Privacy policy

What Salary-Calculator.in collects, the analytics and advertising cookies set through it, why calculator inputs never leave the browser, and DPDP rights.

Updated 20 September 2026

This privacy policy states what Salary-Calculator.in collects from a visitor, what Google Analytics and Google AdSense collect through the two scripts the site loads, what is written to the visitor’s own device, and what a visitor can do about each of them. It applies to every page on the salary-calculator.in domain.

The site itself collects nothing. Salary-Calculator.in is a static website with no user accounts, no login, no newsletter, no comment system and no contact form, and no page on it asks a visitor to identify themselves. Two Google scripts do collect, and the sections below set out what they take and how to stop them.

Summary of what is collected

Source	What it collects	How to stop it
Salary-Calculator.in itself	Nothing. No account, login, registration, newsletter, comment section, contact form or upload exists on the site, and calculator inputs never leave the browser	No action needed
Google Analytics	IP address, approximate location derived from it, device and browser type, referring page, and pages viewed with their timing	The Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, or any content blocker
Google AdSense	Advertising cookies and device identifiers used to select advertisements, measure whether one was seen, and cap repeats	Google My Ad Center for personalisation, or any content blocker. Not loaded on this page
Stored on the visitor’s device	Cookies set by the two Google services, some of them on the salary-calculator.in domain, and one local storage value holding the chosen colour theme	Clear cookies and browser storage, or block both Google scripts
Web server access log	IP address, requested URL, timestamp, referring page and browser user-agent string	Retention is set by the hosting provider, not by this site

Blocking the analytics and advertising scripts

A visitor who blocks both scripts loses no functionality. Every page and every calculator works in full without them, because all content is served as static HTML and all calculation runs on the device. Nothing on the site is held behind a script, an interstitial or a consent wall.

Personalised advertising is controlled at Google My Ad Center, which is the working control from India. The analytics collection is stopped outright by the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, and any content blocker stops both scripts here. Neither script is loaded on a placeholder page, on the search page or on the policy pages.

What Salary-Calculator.in collects directly

Nothing. No page on the site asks for a name, an email address, a mobile number, an employee code, a Permanent Account Number or a Pension Payment Order number, and there is no account system, no login, no registration, no newsletter, no comment section, no contact form and no upload anywhere on it. The site is compiled to static files and served as files, so no component exists that could accept a submission.

Every calculator runs in the visitor’s browser and transmits nothing. Basic pay, pay level, city classification, date of birth, length of qualifying service, pension amount, commuted portion and gross income are read by JavaScript on the device, computed there, and written back into the page. A computed figure is an estimate of an entitlement rather than a sanction of one, which the editorial policy sets out in full.

The header search box is the one exception worth naming. It submits by GET, so a search term travels to the server in the URL and is recorded in the access log and sent to Google Analytics as part of the page address. The lookup itself is local, against an index built at deploy time and served as static files, so no search service receives the term.

Cookies and third-party advertising

Salary-Calculator.in sets no cookies of its own. Cookies are set through it by two Google services: Google Analytics, which counts visits and shows which pages are read, and Google AdSense, which serves the display advertising that funds the site. Some of those cookies are written on the salary-calculator.in domain and are first-party cookies for that reason, and the rest sit on Google’s own domains. The site does not read any of them and receives nothing from them.

Google and its advertising partners use cookies and device identifiers to select advertisements, to measure whether an advertisement was seen, and to cap how often the same one is shown. Where personalised advertising is active, that selection may draw on a visitor’s earlier browsing on other sites carrying Google advertising, which Google describes at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Google’s handling of the data is governed by the Google privacy policy.

Advertisements are selected programmatically by Google and are not chosen by this site. The separation between the advertising and what the pages say is set out in the editorial policy.

One value is written by the site’s own code: the chosen colour theme, kept in browser local storage so the choice survives a page reload. It is never transmitted and is not readable by any other site.

Server logs

As with any web server, requests to the site are recorded in an access log holding the IP address, the requested URL including its query string, the timestamp, the referring page and the browser user-agent string. That log exists to run and secure the service. It is not read for analytics, is not joined to any other data set, and is not shared other than where a law requires it. Its retention is set by the hosting provider and not by this site.

