We aim to make our calculator accessible without requiring registration or requesting unnecessary personal information. This policy explains how personal information may be processed when you visit the website or contact us.
1. Overview
Welcome to Child Maintenance Calculator UK, available at child-maintenance-calculator.co.uk . We are an independent website providing child maintenance estimation tools and general information for UK parents.
This Privacy Policy explains the categories of personal information that may be processed when you browse our website, use our tools, submit an enquiry or interact with services enabled on the website.
We aim to handle personal information in accordance with applicable UK data protection requirements, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
2. Who We Are
Child Maintenance Calculator UK is an independent information website. It is not operated by the UK Government, GOV.UK, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) or the Child Maintenance Service (CMS).
The person or organisation responsible for deciding how and why personal information is processed is known as the data controller.
Website: child-maintenance-calculator.co.uk
Data Controller: [INSERT REAL LEGAL NAME OR BUSINESS NAME]
Contact Email: [INSERT PRIVACY CONTACT EMAIL]
Business Address: [INSERT REQUIRED CONTACT ADDRESS]
UK Representative: [INSERT IF REQUIRED, OR REMOVE THIS LINE]
Please use the contact details above for privacy-related enquiries or requests regarding your personal information.
3. Information We Collect
The information processed depends on how you use our website and which services are enabled.
Information You Provide
If you contact us, we may receive information such as your name, email address, the contents of your message and any additional information you choose to provide.
Please do not include children's identifying information, detailed financial records or sensitive personal information in general website enquiries unless specifically requested through a secure and appropriate process.
Technical and Usage Information
When you access the website, technical information may be processed by our hosting provider or security services. This can include:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device and operating system information
- Pages requested and timestamps
- Server error and security logs
- Cookie preferences, where applicable
This information may be needed to deliver website pages, investigate technical issues, protect website security and operate the service.
4. Child Maintenance Calculator Privacy
The child maintenance calculator is designed to calculate estimates directly within your browser using JavaScript.
The calculator may ask for information such as:
- Gross income amount and frequency
- Relevant pension contributions
- Number of children
- Other supported children
- Overnight shared-care arrangements
- Relevant benefit circumstances
Calculator Privacy: The intended implementation performs calculations in your browser without submitting these answers to our server. Calculator inputs do not require a user account or registration.
This description applies to the intended browser-based calculator implementation. Any future server-side functionality, saved calculations, analytics events or third-party integrations must be reflected in an updated policy before they are introduced.
Please remember that a website's hosting and security systems may still process ordinary technical request information, even when calculator inputs remain in your browser.
5. How We Use Personal Information
Where relevant, personal information may be used for the following purposes:
- Delivering and maintaining website pages and related functionality.
- Responding to questions or contact requests.
- Investigating technical problems and errors.
- Protecting the website against misuse and security threats.
- Managing privacy preferences and consent.
- Understanding website performance and improving content where appropriate analytics tools are enabled.
- Supporting advertising operations if advertising services are introduced.
- Complying with applicable legal obligations.
We will not describe information as anonymous unless it has genuinely been anonymised so that individuals are no longer identifiable.
6. Lawful Bases for Processing
Under the UK GDPR, processing personal information requires a valid lawful basis. The relevant basis depends on the purpose and circumstances of processing.
| Purpose | Potential Lawful Basis |
|---|---|
| Website security and maintenance | Legitimate interests, where the required balancing assessment supports it |
| Responding to general enquiries | Legitimate interests or steps requested before a contract, depending on the circumstances |
| Consent-based analytics | Consent, where required and used for the relevant processing |
| Advertising and tracking | The applicable lawful basis for each purpose, together with required cookie consent |
| Compliance with legal duties | Legal obligation, where applicable |
The final lawful bases must reflect the website's actual processing operations. Cookie consent requirements are separate from identifying a lawful basis under data protection law.
7. Cookies and Analytics
Cookies and similar technologies may be used to support essential website functionality, security and user preferences.
Depending on the services enabled, additional technologies may be used for analytics or advertising.
