We don’t collect what we don’t need.

taxi-fare.com.au is a public-interest calculator. We don’t ask for your name, email, phone number, address, or payment details. There are no user accounts. There is no tracking cookie pinned to your device for advertising.

What we do need: the pickup and destination addresses you type into the calculator. Those go to Google’s Routes and Geocoding APIs so we can compute a fare estimate. That trip is the entire data flow.

• Address strings you type

  The pickup and destination you enter (or click from a prefilled route) are sent to our server, which forwards them to Google Maps for geocoding and route planning. We keep an anonymous, lat/lng-bucketed cache of routes for 24 hours so the same trip doesn’t re-bill Google twice. The cache key is a geohash, not your IP or any device identifier.

• Anonymous page-view counts

  Plausible (cookieless) records that the page was viewed, the referring site, and your country — no IP storage, no fingerprinting, no individual user profile. The raw data lives in the EU.

• Core Web Vitals samples

  Vercel Speed Insights samples LCP / INP / CLS performance numbers from real browser sessions. The data is aggregated by URL pattern, not user.

• Standard request logs

  Our hosting platform (Vercel) keeps short-lived access logs containing the request URL, HTTP status, response time, and IP. These exist so we can debug outages and detect abuse; they roll off automatically.

• No user accounts, names, email addresses, phone numbers or postal addresses.
• No payment details — taxi-fare.com.au is ad-supported, and we never see your card.
• No tracking pixels, advertising cookies, or cross-site identifiers.
• No data sold to or shared with brokers, ride-share companies, or operators.
• No e-mail newsletters, push notifications, or “sign up to see your fare” gates.

We use no advertising or tracking cookies. The browser may store a small amount of non-identifying data on your device for the site to work:

• Theme preference — your light/dark mode choice is stored in browser localStorage so the site remembers it on next visit. No tracking value.
• Platform cookies — Vercel, our hosting platform, may set short-lived technical cookies for load balancing and DDoS protection. They carry no user identifier and aren’t accessible to us.

You can clear both via your browser settings at any time without affecting the calculator’s function.

• Google LLC privacy policy

  Routes API, Geocoding API, Places Autocomplete and Static Maps API. Your typed address strings flow through Google to compute the fare. We do not give Google any other data about you.

• Vercel Inc. privacy policy

  Hosts the site, runs the calculator’s server-side functions, caches routes, and records anonymous Core Web Vitals. Subject to Vercel’s standard processing terms.

• Plausible Insights OÜ privacy policy

  Cookieless, EU-hosted analytics. No IP stored, no personal profile, no cross-site tracking. The full dataset for this site is small (page-view counts + referrers) and is what tells us which routes are worth keeping.

• Route cache: 24 hours, keyed by geohash and time-of-day bucket. Never linked to a user or IP.
• Geocoding cache: 30 days, keyed by a SHA-256 of the normalised address string. Never linked to a user.
• Server access logs: rolling 30 days at the hosting platform, standard infrastructure retention.
• Analytics aggregates: indefinite (Plausible page-view counts, referrer summaries) — none of which identify an individual.

The Australian Privacy Principles give you the right to access and correct any personal information an organisation holds about you. We don’t collect any, so there is nothing for you to access or correct here. If you’d like an explicit confirmation of that for a compliance reason, email hello@taxi-fare.com.au and we’ll respond in writing within 30 days.

taxi-fare.com.au is a public information page suitable for any age. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone — children included. Because we never ask for personal data in the first place, there is nothing further to do here.

If we change a meaningful data-flow fact (new third party, new retention period, new cookie), we’ll update the date below and note the change. There’s no mailing list to notify — this page is the single source of truth.