Privacy

In short: you can read the notes and try questions without telling us anything. If you sign in, we keep only what we need to save your progress: no name, no email address and no photo. There are no adverts, no tracking and no analytics.

Without signing in

Your answers and scores are saved only in your browser on this device (its "local storage"), so you can carry on later. If you choose bigger text, that setting is saved there too. None of this is sent to us. You can delete it on the Your progress page, or by clearing your browser's data for this site.

If you sign in with Google or Apple

We ask Google or Apple only to confirm it's you. We don't ask them for your name, email address or photo, and we don't receive them. What we keep:

• A sign-in code. Google or Apple gives us a code for your account. We keep it only in a scrambled form (a keyed hash) that can't be turned back into the code, and we note which of the two you used.
• Your progress: which questions you answered, whether you were right, and your practice test scores.
• When you signed up, and your sign-in sessions (also scrambled), so you can stay signed in for up to 180 days.

We use this only to show you your progress on any device where you sign in. We never sell it or share it, and we never use it for adverts. It is stored by our host, Cloudflare, in its European Union data centres.

We hold it because you ask us to provide this service. You can download everything we hold on your account page, and delete your account there at any time: it is deleted at once. Expired sign-in sessions are deleted every day.

Cookies

We use cookies only for signing in: one keeps you signed in, one tells this site's pages that you're signed in, and a short-lived one protects the sign-in itself. They are needed for signing in, so we don't ask for consent. We use no other cookies.

If you buy the unlock

Payment is handled by our payment provider, which sells the unlock on our behalf. It collects your payment details, your email address for the receipt, and anything the law needs for tax. It sends us an order reference, which we keep with your account so the unlock works on every device and a refund can be matched. We never see your card details.

Our web host

The site is hosted by Cloudflare. Like every web server, it receives your device's internet address and basic details of each request, to deliver the pages and keep the site safe. We don't use these to identify you.

Links to other sites

Each answer links to the public page its fact comes from, and signing in takes you to Google or Apple. Those sites have their own privacy rules.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of your data, or to correct or delete it. You can do most of this yourself on your account page. You can also complain to the Data Protection Commission in Ireland or the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK.

Who we are

Welcome Questions is run by James Mooney, in Ireland, who is responsible for your data. You can contact us at hello@welcomequestions.co.uk.