What this site collects, and what it does not.

Reading a page, moving the sliders, and copying a share link involve no submission and no record. The allocation in a share link is encoded in the URL itself — it is not saved here and we cannot see it unless you send it to us.

Google Analytics is loaded for aggregate traffic counts. It sets its own cookies and is governed by Google’s terms, not ours.

• Your allocation — the numbers you set, and the total you were over or under.
• Optional demographics — settlement, age band, state, gender, profession. Every one is a dropdown from a fixed list. There is no free-text box anywhere on this site, deliberately: nothing you can type can identify you or anyone else.
• A daily hash — your IP address combined with a server secret and today’s date, then hashed. It is used to stop one machine submitting a hundred budgets and skewing the median. It cannot be reversed to an IP without the secret, and it changes every day, so it cannot be used to follow you across days. Your IP address itself is not stored for this.

The site does not currently ask for, or store, any name, email address or phone number. If that changes, this page changes with it before the feature is switched on — and it will say plainly what is kept and for how long.

Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 you can ask what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected, and ask for it to be erased. Write to hello@meratax.fyi and say which submission you mean — the email address or phone number you used is enough to find it.

If you gave no contact details, we genuinely cannot find your row, because nothing in it points to you. That is the trade: a fully anonymous submission cannot be withdrawn individually.