Privacy policy

When you submit salary information, we collect: job title, industry, location (city), seniority level, organisation type, monthly gross pay, currency, and optional benefits and notes.

We do not collect or request your name, email address, phone number, employer name, national ID, or any other personally identifiable information.

A one-way cryptographic hash of your network address may be stored temporarily for rate-limiting purposes. Raw IP addresses are never persisted.

Submitted salary data is used solely to calculate and publish aggregate benchmarks — including medians, percentile ranges, averages, and sample counts — grouped by role, industry, location, and seniority.

Individual submissions are never displayed, sold, licensed, or shared with any third party. Only aggregate statistics meeting a minimum sample-size threshold are published.

We may use aggregate, non-identifiable statistics internally to improve the platform, detect abuse, and plan features.

A benchmark group is only published when it contains at least five approved submissions. This threshold exists to prevent any individual contributor from being identified through their data.

If a group has fewer than five records, its data remains internal and is not visible to any public user, employer, or API consumer.

PayYako does not use advertising cookies or third-party tracking pixels.

We may use essential cookies for session management and security purposes (such as CSRF protection). These cookies contain no personal information and cannot be used to identify you.

If we introduce optional analytics in the future, they will be privacy-respecting, aggregate-only, and clearly disclosed here.

Salary data is stored in a secured database with access restricted to authorised administrators. All data in transit is encrypted via TLS.

Administrative access to raw submission data is protected by authentication, and admin actions are logged.

We do not store raw network addresses. The one-way hash used for rate limiting cannot be reversed to recover your IP address.

Because we collect no personal identifiers, we cannot link a submission to a specific individual. This means we cannot fulfil individual data-access or deletion requests — there is no personal data to access or delete.

If you believe your submission can be uniquely identified due to unusual circumstances, contact us and we will work with you to address your concern.

PayYako may use third-party infrastructure providers (hosting, database services) that process data on our behalf under strict contractual obligations.

We may use AI language models to power the career finder feature. Text you enter in the career finder is sent to an AI provider to generate suggestions and is not stored by PayYako. The provider processes it under its own terms.

We do not sell, rent, or share raw submission data with any third party for any purpose.

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Material changes will be noted on this page with a revised effective date.

Continued use of PayYako after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.