Effective date and scope
Effective October 31, 2026. This notice describes the current CareerMoveIQ website and its production analytics and contact form. For a question about this notice or a message you submitted, use the contact page. We will update this notice if our data practices change.
Information you enter
You can use the research pages without an account. Optional base salary, annual bonus, sign-on bonus, take-home-pay, rent, other-expense, moving-cost and percentile-chart figures are processed in the current page in your browser. CareerMoveIQ does not save those personal assumptions to browser storage or include them in shareable links or analytics events. Worksheet entries reset when you change the occupation or either compared metro, restore a saved comparison, choose Reset inputs, reload or close the page. The separate salary marker remains only in page memory as you change the displayed distribution and resets when you reload or close the page. The printable worksheet is generated in your browser.
Browser storage, links and external services
If you choose “Save in this browser,” the dashboard stores up to twelve comparison selections in that browser's local storage. A saved selection includes an occupation, metro pair, chart and sort preferences, and optional metro shortlist details; it does not include your personal cost assumptions. You can remove saved comparisons in the dashboard or clear site data in your browser. Saves are not synced between devices.
Copy link places the current research selection in a URL on your clipboard after browser permission. A copied or requested dashboard URL can include selected occupation and metro values, but not your private worksheet amounts. Fonts are served from this website, so loading them does not contact Google or any other font service.
This website is hosted by Bluehost. Bluehost's documentation says its access logs can include the request date and time, visitor IP address, requested URL, browser or device details, response size and response time, and that logs are retained for at least 30 days. See Bluehost's access-log documentation and Newfold Digital's privacy notice for provider details.
Contact messages
If you submit the contact form, your name, email address, selected topic and message are sent from your browser to Web3Forms for email delivery. CareerMoveIQ does not operate a separate contact-message database. Do not send Social Security numbers, financial-account details, resumes or other sensitive information. If the form is unavailable, it is disabled and no message is sent.
Web3Forms and the receiving email service may process or retain messages under their own policies. Review the Web3Forms privacy notice before submitting.
Analytics and external services
Production pages use Google Analytics 4 (GA4); the tag is not loaded in local staging builds. The page's configured page-view event includes the page title, path and path-only referrer. It removes query strings and fragments, so the site's own page-view values do not include dashboard selections from shareable URLs. Base salary, annual bonus, sign-on, take-home-pay, rent, expense, moving-budget and percentile-chart entries are not sent as event parameters. The GA4 web stream has a separate history-based page-change setting; it should remain disabled because the dashboard updates URL state in place and enabling that feature can generate extra page views.
Google Analytics may use first-party cookies or similar identifiers and process browser, device, connection and site-usage information. See Google's Analytics data collection and data safeguards documentation. The production tag disables Google Signals and advertising-personalization signals; the site does not currently load advertising scripts.
For the public data sources and calculations, read the methodology.
Requests about submitted messages
Web3Forms and the receiving email provider may keep copies under their own retention practices. If you ask us to remove a message from records under the publisher's control, use the contact page and identify the original message. We cannot delete records held independently by those providers.