This Cookies Policy explains how SA Tax Guide ("we", "us", "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on this website. It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers how we handle information more broadly.
1. Introduction
SA Tax Guide provides free South African PAYE, UIF and salary calculators. Our calculators are designed to run in your browser without requiring an account, but like almost every modern website, some pages on this site load small pieces of data called cookies. This policy sets out what those cookies do, which ones we use, and how you can control them.
2. What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your device (computer, tablet or phone) when you visit it. Cookies let a site remember information about your visit, such as your preferred settings, or let a third party recognise your browser across different websites. Cookies do not usually contain information that identifies you by name, though they can be linked to your browser or device.
Similar technologies covered by this policy include local storage, pixel tags and web beacons, which serve related purposes such as measuring whether an advert was seen or loading a page component correctly.
3. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a narrow set of purposes: to keep the site technically functional, to understand in aggregate how visitors use our calculators and guides, and to support the advertising that keeps this site free. We do not use cookies to build a profile of your salary, tax details, or any figures you type into a calculator, since that information is never sent to our servers in the first place.
4. Types of Cookies We Use
4.1 Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are needed for the site to work correctly, such as maintaining basic security and allowing pages to load as intended. Without these, parts of the site may not function properly. Essential cookies do not require your consent under most cookie laws because the site cannot operate correctly without them.
4.2 Functional/Preference Cookies
Functional cookies remember choices you've made on this site, such as a previously selected tax year or a dismissed notice, so you don't have to set them again on your next visit. These cookies improve convenience but are not required for a calculator to produce a correct result.
4.3 Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand, in aggregate, which calculators, guides and pages are most useful, how visitors move through the site, and where they run into problems. This data is used to improve content and site performance and is not used to identify you personally.
4.4 Advertising Cookies
Advertising cookies are used by our advertising partners to show relevant adverts and to measure how well those adverts perform. They may track your browser across other websites you visit to build a general picture of your interests, which advertisers use for targeting. Revenue from advertising is what allows us to keep every calculator on this site free.
4.5 Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on this site are not set by us but by third-party services we use, primarily Google, for analytics and advertising. These third parties are responsible for their own cookies and have their own privacy and cookie policies, which we link to below.
5. Cookies Used on Our Website
SA Tax Guide's own calculators do not set cookies to store your salary, age or any figures you enter; those inputs are processed only to display your result and are never saved. Any cookies present on this site are set by third-party services embedded in our pages, mainly Google Analytics and Google AdSense, described in the two sections below. If we introduce a first-party functional cookie, such as remembering a preferred tax year, this section will be updated to name it specifically.
6. Google Analytics
We may use Google Analytics to understand aggregate site usage, such as which calculators are visited most often and how visitors arrive at the site. Google Analytics uses cookies to distinguish unique visitors and sessions. The data collected is reported to us in aggregated form and is not used by us to identify individual visitors. You can learn more about how Google collects and processes this data at Google's page on how data is used in Google Analytics, and you can opt out entirely using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
7. Google AdSense & Advertising Cookies
This site displays advertising through Google AdSense. Google and its advertising partners may set cookies, including the DoubleClick cookie, to serve adverts based on your prior visits to this and other websites, and to measure advert performance. This can include personalised and remarketing advertising based on your browsing activity.
You can manage or opt out of personalised advertising from Google at Google Ads Settings. To opt out of personalised advertising cookies from other participating vendors, visit the Digital Advertising Alliance's consumer choice page. Google's own approach to advertising cookies is explained on its advertising and how Google uses data page.
8. How We Use Cookies for Our Calculators
Every calculator on SA Tax Guide, including the PAYE calculator, UIF calculator and the rest of our tax calculators hub, runs entirely in your browser. The salary, age group and tax year you enter are used only to calculate the result shown on the page, are not written to a cookie, and are not transmitted to or stored on our servers. Cookies are not required for any calculator on this site to produce an accurate result; they are used, if at all, only for the general site functionality, analytics and advertising purposes described above.
9. How You Can Manage Cookies
Most browsers allow you to view, delete and block cookies through their settings. You can choose to block all cookies, block only third-party cookies, or be notified each time a cookie is set. Blocking essential cookies may affect how parts of this site display, though our core calculators are built to keep working even with cookies disabled, since they don't rely on cookies to function.
10. Browser Cookie Controls
Instructions for managing cookies in the most common browsers are available directly from the browser makers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Microsoft Edge. On mobile devices, cookie controls are usually found within your browser app's privacy or site settings.
11. Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" setting that sends a signal to websites requesting that your browsing not be tracked. There is currently no single accepted industry standard for how websites should respond to this signal, and this site does not currently change its behaviour based on a Do Not Track request. You can still control tracking directly through the cookie settings described above and through the opt-out tools linked in the Google AdSense section.
12. Third-Party Websites
Our guides sometimes link to external websites, such as SARS or the Department of Employment and Labour, for official reference. Once you leave our site via one of these links, that website's own cookie and privacy practices apply, and we are not responsible for how it handles your data.
13. Changes to This Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time, for example if we add a new analytics or advertising service. Material changes will be reflected in the "Last updated" date at the top of this page, so please check back periodically if you'd like to stay informed.
14. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookies Policy or how cookies are used on this site, please get in touch via our contact page.
15. Last Updated
This Cookies Policy was last updated on 24 September 2026.