Privacy Policy
This page explains, in plain terms, what happens to your data when you use the VAT calculator, the how-to-calculate-VAT guide, or the UK VAT rates reference page on this site. The short version: this site makes zero external network requests of any kind for its calculations. The amounts you enter never leave your browser, because adding, removing or finding VAT is computed entirely with local JavaScript running on your own device, and none of the reference pages require any personal information at all to read.
What the calculator does, and doesn't, send anywhere
Every calculation on this site, adding VAT to a net price, removing VAT from a gross price, or finding the VAT included in a price, runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript. None of it is sent to our servers, because there is no server-side processing involved in producing a result at all. This tool needs nothing from the outside world to compute its answer (VAT rates are fixed, publicly known percentages, not a live data feed), so it makes no external requests whatsoever when you use it.
Local storage: your last entry, saved in your own browser
The calculator page saves your most recently entered amount, VAT rate and direction to your browser's localStorage, a standard browser feature that keeps small pieces of data on your own device between visits, so the fields are pre-filled the next time you open the page. This data stays on your device. It is never transmitted to us or to any third party, and you can clear it at any time using the Reset button on the calculator, or by clearing your browser's site data through your browser's own settings.
Analytics
This site may use Cloudflare Web Analytics, a privacy-focused analytics service that does not use cookies and does not track individual visitors across sites. It does not build an individual profile of you, and it does not share or sell data to advertisers; it would only help us understand whether the site is working correctly and which pages are useful, not identify or target individual visitors. As of the time you are reading this, analytics is not actively configured for this domain, so the corresponding script does not load at all, and no visit data is collected by us in any form.
Cookies
This site does not set marketing or tracking cookies. Any cookie-like storage that exists is limited to the localStorage feature described above (which is not technically a cookie, and is not sent to any server on every request the way a cookie is), and your own browser's theme preference (light or dark mode), which is also stored locally and never transmitted anywhere.
Server logs
Like virtually every website, the infrastructure this site runs on (Cloudflare) keeps standard technical logs of requests, things like IP address, browser type, requested page and timestamp, for security and reliability purposes such as detecting abuse or diagnosing outages. These are operational logs at the infrastructure level, not a profile built about you; they are not used for advertising, not sold, and not cross-referenced with anything you enter into the calculator.
Children's privacy
This site is a general-purpose calculator tool not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age, since the tool doesn't require you to submit personal information in the first place. There is no account system, no form that asks for a name or email, and no mechanism by which we could identify a visitor's age even if we wanted to.
Changes to this policy
If how this site handles data changes meaningfully, for example if an advertising network is added, this page will be updated to reflect that before the change takes effect, not after. Because this policy is a static page rather than something requiring an account or subscription, there's no notification list to sign up for; checking back here is the way to see the current version.
The feedback widget
If you use the thumbs up or thumbs down feedback control on the calculator page, that sends an anonymous signal (whether the feedback was positive or negative) to help us understand whether the tool is working well. It does not include your calculator inputs, your IP address is not linked to the feedback in any way we can access, and there is no way for us to trace a specific piece of feedback back to a specific visitor.
Contact
If you have a question about this policy or how this site handles data, use the feedback control on the calculator page, or email contact@vatcalculatoruk.xyz directly.