Privacy: we ask for nothing
Nothing collected on the site
There is no form anywhere on this site. No name, no email, no postcode, no account, no newsletter. We do not ask for your details, so we have nothing to store, share or sell. It is the plainest privacy position there is: we cannot lose what we never collect.
If you email us
If you choose to email us at hello@hearthsum.co.uk, we see your message and the address it came from. We use them only to check what you told us and, where it helps, to answer you. We never add you to a list, and we never sell or share your details.
Calculators
The calculators run entirely in your browser. Anything you type into them stays on your device and is never sent anywhere.
Visit counts
We count visits, so we know which pages are useful. The count is kept by Vercel, the company that hosts this site. It uses no cookies. It records the page, where the visit came from (a search engine or another site), the country, and the kind of browser and device, and nothing that could be tied back to you or your IP address. We also measure how fast pages load for real readers, in the same anonymous way. Hearthsum never sees who you are.
Advertising cookies
When advertising is shown on the site, the ads are served by Google, and Google and its partners may use cookies to choose and measure the ads you see. That is standard across almost every site that carries advertising. You can review it and turn it down at Google's own Ads Settings (adssettings.google.com) and through your browser's cookie controls. Hearthsum itself neither sees nor keeps any of it.