Cookie Policy
Last Updated: August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Tax Calculators for UK ("we", "us", and "our") uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our website (taxcalculatorsforuk.co.uk) and use our online tax calculation tools.
It outlines what these technologies are, why we use them, the categories of cookies we deploy, and your legal rights under UK GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) to manage or disable them.
🔒 Client-Side Calculation Privacy
Our core calculation engines (Income Tax, Stamp Duty, Capital Gains, Corporation Tax, VAT, Salary calculators) operate entirely locally inside your web browser using JavaScript. Your salary figures, profit entries, expense amounts, and mortgage values are never written into cookies or transmitted to our servers.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, tablet, or smartphone when you visit a website. They are widely used by online services to make websites work efficiently, remember user preferences (such as your chosen tax year or visual theme), maintain security, and provide aggregated analytics to site owners.
Cookies set by the website owner are called first-party cookies. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called third-party cookies. Third-party cookies enable external features such as interactive advertising, social sharing, and web analytics.
2. Categories of Cookies We Use
We categorize the cookies used on our website into four distinct groups:
| Category | Purpose | Examples / Providers | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly Necessary | Essential for website navigation, load balancing, security, and storing your consent preferences. Without these cookies, basic site functions cannot operate. | Cookie consent state (uktc_consent), security tokens | Session to 12 months |
| Functional & Preferences | Remembers your calculator settings, preferred tax year selection (e.g. 2026/27 vs 2025/26), and interface options across sessions so you do not have to reconfigure them. | uktc_tax_year, uktc_pref_view | Up to 12 months |
| Performance & Analytics | Helps us understand how visitors interact with our calculators by collecting anonymous usage metrics (such as page visit counts, popular calculators, and bounce rates). | Google Analytics (_ga, _ga_*), Cloudflare Performance | Session to 2 years |
| Advertising & Targeting | Used by third-party advertising networks (including Google AdSense) to deliver relevant, non-intrusive advertisements, limit ad frequency, and measure ad campaign effectiveness. | Google AdSense (__gads, __gpi, IDE, DSID) | Up to 13 months |
3. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements across our website to support the continuous free operation and maintenance of our tax calculation engines.
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies (including the DoubleClick DART cookie) to serve ads to users based on their prior visits to this website and other websites across the Internet.
- Personalized Advertising: Where consented under UK GDPR and TCF 2.2 framework, Google and its certified advertising partners may use cookies to serve ads tailored to your general browsing interests.
- Non-Personalized Advertising: If you decline advertising cookies, ads will still be displayed, but they will be contextual (related to UK tax, finance, or property calculations) rather than tailored to your historical browsing profile.
- Opt-Out: You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
4. Managing and Disabling Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can manage your preferences at any time through your web browser controls.
Most web browsers allow you to view, manage, delete, and block cookies for a specific website or across all websites. Please follow the instructions provided by your browser:
Microsoft Edge
Settings > Cookies and site permissions > Manage and delete cookies.
Edge Instructions →To opt out of third-party advertising cookies across multiple advertising networks simultaneously, you may also use the following consumer choice portals:
5. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in legal requirements (such as HMRC, ICO, or UK GDPR updates) or operational practices. When updates occur, the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy will be revised accordingly.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions or queries regarding our use of cookies or this policy, please feel free to reach out via our dedicated Contact Page.
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