Privacy notice

This site works out your real hourly wage and compares it to what Tuber pays. To do that we ask what you earn and how many hours you work. We keep those answers — with your permission — to understand what towing work pays across Alberta. We don't ask who you are unless you want us to contact you about a job.

If you agree at the start

• The income figure you enter — the exact number, not a range — and whether it came from a T4, a gross paystub or a take-home amount.
• Your working hours and on-call hours per week.
• Whether some of your hours fall between 10pm and 6am.
• Your current job title and category, licence class, years of experience, certifications and equipment experience.
• A coarse region (a province or state code), worked out from your internet connection. Not a precise location.
• The results we calculate for you, and which version of this notice you agreed to.

These are saved as you type them, not at the end. If you start and don't finish, whatever you'd already entered is still stored. We tell you this before you enter anything, which is why it's in the consent box and here.

Only if you ask us to contact you

• Your name, and an email address or phone number.

That's a separate, second permission, asked only after you've seen your result. You can use this whole tool and never give it.

What we never collect

We don't ask for your SIN, your date of birth, your address, or your employer's name. We don't upload or read your actual T4 or paystub — you read the number off it yourself.

• To calculate and show you your result. That's the immediate reason.
• To understand what towing and recovery work actually pays in Alberta, so Tuber can set its own rates against something real. Your answers are looked at in aggregate; nothing in the research data identifies you.
• If you asked us to: to contact you about working at Tuber.

We do not sell this information, and we do not use it for advertising.

Your contact details are stored in a separate place from your wage answers, deliberately. That means we can delete everything that names you while keeping the wage data itself — and it means "delete my contact details" is something we can actually do, rather than something we merely promise.

Your wage answers are deleted 24 months after your last activity on the site.

Your contact details — if you gave them — are deleted 12 months after you give them, whether or not anything came of it.

Contact details go first, and on a shorter clock, because they're the most directly identifying thing we hold. When they're deleted, your wage answers stay in the research data, no longer linked to your name or contact information.

You can ask us to delete either, or both, sooner. See below.

Our database is hosted in Canada. However, some of the services that run this site — including our hosting provider and our bot-protection provider — are operated by companies outside Canada, and your information may be processed or stored outside Canada, including in the United States. While it's there, it's subject to the laws of that country, including lawful access requests by foreign courts and government agencies.

We're telling you this because Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act requires it, and because you should know before you type a number in.

Everything is encrypted in transit and at rest by our providers, access is limited to people at Tuber who need it, and your income figure never appears in our logs or error reports. This is proportionate to what the data is: self-reported, unverified figures you chose to type into a public website.

Under Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act you can ask usUnder Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act, you can request access to personal information we hold about you and ask us to correct errors. We also allow you to request deletion of your information at any time.

We respond to access requests within 45 days, as PIPA requires. Deletion requests are handled on the same timeline.

• Delete my contact details — removes your name, email and phone number, and leaves your wage answers in the research data, no longer linked to either.
• Delete everything — removes the wage answers from your session as well.

Access or delete your data→

If a breach creates a real risk of significant harm, we'll report it to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta without unreasonable delay, as PIPA requires. We'll also notify affected individuals directly.

If we change this notice materially we'll publish a new version number. We record which version you agreed to, so a later change never retroactively changes what you consented to.