Privacy Policy

QuitWithoutNotice.com is an independent online information and decision-support website providing employment-related calculators, educational resources, and jurisdiction-aware guidance.

There is no account system, no newsletter and no data broker in the picture. The one commercial relationship is advertising: the site is supported by ads that Google AdSense serves on some of its article pages, described below. The site itself has no infrastructure with which to collect personal information.

• More about the site and how it is written

The site has no form and no submission mechanism. The one way to send something deliberately is to email the address published on the contact page, which your own mail app sends — the website itself never receives it, stores it or sees it in transit.

What that mail contains is what you chose to put in it: the address you sent it from, whatever name you signed, and the text. It is used to reply to you and for nothing else. It is not added to a mailing list, because there is none, and messages that need no reply are deleted.

Please do not send sensitive personal, employment, financial, medical or confidential legal information to that address. The site asks for general questions in general terms precisely so that it never holds the specifics of anyone’s employment situation.

• The contact page explains what it is and is not for.

This site is pre-built: pages are served as files, with no application server and no database. It is delivered through Cloudflare, which acts as the host and network provider.

On the pages that carry ads, one small step of ours runs at Cloudflare as each page is served: it adds the page’s security headers and the one-time value those headers need (see How the site is protected, below). It reads nothing about you, sets no cookie and stores nothing. If your browser reports that one of those pages tried to load something its security policy does not allow, the same step receives the report and records only which rule was involved, the address that was blocked, reduced to its origin, and which page it happened on.

Delivering a web page and defending it from attack cannot be done without processing the request itself. That typically includes the IP address the request came from, the page requested, the time, and the browser’s user-agent string and language preferences. This is standard infrastructure processing carried out by the provider for delivery, reliability and security — not analytics, not a profile, and not something this site queries to learn about you.

It would be inaccurate to claim that nothing at all is processed anywhere. Hosting is one place technical information about a visit exists. Google’s advertising, on the pages that carry ads, is a second; Google Analytics, if you accept it, is a third — and unlike hosting, the second is limited to those pages and the third is your choice. Both are described in full below.

• Cloudflare privacy policy — the provider that serves these pages.

Three values, and each only once you have done the thing that sets it. The key "theme" in localStorage holds either "light" or "dark", written when you use the theme switch and read before the page paints so a dark-mode visitor does not get a white flash. The key "analytics-consent" holds either "granted" or "denied", written when you answer the analytics question. The key "job-exit-checklist" holds which items you have ticked on the Job Exit Checklist page, as a small object of item ids — "read-contract", "calculate-notice" and so on — each set to true; nothing you typed anywhere else on the site, no amount, no date and no employer or contract detail, is ever part of it. None of the three is an identifier, none is sent anywhere, and clearing site data removes all three.

Nothing else is stored by the site itself. The assessment, the notice calculator and the runway calculator keep their inputs in the page while you are on it and discard them on reload: nothing you type is written to localStorage, sessionStorage or a cookie, and the printed result is generated in the browser from what is on screen.

Accepting analytics additionally lets Google Analytics set its own cookies, described under Cookies below; rejecting, or never answering, means it sets none. Separately, on the pages that carry ads, Google’s advertising code may store cookies and similar data of its own — including, where Google’s consent message has been shown to you, a record of your answer. Your analytics answer does not change what the advertising code stores, and your advertising answer does not change analytics.

This site sets no cookies of its own. There are no session cookies of ours, and your theme and analytics choices are kept in localStorage rather than in a cookie precisely so that they are never sent with a request.

If — and only if — you accept analytics, Google Analytics sets its own first-party cookies in your browser. They are named "_ga" and "_ga_" followed by this site’s measurement stream, and Google uses them to tell one visit apart from the next. This site does not change their lifetime, so whatever Google documents as the default is what applies; Google’s cookie-usage documentation, linked below, is the authoritative statement of that.

Reject analytics and none of those analytics cookies is set, because the tag that would set them is never loaded. If you accept and later change your mind, the site clears those cookies as far as a page is able to and switches the tag off; you can also delete them through your browser at any time.

