BestPaycheck.com ("we," "us," or "our") provides free paycheck, salary, and payroll calculators. This Privacy Policy explains what information is involved when you use our site and how it's handled. By using BestPaycheck.com, you agree to the practices described below.
Our paycheck, gross-up, overtime, and raise calculators run entirely client-side. When you enter figures like your salary, hourly rate, filing status, 401(k) percentage, or health insurance premium, that data stays in your browser's memory to perform the calculation and is discarded the moment you close or refresh the page. We do not transmit, log, or store any of the financial figures you enter into our tools.
Like most websites, our hosting provider and any analytics or advertising services we use may automatically collect standard technical information when you visit, such as your IP address, approximate location (city/region level), browser and device type, operating system, referring page, and the pages you view. This information is used in aggregate for security, performance monitoring, and understanding overall traffic patterns — it is not linked to anything you enter into the calculators.
We use, or may use, Google AdSense to display advertising on this site. Google and its advertising partners use cookies — including the DoubleClick cookie — to serve ads based on a visitor's prior visits to this and other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings at adssettings.google.com. Alternatively, you can opt out of third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices. For more on how Google uses information from sites that use its services, see Google's Partner Sites policy.
If we add website analytics in the future (such as Google Analytics), it will operate on the same principle: aggregate, anonymized traffic measurement, never tied to your calculator inputs.
BestPaycheck.com is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with information, please contact us and we will address it.
You can control cookies through your browser settings, including blocking or deleting them. Doing so may affect how ads are displayed but will not affect the functionality of our calculators, since they don't depend on cookies to work. Depending on where you live, you may also have additional rights regarding data collected by third-party advertising partners — those requests should be directed to the relevant provider (e.g., Google) using the opt-out links above.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal, operational, or regulatory reasons. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please visit our Contact page.