Last updated: 3 August 2026
This privacy policy covers the UK Import Tax Calculator at willipayimporttax.co.uk. The data controller is Arno Smit, contactable at privacy@willipayimporttax.co.uk.
We do not ask you to create an account, and the figures you type into the calculator are never sent to us or stored anywhere. The calculation runs entirely inside your own browser. The privacy considerations on this site come from three third parties: our advertising provider, the exchange rate service, and our web host.
The purchase or gift value, currency, country of origin, goods category and gift criteria you enter are processed in your browser and used only to display your estimate. They are not transmitted to us, not written to your device, and not retained after you close or reload the page.
When you calculate an amount in a currency other than pounds sterling, your browser requests the current rate directly from frankfurter.app, which publishes European Central Bank reference rates. That request necessarily reveals your IP address to that service, along with which currency you asked about. It does not include the amount you entered or any other input.
No request is made at all when you calculate in GBP, or when a recently fetched rate is reused.
This site shows advertising supplied by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies and similar identifiers to serve and measure ads, and in some configurations to personalise them based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
The site itself sets no cookies of its own and stores nothing in your browser's local storage.
This site is hosted by IONOS. Like virtually all web servers, theirs records standard access logs — including IP addresses, timestamps, requested pages and browser user-agent strings — for security and reliability purposes. These logs are handled by IONOS as our hosting provider under their own terms.
Where advertising cookies are used, our legal basis is your consent, given through the consent message described above. Where server logs are kept, the basis is our legitimate interest in operating a secure and functioning website.
Under the UK GDPR you have the right to access, correct, erase or restrict the use of personal data held about you, to object to processing, and to data portability. Because we hold no user records ourselves, requests about advertising data are usually best directed to Google, and requests about server logs to our host — but contact us at privacy@willipayimporttax.co.uk and we will help you direct them.
If you are unhappy with how your data has been handled, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
If we change how this site handles data, we will update this page and the date shown at the top. Material changes will be described here rather than made silently.
Questions about this policy: privacy@willipayimporttax.co.uk.