Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 6, 2026

I'm a physical therapist and the founder of the Rehab Wealth Project. I started this platform to help therapy professionals manage student loans and build a plan to beat clinical burnout. Because we deal with money and numbers here, I take your privacy seriously. I hate spam and aggressive tracking as much as you do.

Here is exactly how your data is handled on this site.

1. The Numbers You Put in the Calculators

If you just use the calculators to run numbers, all that math happens entirely on your own phone or computer. I do not see or save your loan balance or your salary. As soon as you close that browser tab, those numbers are gone.

If you click the button to save your scenario, you'll create a free account, and I store those numbers in a secure database called Supabase. I only do this so your data is actually there when you log back in. I keep your saved scenarios until you ask me to remove them or close your account, and I will never sell or share this information with outside companies.

The salary comparison tool is the one exception, because sharing is the whole point of it. Section 2 covers exactly what it stores.

2. The Salary Comparison Tool

The salary tool exists because the federal wage data has a hole in it. The Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn't publish pay by setting and metro area at the same time, so "what does a school OT in this metro make" is a question no government file can answer. The only way anyone answers it is clinicians telling each other. When you enter your numbers, you're adding to that.

So unlike the calculators, this one does save what you type. Here is the complete list of what a submission contains:

• Your pay figure and whether it's annual, hourly, weekly, or per visit
• Years of experience
• Setting, employment type, and W2 or 1099
• Contract length and district or agency, for school and academia submissions
• Your ZIP code, and the metro or rural region it resolves to
• Degree and graduate hours, if you chose to add them

That's it. There is no name, no employer, no job title, no email address attached to any of it. I have no way to work out who any given row belongs to, and neither does anyone else.

Your browser holds a random ID so that re-entering your numbers updates your existing row instead of counting you twice. It isn't linked to your email or your account, it doesn't follow you to other sites, and clearing your browser storage erases it.

What gets published. Submissions go back out in two forms: totals and medians pooled across whole professions and experience levels, and individual entries showing a pay figure with the details that make it mean something. Individual entries carry no name and no employer. None are visible until at least five clinicians have reported in that same profession, area, and setting, so a figure can't be traced to one person in a thin market. Below that threshold the tool shows a count and nothing else.

How long I keep it. Submissions older than three years are deleted, because stale pay data is worse than no pay data. You can add a fresh number any time, and it replaces your old one.

I do not sell it. Not the salary submissions, not in aggregate, not to staffing agencies, recruiters, employers, data brokers, or anyone else. The dataset is not for sale and never will be. It goes back out free to the clinicians who built it, and that's the only thing it's for.

3. Accounts and Email

When you save a scenario or sign up for the newsletter, I collect your email address. A few trusted services help me handle it:

• Supabase stores your account and your saved scenarios, and sends the secure "magic link" I use to log you in — so there's no password to be stolen.
• Resend delivers the newsletter and welcome emails. Saving a scenario also adds you to the newsletter list; the calculator form tells you this at the moment you save.

Resend also stores a few details alongside your email so I can send you something relevant instead of blasting everyone: your profession, state, setting, and roughly when you graduated. Signing up from the salary tool is a separate choice from submitting your numbers, and neither one requires the other.

I use your email to send financial guides and podcast updates, and that's it. You can opt out whenever you want by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email, and I will never sell or rent your email address.

4. Analytics and Cookies

To see what's working and what isn't, I use a few analytics tools. I keep this as light as I reasonably can, and none of it is used to serve you ads.

• Vercel Web Analytics counts visits to the site. It is cookieless and anonymous, and never identifies you.
• Google Analytics 4 (GA4) runs across the site, so I can understand how visitors move from an article to a calculator and make the experience better. GA4 uses a cookie (named _ga) to tell one visit apart from another. It records standard technical information — your device, browser, and approximate, city-level location — along with which pages and calculators you use and in-app actions like switching a tab or saving a scenario. It does not collect your name or the dollar figures you enter. I do not use GA4's advertising or ad-personalization features, so your activity here is not used to follow you around the internet or build an advertising profile. GA4 is operated by Google, which processes this data under its own privacy policy.

I do not use the Facebook pixel or any other ad-network trackers. You can clear or block cookies at any time in your browser settings.

5. Links Off This Site

There are no affiliate links, ads, or sponsors on this site. Nothing here is monetized.

Some pages do link out to lenders, government sources, and other companies. Once you follow one of those links you're on their site under their privacy policy, not mine, so read their disclosures before typing in any of your information.

6. Your Data, Your Control

You own your data. If you'd like to see, correct, or delete your saved scenarios or your entire account, just email me at contact@rehabwealth.com and I'll take care of it personally. You can sign out of your account at any time, and I will always honor a deletion request.

Salary submissions work the same way, with one practical catch: since they carry nothing that identifies you, there's no name for me to search. Email me from the device you submitted on and I'll walk you through finding the ID your browser is holding, then delete the row it points at.

7. The Legal Basics

This site is built for adult professionals. I do not knowingly collect any information from children under the age of 13. The Rehab Wealth Project is based in South Carolina and follows applicable US laws. I may update this text as the site grows; if anything major changes about how data is handled, I'll note it here and mention it in the newsletter.

How to Reach Out

If you have any questions about your data, or how the security works under the hood, email me at contact@rehabwealth.com. I'm always happy to chat.