Privacy Policy for PAYE Calculator NZ

Every calculator on this site runs entirely in your browser. Your salary, tax code, KiwiSaver rate, student loan status and every other input are used to do arithmetic on your own device and are then discarded when you close the page.

They are not sent to a server, not written to a database, not logged, and not shared with anyone. We could not produce a record of what you calculated if we were asked to, because no such record is created.

There is no sign-up, no login and no user profile. The site sets no advertising cookies and no cross-site tracking pixels, and it does not sell, rent or share personal information with data brokers or advertisers.

If analytics are added in future, this policy will be updated before they go live and will name the provider, what it measures and how to opt out.

Like any website, requests reach a web server that keeps standard technical logs. These may include your IP address, the page requested, the time of the request, your browser type and the referring page.

These logs exist to keep the site available and secure, for example to identify an outage or block abusive traffic. They are not used to build a profile of you and are not combined with anything you type into a calculator, because nothing you type reaches the server in the first place.

If you email us, we hold that message and your email address for as long as it takes to deal with your enquiry and to keep a record of corrections made to the site.

Please do not send us your IRD number, bank details or a copy of your payslip. We do not need them to check a rate, and we would rather not hold them. See contact for what a useful correction report contains.

This site links to Inland Revenue, Employment New Zealand, Statistics New Zealand and other external sites so you can verify a figure at its source. Those sites have their own privacy policies, which govern what they collect once you follow a link.

You have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to ask for it to be corrected, and to complain if you believe it has been mishandled.

In practice we hold nothing about you unless you have emailed us. To make a request, contact privacy@payecalculatornz.co.nz. We respond within 20 working days. If you are not satisfied, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

If this policy changes, the effective date above changes with it, and any change that affects what is collected will be described rather than slipped in. The current version always lives at this address.