Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 19, 2026

What changed on October 19, 2026

This version replaces the policy that took effect on October 16, 2026.

  • “Information We Collect” now says that when you send our form asking to be contacted we also record which part of our site brought you to it, such as the site menu, a state page, or a calculator page.

Overview

We take your privacy seriously. This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, when we share or sell it, and the choices you have. Our calculators are free, and using one asks nothing about who you are. If you use our optional form to ask to be contacted about your divorce, we share and sell the details you give us to independent law firms, and companies that pass requests like yours on to law firms they work with. See Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information below for how to opt out.

Information We Collect

Calculator inputs

When you use our calculators, your inputs are processed in your browser and temporarily on our servers to generate your estimate. We do not store calculator inputs linked to your identity unless you send our form asking to be contacted. Then we store with your request the state and the calculator you sent it from and, where the calculator worked them out, its low, high, and typical cost estimate, the type of divorce, and whether children are involved, as described under When You Ask to Be Contacted below.

The form asking to be contacted

If you send our form asking to be contacted about your divorce, we collect your first and last name, email address, phone number, and ZIP code; your answer to whether you already have an attorney; that you are 18 or older; your consent to be contacted, in the words you agreed to and with the time you gave it; and your answers to any other questions the form shows you, including anything you type in a text box, kept as you wrote it. After you send it, we offer a few optional questions (where you are in the process, whether children are involved, roughly what your yearly income is, and any others the form shows) and keep whatever you answer. We also record the page you sent the form from, which part of our site brought you to the form (for example the site menu, a state page, or a calculator page), and any campaign tags in that page’s address (such as utm_source). The follow-up is the contact you agreed to on the form: calls, texts, and emails from those we pass your details to, who are independent law firms, and companies that pass requests like yours on to law firms they work with. We do not send marketing emails of our own, and there is no newsletter to unsubscribe from.

Contact form

If you write to us through our contact form, we collect your name, your email address, and your message. They are emailed to our inbox through Resend, and this site’s servers and database do not save a copy. How long we keep a message is under Data Retention below. To limit repeated submissions, the IP address the form was sent from (for an IPv6 address, only its first half) is held in Upstash for up to 1 hour, and it is not attached to your message. We do not sell or share anything you send us through the form.

Usage data

We use Vercel Web Analytics to count how the site is used. Per Vercel’s published description of it, it uses no third-party cookies, a visitor is identified by a hash created from the request, no personal identifier that tracks you across websites is collected, a visitor session is not stored permanently and is discarded after 24 hours, and the record is not tied to you or to your IP address. What is stored with a page view is the time, the page address and its route, the page you arrived from, filtered query parameters, your country, region, and city, your device type, and your browser and operating system. We do not upload your calculator inputs to it.

Cookies

We set no cookies of our own. If you switch between light and dark mode, your choice is saved in your browser’s local storage instead, and it is not sent to us. We use Google Analytics, which sets its own analytics cookies (named “_ga” and “_ga_∗”) to measure how the site is used. There are no advertising cookies: we run no ad network, we tell Google to refuse advertising and ad-personalization storage for every visitor without exception, and the only outside advertising on this site is a link to a partner we may be paid by. Analytics storage is allowed by default, except in two cases: visitors in the EEA and the UK are refused it unless they consent, and this site asks for no consent, so it is simply never allowed for them; and any browser sending Global Privacy Control is refused it from the first page it loads. See Global Privacy Control below.

How We Use Your Information

  • When you send our form asking to be contacted, to sell and share the details you give us with independent law firms, and companies that pass requests like yours on to law firms they work with, so they can contact you about your case (see below).
  • To read and answer the messages you send us through the contact form.
  • To improve calculator accuracy and content.
  • To comply with legal obligations.

When You Ask to Be Contacted

Our calculators do not require any personal information. If you send our form asking to be contacted, we sell and share the details you give us with independent law firms, and companies that pass requests like yours on to law firms they work with, so they can contact you about your case. This happens only when you send the form and give your consent. You are never enrolled automatically, and your estimate is the same whether or not you send it.

Categories of personal information we sell or share: identifiers (your first and last name, email address, phone number, and ZIP code, and, for a company that asks for them, the IP address and the browser description of the device you sent the form from); your answers on the form (whether you already have an attorney, that you are 18 or older, and your answers to any other questions it shows, including anything you type in a text box); your answers to the optional questions after it; your state and the kind of case, and the cost estimate a calculator showed you where there is one; and a record of your consent (its words, its time, and the address of its consent certificate). Which of these a company receives depends on what it asks for.

Who receives it: independent law firms, and companies that pass requests like yours on to law firms they work with. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), this opt-in is a “sale” and a “share” of personal information. We do not sell or share information about visitors who do not opt in.

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 18.

