Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
Users welcome to gotocalculate.com and its associated pages (Website, About Us, Contact Us and Privacy Policy). Our platform functions as a financial calculator service which includes educational utility calculators among other financial tools like EMI and tax and SIP and age and percentile converters. We take the protection of your privacy as an essential matter. Users can learn from this Privacy Policy which details the methods that we utilize to gather data as well as our methods for using and safeguarding it during their Website interactions. The use of our Service requires your acceptance of these described practices. The company maintains compliance with privacy standards across the world including GDPR for EU nations as well as CCPA for California and PIPEDA for Canada.
2. Information We Collect
A. Automatically Collected Data
- The Website gathers non-personally identifiable information by means of automated tools whenever users access it.
- The Website collects anonymous IP address information along with browser details and device form (mobile/desktop) and operating system and screen resolution.
- The Website records usage information by tracking pages you view along with your total calculation activities and track all click interactions through its referral links and identifies system errors in log records.
Cookies & Tracking: See Section 4 for details.
B. Voluntarily Submitted Data
- You can contact us by email or fill out forms which require the collection of your name together with your email address and the text of your message.
- User Feedback contains ratings which combine with survey responses and reviews about the functionality of calculators.
C. Third-Party Data
- Extra data regarding aggregated demographics and analytics gets received from companies including Google Analytics and advertising networks.
3. How We Use Collected Information
We obtain data in an authorized manner for our stated objectives of delivering services and analytics and ensuring security and performing improvements. Legal requirements must be met for all purposes.
- Improve website efficiency and user experience.
- Enhance security and maintain reliability.
- The service must operate the calculator with maximum functionality while ensuring continuous uptime.
- The analytics team works to detect most popular calculators and improve performance speeds alongside error resolution (such as the percentage-to-percentile conversion problem).
- The system detects attacks by brute force and spam and unauthorized access attempts.
- The development of new calculators should proceed from user patterns obtained through analytics.
- Legal Compliance: Respond to subpoenas or regulatory requests.
GDPR acknowledges three bases for data processing: analytics and security fall under legitimate interests while service delivery requires contractual necessity and cookie processing requires consent.
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Types of Cookies Used
| Category | Purpose | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Essential Cookies | The PHP session cookie exists for essential purposes that include caching functions. | PHP Session Cookie |
| Analytics Cookies | Track traffic sources and user behavior. | Google Analytics (_ga, _gid) |
| Preference Cookies | Serve to store language and theme selection choices but they are not currently in use on the website. | Not in use |
Managing Cookies
Browser Settings: You can block or delete cookies via Chrome, Firefox, etc.
Google Analytics: Can be managed through the Google Opt-Out platform.
5. Third-Party Services
We integrate third-party services, including:
- Google Analytics for traffic analysis.
- Advertising networks for displaying ads (if applicable).
- The usage metrics related to anonymous users are tracked by Google Analytics. Data is retained for 26 months. Privacy Policy.
- The advertising platform relies on Google AdSense or similar partners to display the ads. The services utilize cookies to personalize advertising delivery.
- We do not sell your data. The third-party entities manage their own data management rules that we advise you to check out.
Third parties collect data under their respective privacy policies. Users should review their policies for further details.
6. Data Security
We implement standard security measures to protect data. However, no internet transmission method is completely secure.
We employ industry-standard safeguards:
- Encryption: HTTPS/TLS for all data transmissions.
- The application provides restricted access to analytics dashboards through access controls designed for staff members.
- The organization uses regular audits as a security measure which includes penetration testing and vulnerability scanning.
- The total protection of your data is not possible on any online platform due to security limitations. Please send your security concerns directly to the email gotocalculate@gmail.com.
7. Links to External Websites
Our website may contain links to third-party sites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices, and users should review their policies. Data may be processed in the U.S., India, or other regions where our servers/partners operate. We ensure transfers comply with applicable laws (e.g., EU-U.S. Privacy Shield for GDPR).
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Any changes will be reflected on this page with an updated effective date.
9. Children’s Privacy
Our Service is not intended for users under 13 (16 in the EU). We do not knowingly collect data from minors. Contact us to report inadvertent collection.