Privacy policy

What we collect about your calculations

Nothing. ussalarycalculator.com is a static site. The entire tax calculation runs in JavaScript in your own browser. Your salary, filing status, deductions and dependents are never transmitted to us, because there is no application server receiving them.

The URL

As you change the inputs, we update your browser's address bar so you can bookmark or share a scenario. That URL contains the figures you entered. Two consequences worth knowing:

• If you share the link, whoever receives it can see the salary and deductions it encodes.
• The URL is stored in your browser history like any other page you visit. Use a private window if that matters to you.

We do not receive this URL. It is rewritten locally with the browser History API and no request is made.

Cookies and local storage

We set no cookies and write nothing to local storage. There is no account, no login and no preference to persist.

Third parties

The site loads the Geist typeface from Google Fonts. Your browser requests the font files from fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com, which means Google receives your IP address and user-agent as part of that request, as with any externally hosted asset. Google's handling of it is governed by their own privacy policy. No other third-party resource is loaded — no analytics, no advertising, no tag managers, no trackers, no embedded widgets.

Server logs

Pages are served by a static host, which keeps standard access logs — IP address, timestamp, the path requested and user-agent — for operational and security purposes. These are a normal function of serving a website and are not linked to anything you type into the calculator.

Children

This is a general-purpose financial reference tool and is not directed at children. We knowingly collect no personal information from anyone, of any age.

Your rights

Data-protection rights such as access, correction and erasure apply to personal data a service holds about you. We hold none, so there is nothing to disclose, correct or delete. If you believe that is wrong, get in touch and we will investigate.

Changes

If this policy changes we will update the date at the top of this page. Material changes would be noted here rather than made quietly.

The contact form

Our contact form is the one place on this site that does send data to a server. What you type into it — your name, your email address, the topic and your message — is transmitted when you press send, delivered to us, and kept until the matter is dealt with. We use your email address to reply to you and for nothing else: no mailing list, no marketing, and it is never passed to anyone.

The form carries two anti-spam checks, neither of which profiles you: a decoy field that only automated submissions fill in, and a check that the form was not completed impossibly fast. No CAPTCHA, no third-party spam service, no tracking.

One thing worth repeating: the form is not the calculator. The calculator sends us nothing, but anything you choose to put in a message — including a calculator link, which encodes the salary you typed — arrives with us. If you would rather not share your real figures, reproduce the problem with a round number. A wrong bracket is wrong at $100,000 too.