The short version
There is no account and no login, and nothing you type into the navigator or checklist is sent anywhere. Asset descriptions, values, liens, ownership selections, dates, and checklist progress are processed entirely in your browser. This site keeps no database of estates.
This is not a promise about how carefully estate data is handled. It is a statement that the data is not collected, which is a different and stronger claim. Two small pieces of server code exist, and both are described in full below: a page-event docket that counts visits without identifying anyone, and the amend-record form, which stores only the text a reader chooses to file.
What is stored, where, and for how long
Local browser storage
Your working case and checklist progress are saved in your browser’s local storage so you do not lose them when the tab closes. That storage belongs to your browser on your device. It is not synchronised, backed up, or readable by this site’s operator.
It persists until you use the delete control in the tool, clear site data in your browser, or use a private window that discards it on close. Nothing expires it on a schedule, because nothing is watching it.
Cookies
This site’s own code sets no cookies. There is no session cookie, no analytics cookie, and no consent cookie, because there is nothing for any of them to do.
One third party is an exception, and it is disclosed here rather than buried. Every page loads Google’s AdSense script, which the network requires in order to review this site for advertising. No advertisement is displayed anywhere on this site, but that script does contact Google’s advertising servers and Google may set its own cookies from those domains while it does. Those cookies are Google’s, not this site’s, and nothing here reads them. Blocking third-party cookies, or blocking the script outright, removes them and breaks nothing in the calculators.
Shared links
When you copy a private case link, the case is encoded in the URL fragment — the part after the #. Browsers do not transmit the fragment to the web server, so the case travels only inside the link itself.
That has a consequence worth stating plainly: anyone who receives the full link can read the encoded case. Treat a shared case link like a document containing the estate’s details, because that is what it is. Sending one through a channel that logs or previews URLs will expose it to that channel.
Hosting logs
The site is served by Cloudflare Pages, which processes standard request information needed to deliver and secure a website: IP address, requested path, user agent, and timestamp. These are handled under Cloudflare’s own terms and privacy practices and are not combined with anything you enter, because nothing you enter reaches the server.
A request log records that a page was requested. It cannot record the contents of a case, since the case is never sent.
Analytics
The site uses a first-party, cookieless measurement endpoint to count page views and aggregate engagement events such as first calculator interaction, completed calculator result, scroll depth, and onward clicks. It does not use a retargeting pixel, session replay, heatmap, or A/B testing service.
The browser posts each event to /api/docket on this domain as three values: the kind of event, which calculator it came from (when it came from one), and the page pathname. The docket receives nothing else. It does not receive calculator values, descriptions, dates, cookies, device identifiers, IP addresses, or full referrers. The browser’s user-agent header is checked on arrival only to discard crawlers and automated browsers, and is never stored; a browser under automation sends no events at all. Events are stored in the site's owned aggregate datastore. The internal-search signals are not instrumented because this site has no internal search surface.
Requests to amend a page
The amend-record form is the one place this site stores text you type, and only when you press its file button, which sends the request to/api/amend-record on this domain. A request is written to acorrections table in the same owned datastore as the page-event docket. Each row holds: the time and day it arrived, this site's domain, the pathname of the page the request is about, the concern you chose (filed as figure, rule, source, bug or other), your details (10 to 2,000 characters), an answer address if you chose to give one (up to 200 characters), and a status the editors set while reviewing it.
It does not store your IP address, user-agent string, cookies or anything from the navigator or checklist. The calculator's case details are never attached to a report, so please describe a problem with a made-up example rather than the real estate. To have a report deleted, email the privacy address below with the page and the approximate time you sent it.
Advertising
No advertising is served and no advertisement appears anywhere on this site. This site is in the review stage that an ad network requires before it will consider a site at all: the network’s verification script is loaded on every page and its seller record is published in the authorised-sellers file. Those two things are the whole of it. There is no ad unit in any page, and the build fails if one appears.
Current status:
- No consent management platform is configured.
- Advertising is switched off in this build.
If advertising is enabled later, it requires independent approval for this domain and an active consent platform first, and this policy and the deployed technology must change together. Advertising will never be placed adjacent to a control or a result, and no behaviour in the product will ever depend on an advertisement being clicked.
Global Privacy Control and opt-outs
This site does not sell or share personal information, and it runs no targeted advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of. No opt-out cookie is set because setting one would require tracking that does not exist.
A future advertising release must honour Global Privacy Control before any targeted advertising tag loads. See Do Not Sell or Share.
Erasing your data
Use the delete control inside the navigator or checklist to remove the saved case immediately. Clearing site data in your browser removes it as well. Because the case was never transmitted, there is no separate deletion request to submit and no copy held elsewhere to be deleted. A correction report you chose to send is the exception; seerequests to amend a page for how to have one removed.
Children
This site is intended for adults administering an estate. It does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children. The only text it stores is a correction report a reader chooses to send.
Changes to this policy
Material changes are recorded on the changelog with a date. A change that would alter what leaves your browser will be described before it takes effect, not summarised afterwards.
Contact
Email privacy@estatesettlementcost.com. Please do not include private estate information in the message; it is not needed to answer a privacy question, and email is not a secure channel.