This policy explains what is collected when you visit doctorsalaries.org (“the site”). We do not run accounts, sign-ups or lead forms, so the only data involved is what any website receives plus the analytics and advertising described below.
Information you enter in calculators
The salary, take-home, comparison, school-cost and residency-loan calculators run in your browser. The loan balance, salary or job offer you type is not sent to us or stored on our servers. When you press “Copy link to this result”, your inputs are written after the # in the page address so the link reopens with the same numbers; that part of an address is not sent to our server, but anyone you share the link with can read it. Choosing a state loads that state's public BLS metro file from our own server; the request says only which state's file is needed.
Server and security logs
The site and its data files are served by Cloudflare. To deliver pages and block abuse, Cloudflare processes technical data such as IP address, browser type and the pages and files requested, including which state metro file a calculator loads. We do not keep our own visitor logs. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
Usage measurement (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics 4, a service of Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC, to see in aggregate which salary pages and calculators are used, the approximate country and the type of device. When a calculator is used or a result link is copied, Analytics records only the calculator name and the page, never the salary, offer, loan balance or any other number you typed. We do not use Analytics to build profiles of individual visitors.
The site uses Google Consent Mode. For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, analytics and advertising storage are denied by default: no analytics cookies are set, and Google receives only cookieless signals without an identifier. Elsewhere, Google Analytics may set first-party cookies (such as _ga) to tell repeat visits apart. You can block these with your browser's cookie settings or the Google Analytics opt-out add-on. See Google's privacy policy.
Advertising and cookies
The site uses Google AdSense to show ads, which keeps the salary data and calculators free. Ads are not targeted using anything you enter in a calculator.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info.
- Learn more in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent through a Google-certified consent message before personalized ads or non-essential cookies are used. You can change your choice at any time from the privacy settings link shown by that message.
Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR, UK GDPR, KVKK or U.S. state privacy laws such as the CCPA), you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal data and to object to certain processing. Because the site has no accounts and does not store calculator inputs, we hold no salary, offer or loan details about you. For advertising data, use Google's tools above; for anything else, email us.
Children
The site is intended for adults and students planning a career and is not directed to children under 13.
Contact
Questions about this policy or a privacy request: contact@doctorsalaries.org.