Privacy policy
What data Salary-Calculator.in collects, the Google Analytics and AdSense cookies it sets, why calculator inputs never leave the browser, and how to opt out.
This privacy policy describes what data Salary-Calculator.in collects from a visitor, which third-party services operate on the site, what those services set, and what a visitor can do about it. It applies to every page on the salary-calculator.in domain.
Salary-Calculator.in is a static website. It has no user accounts, no login, no newsletter and no comment system, and it asks for no personal information at any point. Nothing on the site requires a visitor to identify themselves.
Calculator inputs never leave the browser
Every calculator on this site runs entirely in the visitor’s browser. Basic pay, pay level, city classification, age, service length, pension amount, income and every other value entered into a calculator is processed locally in JavaScript and is never transmitted anywhere. The site has no server that could receive it: there is no backend, no database, no application programming interface and no form that submits calculator data.
This is checkable rather than merely asserted. A visitor can open the browser network panel, work through any calculator on the site, and see that entering and changing values produces no outbound request. The calculator scripts contain no network calls of any kind.
The single form on the site is the search box in the site header, which submits a search term by GET to the /search page. Search itself runs in the browser against a pre-built index, so the search term is not sent to a server either.
What the site itself stores
One value is stored locally on the visitor’s own device: the chosen colour theme, kept in browser local storage under the key sc-brand so the choice survives a page reload. It holds one of four colour names, it is never transmitted, and clearing browser storage removes it.
Salary-Calculator.in sets no first-party tracking cookies of its own.
Google Analytics
The site uses Google Analytics 4 (measurement identifier G-TH9VBW0CY1) to count visits and see which pages are read. Google Analytics sets cookies and collects the visitor’s IP address, approximate location derived from it, device and browser type, referring page, and the pages viewed with their timing. Google Analytics 4 anonymises IP addresses by default.
This data is used to decide which topics to write about next. It is not used to identify individual visitors, is not combined with any other data set, and is not sold or shared with anyone beyond Google as the processor.
Google’s handling of this data is governed by the Google privacy policy. A visitor can prevent the collection entirely by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, or by using a browser or extension that blocks the analytics script.
Google AdSense
The site carries Google AdSense display advertising under publisher identifier pub-5905124826063393, and this advertising is what funds it. Google and its advertising partners set cookies and use device identifiers to select advertisements, measure whether they were seen, and limit how often the same advertisement is shown to the same visitor. Where personalised advertising is active, this may draw on a visitor’s prior browsing on other sites that carry Google advertising.
Salary-Calculator.in does not receive, hold or have access to the data collected for advertising, and cannot identify any visitor from it. Advertisements are selected programmatically by Google, not chosen by this site.
A visitor can control this at Google Ads Settings, turn off personalised advertising from participating vendors at optout.aboutads.info and youronlinechoices.eu, or block the advertising script with a browser extension. Google’s own account of how it uses data from partner sites is at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
No advertising is served on stub pages, on the search page, or on this and the other policy pages.
Hosting and server logs
The site is hosted on Hostinger. As with any web server, requests are recorded in access logs that include the IP address, the requested URL, the timestamp, the referring page and the browser user-agent string. These logs exist to keep the service running and secure. They are not used for analytics, are not linked to any other data, and are not shared other than where a law requires it.
External links
Articles on this site link to official sources including dopt.gov.in, doe.gov.in, doppw.gov.in, incometax.gov.in, pfrda.org.in and egazette.gov.in, and this policy page links to the Google opt-out controls named above. Those sites operate under their own privacy policies, and this policy does not extend to them.
Children
The site is written for serving and retired central government employees, for candidates for government posts, and for professionals working in the field. It is not directed at children, and it does not knowingly collect information from anyone under the age of 18.
Rights and choices
Salary-Calculator.in holds no personal data of its own, so there is nothing on this side to access, correct, export or erase. Requests concerning data held by Google, whether for analytics or for advertising, are made to Google through the controls linked above, since Google is the controller for that data.
A visitor who blocks the analytics and advertising scripts loses no functionality. Every page and every calculator on this site works fully without them, because all content is server-rendered and all calculation is local.
Changes to this policy
A substantive change to this policy is published on this page, and the “Updated” date at the top of the page is changed with it. A change that widens what is collected, or adds a service that collects it, is described in this section when it takes effect rather than folded silently into the text above.
The contact page carries the address for questions about this policy when one is in service. Requests about data held by Google are made to Google directly through the controls linked above, and do not depend on this site.