Disclaimer & legal notices
The short version: everything on this site is personal opinion. Read it, disagree with it, test it against your own experience, but do not treat it as professional, legal, financial or career advice.
Opinion, not advice
All articles, perspectives, essays and recommendations on this site reflect the personal views and direct experience of the author. They are written as editorial opinion, not as professional career counselling, legal guidance, financial advice, or any other regulated service.
The tech industry changes quickly. What was true in 2019 may not be true in 2026. Career decisions affect your income, location, visa status and family. Do your own research, speak to people already doing the role you want, and verify any claim that matters to you before acting on it.
Accuracy and currency
We publish in good faith and aim to keep content current, but we do not guarantee that any page is complete, accurate or up-to-date. Salary figures, certification requirements, visa rules and job-market conditions change constantly. Treat every number and recommendation as a starting point for your own verification, not a fact to rely on.
No liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the author and operators of this site accept no liability for any loss, damage or inconvenience arising from your use of, or reliance on, anything published here. That includes career decisions, course purchases, relocation choices, exam failures, job rejections, or any other outcome.
If you need professional advice, immigration, tax, legal, financial or therapeutic, speak to a qualified practitioner in your jurisdiction.
Privacy & data
POST sells three paid products that involve personal information. This section explains what we hold, why, for how long, and how to get it removed.
What we collect
- Career Verdict. Your email address, your answers from the guided route, any CV file you upload, and the verdict we generate for you (on-screen and PDF).
- Offer Reality Check. Your email address, the role, salary, location and working pattern you enter, any offer wording you paste, and the written judgement we generate.
- Hiring Reality Report. Your email address, the job spec text you paste, any context you add, and the report we generate.
- All three. Standard payment metadata returned by Stripe. We never see or store card numbers.
Why we hold it
To produce the report, deliver it to your inbox, let you re-download it via your access link, and handle refund or dispute questions.
How long we keep it
Your report, your inputs and your access link are kept for 24 months from purchase so you can come back to them. After that they are deleted and the link stops working. Ask for deletion sooner and it goes at once.
The same 24-month period applies to every paid product. Payment records are held longer only where accounting or legal obligations require it.
Model training
Nothing you submit is used to train models. A language model writes prose around decisions the framework has already made, and the provider is instructed not to retain your inputs for training.
Confidential and third-party information in offer submissions
If you paste the wording of an employment offer, please remove names, contact details and anything your prospective employer treats as confidential. POST does not need it to judge the offer. You remain responsible for having the right to share whatever you paste.
Third-party information in Hiring Reality Report submissions
Please remove names, email addresses and other personal information relating to third parties (hiring managers, candidates, internal staff) before submitting job specifications or supporting documents. POST does not need this information to produce a Hiring Reality Report.
Where you choose to submit documents containing third-party personal data, POST processes that information solely for the purpose of producing the requested report. You remain responsible for ensuring you have the appropriate authority to provide that information.
Who can access it
The sole operator of POST Atlas. Generated PDFs sit in private storage, accessible only via signed access links sent to the purchasing email address.
Your rights
You can request a copy or deletion of your data at any time by emailing james@postatlas.co.uk. We aim to action requests within 30 days.
Service providers
Stripe (payments), Resend (email delivery), Lovable Cloud (database and storage), PDFShift (PDF rendering). Each processes data only as needed to deliver the service.
Updates
Material changes to this notice are reflected on this page with a refreshed last-updated date below.
Career Verdict purchase terms
The Career Verdict is personalised digital content, £39. It is generated against the inputs you provide. Usually within minutes of payment. Always within 24 hours. A draft that fails the writing checks is held rather than released as if it passed. You get an email either way.
At checkout you tick a box agreeing that production starts at once. By doing so, you acknowledge that you lose the 14-day cancellation right that normally applies to digital purchases under the UK Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013. This is standard practice for digital content produced on demand.
Because Verdicts are personalised, purchases are normally non-refundable once the dossier has been delivered. Full refund if it does not arrive inside 24 hours, if a verdict cannot honestly be written for your situation, or if it was generated from broken inputs you could not correct. Disagreeing with the call is not a refund case. Email james@postatlas.co.uk.
Hiring Reality Report purchase terms
The Hiring Reality Report is personalised digital content, £99. It is written against the job spec and context you provide. Within two working days of payment. A report that cannot be supported by the brief is held rather than completed from assumptions.
At checkout you tick a box agreeing that production starts at once. By doing so, you acknowledge that you lose the 14-day cancellation right that normally applies to digital purchases under the UK Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013. This is standard practice for digital content produced on demand.
Because reports are personalised, purchases are normally non-refundable once the report has been delivered. Full refund if the brief is too thin to diagnose, or if the report does not arrive inside two working days. Email james@postatlas.co.uk.
Offer Reality Check purchase terms
The Offer Reality Check is personalised digital content, £24. The band read you see before paying is free. The written judgement is generated against the offer details you provide. Usually within minutes of payment. Always within 24 hours.
At checkout you tick a box agreeing that production starts at once, and you acknowledge that you lose the 14-day cancellation right that normally applies to digital purchases under the UK Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013.
The judgement tells you what the offer is worth against the role and what the terms already say. It does not tell you to accept or decline, and that is deliberate. Full refund if it does not arrive inside 24 hours. It will not tell you to accept or decline; it tells you what the offer is worth and what the terms already say. Email james@postatlas.co.uk.
Your report, your inputs and your access link are kept for 24 months from purchase so you can come back to them. After that they are deleted and the link stops working. Ask for deletion sooner and it goes at once. Nothing you paste is used to train models. Please remove names, contact details and anything your prospective employer treats as confidential before pasting.
External links
Links to third-party sites are provided for convenience and further reading. We do not control, endorse or take responsibility for the content, privacy practices or accuracy of any external site.
Copyright
Original text and structure on this site are the author's own work. You may quote short excerpts with attribution. You may not reproduce full articles, scrape content for AI training, or republish without permission.
If you have a legal concern, a correction, or a good-faith dispute about something published here, email is the fastest route. We respond to substantive issues within a few days.
Last updated: 17 September 2026.