| BHPEmployer · SuccessFactors | IMPLIED | SILENT | Low | No candidate-account terms - only a website licence barring copying. Nothing to suspend. |
| Wesfarmers / BunningsEmployer · Workday | IMPLIED | SILENT | Low | Apply flow sits on Workday; careers footer links a privacy policy only. No candidate terms in the chain. |
| NSW Health eRecruitGovernment · Taleo | SILENT | SILENT | Low | Candidate gate is a privacy agreement only - no acceptable-use, one-account or termination terms anywhere. |
| PageUpATS · AU vendor | SILENT | SILENT | Low | Publishes no terms of use of any kind. The employer's own careers-site terms are the only binding text. |
| ELMO SoftwareATS · AU vendor | SILENT | SILENT | Low | Only agreement is a B2B SaaS contract binding the employer. No scraping or automated-submission clause. |
| 03 - Global job boards | ||||
| LinkedInBoard · Microsoft | BANNED | BANNED | High | Bans scraping, bots and account sharing in three separate clauses. Restricts the member, not the tool. |
| IndeedBoard · Recruit | BANNED | BANNED | High | Names "AI or Agentic AI" and bans automating Indeed Apply outright. Tightened 17 Jul 2026. |
| GlassdoorBoard · Indeed | BANNED | IMPLIED | High | Bans "software or automated agents". Applications route through Indeed, so Indeed's terms bind too. |
| ZipRecruiterBoard | BANNED | IMPLIED | High | Broadest wording found: any automated means to view or access, plus a credential-sharing ban. |
| MonsterBoard · Randstad | BANNED | IMPLIED | High | Permits ordinary browsers only; bans sharing credentials with a third party. |
| CareerBuilderBoard | BANNED | IMPLIED | High | Same contract as Monster since Jan 2026. Prior terms banned scripts and robots by name. |
| SimplyHiredBoard · Indeed | BANNED | BANNED | High | Names AI agents outright and bans automated submission separately from scraping. |
| NaukriBoard · India | BANNED | BANNED | High | Longest prohibited-acts list read. Interfaces clause plus a bona-fide-purpose limit catch agentic apply. |
| XINGBoard · DE | BANNED | BANNED | High | Blanket ban on any software or script used with XING, plus forfeiture of prepaid Premium fees. |
| JobStreetBoard · SEEK | BANNED | BANNED | High | SEEK-group terms: bans applying on behalf of another party, credential sharing, and any automation. |
| WellfoundBoard · startups | BANNED | IMPLIED | High | Scraping and credential disclosure banned; termination without notice. Silent on automated applying. |
| HandshakeBoard · graduate | BANNED | BANNED | High | Bans automated account creation by name, on accounts tied to a verified university identity. |
| FlexJobsBoard · remote | BANNED | BANNED | High | Requires applications "be completed personally by the applicant" - the most direct clause in the set. |
| DiceBoard · tech | BANNED | IMPLIED | Medium | Explicit on paper - approved devices, no robots, no password sharing. No enforcement signal observed. |
| Reed.co.ukBoard · UK | IMPLIED | SILENT | Medium | No automation language at all. Residual risk is unfettered termination plus a purpose limit. |
| TotaljobsBoard · UK | IMPLIED | SILENT | Medium | Silent on bots. Hook is "unauthorised processing" plus UK database right; edge already blocks bots. |
| StepStoneBoard · DE | BANNED | IMPLIED | Medium | Scraping banned outright, permanent exclusion available. Automated applying only caught indirectly. |
| AdzunaAggregator | UNREAD | UNREAD | Medium | Jobseeker terms unreadable - bot-blocked from every route. API terms restrict reuse and multi-accounting. |
| Welcome to the JungleBoard · EU | BANNED | IMPLIED | Medium | Scraping banned; s.11.1 forbids a third party using the account "on your behalf". |
| 04 - ATS and portal vendors (the Workday class) | ||||
| SAP SuccessFactorsATS · portal vendor | BANNED | BANNED | High | Names agent frameworks and MCP, bans user-agent spoofing, makes the user liable for tools acting for them. |
| GreenhouseATS · portal vendor | BANNED | IMPLIED | High | Candidate agreement bans automated access and lets Greenhouse terminate the job seeker's account. |
| SmartRecruitersATS · portal vendor | BANNED | SILENT | High | Candidate terms forbid sharing credentials and allow immediate suspension for any breach. |
| WorkdayATS · portal vendor | BANNED | IMPLIED | Medium | Site terms ban scraping but bind workday.com, not tenant portals - each employer sets candidate terms. |
| Oracle Taleo / ORCATS · portal vendor | BANNED | IMPLIED | Medium | Oracle's careers T&C pulls in the oracle.com ToU, so robot bans bind candidates - on Oracle's own portal only. |
| iCIMSATS · portal vendor | BANNED | IMPLIED | Medium | Blanket robot ban and a right to disable any username "for any or no reason" - but scoped to icims.com. |
| JobviteATS · portal vendor | BANNED | BANNED | Medium | Clearest anti-agent clause of the vendors: no "third party or computer system" on the candidate account. |
| BullhornATS · portal vendor | IMPLIED | SILENT | Medium | Can terminate use at any time, but the ToU contains zero scraping, bot or automated-means language. |
| WorkableATS · portal vendor | IMPLIED | IMPLIED | Medium | Only requires credentials not be used without your permission - a user-authorised agent is not clearly barred. |
| LeverATS · portal vendor | SILENT | SILENT | Low | No candidate-binding terms exist; candidates hold no account. Live constraint is Cloudflare, not contract. |
| AshbyATS · portal vendor | SILENT | SILENT | Low | No candidate ToS at all; publishes a public job-postings API. Nothing to ban a job seeker under. |
BANNED named in the terms
IMPLIED caught by a general clause
SILENT no clause found
UNREAD bot-blocked, could not verify
02What care looks like
Your voice. Your account. Your choice.
We built around the person applying, not around application volume.
Your credentials
Your login stays yours
We do not take your password, drive your session, create accounts or submit applications in your name.
Your words
You approve every line
WroteItMyself learns from your writing. You accept, reject or rewrite every suggestion before it becomes part of your application.
Your decision
You press send
You apply in your own session, at human pace. No stealth browser. No proxy. No bot pretending to be you.
Where we stand
We chose the safer product for you
Auto-apply may be the faster feature to sell. We passed because its failure mode lands on the person who trusted it. We help you research the role, tailor your application in your own voice and prepare for the interview. You remain the author, the editor and the person who sends it.
You wrote it yourself. That is the whole idea.
How it works
So how do we do it?
The mechanism is twofold: simply copy and paste the job listing into a capture field right in our tracking dashboard, or use our browser extension to do it for you. The extension can only read the page you have already browsed to, and only when you click it. It never receives your platform login.
No automated platform activity to detect. Honest. Compliant by design. Then we provide the tailored resume and cover letter you need to submit the application, all the job interview prep, tips, questions you can ask and are likely to be asked, stage tracking, and follow-up reminders.
We're there from start to finish, to support you, not replace you.
Source audit · 57 platform terms, checked 2 Aug 2026
Rev 8 · copy and mechanism update 19 Aug 2026