Non-essential cookies and similar technologies must be managed in line with applicable consent requirements, including the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).
Where required, visitors should be able to accept or reject non-essential technologies and manage their preferences through the website's consent management platform.
Learn more in our Cookie Policy.
8. Advertising and Google AdSense
The website may introduce advertising services, including Google AdSense, as part of its future monetisation strategy.
If advertising is enabled, advertising partners may process certain information such as device identifiers, cookie information, IP addresses and advertisement interaction data, depending on the technology and consent choices.
Any advertising technology will need appropriate privacy disclosures and consent management before activation.
Where Google's publisher consent requirements apply, we will need to use an appropriate Google-certified consent management platform supporting the relevant Transparency and Consent Framework.
Further information about Google's privacy practices is available from Google's Privacy Policy .
9. Sharing Personal Information
Personal information may be processed by service providers supporting the website, where applicable.
These may include:
- Website hosting providers
- Website security and backup providers
- Contact form or email service providers
- Analytics providers, if enabled
- Advertising and consent providers, if enabled
- Professional advisers or authorities where legally required
Service providers and their roles must be reviewed before publication of this policy. Where legally required, appropriate contractual safeguards must be in place.
We do not offer a public database of individual calculator submissions.
10. International Data Transfers
Some website service providers may process or store information outside the United Kingdom.
Where international transfers of personal information take place, appropriate safeguards or other valid transfer mechanisms must be used where required by law.
Details of the actual service providers, destinations and applicable safeguards should be confirmed through the website's hosting and third-party service agreements.
11. How Long We Keep Information
Personal information should be retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for its intended purpose, taking account of legal, security and operational needs.
Different categories of information may have different retention periods.
| Information | Retention Approach |
|---|---|
| Calculator inputs | Intended to remain in browser memory during use, without server-side submission |
| Contact enquiries | Retained for the documented enquiry-handling period |
| Hosting and security logs | Retained according to documented provider settings and security needs |
| Consent records | Retained according to applicable consent management requirements |
Before publication, specific retention periods or objective retention criteria must be confirmed for each category of personal information processed.
12. Information Security
We aim to maintain reasonable technical and organisational measures appropriate to the risks associated with website operations.
Depending on the actual hosting configuration, these measures may include HTTPS encryption, security updates, controlled administrative access, backups and monitoring.
No internet-based service can guarantee absolute security. Visitors should avoid submitting unnecessary sensitive information through general enquiry forms.
13. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on the circumstances and applicable legal conditions, individuals may have the right to:
- Be informed about personal data processing
- Request access to personal information
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request erasure in applicable circumstances
- Request restriction of processing
- Object to certain types of processing
- Request data portability where applicable
- Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent
- Exercise rights relating to solely automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects
To exercise applicable rights, contact us using the details provided in this policy.
You may also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data protection regulator.
Visit ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/ .
14. Children's Privacy
Our website provides information and tools primarily intended for parents and adults responsible for child maintenance arrangements.
The calculator does not require children's names or contact details. Please avoid including identifying information about children in contact enquiries.
If you believe information about a child has been submitted unnecessarily, please contact us so the matter can be reviewed.
15. Links to External Websites
Our website may link to external resources, including GOV.UK, the Child Maintenance Service and the Information Commissioner's Office.
External websites operate under their own privacy notices, terms and data handling practices.
We recommend reviewing their privacy information before submitting personal details.
16. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated when our website functionality, service providers, data processing practices or applicable requirements change.
Any updated version will display its current revision date. Where required, additional notice will be provided.
17. Contact and Privacy Enquiries
For enquiries relating to this Privacy Policy or personal information processed through this website, use the contact information provided below.
Data Controller: [INSERT REAL LEGAL NAME OR BUSINESS NAME]
Email: [INSERT PRIVACY CONTACT EMAIL]
Website: child-maintenance-calculator.co.uk
Have a Privacy Question?
If you have questions about this policy or how personal information is handled, you can contact the website operator.
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