Privacy

What you type into the calculators

The calculators work entirely in your browser. The dates, working week, day rate and days off you enter are never sent to us and never stored.

Counting visits

• What we collect: we use Umami Cloud to count visits. For each page you view, it records the page’s full address (including anything after a ?), its title, the address of the page you came from, your browser, operating system, device type, screen size and language, and your approximate location (country, region and city).
• How it counts visitors: it recognises a return visit from the same browser until the end of the month, using a code made from your IP address and browser details that changes at the start of each month.
• What it doesn’t do: Umami doesn’t use cookies or store anything in your browser, doesn’t record your name or email address or what you type into the calculators, and doesn’t follow you across other websites.
• Why: knowing which pages and tools people use helps us improve the site.
• How long it’s kept: Umami keeps visit data for 2 years.
• Lawful basis: legitimate interests.
• How to stop it: use the switch below. It saves one setting, umami.disabled, in your browser, and the counting script checks it before sending anything. Blocking gateway.umami.is in a content blocker stops the counting too.

If you email us

• What we get: your email address, your message and anything else you include.
• Why: to read your message and reply.
• How long we keep it: 12 months after our last exchange, then we delete it.
• Lawful basis: legitimate interests: you’ve asked us to get in touch.

Keeping the site running

Cloudflare delivers the site and protects it from attacks. To do that it handles your IP address; we never see it. The lawful basis is legitimate interests: keeping the site available and secure.

Cookies and browser storage

The site doesn’t set any cookies. If you use the switch above, your browser keeps its setting in local storage. It never leaves your browser and stays until you clear it. Safari clears it after 7 days of Safari use without you interacting with this site, which switches counting back on.

Who else handles your data

• Cloudflare: runs the site and keeps it secure.
• Umami: counts visits.
• Proton: the company’s email provider.

Cloudflare is a US company certified under the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which the UK recognises for transfers to the US. Proton stores email in Switzerland, Germany or Norway, all of which the UK recognises as having adequate data protection. Umami Cloud stores its data in the EU (Frankfurt, Germany), which the UK also recognises as adequate. Umami is a US company, and its data processing agreement covers any access to that data from outside the UK and EU with the UK Addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses.

We don’t sell your data, and we don’t share it with anyone else unless the law requires it.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of the data the company holds about you, and ask for it to be corrected, deleted or no longer used. Email alex@alexhunter.net and we’ll reply within 1 month.

Your right to object: you can object to the company using your data to count your visits or to reply to your email. Email alex@alexhunter.net and say which. For counting, the switch above works straight away.

Complaints

If you’re unhappy with how your data has been handled, please tell us first: email alex@alexhunter.net or write to the company’s registered office, at the foot of this page. We’ll acknowledge your complaint within 30 days, look into it, keep you informed and tell you the outcome without undue delay.

You can also complain to the Information Commission (the ICO): ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or 0303 123 1113.