Cookie Policy

What cookies are

Cookies are small text files a site stores in your browser. Similar technologies include localStorage and pixels. They let a site remember preferences and understand how it is used.

Kentucky Paycheck Calculator keeps its cookie use to a minimum — the calculator itself works without any non-essential cookies.

Essential & preference storage

These make the site function and remember basic choices. For example, your light/dark theme preference is saved in your browser's localStorage and never sent to us. Consent choices may be stored so we don't ask repeatedly.

Analytics cookies

If enabled, a privacy-respecting analytics tool (such as Google Analytics 4) may set cookies to measure anonymous, aggregate traffic — pages viewed, device type, and referral source. This is never linked to anything you type into the calculator.

Advertising cookies

If we display ads (for example, via Google AdSense), ad partners may set cookies to measure performance and, with consent where required, to personalize ads. See Google's policies at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

Managing cookies & browser storage

You can delete or block cookies in your browser settings, use private/incognito mode, or install a content blocker — the calculator will still work without interruption. Most modern browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari) provide settings to clear site data or reject third-party cookies by default.

You can opt out of personalized ads through your Google account ad settings or industry tools such as the Digital Advertising Alliance (optout.aboutads.info) and Network Advertising Initiative (optout.networkadvertising.org).

We honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals where transmitted by your browser.

In-Browser Privacy Guarantee

Unlike traditional cloud calculators that transmit your hourly rate, salary, deductions, and exemptions to a remote web server, our Kentucky paycheck engine runs 100% locally via client-side JavaScript.

Your pay data is never stored in persistent cookies, never logged in remote database records, and never transmitted across the network. Closing your browser tab immediately frees any active session memory.

Contact

Questions about cookies? Email contact@kentuckypaycheckcalculator.com or write to Bluegrass Tools Media, LLC, 312 S Fourth Street, Suite 700, Louisville, KY 40202.