Privacy Policy

Date: 20 June 2026

1. Scope and operator

This policy applies to https://ai-costcalculator.com, its calculators, guides, legal pages, and related browser-based features (collectively, the "Site"). In this policy, "AI Cost Calculator," "we," "us," and "our" refer to the operator of the Site. This policy does not govern websites, model providers, advertising networks, or other services that we do not control.

By using the Site, you acknowledge the practices described here. Where consent is legally required for a particular processing activity, such as storing advertising cookies, consent will be requested separately and this policy does not replace that consent request.

2. Information we collect

Calculator inputs

Calculator inputs are processed locally in your browser by default. The values you type into calculators are not submitted to our server as part of the calculation. We do not ask you to enter API keys, passwords, payment-card numbers, health information, or other sensitive personal data. You should not place confidential or personal information in calculator fields.

Shareable links and saved scenarios

If you create a shareable link, selected calculator values are placed in the URL query string. Anyone who receives that URL may be able to read those values. URLs may also appear in browser history, server logs, analytics reports, referrer information, bookmarks, or messages where you share the link. Do not put confidential information in a shareable URL.

If you save a scenario, the scenario is stored in your browser's local storage on your device. Saved scenarios are not an online account and are not synchronized by us. Clearing site data in your browser removes them.

Communications

The contact and feedback forms create a draft message in your email application. The Site does not submit or store the form contents on our server. If you choose to send the email, your email provider and ours process the message, including your email address, message, attachments, and related metadata. We use that information to respond, investigate corrections, address abuse, and keep appropriate business records.

Server and security logs

Like most websites, our hosting and network providers may automatically record technical information when a request reaches the Site. This may include IP address, date and time, requested URL, response status, browser and device information, referring URL, and diagnostic or security events. Logs are used to deliver the Site, diagnose problems, prevent abuse, maintain security, and understand aggregate traffic.

Analytics and advertising data

If analytics or advertising services are enabled, those providers may receive information such as IP address, browser identifiers, cookie identifiers, device information, approximate location derived from IP, pages viewed, referring pages, ad impressions, ad interactions, and consent choices. The exact data depends on your location, settings, consent, and the provider's technology.

3. How information is used

We may use information to:

• provide, operate, secure, and troubleshoot the Site;
• calculate and display results in your browser;
• remember preferences and scenarios that you intentionally save;
• respond to questions, corrections, copyright notices, and other communications;
• measure aggregate usage and improve content and navigation;
• detect malicious traffic, fraud, automated abuse, and security incidents;
• display, measure, limit, and personalize advertising where permitted;
• comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms and Conditions.

Depending on the jurisdiction and activity, processing may rely on consent, performance of a requested service, compliance with law, or legitimate interests such as operating and improving the Site. Where the law requires consent, you may withdraw it through the available consent controls, though withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before withdrawal.

4. Cookies and local storage

Cookies are small text files stored by a browser. Local storage is a browser feature that stores data for a website without sending it with every request. Pixels, tags, SDKs, and similar technologies may also recognize a browser or measure activity.

• Functional browser storage: the Site may store currency preferences and scenarios you explicitly save. This supports requested features.
• Security and delivery: hosting or security services may use technical identifiers to deliver content, balance traffic, or prevent abuse.
• Analytics: if enabled, analytics technologies help measure visits and feature usage.
• Advertising: if advertising is enabled, Google and other approved vendors may use cookies or similar technologies for ad delivery, frequency capping, personalization, measurement, reporting, and fraud prevention.

You can remove browser storage through your browser settings. Blocking storage may prevent saved scenarios, preferences, consent controls, analytics, or advertising from working as intended. Browser controls operate separately from advertising opt-out tools.

