Privacy
Updated 12 November 2026 · Tax year 2026/27
Publisher and controller for this notice: Rodway Labs. Site: Take-Home Lab (takehomelab.co.uk).
Calculator inputs
The take-home calculator runs in your browser. Salary figures, region, pension and loan choices you type are used locally to produce the illustration. They are not sent to Rodway Labs as part of the calculation and are not stored on our servers as account data.
Advertising
Take-Home Lab can show ads via Google AdSense. Google is the ad provider. When ads load, Google may process technical data (for example IP address, device and browser information, and cookie identifiers) to serve, personalise or measure ads, under Google’s policies.
Ads can appear only on the home page and the individual guides. On those pages, Google’s consent message (AdSense Privacy & messaging, a Google-certified consent management platform using the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework) asks for your choice before personalised ads or advertising cookies are used. You can consent, not consent, or manage options, including objecting to processing based on legitimate interest. If you do not consent, Google may still show limited or non-personalised ads, or none. You don’t need to consent to use the calculator. Take-Home Lab runs no analytics of its own; “measurement” and “audience research” in Google’s message describe what Google does with ad data if you consent. See Advertising and the cookie policy.
Contact form and emails
If you use the form on the contact page, we receive the name, email address, topic and message you enter, plus the address of the page you sent it from and the time. A Cloudflare Worker passes the message straight to our inbox by email using Cloudflare Email Routing; it is not stored in a database on the site. The inbox is hosted by Google (Gmail), which processes it as our email provider. Cloudflare uses your IP address in a rate-limiting counter that lasts about one minute, to stop repeated sending, and its standard request logs apply as described under hosting. If you email hello@takehomelab.co.uk instead, the same inbox receives it.
We use this information only to read and reply to your message, and to fix any error you report. Our lawful basis is legitimate interests in answering enquiries and keeping the figures accurate. We do not add you to a mailing list, sell or share your details, or use them for advertising. We delete messages within 12 months of the conversation ending, unless we need to keep one longer to deal with a complaint or a legal claim. Please do not send payslips, tax codes, National Insurance numbers or other sensitive details. You can ask us to see or delete a message you sent by writing to hello@takehomelab.co.uk; you also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).
Hosting and logs
Hosting is on Cloudflare. Cloudflare may process technical logs such as IP address, request URL, user agent and timestamps to deliver the site, cache content and protect against abuse. Those logs are processed under Cloudflare’s terms as our processor for hosting.
Consent preference
Google’s consent tool stores your choice in cookies on takehomelab.co.uk (such as FCCDCF and FCNEC), only on pages that load Google. To change it, use the Privacy preferences link at the bottom of any page, or clear site data for takehomelab.co.uk in your browser; the message will then ask again. Cloudflare may set strictly necessary security cookies such as __cf_bm or cf_clearance. After you consent, Google may set advertising cookies such as __gads, __gpi, __eoi and IDE; see the cookie policy.
Legal bases (UK GDPR)
We rely on legitimate interests to run and secure the site and to reply to messages, and on your consent, given through Google’s consent message, for non-essential advertising cookies. You can withdraw that consent at any time with Privacy preferences.
Contact and requests
Questions about this notice: hello@takehomelab.co.uk. Because we do not run user accounts for the calculator, we typically hold little or no personal data about visitors beyond messages you send us, what hosting processes and (on ad pages, according to your consent choice) what Google processes. You can also use Google’s My Ad Center for ad personalisation choices, or opt out of personalised advertising from many companies at youronlinechoices.eu. How Google uses data from sites that show its ads: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Google’s advertising cookies include those set on doubleclick.net (DoubleClick), such as IDE.
Last updated 12 November 2026.