Cookie policy
Updated 12 November 2026 · Tax year 2026/27
Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser. Similar technologies, such as browser storage, work in much the same way. This policy explains what Take-Home Lab, published by Rodway Labs, uses and why.
How consent is collected
On pages that can show ads, Google’s consent message asks for your choice the first time you visit.
- Who asks: the message comes from Google’s consent tool (AdSense Privacy & messaging), a Google-certified consent management platform that uses the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. It is shown to visitors in the UK, the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
- Your options: consent, do not consent, or manage options to choose purposes and partners one by one. You can also object to processing based on legitimate interest from the manage options screen.
- If you do not consent: Google may still show limited or non-personalised ads, which do not use cookies to personalise or track you, or no ads at all.
- Where it appears: only on pages that carry an ad slot, the home page and the individual guides. The guides index, glossary, methodology, about, contact and the legal and policy pages never load Google.
You do not have to consent to use the calculator or read the guides.
Strictly necessary
These are always on and are not part of the consent choice.
__cf_bmandcf_clearance(Cloudflare cookies, typically about 30 minutes): set when Cloudflare’s bot and security protection runs, to help keep the site available and secure.FCCDCFandFCNEC(set by Google’s consent tool on takehomelab.co.uk): store your consent choice so the message does not ask on every page. They are set only on pages that load Google.- Earlier versions of this site stored a choice in browser storage under
thl-consent. It is no longer used; you can clear it with this site’s data.
Calculator
The calculator runs in your browser. The figures you enter are not saved in cookies or browser storage and are not sent to us; reloading or closing the page clears them. You do not have to accept any cookies to use it.
Analytics
This site runs no analytics script and sets no analytics cookies.
Advertising (Google AdSense)
Our advertising partner is Google, through Google AdSense. The AdSense tag loads only on pages that carry an ad slot: the home page and the guides. The guides index, glossary, methodology, about, contact and the legal and policy pages never load it.
If you accept, Google and its partners may set advertising cookies to show ads (which may be personalised) and measure how they perform, for example __gads, __gpi and __eoi on takehomelab.co.uk and IDE and test_cookie on doubleclick.net, Google’s DoubleClick ad-serving domain. Their names and lifetimes are set by Google and vary; see how Google uses cookies and how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Changing your choice
Use the “Privacy preferences” link at the bottom of every page. On the home page and the guides it reopens Google’s consent message; on other pages it takes you to the home page and opens it there. You can also clear this site’s cookies and browser storage, after which the message will ask again, or block cookies altogether. Blocking cookies may affect ads but not the calculator. You can manage personalised Google ads at Google’s My Ad Center.
See also our privacy notice and advertising disclosure.
Last updated 12 November 2026.