Who is responsible
GrowthBudget is operated by Dan Dan, the controller for the processing described below. Contact: growthbudget.contact@gmail.com.
Calculator inputs stay in your browser
Calculations run on your device. GrowthBudget does not send your spending, contacts count, course count or other calculator inputs to its server. Downloaded plans are created locally. Refreshing or closing the page resets inputs. There is no customer account, payment, newsletter or upload form.
The practical examples are local demonstrations. They do not send emails, upload files, process payments or create subscriptions or bookings. Checklist selections stay in browser memory. Copy buttons copy the displayed example text only after you choose to use them.
If you choose to use a browser assistant, the browser may make our calculator tools available to it. The tool receives the values supplied by that assistant and returns a calculation through the browser. Your browser or assistant provider’s own data settings apply.
Aggregate page and interaction totals
When the server returns a public page, it increments a daily total. Separately, from 9 October 2026, we count calculator use and requests that redirect to our affiliate partner. From 13 October 2026, we also count deliberate use of practical examples. Interaction storage contains only a date, a fixed page category, an event type and a total. There are no individual event or visit records, IP addresses, names, email addresses, visitor or session IDs, referring sites, device information, checklist selections, copied text or calculator values in the statistics database. No identifier is hashed or retained, and actions are not linked together.
Counts represent page responses, not unique visitors. Reloads, different pages and bots can each increase the total. Responses restored from a browser cache may not reach the server. Signed-in administrator requests, prefetches, errors and browser requests carrying Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control are excluded. Days use Europe/Bucharest time.
A calculator-use count is sent only after you manually change a calculator field. An example-use count is sent only after you interact with a demonstration, checklist or copy button. Reading a page alone does not trigger either. Your browser sends a small request to this site containing just the fixed page category and the event name, without credentials, referrer or input values. In-memory suppression limits this to once per event type and category for each full page load; it is not saved to cookies or browser storage. Affiliate-click counts come from the redirect request itself, so repeated clicks and bots can increase them. These totals do not identify people or prove registrations, purchases or commissions.
From 19 October 2026, we separately count browser-reported activations of our affiliate links, including keyboard and middle-button activation. Each activation may send the same kind of small first-party request, containing only a fixed page category and the event name, without credentials, referrer or input values. Administrator activity and browser Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control preferences are excluded. Navigation does not wait for this request. Repeated activations may count; script-generated clicks are ignored, but browser automation may still count. Disabled JavaScript, context-menu navigation or blocked requests may omit activations. This is not a count of unique people or proof of purchases, and earlier activity is not reconstructed.
We retain these aggregate totals while the site operates to understand which pages and tools are useful. Public page-view totals were combined by day on 25 September 2026; the previous event categories were removed. Calculator-use and affiliate-click counts start on 9 October 2026; example-use counts start on 13 October 2026. None reconstruct earlier activity. Browser opt-outs, blocked requests, caching, errors and protective limits can cause undercounting.
No tracking cookies or visitor identifiers
GrowthBudget uses no advertising pixel, visitor cookie, browser-storage ID, fingerprinting or session recording. Calculator-use and example-use requests respect browser Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control settings, as do the server counters. Signed-in administrator activity is excluded. The former statistics preference cookie is removed when it reaches the site; no replacement is created. We do not send these statistics to external analytics or advertising services.
Delivery, security and service providers
Every network request, including a calculator-use or example-use request, necessarily involves connection data such as IP address, request details and browser information. The site uses OpenAI Sites hosting with Cloudflare infrastructure. Hosting, security and authentication providers may process technical logs and necessary cookies. This is separate from the aggregate statistics database: the application does not put connection data in its counters. Our basis for running and securing the site is legitimate interests, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Technical data may be processed outside the EEA. Provider policies describe their retention criteria, recipients, international processing and transfer safeguards: OpenAI and Cloudflare. Contact us for information about the arrangements applicable to this site. We do not claim that all infrastructure data stays in the EU.
Email and external links
If you email us, your address and message are processed to answer your request, based on legitimate interests, or to meet a legal obligation when you exercise data protection rights. Messages go to our Gmail mailbox and are retained as needed to handle the request and any applicable obligations. Do not send passwords, customer lists or unnecessary sensitive information. Google’s privacy policy describes its service processing.
External providers load only when you follow their links. An affiliate link includes our publisher identifier and a fixed page tag, not your calculator values or a GrowthBudget visitor ID. The destination provider’s privacy and tracking rules apply. Its accounts, purchases and payments are handled by that provider.
Your rights
Where applicable, you can request access, correction, deletion, restriction or portability of your personal data, object to processing based on legitimate interests. Email the contact above. We normally respond within one month; if a lawful extension is needed, we will explain it within that month. We may request only the information needed to verify a request. We do not collect extra identifying data merely to identify someone in aggregate statistics.
You can complain to ANSPDCP, the Romanian data protection authority, or the authority in your country of residence, work or the alleged infringement. GrowthBudget does not use your data for decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.