How we handle your data

Texas Police Salaries ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. We collect only what's needed to run the site and reply to inquiries. Specifically, we may collect:

• Contact form
  Your name, email, and department affiliation — only when you voluntarily submit a form.
• Analytics
  Anonymized page views, device type, browser, approximate geographic location, and referring URLs — collected by Google Analytics.
• Behavioral
  Anonymized session recordings and heatmaps showing clicks, scrolls, and mouse movement — collected by Microsoft Clarity, which masks input fields and sensitive content by default.
• Salary data
  Public salary information stored in Firebase/Firestore. This is publicly available data and contains no personal user information.
• Chatbot
  Messages you send to the on-site chatbot and the bot's replies, stored alongside a per-session identifier. We use this to improve answer quality and identify topics that need better coverage. We don't collect your name, email, or IP through the chatbot, and we don't share these conversations with third parties beyond what's described in Section 3 — please avoid entering personal or sensitive information.
• Account data
  If you sign in with Google, we store your email, display name, and profile photo to identify your account. If you complete your profile, we also store the values you choose: country, state, sworn-officer status, department, years of service, favorited departments, personal notes you write about departments, and your email-alert preferences. Account data is held in Firebase / Firestore and is treated as personal to you — notes you write about a department are visible only to you when signed in. You can review, edit, or permanently delete everything tied to your account at any time from My Profile.

We use the information we collect for four things:

• Respond to inquiries — we use contact-form submissions to reply to questions, feedback, and requests for information.
• Improve the site — analytics data helps us understand how visitors use the site so we can improve content, navigation, and experience.
• Keep salary data accurate — information submitted through our contact and update forms helps us keep department salary data current.
• Run your account — your saved favorites, personal notes, and alert preferences let you pick up where you left off and receive only the email alerts you've opted into.

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling them may affect some site functionality.

We take reasonable measures to protect the information we collect from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Our site is served over HTTPS to encrypt data in transit.

That said, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

To exercise any of these rights, reach out via our Contact page. We'll get back within a few business days.

Our website is not directed at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected information from a child under 13, we'll delete it as soon as possible.

If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date.

We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information.

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, reach out through our Contact page. We read every message.