Privacy information
Your quote stays in your browser.
Calculator inputs
FrugalWatt's calculators process the numbers you enter in your browser. The site code does not send quote amounts, bills or household inputs to FrugalWatt or to a referral partner, and does not save them to browser storage. Leaving or refreshing the page may clear the result; your browser may separately restore form entries.
Copying a comparison report uses your device clipboard when you request it. Printing uses your browser's print function. Downloading comparison notes creates a text file on your device. You decide whether to share that file or a PDF. A link from a repair guide can select an equipment category; it does not contain your quote amounts.
Optional quote-photo reader
The repair calculator offers an experimental reader for printed English quote photos. Reading starts only when you select “Read photo.” It downloads Tesseract.js software and English recognition files from jsDelivr, which receives the network information needed to deliver those files. The photo and extracted text are processed in your browser; our code does not upload them. Pasting quote text does not load the photo-reading software.
The reader can make mistakes. You review and select any amount before applying it. “Clear photo and text” clears the reader, but does not remove amounts you already applied to the calculator. We do not save photo contents to browser storage. Your browser may separately restore form entries.
Website delivery and fonts
Cloudflare delivers the site. Visiting any hosted page involves a network request that can include an IP address, requested URL and browser information. Hosting infrastructure may process request information for delivery and security. This page does not claim that visiting the site creates no server records.
Fonts load from Google Fonts. Your browser requests font resources from Google, which receives the network information needed to serve them. Calculator inputs are not included in those requests. Google Fonts privacy information.
Advertising and your choices
Google AdSense code loads on the homepage and the furnace, AC and water-heater repair guides. The script contacts Google's advertising service and can process network and device information. Ad display depends on Google's approval and the publisher account settings. The repair, home energy and heat-pump-versus-oil calculators do not include this advertising script.
Third-party advertising providers, including Google and its partners, may use cookies to show ads based on visits to this site and other websites. Google's advertising cookies can support personalized advertising across participating sites.
You can manage Google's personalized advertising through My Ad Center and opt out of participating companies' interest-based advertising through YourAdChoices. These choices do not necessarily remove all ads or all cookies. Your browser also provides controls for cookies and site data.
Read how Google uses information from partner sites and Google's advertising privacy information. Regional consent and opt-out messages, where published, provide additional choices for advertising on this site.
Website and search measurement
Cloudflare Web Analytics measures page visits and site performance. It receives page and browser information; calculator inputs are not included by our code. Cloudflare describes its analytics service. FrugalWatt does not currently include Google Analytics. We also use Google Search Console to review aggregate search performance; this does not require a visitor tracking script on this site. Advertising services described above have separate data handling.
External websites
Official sources and other external links take you to separately operated websites with their own privacy practices. Any information you choose to submit there is handled by that website. We do not forward your calculator inputs through those links.
Responsibility
Evin Anderson maintains FrugalWatt. We do not sell your information. See our editorial and advertising policy for the rules governing future paid links.