01 / Calculator data
Your estimate is calculated in your browser.
Home size, coverage, fuel, distance, transfer-switch, site, state, and panel selections are processed in the browser to produce the estimate. Generator Budget does not currently provide user accounts or send those calculator inputs to an application database.
A shared estimate stores the selected values in the URL fragment after the # character. URL fragments are not included in ordinary HTTP requests to the server, but anyone who receives the complete shared link can read and restore those selections.
The installation-quote comparison keeps its working Quote A, B, and C entries in memory in the open browser tab, rather than an application database, local storage, an account, or the URL. Optional Clarity replay can separately record masked interactions as described below. Reloading the page or using Reset clears the working entries. The tool provides no contractor-name, address, proposal-upload, or free-text field; do not enter personal information into the structured controls.
02 / Technical information
Hosting providers may process request logs.
When you request a page, hosting and delivery providers may process standard technical information such as IP address, user agent, requested path, timestamp, network diagnostics, and security events. That processing supports delivery, reliability, abuse prevention, and incident investigation and is subject to the provider's own terms and retention practices.
03 / Cookies, analytics, and advertising
Analytics is limited and separated from calculator inputs.
If you enable it in Privacy settings, Generator Budget uses Google Analytics 4 to measure page visits, general acquisition sources, device categories, controlled content-section impressions, and a small set of product interactions such as a tool's first interaction, generic result completion, print, share, download, and next-step actions. Analytics events do not intentionally include section heading text, calculator or quote selections, estimate or bid amounts, supported-load values, contractor information, email addresses, free text, or the shared-link fragment after the # character.
Google Analytics may use first-party cookies or similar storage and may process browser, device, general location, and interaction information under Google's own terms. Google Signals and advertising personalization are disabled in the site tag. Generator Budget does not run advertising or use calculator inputs for behavioral advertising. Browser privacy controls and content blockers may limit collection.
Optional Microsoft Clarity session analytics.
With your permission, we use Microsoft Clarity to understand browsing behavior through clicks, scrolling, heatmaps, and masked session replay. Microsoft may process browser and device information, page addresses, interaction data, and analytics cookies under its own privacy practices. Recording includes calculator interactions, installation-quote comparison, financing, tax-path, and placement tools. Text, entered amounts, and result text are masked. Click positions, control states, and layout changes may still reveal which options were used; masking is not anonymity. Recording stops before printing, sharing or copying a worklist. Contact, policy and unknown pages, query-string visits, and shared-scenario fragments are excluded; ordinary section links remain supported.
One Privacy settings panel controls Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity. Both options are initially selected, but neither service loads until you click Confirm. You may uncheck either service or click Reject all. We remember the two choices together in this browser for up to 180 days; clearing site storage or changing browsers requires a new choice. Earlier Clarity-only choices require a new confirmation for this combined panel.
Turning off a service stops new collection and clears its first-party analytics cookies. Previously collected data remains subject to Google's or Microsoft's retention practices; withdrawal is not a request to delete that historical data. Re-enabling a stopped service takes effect on a fresh page load; reloading clears unsaved calculator inputs. Advertising storage is denied; we do not send custom identities or custom events containing calculator values. Clarity replay and the limited GA4 events remain different forms of measurement, controlled in the same panel. See the Microsoft Privacy Statement and Clarity cookie information.
04 / External links
Other sites apply their own policies.
Links to manufacturers, retailers, and other references take you to services that Generator Budget does not control. Review their privacy practices before providing information on those services.
05 / Questions and changes
The policy follows the product.
Material changes to data collection will be reflected here before the related feature is enabled. For a current technical or policy correction, use the Contact page. Clicking its email link opens your device's email application; the site does not receive or store the message itself.