Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the Salary Index website and any related pages, features and services that link to it (together, the “Service”). It explains what information we collect, how we use it and the choices you have.

By using the Service you agree to the practices described in this Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

We collect:

• Salary submissions. When you contribute a salary, you provide details such as job title, function, level, industry, company type, location, pay, currency, year, benefits and any optional context you choose to share. Submission is voluntary.
• Verification details you choose to give. A verification method (a payslip, offer letter, work email or LinkedIn profile) is optional and used only to confirm the authenticity of a submission. It is never displayed publicly.
• Usage and device data. If you enable analytics, we collect aggregate, non-identifying information such as pages viewed, searches, filters, interactions, approximate location, browser and device type.
• Product feedback. We may invite you to complete an optional survey. We collect the answers and basic survey activity. Please do not include identifying details in a free-text answer.
• Cookie preferences. Your consent choices are stored on your device so we can honour them on future visits.
• Publicly available data. We also incorporate salary information from reports, articles, company publications and job pages, which we clean and standardise.
• Internal review data. We may keep private source and mapping records to check and correct the dataset. These records are not published.
• Advertising bookings. If you book an ad, we collect your name, business name, email, optional WhatsApp number, creative, website, campaign dates, payment references and campaign results.

We do not require you to create an account, and we do not ask for sensitive identifiers such as your full name, employee ID, bank details or government ID.

We use the information we collect to:

• operate, maintain and secure the Service;
• clean, anonymise and publish salary data as non-identifying individual listings and compensation benchmarks;
• verify the authenticity of a submission where you have provided a verification method (a payslip, offer letter, work email or LinkedIn profile);
• understand how the Service is used, review optional feedback and improve the experience;
• respond to your enquiries and detect or prevent abuse; and
• process advertising bookings, publish approved ads, measure aggregate views and clicks, manage refunds and keep transaction records.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use your salary submission to identify you to your employer or anyone else.

Before publication, we remove identifying details and standardise the information:

• No personal identifiers are published. Names, emails, verification links and identifying notes are not shown.
• Company names stay hidden by default. We name an employer only when the company published the figure itself.
• Roles are standardised. Free-text job titles are mapped to a standard role and seniority.
• Only non-identifying details are displayed. Public listings show compensation and relevant job and market attributes.

If you believe a listing could identify you, contact us and we will review it and, where appropriate, remove or adjust it.

We use a small number of cookies and similar technologies:

• Strictly necessary cookies are required for the Service to work, for example to remember your cookie choices. These are always active.
• Analytics cookies help us understand how the Service is used. They are set only if you accept them.

You can change your choice at any time using the “Cookie Settings” link in the footer, or by clearing cookies in your browser. We do not use cookies for third-party advertising.

Sponsored ads are selected by current availability rather than a personal advertising profile. We count how many times each ad is viewed and clicked in order to report totals to advertisers. If you have not enabled analytics, this count does not use cookies or store anything on your device. Advertisers receive totals only and never receive information about individual visitors.

Do Not Track. Some browsers send a “Do Not Track” signal. There is no common industry standard for how to respond, so we do not currently respond to such signals; instead, we honour the choices you make through our cookie banner.

We do not sell your personal information. We share information only in these limited circumstances:

• Anonymised public data is published openly as part of the Service as salary listings and compensation benchmarks.
• Service providers that host the Service or provide infrastructure, analytics or payment processing, acting on our instructions and bound by confidentiality.
• Legal reasons may require us to share information where the law demands it, or to protect the rights, safety and security of users, the public or Paxizon Technologies Limited.
• Business transfers may pass information to the parties involved in a merger, acquisition, financing or sale of assets, subject to this Policy.

We are based in Nigeria and may use service providers (for hosting and analytics, for example) that operate in other countries. Where information is transferred across borders, it may be processed in a country whose data-protection laws differ from those where you live. We take reasonable steps to ensure your information remains protected in line with this Policy and applicable law.

We keep submissions for as long as needed to operate, check and improve the Service, or meet legal obligations. Optional contact details are deleted when no longer needed or on your request.

Private source and mapping records are retained only as long as needed to check and correct the dataset. You can ask us to delete information linked to your submission.

Ad contact details and creative are kept while a campaign is active and for the short period needed to handle changes, refunds, disputes and deletion recovery. We retain limited transaction, campaign and aggregate performance records where needed for accounting, fraud prevention and legal obligations.

Published listings and aggregate, anonymised data may be retained indefinitely, as they no longer identify any individual.

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect information against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. We also limit the personal data we collect to what the Service needs.

You can, at any time:

• choose whether to allow analytics cookies through the cookie banner;
• ask us to access, correct or delete a submission you made, or any optional contact details you provided; and
• report a listing you believe could identify you, using the “Report this entry” option on a listing or the contact details below.

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under applicable data-protection law, including the Nigeria Data Protection Act. To exercise any right, contact us using the details below.

The Service is intended for working professionals and is not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we will delete it.

We may update this Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above and, where the change is significant, provide a more prominent notice. Your continued use of the Service after an update means you accept the revised Policy.

Salary Index is operated by Paxizon Technologies Limited. If you have questions about this Policy or how we handle your information, contact us at paxizon@gmail.com.