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Privacy Policy

Last updated 2026-08-20

This policy explains what Australian Citizenship Test Practice does with personal information. It is written for the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles, because this site is aimed at people sitting the Australian citizenship test. It also sets out what changes for visitors in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, whose law requires consent before non-essential storage.

The short version

What is stored, and where

Everything the site remembers about you is held in your browser's local storage on your own device, under keys beginning auc_. That includes which questions you answered and whether you got them right, your test history, your saved test date, your study language and your light/dark preference. It is not transmitted anywhere. Clearing your browser's site data deletes it, and Settings has an explicit Reset progress button that does the same. You can also export the whole lot as a JSON file from that page.

Because none of it reaches us, we cannot look it up, correct it, or hand it over. Under the Australian Privacy Principles that is a design choice, not a limitation: APP 11 obliges an entity to protect the personal information it holds, and the surest protection is not to hold any.

Server logs

The site is served as static files by Cloudflare Pages. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes the request data needed to deliver a page — IP address, user agent, the URL requested, timestamps — for security and delivery. We do not receive those logs as a personal dataset and do not use them to build a profile of you. Cloudflare's own privacy documentation covers that processing.

Cookies

This site sets no cookies. Local storage is used, as described above, and only for things you created by using the site.

There is no consent banner. That is deliberate, and it is worth explaining, because the banner has become a reflex. Australia has no cookie-consent statute equivalent to the EU's ePrivacy rules: the Privacy Act governs the collection and handling of personal information, and a click-through banner is not what it asks for. Showing one to an Australian visitor would be a European obligation copied into a country that does not have it — and it would be asking permission for something this site does not currently do.

If you are in the EEA or the UK

The GDPR and the UK GDPR require consent before non-essential storage or tracking. This site is built so that no measurement tag can load for a visitor whose device reports a European time zone unless that visitor has granted consent, and today there is no tag to load in the first place. If analytics is ever switched on, the consent prompt appears for those visitors and for those visitors only, and declining leaves the site fully usable.

Where the GDPR applies, the lawful basis for storing your study progress on your own device is that it is strictly necessary to provide the service you asked for: it is the feature, not a by-product of it. Your rights of access, rectification and erasure are exercisable directly — the data is on your device, and Settings can export or delete all of it without asking us.

Children

This site is intended for adults preparing for a citizenship test. It does not knowingly collect information from children, and since it collects nothing from anyone, there is nothing held about a child either.

Changes to this policy

If advertising or analytics is introduced, this page will be updated before it goes live, and the date at the top will change. Adding either would mean naming the provider here and describing what it receives.

Contact and complaints

Questions about this policy can be raised through the support link in the App Store listing for the companion app. If you believe an Australian Privacy Principle has been breached and you are not satisfied with the response, you may complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

https://australiancitizenship.app