What this site collects

HeatPumpPayback does not require an account and does not collect personal information to show you a city's payback estimate. Like almost every website, the hosting and analytics infrastructure automatically logs standard technical data — your IP address, browser type, the pages you visit, and timestamps — for security and aggregate traffic measurement. Analytics data is aggregated and is not used to identify you individually.

Cookies

Analytics cookies may be set to distinguish repeat visits from new ones. No cookie on this site is used to build an advertising profile unless a display-advertising network is active, in which case that network's own cookie and privacy disclosures apply and are linked from this page once live.

Advertising and affiliate links

This site earns nothing from ads or affiliate commissions today. If that changes, this paragraph and the relevant page's disclosure line are updated together, deliberately, so that an affiliate relationship can never go live silently. Any future affiliate link will be marked as such at the point it appears, not buried here alone.

Third parties

Climate and rate data are pulled from NOAA and the US Energy Information Administration, both public agencies; no personal data is exchanged with them. Hosting is provided by Firebase (Google). No data collected here is sold to third parties.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes to this policy

This page may be updated as the site adds features; the version here always reflects current practice. Questions go to the contact page.