Privacy Policy

The short version

Your practice answers never leave your browser. There are no accounts, no analytics and no advertising on this site at present, so there is very little for this policy to describe. That will change as features are added, and this page changes with them — in the same release, not afterwards.

Practice tests and score reports

When you take a practice test, your answers, timings and score are held in your browser for the length of the session. They are not transmitted to us, not stored on a server and not associated with any identifier. Closing or reloading the page discards them, which is also why the test warns you before an accidental reload.

The upside is that no record of how you performed exists anywhere outside your own screen. The downside is that you have to keep your own record of progress for now, which is what saved results will eventually solve.

What we store on your device

• afoqt-theme — Remembers whether you chose the light or dark colour theme.

This is stored locally by your browser and never sent to us. It contains no identifier and cannot be used to recognise you. Clearing your browser storage removes it. See the cookie policy for the fuller picture.

Accounts

There are no accounts on this site. Nothing asks for your name, your email address or any other personal detail in order to practise, and nothing requires you to identify yourself.

Analytics

No analytics or measurement service runs on this site. We do not currently know which pages you visit.

Advertising

No advertising is currently served, and no advertising request is made. The site is intended to be advertising-supported, and when that is enabled a consent mechanism will be in place first where the law requires one. The rules that will apply are published in advance in our advertising policy.

Payments

No payments are processed and none ever will be: the site is free, has no accounts and contains no checkout, plan or payment code.

What we receive automatically

The site is served by a commercial hosting platform which, like any web host, processes standard request information such as IP address and user-agent in order to deliver pages and protect against abuse. We do not use that to build a profile of you and we do not combine it with anything else.

Each response carries a request identifier so that a report of “this page failed” can be matched to a log entry. It is not tied to you and is not used for tracking.

If you contact us

We keep your message so we can act on it — for example, to correct a question you reported — and we do not use contact details for marketing. See the contact page.

Children

This site is intended for adults preparing for officer commissioning. It is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Why the site is built this way

Collecting nothing was a design decision with real costs, and it is worth explaining rather than presenting as a virtue that happened by itself.

Scoring in the browser rather than on a server means there is no attempt record to store, no session to track and no identifier to attach to you. The cost is that you cannot resume an attempt on another device, cannot see your history, and have to write your own weekly numbers down. Those are genuine losses, and saved progress is the main thing a future account would buy.

The benefit is that this document is short and, more importantly, checkable. You do not have to trust a claim about how carefully we handle your practice results, because there are no practice results to handle.

What we will not do, even once accounts exist

• Sell or share your data with data brokers. Not as a current practice and not as a future revenue option.
• Use your practice performance for anything except showing it to you. Aggregate item statistics — how often a question is answered correctly — are anonymous and exist to find bad questions, not to profile candidates.
• Send marketing you did not ask for. A message to us about a wrong answer key is not consent to be emailed about a product.
• Share anything with recruiters, commissioning sources or any government body. We have no relationship with any of them, and your practice results are not evidence of anything anyone should be acting on.

Your rights

Depending on where you live you may have rights to access, correct, export or delete personal data held about you. Since we currently hold no personal data about visitors, in most cases there will be nothing to act on — but if you believe we hold something about you, contact us and we will deal with it.

When accounts arrive, deleting your account will delete everything attached to it, and export will be available.

Changes to this policy

When the site starts doing something new with data — accounts, analytics, advertising or payments — this page is updated in the same release as the feature, and the review date at the top changes. Material changes will also be noted on the corrections log.

Related: cookie policy · security and data · terms of use