Privacy Policy

This policy explains what information CA Tools collects when you use californiacalculators.com, how it is used, and the choices you have. CA Tools is an independent website. It is not run by the State of California or any government agency.

Calculator inputs

Every calculator runs in your browser. The numbers you type into a calculator (income, rent, salary, household size and so on) are used to work out the result on your screen. They are not sent to our servers and we do not store them.

No accounts

This site does not have user accounts. You never need to give a name, email address or password to use a calculator or read a guide.

Information collected automatically

Like most websites, this one records some technical information when you visit:

• Server logs. Our hosting provider keeps standard logs of requests, including IP address, browser type, the page requested and the time. We use these to keep the site running and to spot abuse.
• Analytics. We use Google Analytics to see which pages are used and how visitors reach them. Google Analytics sets cookies and collects information such as your approximate location (from your IP address), device and browser type, and the pages you view. We see this as grouped statistics and do not use it to identify you.

Advertising and cookies

This site is free to use and shows, or may show, advertising through Google AdSense to cover its running costs. When ads are shown:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your earlier visits to this site and other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies lets it and its partners serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
• You can turn off personalized advertising from Google in Google Ads Settings.
• You can opt out of personalized advertising from many other vendors at aboutads.info/choices.

Google explains how it uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Ads on this site are always labeled "Advertisement". See our Advertising & Disclosure page for how advertising is kept separate from our content.

Managing cookies

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The calculators and guides work without cookies. If you block them, you may still see ads, but they will be less tailored to you.

Contact form

If you send us a message through the contact form, we store your name, email address and message so that we can reply. We do not add you to a mailing list and we do not share your message with anyone else.

How we share information

We do not sell personal information for money. Information is shared only with the service providers described above (our hosting provider, Google Analytics and Google AdSense), or if the law requires it.

Your California privacy rights

If you live in California, the California Consumer Privacy Act gives you the right to know what personal information a business has collected about you, to ask for it to be deleted or corrected, and to opt out of having it sold or shared for cross-context behavioral advertising.

The only personal information we hold directly is what you send through the contact form. To ask what we hold, or to have it deleted or corrected, contact us. To opt out of advertising cookies, use the opt-out links in the advertising section above. We will not treat you differently for using any of these rights.

Children

This site is written for adults and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Links to other sites

Our pages link to government agencies and other outside websites. Those sites have their own privacy policies, and we are not responsible for how they handle your information.

Changes to this policy

We will update this page if our practices change, and change the "last updated" date at the top.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent through our contact form.