5. Google products and advertising cookies

The Site may use Google products or related Google advertising services to fund free access to its calculators and content. The following disclosures apply whenever Google ads are active:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this Site or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Google and its partners may use advertising identifiers, IP addresses, browser information, and activity data to deliver, limit, personalize, and measure ads and to detect fraud and abuse.
• Ads may be personalized or non-personalized. Non-personalized ads may still use cookies or similar technologies for frequency capping, aggregated reporting, security, and fraud prevention.

You can manage or opt out of personalized Google advertising through Google Ads Settings. You may also use industry opt-out tools such as aboutads.info, where available. Opting out of personalization does not necessarily remove advertising; it generally changes how ads are selected.

For more detail, review Google's pages on how Google uses information from partner sites, Google advertising technologies, the Google Privacy Policy, and the Google Publisher Policies Help Center.

6. Consent and regional advertising requirements

For users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Google requires publishers serving Google ads to use a Google-certified Consent Management Platform integrated with the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework where required. When advertising is enabled for affected users, we will use an appropriate consent mechanism to disclose relevant vendors and purposes and to request consent for cookies, local storage, and the collection, sharing, and use of personal data where legally required.

You may be offered choices such as consent, reject, manage options, personalized ads, or non-personalized ads. The choices available depend on your location, the law, the services enabled, and the vendors involved. You can revisit available privacy choices through the consent interface when it is present. Google's current requirements are described in the Google EU User Consent Policy.

7. Sharing and third-party vendors

We do not sell personal information for money. We may disclose information to hosting, security, email, analytics, advertising, consent-management, and technical service providers where reasonably necessary for their services. We may also disclose information when required by law, to protect rights or safety, to investigate abuse, or as part of a merger, financing, acquisition, or transfer of the Site.

If additional third-party advertising vendors or ad networks serve ads on the Site, their cookies and privacy practices will be governed by their own policies. The applicable consent interface may identify active advertising vendors and provide links or controls. Users may visit vendor sites or industry opt-out tools to opt out of personalized advertising where those vendors offer that capability.

The Site links to AI providers and other outside websites. Following an external link allows that site to collect information under its own policy. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party privacy or security practices.

8. Retention and security

Browser-saved preferences and scenarios remain on your device until you remove them. Communications may be retained for as long as reasonably needed to respond, document corrections or legal requests, prevent abuse, and satisfy legal obligations. Technical logs are generally retained only as long as needed for operations, security, troubleshooting, and legal compliance. Advertising and analytics providers set their own retention periods under their policies and controls.

Service providers may process information in countries other than your own. Those countries may have different data-protection laws. Where legally required, providers and operators should use recognized transfer safeguards.

We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards, but no Internet transmission, browser storage, or storage system is guaranteed to be completely secure. You are responsible for protecting access to your device, browser profile, email account, and shared URLs.

9. Your privacy rights and choices

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, or objection to certain processing; withdraw consent; appeal a privacy decision; or complain to a data-protection authority. Some US state laws also provide rights to opt out of sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or certain profiling. These rights are subject to definitions, exceptions, verification, and other limits in applicable law.

To make a request concerning information controlled by us, email [email protected] with the subject "Privacy Request." Describe the right you wish to exercise and the information involved. We may need to verify your request and may not hold enough information to identify technical logs without additional details. For data controlled directly by Google or another provider, use that provider's privacy controls.

Browser "Do Not Track" signals are not interpreted consistently across the industry. Where applicable law requires recognition of an opt-out preference signal such as Global Privacy Control, we intend to honor supported signals for the relevant processing. You can also use browser settings, consent controls, Google Ads Settings, and industry opt-out tools.

10. Children's privacy

The Site is designed for a general business and technology audience. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. We also do not intend to use interest-based advertising to target children. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact us so we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.

11. Changes and contact

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in the Site, advertising or analytics services, law, or operational practices. The date at the top shows the latest revision. Material changes may also be highlighted on the Site where appropriate. Continued use after an update means the revised policy applies to later activity, subject to any consent required by law.

Privacy questions and requests can be sent to [email protected]. For copyright notices, use our DMCA Copyright Policy.