Privacy

SalaryTax is a static site. We do not require an account and we do not store the figures you enter into calculators on our servers. The only third parties that receive anything from your visit are Google (analytics) and Sentry (error monitoring), as described below.

Local storage

We use your browser's local storage to remember your theme (light/dark), region (England/Wales/Scotland/NI), selected tax year, your cookie-banner choice and the pages you recently opened from site search. This data stays in your browser and is not sent to us.

Analytics and advertising

We use Google Analytics 4 (provided by Google) to understand aggregate site usage. Default consent is denied for all categories (ad storage, analytics storage, ad user data, ad personalisation), and no analytics or advertising cookies are set unless you opt in using the banner.

The Google tag itself loads on every page rather than only after you accept. While consent is denied it stores nothing on your device and sends Google a cookieless signal instead: the page address and basic technical information your browser sends to any website, such as its type and your IP address. Nothing is written to your device, and no identifier links one visit to another. Google uses these signals to estimate overall totals. If you accept, analytics cookies are then set and normal measurement applies.

We do this because withholding the tag entirely meant visitors who declined were invisible to our own traffic figures, which then showed only about a fifth of real usage and made it impossible to tell how the site was actually doing. We rely on legitimate interest for the cookieless signal; you can object using the contact address in the footer.

Error monitoring

We use Sentry to capture client-side errors so we can fix bugs, and to measure page performance on a sample of visits. Sentry receives technical details such as stack traces, browser type and the page address.

Calculator figures in page addresses

Many calculators write the figures you enter into the page address (for example ?gross=45000) so a result can be bookmarked or shared. When that happens, the figures are part of the page address that Google Analytics and Sentry may receive. They are not linked to your name or an account.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you have the right to access, correct, or delete any personal data we hold. We hold no accounts, no calculator inputs and no contact details you have not sent us yourself, so in most cases there is nothing on our side to act on. Where a request concerns data held by Google or Sentry as a result of the measurement and error reporting described above, we will tell you which processor holds it and how to reach them. Contact us via the email in the footer.