Data Retention

  • Calculator results stored in our system: 7 days.
  • Requests to be contacted (the details you gave, the consent you gave, the address of its consent certificate, and what happened when we passed the request on): retained for up to 5 years to document your consent and comply with legal obligations, then deleted. We keep each one in Upstash, with a copy in our Neon database. A copy deleted from our database can still be restored from Neon’s history for a limited time set by our plan, and is then gone.
  • While we wait up to 2 minutes for the optional questions after you send that form: a one-time code that lets your browser add your answers, kept for up to 5 minutes, or 2 minutes from when a privacy signal reaches us (see Global Privacy Control below); and the IP address and browser description of the device you sent the form from, kept until your request is passed on or deleted, and for no more than 5 minutes.
  • The IP address a request to be contacted, or its optional questions, was sent from (for an IPv6 address, only its first half): up to 1 hour, then deleted. It is held to limit repeated requests and is not attached to your request.
  • Contact form messages: kept in our email inbox for as long as we need them to answer you and any follow-up, and deleted if you ask. There is no fixed period.
  • The IP address a contact form message was sent from: up to 1 hour, then deleted.

Your Rights

  • Right to access. Email us to request a copy of the data we hold about you.
  • Right to deletion. Email us to request deletion of your data.
  • Right to opt out of sale or sharing. You can direct us not to sell or share your personal information. See Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information below. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, you do not have to ask: see Global Privacy Control below.
  • California residents (CCPA/CPRA). You have the right to know what personal information we collect, sell, or share; to access and delete it; to opt out of its sale or sharing; and not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. As described above, when you send our form asking to be contacted we sell and share your personal information, and you can opt out at any time.

For any privacy request, contact us at privacy@divorcecostestimator.com.

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

We sell and share personal information only when you send our form asking to be contacted. You have the right to direct us not to sell or share your personal information.

To opt out, email privacy@divorcecostestimator.com with the subject line “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” and the email address, phone number, or ZIP code you provided. We will process your request and confirm by email. You can also reach this section any time via the “Do Not Sell or Share My Info” link in the site footer.

The simplest way to avoid any sale or sharing of your information is not to send that form. Using our calculators never sells or shares your information.

Global Privacy Control

Some browsers and extensions send a Global Privacy Control signal on your behalf. We treat it as an opt out of sale and sharing, and you do not need to email us as well. When your browser sends it:

  • Where our form asking to be contacted is offered, you are shown a short note in its place saying why, so there is nothing to decline and nothing of yours to sell or share.
  • If a request to send that form reaches us carrying the signal, we refuse it and store nothing.
  • If your browser starts sending the signal after you have sent the form, and it reaches us with the form’s next step (when its optional questions appear, or when you answer or skip them) within the 2 minutes we wait for them, we stop your request and delete it, and it is not passed on to anyone. When the 2 minutes are up, we pass your request on as the form described, at our next scheduled check, which can come straight away. Until we pass it on, and for no more than 5 minutes after you sent the form, the signal still stops your request in the same way. A request already passed on cannot be taken back from the company that received it.
  • Google Analytics is refused analytics storage from the first page you load, so it sets no analytics cookie for you.
  • The lead and opt-in events we would otherwise count are not sent.

Everything else on the site works exactly as it does for anyone else. You can use every calculator and download your estimate. Two things the signal does not change: your light or dark mode choice, which is kept in your browser, and Vercel Web Analytics, which counts page views for everyone and which Vercel says uses no third-party cookies.

Third-Party Services

We use the following providers to operate the site. Each handles a specific function and only the data needed for that function.

  • Neon for database hosting, including the copy of each request to be contacted described under Data Retention.
  • Upstash for caching, for storing requests to be contacted and the short-lived items described under Data Retention, and for holding the IP address a contact form message was sent from, for up to 1 hour, to limit repeated submissions.
  • Vercel for hosting and for Web Analytics, which Vercel says uses no third-party cookies. What it records is listed under Usage data above.
  • Resend to deliver the messages you send through our contact form to our inbox. Where a company we pass requests to takes them by email, Resend also delivers yours to it.
  • Titan, our email provider, which hosts the inbox where contact form messages, and any email you send us, are kept.
  • Google Analytics for site analytics, with advertising and ad-personalization storage refused for everyone and analytics storage refused in the EEA, the UK, and for any browser sending Global Privacy Control. See Google’s privacy policy.
  • ActiveProspect (TrustedForm) to record and verify your consent on our form asking to be contacted. Its script starts the first time you click into or type in one of the form’s fields, before you send anything, and from then on it records the form and what you type into it, inside the form’s own frame on our site; it is told our site’s address and not the page you were reading. It sets no cookie. If your browser is sending Global Privacy Control when you first use the form, it is not started at all.
  • Independent law firms, and companies that pass requests like yours on to law firms they work with, who receive your details when you send our form asking to be contacted (see “Who receives it” above).

Affiliate and Referral Disclosures

We participate in the following affiliate and referral programs. We may receive compensation when you click or purchase through these links, at no additional cost to you. None of these relationships influence our calculator results or the content of our guides.

  • LegalZoom for online divorce services (paid affiliate).
  • Hello Divorce for attorney-guided online divorce (paid affiliate).
  • Independent law firms, and companies that pass requests like yours on to law firms they work with, who may pay us for the requests you send through our form asking to be contacted (only when you send it).
  • Financial Planning Association directory for Certified Divorce Financial Analysts (no compensation; non-paid referral).
  • LegalCostEstimator.com sister site (cross-promotional links only; no compensation).

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time as our practices evolve or as required by law. When we make material changes, we will update the effective date at the top of this page and post a notice on the site. Continued use of DivorceCostEstimator.com after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email us at privacy@divorcecostestimator.com.