Privacy Policy

TakeHomeIncome provides free, country-aware take-home pay calculators built on verified official tax sources. Where this Privacy Policy refers to “the service” we mean the public website and the calculator APIs that power it.

You can contact us via the Contact page if you have any questions about your data.

You can use the public calculator without an account. If you choose to create an account, save a calculation, or share a result, we collect the following:

• Account data: your email address, first name, last name, and a hashed password, all handled by our authentication provider, Supabase.
• Saved calculation data: the inputs you enter (region, gross income, pay frequency, optional advanced fields) and the calculated result. Stored against your account so you can revisit it later.
• Shared result data: a redacted snapshot of a saved calculation, accessible via a randomly generated share token. The shared copy contains no name or email, only the calculation.
• Feedback messages: any text and optional email you submit through the “Report an issue or request a feature” form.
• Cookies and local storage: see § 4 below for the full list.
• Server logs: standard request metadata (IP address, user-agent, referrer, timestamp) retained for security and abuse protection. We do not use these logs for advertising.
• Aggregate web analytics: Vercel Web Analytics processes page views, referrers, browser and device details, and approximate location without cookies. Vercel provides us with anonymised, aggregate statistics and discards its daily visitor identifier after 24 hours.

We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13. We do not collect payment information.

• To authenticate you and keep you signed in.
• To save and retrieve your calculations.
• To generate and verify share tokens for shared results.
• To respond to feedback or support requests if you provided an email.
• To monitor service health, detect abuse, and improve the product.
• To measure anonymous aggregate traffic through cookieless Vercel Web Analytics.

We do not currently run Google AdSense advertising scripts, serve ads, or use your personal data for advertising.

We do not sell your data. We do not share your account data with third parties except the infrastructure providers listed below.

We use a small number of cookies and browser storage entries. The full list with purpose and lifetime is in our Cookie Policy. In summary:

• Essential / session cookies: required to keep you signed in via Supabase. Cannot be disabled if you want to use account features.
• Preference storage: your light/dark theme choice (saved in localStorage, no cookie required).
• Print payload: the calculation you’re about to print (short-lived localStorage entry, deleted immediately after the print preview reads it; never sent to any server).
• Cookieless analytics: Vercel Web Analytics measures anonymous aggregate page views without cookies and is not controlled by the cookie preference banner.
• Optional analytics: Google Analytics loads only if you enable the analytics category. It may then set analytics cookies and process general usage, browser, device, and approximate-location information.
• Advertising cookies: none are intentionally set by us because AdSense advertising is not currently active.

Google AdSense advertising and related ad scripts are not currently active anywhere on TakeHomeIncome. The publisher-verification meta tag and ads.txt file remain in place solely so Google can confirm site ownership. They do not serve ads or set advertising cookies.

• Before activating Google advertising, we will configure a Google-certified consent management platform for visitors in the UK and EEA and provide the required advertising choices.
• We will update this Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy when ads become active, including how you can review or withdraw advertising choices.
• For information about how Google uses data for advertising, see Google’s ad policies.

We use the following infrastructure providers as data processors:

• Supabase, authentication and database. Account data and saved calculations are stored in their managed Postgres instances.
• Vercel, hosting for the frontend and cookieless Web Analytics. It receives requests, serves the website, and provides anonymised aggregate traffic statistics.
• Render, hosting for the calculator backend API.
• Google Analytics, site usage measurement, only after you enable the analytics category.

Each of those providers maintains its own security and privacy controls. Data may be processed in jurisdictions where these providers operate (typically the EU or US).

Depending on your location (UK GDPR / EU GDPR / similar regimes elsewhere) you may have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you.
• Correct inaccurate data.
• Request deletion of your account and associated saved calculations.
• Request a copy of your data in a portable format.
• Withdraw consent for optional analytics at any time.
• Lodge a complaint with your local data protection regulator.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us via the Contact page from the email address registered on your account.

Account, saved-calculation, and shared-result data are retained until you delete your account or request removal. Feedback messages are retained for up to 24 months. Server logs are typically retained for 30 days for security monitoring.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make a material change we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top and bottom of the page. Significant changes will also be highlighted on the homepage.

Questions about this policy or about your personal data? Get in touch via the Contact page.