Privacy policy
CitizenshipPractice is designed to be used anonymously. There are no accounts, no sign-up and no login, and we don't ask for your name, email or any other personal detail to use the site. This page explains the little that is stored on your device, the analytics we use to see how the site is performing, the advertising that keeps the site free, and the one case where you actively send us information.
What we store on your device
As you use the site we save a small amount of data in your browser's local storage, on your own device. It stays on your device and is not sent to any server of ours. Specifically:
- Tests in progress and completed: your answers, scores and timing, so you can resume a test and review your results.
- Flashcard study progress: which cards you've worked through, so the study guides remember where you were.
- Your preferences: the translation-subtitle language you pick and similar display settings.
How long it's kept
Completed test results expire automatically after 24 hours. Your study progress and preferences have no expiry and stay until you reset them in the app or clear your browser data, which removes everything immediately. In a private or incognito window the same data is kept only for that session and is cleared automatically when you close the window. Because the data lives only in one browser on one device, it does not follow you to another browser, phone or computer.
Analytics
To understand how the site is used, we use one analytics service on the live site. It runs only on the production site — it is switched off during local development and on preview builds.
- Google Analytics 4 helps us see which pages and features are used most. It is provided by Google, sets cookies in your browser (such as
_ga) to recognise repeat visits, and processes data under Google's privacy policy. We don't use it for advertising and haven't linked it to any ad products.
You can opt out of Google Analytics with a browser extension or by blocking its cookies — the site works exactly the same either way.
Advertising
The site is free to use, and we cover its running costs by showing ads supplied by Mediavine. Like the analytics above, ads run only on the live production site — not during local development or on preview builds. Mediavine and the advertising partners it works with use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads, to measure how they perform, and — depending on your settings — to make some ads more relevant to you. Mediavine chooses the placements, and publishes the partners it shares ad data with in its partners list. That ad data is processed under Mediavine's privacy policy. We don't give Mediavine your name or email — we don't have them — and we don't sell your data.
Where consent laws such as the GDPR apply — the EU and the UK, among others — consent for personalised advertising is collected and recorded by Mediavine's own consent management platform, which ships as part of its script. Wherever you are, you can send Mediavine a privacy request at privacy.mediavine.com, or block third-party cookies in your browser — the site works exactly the same either way, you'll simply see less-targeted ads.
Cookies
Most of the data above is kept in local storage, which stays in your browser and is never attached to network requests. The exceptions are Google Analytics, which sets analytics cookies to measure usage, and Mediavine, which sets advertising cookies to serve and measure ads and to record your consent choice — both are described above. We don't set any advertising cookies of our own.
When you contact us
Apart from the analytics and advertising above, the only time you actively send us information is if you choose to send us a message through the contact form. That form is handled by Formspree, a third-party service that receives your submission and forwards it to us by email. Whatever you type — your message, and your name and email if you add them — is processed by Formspree under their privacy policy. We use what you send only to read and reply to your message. The contact form is entirely optional — if you never use it, none of your messages or saved progress is ever transmitted to us. (Like any website, simply loading a page sends ordinary technical details such as your IP address and browser type to whoever hosts the site; we don't use those to build a profile of you.)
What we don't do
We don't require any personal information to use the site, and we don't sell your data. We show ads through Mediavine and use the analytics described above; those providers process data under their own privacy policies to serve ads and to help us understand and improve the site in aggregate. The only other recipient is Formspree, and only if you choose to use the contact form — it processes that submission so we can reply. Beyond those providers we don't share your data with anyone, and we don't build our own advertising profile of you. We ask that children don't submit personal details through the contact form, and we use whatever is sent only to reply.
Changes to this policy
If we change how the site handles data, we'll update this page so it always describes what the site actually does. Significant changes will be reflected here rather than announced separately, since we have no way to contact you.
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