How we make money
Honest answer: today, we don’t. Here’s how that will change, and the rules we’ll stick to.
The short version
HandySums is free. Right now it makes no money at all: there are no adverts and no paid links on the site. In future we plan to pay for it with clearly labelled affiliate links — for example to business bank accounts, accounting software or tax return services that might be useful after you’ve done your sums.
How affiliate links will work
- Labelled every time. Any paid link will sit in a box marked “Ad”, with a line next to it saying HandySums will be paid if you sign up. We won’t hide paid links in the middle of a guide.
- Never inside the maths. Calculations are worked out from your figures and published GOV.UK rules only. No partner can see, change or influence a result, and offers only appear below the result, never in it.
- No extra cost to you. Using a link won’t change the price you pay.
- Marked for search engines. Paid links carry
rel="sponsored", as Google asks. - Only things we’d point a friend to. We won’t promote anything we think is poor value or misleading, and payment doesn’t buy a good review.
What we’ll never do
- Sell or share your figures, or anything you send us by email.
- Take payment to change what a guide says or what a calculator shows.
- Recommend a refund firm in exchange for a fee. Our CIS refund companies guide compares published prices so you can decide for yourself — including whether to do it yourself for free.
Tracking when you click
If you click an affiliate link, the company you visit (or the affiliate network that runs its scheme) may use a cookie or similar on its website to record that you came from HandySums, so we can be paid. HandySums itself still sets no cookies. See our privacy notice.
Questions
Email [email protected]. We follow the UK advertising rules (the CAP Code) on labelling ads.