Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-09-25

This notice explains how CATaxTools ("we", "us", "the site") handles personal information. It is written to meet the requirements of the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and to provide additional rights for residents of Quebec (under Law 25), Alberta, British Columbia, and other Canadian provinces with privacy statutes.

1. What we collect

• Calculator inputs — income, province, deductions, etc. These never leave your browser. They are stored in the URL (so results can be shared) and may be persisted in localStorage on your device. We do not receive, transmit, or log them on any server.
• Analytics — Google Analytics 4 collects anonymised usage data (pages viewed, referrer, device type, country/province from IP, session duration). See section 3.
• Advertising — Mediavine and its advertising partners may set cookies to deliver and measure ads. See section 4.
• Error diagnostics — if a page's JavaScript fails, a technical error report (the error message, the page URL, browser and OS version) is sent to Sentry so we can fix it. It carries no calculator inputs, sets no cookies, and we do not ask Sentry to store your IP address. Sentry's processing is governed by its Privacy Policy.
• Server logs — our host (Cloudflare Pages) logs request metadata (IP, user-agent, referer, timestamp) for up to 30 days for abuse prevention and debugging.

2. Consent and controls

We do not run a consent step of our own: analytics cookies are set as soon as you arrive. Where Mediavine, our advertising partner, shows its consent banner — in regions covered by the GDPR, UK GDPR, or similar consent laws — you can accept or reject personalised advertising there, and change that choice at any time from the privacy link in it; see section 4. Everywhere else, the control that governs what is stored on your device is your browser's cookie settings.

3. Google Analytics 4

We use Google Analytics 4 (property G-0HZ03WXGSH) to understand aggregate usage. Analytics cookies load on your first pageview, with no prior acceptance step. IP addresses are truncated by Google before logging. GA4 data retention is set to the minimum available (2 months event, 14 months user-level). We do not cross-reference analytics data with any named individual. Google's processing is governed by its Privacy Policy.

4. Advertising

This site is funded by advertising. We work with Mediavine, an advertising partner that serves and measures the ads on our pages. Mediavine and its advertising partners may use cookies, device identifiers and similar technologies to deliver ads, limit how often you see the same ad, and measure whether an ad was seen.

Those partners may process your IP address, browser and device type, approximate location and your interactions with ads, each under its own privacy policy. Mediavine's policy is at mediavine.com/privacy-policy, and the current list of partners is available from its consent banner where that banner is shown.

Where Mediavine shows its consent banner, it asks you to accept or reject personalised advertising before an advertising cookie is set, and personalised ads are not enabled unless you consent to them. You can change or withdraw that choice at any time from the privacy link in the banner. You can also opt out of interest-based ads from participating advertisers through the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada AdChoices program.

5. Cookies

A full list of cookies — name, provider, purpose, and duration — is on our Cookie Policy page.

6. Your rights under PIPEDA

Under PIPEDA, you have the right to access the personal information we hold about you, to request correction of inaccurate information, and to withdraw consent for collection or use. Given that financial calculator inputs never leave your browser, and that analytics and advertising cookies can be controlled at any time through your browser settings, much of the exercise of these rights is self-service.

You can lodge a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (priv.gc.ca, 1-800-282-1376).

7. Quebec (Law 25)

Residents of Quebec have additional rights under An Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (as amended by Law 25): to access and transfer personal information in a structured format, to request cessation of dissemination, to the right to be forgotten in certain circumstances, and to be notified of significant confidentiality incidents. You can exercise these rights, for the categories that apply online, by controlling cookies through your browser settings; Google, as the processor for GA4, provides further self-service at myactivity.google.com.

Complaints in Quebec go to the Commission d'accès à l'information (cai.gouv.qc.ca).

8. Alberta & British Columbia

Residents of Alberta (PIPA) and British Columbia (PIPA BC) have rights similar to PIPEDA, with complaints handled by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta (oipc.ab.ca) or the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (oipc.bc.ca).

9. International transfers

Analytics data is processed by Google, and advertising data by Mediavine and its advertising partners, primarily in the United States. Where required, these providers rely on standard contractual clauses for cross-border transfers.

10. Children

CATaxTools is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy to reflect changes in our practices, hosting, or applicable law. The "Last updated" date at the top indicates the most recent revision.