What we collect, and what we don’t.

The short version

By default, the calculator collects nothing about you. Every input you type — salary, tenure, state, expenses — is processed entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, stored in a database, or written to a log. If you reload the page, everything you entered is gone.

A small number of interactions transmit data; each is described below. The email-results form is opt-in. The “Get legal help” button and the non-compete scan-completion beacon are anonymous signals that do not collect any identifying information.

What the calculator collects by default

Nothing personally identifying. The severance estimator, runway projection, tax math, and WARN check all run client-side in JavaScript. We do not see your salary, your employer, your state, your expenses, or your offer unless you choose to email yourself the report (described next). There is no account to create, no login, and no profile stored anywhere.

If you submit the “email me my results” form

The form asks for your email address and submits it together with an encoded snapshot of the inputs you typed into the calculator. That payload is sent to a Google Sheet via a webhook so we can keep a record of the saved-result link, and a single transactional email is sent to you through Resend with a link back to a page where you can review the saved results. We do not add your address to any mailing list, we do not sell or share it, and we do not use it to send marketing. If you want the record deleted, email paymefairseverance@gmail.com and we will remove the row.

If you complete a non-compete scan

On the non-compete enforceability scanner, when your results render we send a short anonymous beacon to our analytics spreadsheet so we can see how the tool is being used. The beacon contains only your state code, the verdict level (void / favored / balanced / unfavored), your stated situation (departing / received cease-and-desist / new employer evaluating), the count of restriction types you selected, and whether your salary cleared your state’s income threshold. It does not include your salary number, your role, the duration or geographic scope of the restriction, the consideration you received, or any other identifying detail. Those fields stay in your browser unless you submit the email-results form.

If you click the “Get legal help” button

On the WARN Act check section we render a low-prominence “Get legal help” button as a fake-door probe to measure whether building a real attorney-referral feature would be useful to readers. Clicking it does NOT collect your name, email, or any other identifying information — we track only that the button was clicked, the WARN tier (short / medium / ok / triggered), and the state code, via anonymous Vercel Analytics + Google Analytics events. The button does not submit you to any attorney network or list because no such network is currently wired up.

Cookies and analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand traffic patterns and which calculator features are actually used — this is how we know what to improve. Google Analytics sets first-party cookies (_ga, _ga_*) that persist for up to 2 years and may transmit your IP-anonymized address to Google’s servers in the US. We do notuse cross-site advertising features, audience-building, remarketing, or any data-sharing for marketing purposes — only standard analytics. We also use Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights for page-load performance, both of which are cookie-free.

If you want to opt out: install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, or use any browser that blocks third-party scripts (Brave, Safari with cross-site tracking prevention enabled, or any browser with uBlock Origin / similar). The calculator works identically with analytics blocked.

We do notuse Facebook Pixel, ad-network pixels, session-replay tools, or behavioral retargeting. The only third-party cookies on the site are Google’s analytics cookies described above.

Third parties

The full list of third parties involved in operating this site:

• Vercel— hosting, analytics, and Speed Insights.
• Google (Analytics) — aggregated traffic and feature-usage stats. Cookies described above. No advertising features used.
• Resend— transactional email delivery, used only when you submit the email-results form.
• Google Sheets — the storage layer for saved-result rows when the email-results form is used, plus anonymous scan-completion beacons from the non-compete scanner (state code and verdict level only, no identifying detail).

Your rights

You can request access to anything we have associated with your email address, or ask us to delete it, by reaching out through the contact link on the about page. Because the calculator collects nothing by default, in most cases there will be nothing on file in the first place.

Editorial best-effort, not regulated legal review

This policy is written in plain language as an honest description of how the site works. It is editorial best-effort and is not a substitute for a privacy policy reviewed by counsel for a regulated business. If you operate a business that has legal obligations under GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, or similar regimes, do not adopt this document as your own without your own attorney’s review.

Last updated: 2026-05