The site also generates a small log of its own that records hits from AI crawlers, for the narrow question of which articles the answer engines fetch as sources. A request reaches it only when the user-agent string matches a listed crawler, and every browser request and every Googlebot fetch is served as a static file without touching it.

Position under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023

Google determines the means of the analytics and advertising processing and holds the data. Salary-Calculator.in determines that the processing happens at all, by choosing to load the two scripts. The site holds none of the data and cannot retrieve, correct or erase a record inside Google, which is why every control named on this page is a Google control.

Sections 11 to 14 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 give a Data Principal the right to a summary of the personal data being processed, the right to correction and erasure, the right to readily available grievance redressal, and the right to nominate another individual to exercise those rights on death or incapacity. Salary-Calculator.in holds no personal data of its own, so there is no record here to summarise, correct or erase, and a request about analytics or advertising data goes to Google.

The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 were notified as G.S.R. 846(E) on 13 November 2025 and commence in three tranches. The tranche that reaches a site of this kind, covering the contents of a consent notice, the security safeguards, the breach intimation route, the erasure timetable and the published contact person, comes into force eighteen months after publication, in May 2027. This page will be updated as those dates take effect.

The site is not directed at children. It is written for serving and retired central government employees, for candidates for government posts and for professionals working in the field, and it collects nothing that would need an age gate.

External links and what a click sends

Articles on this site link to official sources, among them dopt.gov.in, doe.gov.in, doppw.gov.in, incometax.gov.in, pfrda.org.in and egazette.gov.in, and this page links to Google’s own policy and opt-out pages. Each of those sites operates under its own privacy policy, and this policy does not extend to them. On a click through to an external site a browser sends https://salary-calculator.in as the referrer and not the address of the page being read.

Changes to this policy

A substantive change to this policy is published on this page, and the visible Updated date at the top changes with it. A change that widens what is collected, or that adds a service which collects it, is described here when it takes effect rather than folded silently into the text above.

This page was shortened on 20 September 2026 to state the same position in less detail. Nothing about what is collected, by whom, or how to stop it was changed by that edit.

External references

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Does Salary-Calculator.in collect any personal information?

No. The site has no account system, no login, no registration, no newsletter, no comment section, no contact form and no upload, and no page asks for a name, an email address, a mobile number, an employee code, a Permanent Account Number or a Pension Payment Order number. The site is compiled to static files, so there is no application server and no database that could accept a submission.

Do calculator inputs leave the browser?

No. Basic pay, pay level, city classification, date of birth, length of qualifying service, pension amount, commuted portion and gross income are read by JavaScript on the device, computed there, and written back to the page. No calculator script on the site opens a network connection, and there is no server-side component that could receive one.

Does Salary-Calculator.in set cookies?

The site’s own code sets none. Cookies are set through it by Google Analytics and by Google AdSense, and some of them are written on the salary-calculator.in domain, which makes them first-party cookies even though the site’s own code does not set them. The site does not read those cookies and receives nothing from them.

What happens to a term typed into the site search box?

It travels to the server in the URL, because the header search box submits by GET, and that request line is recorded in the web server access log and is sent to Google Analytics as part of the page address. The search itself then runs on the device against an index built at deploy time and served as static files, so no search service receives the term and the site stores it nowhere of its own.

How is personalised advertising turned off?

Through Google My Ad Center, which is the control that works from India, or by blocking the advertising script with a browser content blocker. Salary-Calculator.in does not select advertisements, does not receive the advertising data and cannot switch personalisation off on a visitor’s behalf.

Why does the site show no cookie consent banner?

Because it presents this page instead. The rule of the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 that prescribes the contents of a consent notice comes into force eighteen months after those Rules were published, in May 2027. A visitor who does not want the two Google scripts to run blocks them in the browser and loses no page, no article and no calculator by doing so.

Does blocking the analytics and advertising scripts break anything?

No. Every page and every calculator works in full without them, because all content is served as static HTML and all calculation runs on the device. Neither script is loaded on a placeholder page, on the search page or on this and the other policy pages.

References

Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (Act No. 22 of 2023), assented on 11 August 2023 and published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary, Part II, Section 1, No. 25, dated 11 August 2023.
Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, notified as G.S.R. 846(E) dated 13 November 2025 by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Gazette of India Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), No. 760.
Sections 2(f), 2(i), 2(j), 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 40, Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
Google privacy policy and “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services”.
Google, “Advertising cookies”, business.safety.google.