Privacy Policy

1. Overview and Core Philosophy

At Real Overtime Calculator (accessible via realovertimecalculator.com), we respect your fundamental right to financial privacy. Unlike conventional payroll portals or lead-generation calculators that require your email address or transmit your financial details to third-party lenders and recruiters, our platform operates as a decentralized, private tool.

This Privacy Policy sets forth how information is handled when you visit our website, interact with our calculators, or submit direct communication to us.

2. Information We Do NOT Collect

To make our policy unambiguous, here is what we never collect or store:

• Wage & Financial Data: We do not log or store base wages, bonuses, hourly pay rates, or computed weekly pay totals.
• Timesheets & Shift Hours: We do not log your punch-in stamps, meal break lengths, or weekly schedule patterns.
• Personal Identity / SSN: We do not require account registration, usernames, passwords, Social Security Numbers, or employee IDs.
• Employer Names: We do not ask for or catalog your company name, location of employment, or payroll provider.

3. Local Browser Storage & Cookies

We minimize client storage to purely functional, user-requested features:

4. Technical Server Logs & Infrastructure

Like virtually all internet websites, our static hosting servers and content delivery network (CDN) automatically generate standard technical access logs to maintain infrastructure stability and protect against malicious cyber attacks (e.g., distributed denial of service or vulnerability probes).

These technical server logs may include:

• Internet Protocol (IP) address.
• Browser user-agent string and operating system version.
• Referrer URL and requested static resource path.
• Date and timestamp of request.

Server logs are used solely for DDoS prevention, rate limiting, and technical infrastructure monitoring, and are purged routinely.

5. California Privacy Rights (CCPA / CPRA & CalOPPA)

If you are a resident of California, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) provide specific rights regarding your personal information:

• Right to Know / Access: Because we do not collect or maintain identifiable personal or financial dossiers, we have no personal data repository to disclose.
• Right to Delete: All timesheet calculations exist strictly in your browser session and can be deleted instantly by refreshing your tab or clearing your browser cache.
• No Sale or Sharing of Personal Information: We do not sell, rent, trade, or share personal data under any circumstances.

6. European Economic Area (GDPR) Compliance

For individuals accessing this site from the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom:

• Our legal basis for processing technical server logs is legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR), specifically securing our network infrastructure and ensuring website uptime.
• Because all wage calculations take place strictly on your local device, no automated decision-making or cross-border wage transfer takes place on our servers.

7. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

Real Overtime Calculator is directed at adults of working age and does not knowingly collect, solicit, or maintain personal information from children under the age of 13.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy periodically to reflect enhancements to our tool or shifts in statutory compliance. When changes are made, the "Last Updated" date at the top of this document will be updated. We encourage users to review this page periodically.

9. Contacting Our Data Protection Officer

If you have questions, comments, or concerns regarding our privacy principles or this Privacy Policy, please contact our team: