Privacy

What we never collect

There is no sign-up, no login and no contact form that asks for your identity before you can use the calculator. We do not ask for and never receive your name, your address, your phone number, your email, your PAN, your Aadhaar, or any document.

Nothing you enter is stored in a database on our side. There is no database of users, because there are no users in that sense. You arrive, you get a figure, you leave.

What is measured, and honestly

The site uses Google Analytics 4, measurement ID G-ST9SB1T3JP. It is there to answer one question: which parts of this site are useful and which are not.

Being specific, because a privacy page that says "some analytics" is not worth reading:

• Pages you visit, how far down you scroll, and how long you stay.
• Which calculator questions you answer, and the option you pick for each. The option, not free text: there is no free text in the calculator.
• The income figures you enter, and the estimate produced. These are sent as numbers. They are not linked to a name, an account or an email, because none exists, but we would rather say plainly that the number is measured than imply it is not.
• Approximate location, at country and state level, derived from your IP by Google. We never see your IP address ourselves.
• Device, browser and how the page performed for you.
• Whether you shared a result, and roughly how.

Data is retained for 14 months, which is the maximum on a standard Google Analytics property, and then deleted.

Cookies

Google Analytics sets _ga and _ga_<id>. They hold a randomly generated number that lets Google tell a returning browser from a new one. They contain nothing about you.

If you are in the UK, the EEA or Switzerland you will see a consent banner on your first visit, and nothing is set until you choose. Decline and measurement stays off for that browser. You can change your mind later from the link at the foot of any page.

Outside those regions the banner is not shown, which is the position the law takes rather than one we invented. If you would rather not be measured anywhere, browser-level Do Not Track is respected, and Google publishes an opt-out add-on that works across every site.

Shared links

When you share a result, the calculation is packed into a short code in the link, like alimony.lol/?s=1iwS2z7WQNz. That code holds the answers you gave, rounded. It holds nothing that identifies you.

Worth understanding: anyone who has the link can see the figures in it. That is the entire point of a shared result, but it means you should think about who you send it to in the same way you would think about forwarding a screenshot.

Who else is involved

• Cloudflare serves the site and terminates TLS. It processes requests and keeps short-lived security logs.
• Google provides Analytics, as described above.
• Google Fonts serves the typefaces, which means your browser requests them from Google.

That is the whole list. There are no advertising networks, no third-party trackers, no session recorders, no heatmaps, and nothing is sold or shared with data brokers.

Your rights, and how to use them

Under the UK and EU GDPR and India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 you have rights of access, correction, deletion and objection.

The honest difficulty is that we hold nothing keyed to you, so we cannot look you up. What we can do is act on the underlying data: use the contact form and we will pass a deletion request to Google for the identifier concerned. That needs the _ga cookie value from your browser, which you can read from your browser's storage inspector.

The faster route is usually to clear cookies for this site, which severs the link entirely.

Children

This site is not intended for anyone under 18 and we do not knowingly measure them.

Changes

The review date at the top of this page changes when the page changes. If measurement changes materially, this page changes in the same release rather than quietly afterwards.