Privacy Policy: Gulf Salary Calculators and Guides

The short version

Salary figures are among the most private numbers a person handles, so the calculators on Tax Free Salaries were built to keep them on your device. When you type a basic salary into the UAE, Qatar or Saudi gratuity calculator, or a package into the salary converter, the arithmetic is done by JavaScript inside your browser tab. Those amounts, your joining and leaving dates and your contract type never travel to us, and the calculators save none of them on your device: reloading the page clears them. This policy covers https://taxfreesalaries.com, published by Radif Partners.

What stays on your device

A few small entries are written to your browser's local storage, a space only this site can read and that is never uploaded by our code:

• theme: whether you switched the site to light or dark mode.
• rated:<page>: a marker that you have already given stars to a calculator page, so the widget does not ask twice.
• newsletter_subscribers: the address typed into the "Stay updated on Gulf salary trends" box in the footer. At present that form saves the address in your own browser only; it is not sent to us or to a mailing service.

Clearing your browser's site data for taxfreesalaries.com removes all three.

Cookies: Google Analytics audience measurement only

Tax Free Salaries uses Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages are useful: pages viewed, referring page, visit length, device and browser type, approximate country and city. To do so Google Analytics sets two cookies on your device: _ga, which tells visitors apart with a random identifier, and _ga_1RK79R2LCD, which keeps the state of the visit. Their lifetime is capped at 13 months (390 days) and is not extended on each visit; Google's default is 2 years. These are the site's only cookies: no advertising, social media or profiling cookie.

• Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, acting as processor (Article 28 GDPR).
• What it cannot see: the IP address is anonymised (Google Analytics 4 neither logs nor stores it), and the page address sent to Google is stripped of its parameters, so figures carried by a share link are not sent. Ad storage, ad personalisation and Google signals are switched off.
• Retention at Google: 14 months for visit-level and identifier-level data, then deletion; only anonymous totals remain.
• Legal basis: our legitimate interest in measuring the audience of the site (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR for readers in the European Union).
• Transfer: data may be transferred to Google LLC in the United States under the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework and the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.
• Objecting: block or delete cookies in your browser settings, or install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. Every calculator and guide works the same.

Anonymous stability checks with Microsoft Clarity

The second outside tool is Microsoft Clarity, run in its cookieless mode so that we can spot calculator pages that break, load slowly or confuse readers. Before the Clarity script starts, our code switches it to its no-storage mode, so Clarity sets none of its cookies (_clck, _clsk, MUID, CLID), gives each page view a new random identifier and never links one visit to another or to a person.

• What it measures: technical signals such as script errors, loading times, taps or clicks that do nothing and how far a contract guide is scrolled, together with the browser, device type and approximate country.
• What it cannot see: the text of our pages and everything typed into a form are masked by our code before anything leaves your browser, so a basic salary, a joining date or a contract type entered in a gratuity calculator is never captured.
• Processor: Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland, under the Clarity privacy disclosure.
• Retention: recordings 30 days, aggregated statistics 13 months.
• Legal basis: our legitimate interest in keeping the calculators working (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR for readers in the European Union); the data are anonymous and identify no one, which is also how they sit under UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on personal data protection and the Saudi and Qatari data protection laws.
• Objecting: block the clarity.ms domain with a content blocker or in your browser, or write to us. Every calculator and guide works the same without it.

Server logs and e-mail

The site is hosted by OVH SAS (2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France), whose servers keep short technical logs (IP address, date, page requested, browser) for security and troubleshooting. If you write to us, we receive your address and message and use them only to answer.

Page ratings

Calculator pages end with a "Rate this page" row of stars. When the ratings service is switched on, the number of stars you choose is stored with the page address and the site name, and nothing else: no name, no e-mail, no salary.

What we do with the stability data

We read them as totals, to fix what fails: a gratuity calculator that throws an error on one browser, a guide that loads too slowly on mobile, a button that readers tap without effect. They are not sold, rented or passed to anyone, and the site carries no advertising. Google Analytics audience figures are read the same way, as totals.

Your choices and rights

Because calculator inputs never reach us and there are no user accounts, we usually hold nothing that identifies you from your use of the tools. If you have written to us by e-mail, your message stays in our mailbox and you may ask us to delete it. Requests about the stability measurement can also be made to Microsoft directly, and complaints to the UAE Data Office or, in the European Union, to your national data protection authority. The site is written for working adults and is not aimed at anyone under 18.

Government portals we cite, such as MOHRE, HRSD or the Qatari Ministry of Labour, and the recruitment sites named in our salary pages apply their own privacy rules once you follow a link to them.

Updates and questions

If we add or remove a tool, this page changes and the date at the top moves. Questions about it can be sent through the contact page.