WAGE SCORE is published by Marchand Consulting LLC, a Florida limited liability company, which is responsible for the data described on this page; to reach us, use the Contact page. WAGE SCORE has no reader accounts and shows no advertising. It counts visits with Google Analytics, and it measures its own ads on X with X's pixel: in Europe (the European Union, the rest of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland) only if you accept, elsewhere unless you switch them off, and you can change that at any time. Everything else it keeps about a visit is what any website needs to deliver its pages.
What is collected
Visit statistics. Google Analytics records the pages you view, how long you stay, your device and browser type, the site that sent you and an approximate location (country and city, worked out by Google from your connection and not kept by it). It sets two cookies, _ga and one starting with _ga_, which expire after 13 months. Advertising features and Google signals are switched off. In Europe nothing is collected until you accept; elsewhere it runs unless you switch it off. Which applies is decided from the country of your connection, which is not kept.
Visits from X, counted by us. When you arrive from a link on X, our own server counts the visit, and whether you went on to use the site, with only the link's campaign labels. No address, cookie, identifier or browser detail is kept. The same choice as for visit statistics applies: in Europe only once you accept, elsewhere unless you switch it off.
Your answer to the analytics question, kept in your own browser only, so the question is not asked on every page. In Europe it is asked again after six months.
What you write in the contact form (name, email address, message), kept to answer you and not for anything else.
Your email address, if you subscribe to The WAGE Report. It is sent to beehiiv, the service that sends the newsletter, which emails you once to confirm it. It is used only to send the newsletter; every issue carries a link to unsubscribe, and you can ask for it to be deleted through the Contact page.
Technical data every website receives: your connection's address and browser type, used by our host to deliver the pages and to protect the site against abuse.
Before the public launch only, a sign-in cookie (wage_gate) for invited readers, valid 30 days. It is needed for the site to work and holds no personal information beyond the invitation name.
Before the public launch only, if you sign the preview agreement: the name, company and typed signature you enter, the time, your connection's address and browser type, kept as the record of the agreement you signed; and two cookies (wage_preview, wage_preview_until) that open the site for the preview's time and show the time left, kept one day.
If you test the site before launch: your answers to the feedback questions and, if you upload one, the screen recording you made while using the site, which may show what was on your screen. They are seen only by the site's administrators, used only to improve the site, and the recordings are deleted 90 days after the public launch. You can ask for yours to be deleted sooner through the Contact page.
If you are a member of the site's editorial team: the name you were invited under, your role, and your password, stored only as a salted hash that cannot be read back; a sign-in cookie (wage_gate) valid seven days; and a record of the drafts you approved or rejected, with your reasons. Kept while you are a member and removed when an administrator removes you.
Who receives it
Google (analytics, as above), Netlify (the host that serves the site and the contact form) and Supabase (the database behind the figures, which a visit normally does not reach), and beehiiv (the newsletter, if you subscribe; based in the United States). Google and Netlify are based in the United States and certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Pictures in some news stories are loaded from the publishers' own sites, which receive your connection's address like any web request. The written team briefs are produced by an AI model from sports figures; no visitor data is sent to it.
Your choices and rights
Wherever you are, you can accept or refuse analytics, and change your answer here: . You can ask to see, correct or delete what the site holds about you, or object to its use, through the Contact page. If you think your data has been mishandled, you can complain to the data protection authority of your country; in Europe every country has one.
Changes
This page says what the site does today and changes when the site does. Last updated 3 October 2026. The rules for using the site are in the Terms of Use.