Privacy Policy

Who we are

TheBizHQ.com is a privately owned website providing free tools and calculators for UK businesses and individuals. We are not affiliated with any government body.

For privacy enquiries, contact us at: hello@thebizhq.com

What data we collect

Data you enter into our tools

All calculations on TheBizHQ.com are performed entirely in your browser. The figures you enter into our calculators (income, salary, pension amounts, etc.) are never sent to our servers and are not stored or collected in any way. When you close the page, the data is gone.

Contact form

If you use our contact form, we collect your name, email address and message. This information is used solely to respond to your enquiry and is not shared with third parties or used for marketing purposes.

Cookies and analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our site. This collects anonymised data including:

• Pages visited and time spent on each page
• Approximate geographic location (country/region level only)
• Browser type and device type
• How you arrived at the site (search engine, direct, referral)

Google Analytics uses cookies to collect this data. No personally identifiable information is collected. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Advertising cookies

We display advertisements served by Google AdSense. Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your interests and previous visits to our site and other sites. You can manage your Google ad personalisation settings at adssettings.google.com.

How we use your data

• Contact form submissions — to respond to your enquiry
• Analytics data — to understand which tools are most useful and improve the site
• Advertising data — managed by Google AdSense to serve relevant advertisements

We do not sell, rent or share your personal data with any third parties for marketing purposes.

Your rights under UK GDPR

Under UK data protection law you have the right to:

• Access — request a copy of any personal data we hold about you
• Rectification — ask us to correct inaccurate personal data
• Erasure — ask us to delete your personal data
• Restriction — ask us to restrict how we use your data
• Objection — object to our use of your data
• Portability — request your data in a portable format

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at hello@thebizhq.com. We will respond within 30 days.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk or by calling 0303 123 1113.

Cookies

We use the following types of cookies:

Cookie	Type	Purpose
_ga, _ga_*	Analytics	Google Analytics — tracks unique visitors and page views
_gid	Analytics	Google Analytics — distinguishes users, expires after 24 hours
IDE, NID	Advertising	Google AdSense — used for ad personalisation

You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect some functionality of the site.

Third-party services

• Google Analytics — Google Privacy Policy
• Google AdSense — Google Privacy Policy
• GOV.UK RSS feeds — used to display news content. No personal data is shared with GOV.UK.

Data retention

Contact form enquiries are retained for up to 12 months then deleted. Analytics data is retained for 26 months by Google Analytics. We do not retain any data entered into our calculators.

Security

Our website is served over HTTPS (SSL encryption). We take reasonable technical measures to protect any data we hold. However, no internet transmission is completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to our site.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last updated. Continued use of the site after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact

For any privacy-related questions: hello@thebizhq.com or use our contact form.

Last updated: May 2026. TheBizHQ.com is a private website and is not a government service.