Privacy Policy

For Online-TipCalculator.com

Effective Date: July 24, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how Online-TipCalculator.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit and use our online tip calculator website. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data responsibly.

1. Information We Collect

We collect the following types of information:

• Personal Information You Voluntarily Provide:

  • Contact Form Data: When you use the contact form on our “Contact” page (https://online-tipcalculator.com/contact/), we collect your name and email address.

• Automatically Collected Information:

  • Usage Data: We use Google Analytics to collect non-personal information about your visit, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, pages visited, time spent on the site, and referral sources. This data helps us understand how users interact with our website.

  • Cookies:

    • WordPress Default Cookies: Our website, built on WordPress, uses certain default cookies that are essential for the website’s basic functionality. These are primarily session cookies that do not store personally identifiable information.

    • Google Analytics Cookies: Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about how visitors use our site. These cookies help us track website performance and visitor numbers.

    • Sassy Social Share Plugin: We use the Sassy Social Share plugin for social sharing. According to the plugin’s documentation, it does not store any cookies in your browser.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for the following purposes:

• To Respond to Inquiries: The name and email address provided via the contact form are used solely to respond to your feedback, questions, or suggestions regarding the tip calculator and its improvement.

• To Monitor and Improve Our Website: The traffic data collected through Google Analytics is used to monitor the performance of our website, understand user engagement, and see the total number of visitors. This helps us to enhance the user experience and functionality of the tip calculator.

• Website Functionality: WordPress default cookies are used to ensure the proper functioning of the website.

3. How We Store and Protect Your Information

• Contact Form Data: Submissions from our Divi theme contact form are stored in the database on our website’s hosting server. We implement various security measures including an SSL certificate, secure hosting, regular software updates, and the use of security plugins like Wordfence and WPArmour to protect our website and the data it stores. While we strive to protect your personal information, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

• Google Analytics Data: This data is stored on Google’s servers. Google’s data retention policies apply, and as we have not configured specific retention settings, the default settings for Google Analytics 4 (GA4) are in effect. Currently, GA4 retains user and event data for up to 14 months, and Google-signals data for up to 26 months.

4. Sharing Your Information

We do not share your personal information with any third parties, except for Google Analytics, as described above, to monitor website performance. We do not share data with advertising partners or other service providers.

5. Children’s Privacy

Our online tip calculator is not intended for use by children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from a visitor under the age of 13, we will delete the information from our records.

6. Your Data Protection Rights

You have the right to:

• Access and Correction: Request access to the personal information (name and email from the contact form) we hold about you and request that any inaccuracies be corrected.

• Deletion: Request the deletion of your personal information (name and email from the contact form) that we hold.

• Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at contact@online-tipcalculator.com.

7. Cookies and Your Consent

We use cookies to enhance your experience and for analytics purposes as described in Section 1. Currently, we do not have a cookie consent banner or explicit mechanism for users to accept or manage cookies. By continuing to use our website, you acknowledge and agree to the use of these cookies. We recommend reviewing your browser settings to manage your cookie preferences.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at contact@online-tipcalculator.com or using the contact form https://online-tipcalculator.com/contact/