Privacy Policy

1. Zero Personal Data Collection Architecture

At Salary Rate Calculator (accessible from salaryratecalc.com), your privacy is our primary engineering requirement. We recognize that salary numbers, hourly rates, merit increases, and tax parameters represent highly sensitive personal financial information.

Unlike conventional online salary portals, our platform is built as a static Multi-Page Application (MPA). All calculations, sliders, and form conversions execute 100% client-side in your local web browser memory. None of the hourly pay rates, overtime hours, annual salaries, or deduction settings you enter are ever transmitted to, processed by, or stored on any remote web server or third-party database.

2. Cookies and Local Storage

Salary Rate Calculator does not use persistent tracking cookies for user profiling. The only first-party client storage mechanism utilized is standard browser localStorage, which stores a single preference key: theme (with values "light", "dark", or "system"). This allows the website to render your preferred visual mode seamlessly without screen flashing.

3. Third-Party Advertising & Cookie Disclosures

To keep our wage conversion tools completely free and accessible to the public without paywalls or subscriptions, Salary Rate Calculator may partner with third-party advertising networks, including Google LLC, to serve non-intrusive advertisements:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on prior visits to our website or other sites on the Internet.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to this site and other websites across the web.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings or by navigating to aboutads.info.

4. Server Logs & Edge CDN Telemetry

Our pre-rendered static assets are distributed globally via high-performance edge Content Delivery Networks (Cloudflare Pages). CDN edge servers automatically record standard, non-personally identifiable diagnostic HTTP access logs (such as requesting IP address, user-agent string, requested asset path, and timestamp) solely for network security, DDoS protection, and traffic routing purposes.

5. California Privacy Rights (CCPA / CPRA)

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), California residents have the right to know what personal information is collected, request its deletion, and opt out of any sale or sharing of personal data.

Because Salary Rate Calculator maintains a zero-retention client-side architecture, we do not collect, monetize, broker, or sell personal consumer financial information to data aggregators or third parties.

6. European Union GDPR Compliance

For visitors residing in the European Economic Area (EEA) and United Kingdom: Salary Rate Calculator operates under the principle of data minimization as outlined in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Since user inputs are never transmitted off the client device, no personal data processing occurs on our infrastructure.

7. Children's Privacy (COPPA)

Salary Rate Calculator does not knowingly collect or solicit any information from individuals under the age of 13. If you believe an underage person has provided personal data through our contact forms, please contact us immediately for prompt removal.