Privacy Policy

Who we are

Test Prepper is a family of study apps made by PolicyPage LLC (“we” or “us”). This policy covers Citizenship Test Prepper for iPhone, which shows as “Citizenship” on your Home Screen, and this website, testprepper.app. When we release more Test Prepper apps, this policy will cover them too. If one of them works differently, we’ll update this page first.

What stays on your iPhone

The app saves a few things so it can build your study plan. They are kept in the app’s own storage on your iPhone. We don’t receive them, and there is no account or sign-in.

• Your planYour first name (only if you choose to type it), your state or territory, your congressional district, your interview date, whether you use the 65/20 option, your daily goal and your reminder time.
• Your progressThe questions you’ve answered, whether you got them right and when, your readiness score over time, your practice sessions, your mock interview results and your streak.
• Your settingsThe app’s language, your translation help language, Prep’s voice speed and vibration (haptics).

Your first name is optional. The app uses it only so Prep can greet you, on screen and in reminders.

The app never uses your location. You pick your state from a list. It doesn’t use your contacts, photos or camera.

Like most apps, this data can be included in your iPhone backup if you back up to iCloud or a computer. Those backups are handled by Apple or your computer, not by us.

What Apple handles

Purchases. The $4.99 unlock is sold through Apple’s App Store. Apple processes your payment, and we never see your payment details or your Apple Account. To check whether you own the unlock, the app asks Apple, and Apple answers your iPhone directly. Apple sends us sales reports that don’t say who you are.

Speech recognition. When you answer out loud, Apple’s speech recognition turns your words into text. See the next section.

Crash reports. If you allow Apple to share crash data and app statistics with developers (Settings > Privacy & Security > Analytics & Improvements > Share With App Developers), Apple may share crash reports and usage statistics for our app with us. We use them only to fix problems. You can turn this off at any time.

Apple’s own privacy policy covers what Apple does with this information: apple.com/legal/privacy.

Your voice and the microphone

In the mock interview and the reading test, you can answer out loud. This is optional. You can always tap your answer instead.

• The app uses the microphone only while it is listening for your answer.
• Apple’s speech recognition turns what you say into text. On iPhones that support it, this happens on your iPhone. On other iPhones, your speech is sent to Apple to be turned into text, under Apple’s privacy policy. Your voice is never sent to us.
• The app uses the text only to check your answer. It doesn’t save recordings or what you said.
• iOS asks for your permission first, and you can change your mind at any time in your iPhone’s Settings.

When Prep reads a question aloud, the voice comes from your iPhone’s built-in voices.

Reminders

If you turn on reminders, the app schedules them on your iPhone using iOS notifications. They are not sent from a server. A reminder may include your first name if you gave one. To space reminders out, the app keeps a short record on your iPhone of recent reminders and the days you practiced, covering about the last 30 days. To stop reminders, turn them off in the app’s Settings or in your iPhone’s Settings.

Officeholder updates

Some civics answers depend on who holds office, like the President, the Speaker of the House or your state’s senators. When officials change, we update those answers on this website, and the app picks them up.

• At most once a day, when you open the app, it checks testprepper.app for the latest list of officeholders. Everyone downloads the same public file.
• The request doesn’t include your name, your state, your progress, any ID or any cookies.
• Like every website, our host, Cloudflare, sees the internet (IP) address each request comes from in its normal logs. We don’t use these logs to identify you, and we don’t combine them with anything else.
• If the download doesn’t work, the app keeps using the list it already has.

Links, sharing and email

• Links in the app, such as to uscis.gov, house.gov or Apple’s terms, open in your web browser. Those websites have their own privacy policies.
• If you share a result, iOS sends only the text you see to the app you choose.
• If you email us, including through the app’s “Suggest a translation fix” link, we receive your email address and your message. We use them only to answer you and to improve the app. Email to testprepper.app reaches us through Cloudflare’s email forwarding service.

What we never do

• We don’t show ads.
• We don’t use analytics, tracking or advertising tools, in the app or on this website.
• We don’t sell or share your data, because we don’t collect it.
• We don’t track you across other apps or websites, so the app never asks for permission to track you.

This website

testprepper.app is a simple website. It doesn’t use cookies, analytics, ads or tracking. Everything it loads, including fonts and images, comes from testprepper.app itself, not from other companies. Cloudflare hosts the site and, like any web host, processes your IP address to deliver pages and to protect the site from attacks.

Children

Citizenship Test Prepper is made for adults getting ready for the U.S. citizenship interview, but anyone can use it. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13: the app has no account, and what you enter stays on the device. If a child emails us, we’ll use the message only to reply, and then delete it. Parents and guardians can write to us at support@testprepper.app.

Deleting your data

• Erase your progress but keep your settings: in the app, go to Settings and tap Reset progress.
• Erase everything: delete the app from your iPhone. iOS removes everything the app saved. Copies in older iPhone backups follow your backup settings.
• Your purchase belongs to your Apple Account, not to the app’s data. After you reinstall, tap Restore purchases in Settings.

We don’t keep app data about you, so there’s nothing for you to request from us. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to see or delete personal data a company holds about you. The only personal data we might hold is email you sent us. Ask, and we’ll delete it.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we’ll post the new version on this page and change the date at the top. If a change affects what the app does with your data, we’ll update this page no later than the app update that makes the change.

Contact us

PolicyPage LLC
support@testprepper.app