Privacy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 5, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Cost&Wage processes information when visitors use costwage.com, including its country profiles, comparison pages, calculators, contact features and related services.

Cost&Wage is an independently operated website. Privacy enquiries can be submitted through the Contact page or sent to [email protected].

Information You Provide

Cost&Wage may receive information that a visitor voluntarily submits through the Contact page or by email.

This information may include:

• Name
• Email address
• Message subject
• Message content
• Relevant page URL
• Country, indicator, year or category included in a correction request
• Other information voluntarily included in the message

Visitors should not submit sensitive personal information, financial account information, passwords, government identification documents, medical records or confidential employment documents.

Technical and Log Information

When a visitor accesses the website, our hosting, security and content-delivery providers may automatically process technical information such as:

• IP address
• Browser type
• Device type
• Operating system
• Requested URL
• Referring page
• Date and time of access
• Response status
• Approximate location derived from an IP address
• Security and error events

This information may be used to deliver the website, maintain security, investigate errors, prevent abuse and understand aggregate website performance.

Calculator Inputs

Cost&Wage calculators do not require a user account.

Calculator inputs are used to produce the result requested by the visitor. Unless a calculator clearly states otherwise, inputs are not intended to create a personal profile.

Visitors should not enter sensitive personal information into a calculator. Calculator results are informational and should not be treated as personalised financial, employment, tax or legal advice.

If calculator inputs are processed or temporarily transmitted to website infrastructure, they may be handled only for the period necessary to generate, secure and troubleshoot the requested service.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cost&Wage and its service providers may use cookies, local storage and similar technologies to:

• Remember visitor preferences
• Maintain website security
• Prevent abuse
• Store consent choices
• Understand aggregate website use
• Measure performance
• Support advertising

Some technologies are necessary for operating or securing the website. Other technologies, including analytics or advertising technologies, may require consent depending on the visitor’s location and applicable law.

Where required, non-essential technologies are activated only after the relevant consent has been obtained.

Analytics

Cost&Wage may use analytics services, including Google Analytics, to understand aggregate website traffic and usage.

Analytics services may process information such as:

• Pages visited
• Approximate location
• Device and browser information
• Referring source
• Time spent on a page
• Interaction events
• General website performance

Where required by applicable law, analytics technologies are activated only after the visitor provides the relevant consent.

Analytics information is used to understand how the website is used, identify technical problems and improve content and usability. It is not used by Cost&Wage to make decisions about a visitor’s employment, finances or eligibility for a service.

Advertising and Google AdSense

Cost&Wage may use Google AdSense to display advertising.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on a visitor’s previous visits to Cost&Wage or other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve advertisements based on visits to Cost&Wage and other sites on the Internet.

Visitors may manage or opt out of personalised advertising through Google Ads Settings:

https://adssettings.google.com/

Additional information about how Google uses information from sites that use its services is available from Google:

https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Other third-party advertising vendors or networks may use cookies or similar technologies when advertisements are displayed. Where applicable, these providers will be identified through the consent interface or related privacy disclosures.

Cost&Wage does not control how an advertisement is selected after the relevant advertising request has been sent to an authorised advertising provider.

Consent Management

Where required, Cost&Wage uses a consent management platform to request and record choices relating to advertising, analytics, cookies and similar technologies.

Visitors may be offered choices to:

• Accept eligible non-essential purposes
• Reject eligible non-essential purposes
• Manage individual purposes or providers
• Change a previous choice

Consent choices can be reviewed through the Privacy Choices or Cookie Settings link displayed in the website footer.

How Information Is Used

Cost&Wage may use information to:

• Deliver website pages and tools
• Generate requested calculator results
• Respond to contact requests
• Review reported data issues
• Correct technical or explanatory errors
• Maintain security
• Prevent spam, fraud and abuse
• Monitor aggregate website use
• Diagnose performance problems
• Improve content and accessibility
• Display and measure advertising
• Record privacy and consent choices
• Comply with legal obligations
• Establish, exercise or defend legal claims

Legal Bases

Depending on the visitor’s location and the activity involved, Cost&Wage may process information on one or more of the following bases:

• Consent
• Legitimate interests in operating, securing and improving the website
• Responding to a request initiated by the visitor
• Compliance with legal obligations
• Establishing, exercising or defending legal rights

When processing depends on consent, the visitor may withdraw that consent through the available privacy controls. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

Sharing With Service Providers

Cost&Wage may share limited information with service providers that support:

• Website hosting
• Content delivery
• Website security
• Contact-form delivery
• Email delivery
• Analytics
• Consent management
• Advertising
• Error monitoring

These providers process information for the services they supply and are subject to their own contractual, privacy and legal obligations.

Cost&Wage may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to a lawful request, protect the website or investigate abuse.

Cost&Wage does not sell contact-form messages as a consumer data product.

Data Retention

Contact messages are normally retained for up to 24 months unless a longer period is required to resolve an issue, maintain a correction record, comply with a legal obligation or protect legal rights.

Routine server logs are normally retained for up to 90 days. Security-related records may be retained longer when necessary to investigate abuse or protect the service.

Consent records may be retained for the period necessary to demonstrate and manage a visitor’s privacy choices.

Analytics and advertising providers retain information according to their own settings and privacy policies.

Information is deleted or anonymised when it is no longer reasonably required for the purpose for which it was processed, subject to legal and security requirements.

International Processing

Website infrastructure and service providers may process information in countries other than the visitor’s country of residence.

Where required, Cost&Wage and its service providers rely on appropriate safeguards for international processing and transfer.

Visitor Rights

Depending on location, a visitor may have rights to:

• Request access to personal information
• Request correction
• Request deletion
• Restrict certain processing
• Object to certain processing
• Withdraw consent
• Request a portable copy of eligible information
• Complain to an applicable data protection authority

A request can be sent to [email protected].

Cost&Wage may need to verify that the requester is associated with the relevant information before completing a request. Cost&Wage will not request unnecessary identity documents when a less intrusive verification method is available.

Children’s Privacy

Cost&Wage is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under the age at which parental consent is required in their location.

Cost&Wage does not knowingly request personal information from children. If information submitted by a child is identified, it may be deleted where appropriate.

External Links

Cost&Wage links to external websites, including OECD and Google websites.

Cost&Wage does not control the privacy practices, availability or content of external websites. Visitors should review the policies published by the relevant external provider.

Security

Cost&Wage uses reasonable technical and organisational measures intended to protect information.

No website, network or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Visitors should avoid submitting unnecessary or sensitive personal information.

Changes to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated when the website, service providers, advertising configuration or legal requirements change.

The date at the top of the page identifies the latest revision. Material changes may also be communicated through the website where appropriate.

Contact

Privacy enquiries and requests can be submitted through the Contact page or sent to:

[email protected]