Advertising cookies are separate, and do not depend on your analytics answer. On the pages that carry ads, Google and its advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies to serve and measure ads, to limit how often you see the same ad, and to detect fraud and invalid traffic. According to Google, even ads that are not personalised still use cookies or similar identifiers for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting and combating fraud and abuse. Google’s documentation on its advertising cookies is linked under Advertising below.

A network provider may use a strictly necessary cookie for security purposes as part of delivering the site. Nothing in that is used by this site to recognise or track a visitor.

This site uses Google Analytics 4 to count how many people read which pages, and nothing else. It is the only analytics on the site, and it does not run until you accept it.

Before you answer, and permanently if you answer no, the analytics tag makes no request: it is not in the page, and it is fetched only after a "yes". Google’s Consent Mode is set to deny storage by default, and the three advertising signals it defines — ad storage, ad user data and ad personalisation — are set to denied permanently, because this site never uses analytics data for advertising.

What is measured is page visits and a short, fixed list of interactions: that the assessment or a calculator was started or completed, which of the two calculators it was, which country was selected as a two-letter code, and which interface language was chosen. That list is enforced in code by an allowlist rather than by policy, and a value that is not one of those fixed codes is discarded before it can be sent. No figure, no date, no pasted contract clause and no free text you type anywhere on this site is ever included in an analytics event.

Google receives what any server receives when your browser contacts it, including your IP address, and processes it under its own terms rather than this site’s. Those terms are linked below and this policy does not attempt to summarise or speak for them.

What is not here: this site runs no advertising campaigns of its own — no Google Ads conversion tracking and no remarketing or retargeting lists built from its visitors — and there is no Google Signals, no Meta pixel, no TikTok pixel, no Microsoft Clarity, no Hotjar, no session recording, no heatmaps, no A/B testing tool, no chat widget, no social widget and no embedded video.

Web fonts are served from this domain rather than a font CDN, so loading a page does not announce your visit to a font provider.

Every feature of the site works identically whether you accept or reject analytics. It is not a condition of using anything here, and rejecting it does not degrade a single feature.

• Google Privacy Policy — how Google handles what it receives.
• Google’s documentation on the cookies it uses — including their default lifetimes.

Some pages on this site show ads served by Google AdSense: the guide to what happens if you quit without notice, the English-language guides, the jurisdiction pages and the research pages. The assessment, the notice and runway calculators, the Job Exit Checklist, the homepage, the changelog, and the about, contact, privacy and terms pages carry no ads and load no advertising code, so nothing on them is sent to Google for advertising. Ads are chosen and delivered by Google and its partners, not by this site, and they are not endorsements.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.

You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info. Both are linked below.

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google shows personalised ads only with your consent, given through Google’s own consent message — a Google-certified consent management platform integrated with the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. Until you have given it there, and if you refuse, Google shows only limited or non-personalised ads. To change your answer later, use the "Privacy and cookie settings" link Google adds to pages where its message has appeared, or "Change advertising choices" in this site’s Privacy settings dialog, which appears on those pages when Google’s message applies to you. Your answer is kept by Google’s consent tool, and it neither reads nor changes your analytics answer.

Where a US state privacy law treats personalised advertising as "selling" or "sharing" personal information and gives you the right to opt out, you can opt out of personalised ads through Google’s Ads Settings and, in the states where Google shows one on this site, through its "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link.

What Google’s advertising code receives — including your IP address, the page you are reading, information about your device and browser, and the identifiers in its cookies — is processed by Google and its partners under their own terms, not this site’s. Google’s explanation of how it uses information from sites that show its ads is linked below.

• Google Ads Settings — turn personalised ads off.
• aboutads.info — opt out of personalised ads from participating vendors.
• How Google uses information from sites that use its services
• How Google uses cookies in advertising

Cloudflare is the host: it serves the site’s files and provides its network security, and it is unavoidable, because a page has to come from somewhere.

Google is the other, in two separate roles. As an advertising provider, through Google AdSense, it receives information about visits to the pages that carry ads, whatever your analytics answer; every other page sends it nothing for advertising. As an analytics provider, through Google Analytics, it receives nothing at all unless you accept analytics, and nothing further the moment you withdraw that.

