Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 2026

1. Who we are

IrishPAYE.ie is a free Irish PAYE calculator, operated from Ireland, and is the data controller for the information described in this notice. For privacy-related queries, contact: contact@irishpaye.ie.

2. What data we collect

We do not collect or store any personal financial data you enter into the calculator by default. All calculations are performed in real time and discarded immediately, nothing is saved to a database or server, with two exceptions, both of which you have to opt into: if you contribute to our anonymous salary benchmark, your job title and salary are stored with no name, company or other identifying information attached; and if you ask for the Budget update email, your address is stored. Both are covered below.

The following data may be collected automatically when you visit this site:

  • IP address (pseudonymised: logs hold a keyed one-way hash, never the address itself; used only to block abuse and for security, not stored long-term)
  • Browser type, device type, and operating system (via Google Analytics)
  • Pages visited and time spent on site (via Google Analytics)
  • Approximate geographic location at country/region level (via Google Analytics)
  • Ad delivery and interaction data, collected by Google and its advertising partners through Google AdSense (see section 3b)
  • Job title and salary, only if you choose to contribute to the salary benchmark (opt-in, anonymous, no name or company attached)
  • Email address, only if you ask for the Budget update email (opt-in, double confirmed, nothing else stored with it)

3. Cookies

We use the following categories of cookies and similar technologies:

Strictly necessary

CSRF token: required for secure form submissions. No personal data. Cannot be opted out of.

Analytics (requires consent)

Google Analytics 4 (_ga, _ga_*): used to understand how visitors use the site. Controlled by Google's privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

Advertising (requires consent for personalised ads)

Google AdSense and the third-party vendors Google works with: used to serve, measure and, if you allow it, personalise the ads on this site. Section 3b explains how these cookies work and how to opt out.

Your consent choice

Your consent choices are recorded by Google's consent management platform, a Google-certified CMP that follows the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework, in cookies it sets for that purpose (such as FCCDCF and FCNEC). They hold your choices, not your identity.

Whenever Google's consent message is not shown to you (for example because an extension blocks it, or because it does not apply where you are), the site asks instead with its own banner, which covers analytics only and stores your answer as irishpaye_consent in your browser's local storage. Not a cookie; not sent to any server. Unless you agree in Google's consent message, no ads are personalised.

3a. Budget update emails

If you ask to be told how the Budget changes your take-home pay, we store your email address and nothing else. Not your name, not your salary, and none of the figures you entered into the calculator. Giving your address is entirely optional and no part of the site requires it.

We use double opt-in: after you sign up we email you a link, and your address is only added to the list once you click it. Alongside the address we record the date you signed up and the exact wording of the consent you agreed to, so that we can show what you consented to if you ever ask.

  • What we send: one email a year, on Budget day, showing what changed and what it does to take-home pay. Nothing else, and nothing between Budgets.
  • Lawful basis: your consent, under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.
  • Sharing: your address is never sold, shared or used for advertising. It is passed only to the email provider that delivers the message.
  • Withdrawing consent: every email carries an unsubscribe link that opens a page with a single Unsubscribe button, and your mail app's own Unsubscribe option works in one click. Either takes effect immediately and needs no login. You can also email contact@irishpaye.ie.
  • Retention: we keep your address for as long as you stay subscribed. When you unsubscribe we retain the address in a suppressed state, so that it cannot be added again by mistake, unless you ask us to erase it outright.
  • Erasure: email contact@irishpaye.ie and the record is deleted entirely.

3b. Advertising and Google AdSense

This site shows ads served by Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or to other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. Google explains how it uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

  • Opting out of personalised advertising: you can opt out at Google's Ads Settings. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info or, in Europe, youronlinechoices.eu.
  • Your choice on this site: for visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, consent to personalised ads is collected only through Google's certified consent message, which lists the advertising partners involved and what each does; nothing is personalised unless you agree there. If that message is not shown to you, ads are not personalised and the site's own banner asks about analytics alone. You can change your choice at any time with the Privacy and cookie settings link at the foot of every page.
  • If you decline: you may still see ads, but they are not personalised. Google may still use cookies or similar technologies that are needed to serve those ads, cap how often you see them, and detect fraud and abuse.

4. Legal basis for processing

  • Consent: personalised advertising is only activated after you agree in Google's consent message, and analytics cookies only after you agree there or in the site's own banner.
  • Consent: Budget update emails, if you have opted in and confirmed your address. Withdrawable at any time, from any email we send.
  • Legitimate interest: limiting repeated requests and security logging (a keyed one-way hash of the IP address, never the address itself) to protect the service from abuse.

5. Third-party services

We use the following third-party services, each subject to their own privacy policies:

Resend keeps a delivery log of messages we send, which includes the recipient address, for its own operational and anti-abuse purposes. If you ask us to erase your data we remove you from our list; ask us and we will also request removal from that log.

We use Google Consent Mode v2. Until you agree, Google Analytics sets no analytics cookies and sends only cookieless pings with no identifier, and any ads you see are not personalised.

6. Your rights under GDPR

As a person in the EU/EEA, you have the right to:

  • Access the personal data we hold about you
  • Request correction or deletion of your data
  • Object to or restrict processing
  • Withdraw consent at any time, with the Privacy and cookie settings link at the foot of every page
  • Lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission at dataprotection.ie

To exercise any right, contact: contact@irishpaye.ie.

7. Data retention

We do not retain any calculator input data. Salary benchmark contributions (job title and salary, submitted voluntarily and anonymously) are retained indefinitely and used in aggregate to build ongoing salary insights; Budget update email addresses are kept as section 3a describes. Google Analytics data is retained for 14 months, the longer of the two retention periods Google Analytics offers (the other is 2 months). Rate-limit counters are kept in a short-lived cache and expire within a day; security logs record only the hashed IP address described above and are kept by our hosting provider for a limited period.

8. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. The date at the top of this page indicates when it was last updated.