Privacy and cookies
The short version: this site sets no cookies, shows no adverts, and never sees the numbers you type. It does count page views, using a cookieless analytics tool on a server run by the same person who runs this site.
Your figures stay on your device
The calculator runs entirely in your browser. Your salary, hourly rate, filing status, deductions and state are never transmitted, never logged and never stored, not even on your own machine. Closing the tab discards them. Printing or saving to PDF happens locally too.
Cookies: none
No cookies are set, by this site or by anyone else through it. Nothing is written to local storage or session storage either. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to, and a banner implying otherwise would be misleading.
That promise was made here before analytics existed on this site, and it is being kept now that they do: this page was updated in the same change that added them, not afterwards. Advertising is still none, and if it is ever added this page changes before it goes live.
Analytics: page counts, no cookies
Since 18 October 2026 the site loads one script, from stats.whatsmynameapps.us, which is a self-hosted instance of Umami run by the same person who runs this site. It is not Google Analytics and nothing is shared with an advertising network.
It records that a page was viewed, which page, the referring site, and coarse details your browser announces anyway: country, device type, browser and operating system. It sets no cookie, writes nothing to storage, assigns you no identifier that survives the day, and cannot follow you to another website. It is never given anything you type into the calculator, because the calculator never transmits that in the first place.
Why it is here: knowing which pages people actually reach is how errors get found and how the thin pages get rewritten. Why this tool: it was the option that kept the no-cookie promise intact. Block it with any content blocker, or with Do Not Track if your browser still sends it, and the site works exactly the same.
Third-party requests: exactly one
The analytics script above is the only thing on this site loaded from another address, and the server it comes from is not another company's. There are no tag managers, no advertising pixels, no embedded fonts fetched from anyone, no chat widgets and no social buttons. No advertising network learns that you visited.
Server logs, which are the one exception
Like any website, the web server records each request: the page, a timestamp, the browser's user agent and the IP address it came from. An IP address can count as personal data, so it is worth naming rather than glossing over. Those logs exist to keep the site running and to spot abuse, they are not linked to anything you typed, they are not shared or sold, and they are not used to build a profile of you.
Links that prefill the calculator
Some links carry a salary or state in the address, for example ?salary=65000&state=TX. Your browser reads that to prefill the form; the value is not sent anywhere. If you share such a link, whoever receives it can see the figure in it.
Your rights
Under the GDPR, the UK GDPR and the CCPA you can ask what personal data an operator holds about you, and ask for it to be corrected or deleted. Here the honest answer is that beyond the server logs described above there is nothing to produce: no account, no email list, no profile, nothing sold or shared. Requests about the logs can go to [email protected].
Children
This is a general-audience tax tool, not aimed at children, and it knowingly collects nothing from anyone of any age.
Third-party links
Pages link out to the IRS, the Social Security Administration and state revenue departments so you can verify any figure. Those sites open in a new tab and have their own privacy policies.
Contact
PaycheckNew is run by Hadi. Questions about this page go to [email protected] or the contact page. See also the terms of use.
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