Through AdSense, Google may share information with, and show ads bought through, other advertising companies; those ads appear in frames on the page that this site does not control. Beyond that, no other vendor receives anything about your visit: there is no data broker, no tag manager container and no other embedded third-party content.

The site links out to government and agency sources — the documents its country pages cite. Following one of those links takes you to somebody else’s website, which has its own privacy practices; this policy cannot and does not speak for them.

It does not sell or rent personal information, and it does not require or offer accounts. It does not use anything you type to train anything. The Google Analytics configuration has its advertising features switched off rather than merely unused, so analytics data is never used for advertising.

It does not send Google anything you enter into a calculator or the assessment — not the figures, not the dates, not the contract clause, not the result — and no advertising code runs on those pages at all. The analytics events it does send are listed above and the list is enforced in code.

Where local law gives you a right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for targeted advertising, the advertising on the article pages is where that right applies, and the ways to exercise it are set out under Advertising above. Analytics measurement is switched off from "Privacy settings" at the foot of any page.

The site is aimed at adults making decisions about their own employment and is not directed at children. It does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

If a message to the published email address appears to come from a child, it is deleted rather than answered or retained.

Depending on where you live, data-protection law may give you rights over personal information about you — typically to ask what is held, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to complain to a supervisory authority. Which of those you have, and how they apply, depends on your jurisdiction; this page describes them in general terms and is not legal advice about your own rights.

In practical terms, the website itself holds nothing to exercise them against: no accounts, no mailing list, no database, and no copy of any analytics or advertising data — that data lives in Google’s systems, not here, and this site cannot look up an individual visitor in it. The only personal information that reaches a person is an email you chose to send, held in a mailbox for as long as answering it takes.

For analytics, the direct control is the one on this site: reject it, or withdraw a previous acceptance, from "Privacy settings" at the foot of any page. For advertising, the controls are Google’s — its consent message where it applies, Ads Settings everywhere — and aboutads.info for other vendors, all described above. Requests about data already held by Google are matters for Google under the policies linked above.

To have such a message deleted, say so in a reply and it is deleted. Technical logs held by the hosting provider are processed under that provider’s own terms, linked above.

Pages are served over HTTPS only, with a strict Content-Security-Policy, framing denied both ways, and every browser capability the site does not use — camera, microphone, geolocation, payment and the rest — switched off explicitly.

On the tools, the homepage and the pages about the site, no inline script runs beyond the exact blocks this build produced, and the policy names, for each kind of request, the only places it may go. Scripts may load from this domain and from www.googletagmanager.com — which the site requests only once you have accepted analytics. Images load from this domain, www.google-analytics.com and www.googletagmanager.com. Fonts and styles load from this domain only.

Connections a page opens itself — the data a script sends, as opposed to a file it loads — may go only to Google’s analytics collection addresses: www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, any subdomain of google-analytics.com or analytics.google.com (Google picks a regional one when the page runs), and www.google.com, which Google’s tag falls back to when its usual address is blocked. This domain is not on that connection list, because nothing on these pages calls back to it. The browser refuses a script, image or connection to anywhere else, whether the page asks for it or something injected into the page does — which is why no advertising runs on the pages where you type anything. Following a link to another site is ordinary navigation, which this policy does not restrict. Before analytics was added the connection rule read "none", which was a stronger promise; it is named here because the change is a real one and describing it as anything less would be dishonest.

The pages that carry ads use a different policy, because Google supports its ad code only under one built on a one-time value: each response carries a fresh random value, only the scripts marked with it may run, and those scripts may load the scripts they need in turn. The browser still refuses plugins, refuses to let another site frame the page, and refuses any script that none of those started, but on those pages it no longer limits where the page connects to or loads frames and images from — the addresses Google’s advertising uses change too often to list.

No secrets, keys or credentials are embedded in the pages, and there is nothing client-side to expose: the site has no API and no data store, and its only server-side code is the header step described above.

When how the site works changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top is the date the wording actually changed. Material changes — anything that introduces collection where there was none — are made here before the change ships, not after.

Questions and corrections about privacy are welcome through the contact page. If something on this page does not match how the site behaves, that is a defect worth reporting.

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