🔐 Privacy Policy

Introduction

At UK Take-Home Calculator ("we", "our", "us"), we protect your privacy by design. We operate with a simple principle: we do not collect, store or profile your personal salary information.

This policy explains how we process anonymous data, ensure secure calculations, and comply with GDPR and UK data protection laws.

1. What Personal Data We Collect

We do NOT collect:

• • Name
• • Email address
• • Salary or tax-related inputs
• • National Insurance number
• • IP address tied to personal identity
• • Marketing cookies or tracking identifiers

Your inputs are processed locally in your browser or via secure stateless serverless functions. They are never persisted.

2. Anonymous Analytics

To monitor performance, uptime and feature usage, we use anonymised analytics tools such as Plausible or GA4 with full IP anonymisation.

These tools collect only aggregated, non-personal data, such as:

• • Page views
• • Device type
• • Browser
• • Region (e.g., "UK")

We never send salary or tax inputs to analytics.

3. Cookies

We do not use advertising cookies or profiling technologies. If present, essential cookies are used strictly for:

• • Security
• • Application performance

None of these identify you or store personal data.

4. How Calculations Work

Your salary inputs (annual, monthly, daily rate, hourly rate, pension % etc.) are transmitted only for the purpose of the immediate calculation and are not stored anywhere.

All processing complies with:

• • GDPR
• • UK Data Protection Act 2018
• • "Privacy by Design" principles

Zero retention is our default.

5. Third-Party Services

We may use:

• • Vercel for hosting and serverless execution
• • Plausible or Google Analytics (anonymised analytics)

These services do not receive personal data or salary calculation inputs.

6. Your Rights

Even though we do not store identifiable data, you retain all rights under GDPR, including the right to:

• • Understand how data is processed
• • Request deletion of any logs containing technical or anonymised identifiers
• • Ask for clarity on how anonymous analytics works

7. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect:

• • New features
• • Infrastructure changes
• • Regulatory updates

Any changes will be published on this page.

8. Contact Us

For privacy-related questions, contact us at:

privacy@takehomecalculator.uk

We typically respond within 3–5 working days.