Privacy

The figures you enter

Every calculator on this site runs entirely in your browser. The salaries, pension figures and session rates you type in are never sent to a server and are never seen by anyone else. Some tools save your inputs in your browser’s local storage so your work survives a refresh, that data stays on your device, and clearing your browser data removes it.

The one exception is the locum rates survey, which exists to collect answers and is covered next.

The locum rates survey

If you add a session to the GP locum rates survey, your answers are stored in a database on Cloudflare: the month you worked the session, the region, the kind of work, its length, what you were paid, how the employer pension was handled, and whether you booked it through Lantum, with the time you submitted it. No name, email address, practice or free text is asked for. If you tell the survey you booked through a third party, or have never locummed, nothing about you is stored.

Published results are ranges for groups of at least five sessions. Individual answers are never shown to anyone.

To stop one source flooding the figures, each day the survey counts submissions against a scrambled, one-way code made from your internet address. It cannot be turned back into the address, it changes every day, and previous days’ counts are deleted. Your browser keeps a random code in local storage so you can come back to the results; it is not linked to your answers.

The form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to check that it is being filled in by a person. Turnstile processes technical information about your browser for that check, under Cloudflare’s Turnstile privacy addendum.

The legal basis is legitimate interests: publishing anonymous information about locum pay that locums have chosen to contribute. Because answers are not linked to you, an individual answer cannot be found and removed later, so only submit what you are happy to share.

Visit counting

Anonymous page visits are counted using GoatCounter, so it’s possible to see which tools people find useful. It sets no cookies, does not track you across sites, and records no personal data and nothing you enter into a calculator, only that a page was viewed, along with the referring site, rough location, and browser type.

The contact form

If you use the contact form, the name, email address and message you submit are emailed onwards so they can be read and replied to. They are used only to answer your enquiry, are never added to the email updates list, and are not shared with anyone else.

The legal basis is legitimate interests, answering someone who has written in. The email is kept for up to 12 months after the conversation ends and is then deleted, or sooner if you ask.

Email updates

If you sign up to be told when the figures are updated, your email address is stored by Resend, the service that sends the emails. Whether you sign up from a calculator’s results or from the box on the tools and guides pages, it is the same single list, covering both things it names: a message when the figures change for a new tax year, and related GP finance news on pensions, tax and locum money. Your address is never sold or shared, it is not used to send you anything else, and no calculator inputs are attached to it.

Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link, which takes effect immediately. You can also ask via the contact form to be removed entirely.

Third-party links

The “buy me a coffee” button links to Ko-fi, and any payment page links to Stripe. If you follow one of those links, that company’s own privacy policy applies to what happens there. Neither receives anything you entered into a calculator.

Questions

If you want to know what data relates to you, or want something removed, get in touch via the contact form.