YearlyRaise (“we”) helps small service businesses work out fair price increases. This policy explains what we collect, why, and the choices you have. Contact: privacy@yearlyraise.com.
Using YearlyRaise without an account
The free margin check runs in your browser. Customer files you upload are read on your device and are not sent to us. Your answers are saved in your own browser’s storage. To measure driving distances, customer and business addresses are sent to a third-party mapping and geocoding service (for example the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder or OpenStreetMap-based services); those services receive addresses only, not names or prices.
What we store if you create an account
- Your email address, to sign you in with an emailed link (we never ask for a password) and to send the emails described below.
- Your saved plans: your answers, settings and the customer list you imported (names, addresses, prices and the other columns you mapped). Saved plans are stored encrypted and are only accessible to your account.
- Plan summaries (number of customers, revenue and increase totals, dates) stored unencrypted so we can show your dashboard and calculate reminders.
- Purchase records. Payments are processed by Stripe; we receive and keep the payment status, amount, date and which plan it unlocked. We never see or store your full card number.
- Technical data needed to run the service securely, such as a sign-in session cookie and short-lived security logs that do not contain your customer data.
Emails we send
- Sign-in links when you ask for one.
- Yearly raise reminders: about 9 months after each saved plan — free or unlocked — and at most one follow-up, we email you what your next yearly raise is worth, calculated from your saved plan and published fuel and inflation data. Reminders for free plans include a link to unlock. You can turn reminders off in your account or with the unsubscribe link in any reminder.
- Receipts and essential service messages about your purchases.
We don’t sell your data, and we don’t use your customer list for advertising.
Your choices: export and deletion
- Export: download everything we store about you from My plans → Export my data.
- Delete a plan: removes that plan and its customer list.
- Delete your account: permanently deletes your account, saved plans and customer lists, and stops all reminder emails. We keep anonymized payment records where the law requires them for accounting and tax.
Service providers and third parties
We use providers for hosting, email delivery and payments (Stripe). They process data only to provide those services to us. In addition, your browser contacts these third parties directly while you use YearlyRaise:
- Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com) — loads the typefaces; receives your IP address and browser details.
- cdnjs (Cloudflare) — loads the spreadsheet-reading library in the app; receives your IP address and browser details.
- U.S. Census Bureau geocoder — receives the addresses you enter or import, to place them on a map.
- OpenStreetMap / Nominatim — receives addresses the Census geocoder can’t match, to place them on a map.
- OSRM (Open Source Routing Machine) — receives map coordinates (not names or prices) to measure driving distance.
When our server is set up to geocode for you, addresses go through our server to those services instead of directly from your browser.
Security
We use encryption in transit (HTTPS) and at rest for saved customer lists, signed single-use sign-in links that expire after 15 minutes, and access controls so only you can open your plans. No system is perfectly secure; please tell us at the address above if you find a problem.
Changes
If we make material changes, we’ll update this page and, for account holders, send an email before they take effect.