Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, disclosed, and retained when you visit Tests.School, contact us, or interact with third-party services available through the website.
For the purposes of this Policy, Tests.School, we, us, and our refer to the operator of the website available at https://tests.school/.
This Policy applies to the website and communications sent directly to Tests.School. It does not govern the independent privacy practices of schools, assessment providers, advertising providers, affiliate partners, or other external websites.
Do not send sensitive information about a child:
Please do not email or submit a child’s full name, date of birth, home address, student number, login credentials, medical information, psychological records, complete assessment report, or other information that could identify them.
Information You Provide to Us
You may choose to provide information when you:
- email Tests.School;
- report a possible correction;
- ask a question;
- share general feedback;
- describe an experience with an assessment;
- make a copyright or legal enquiry;
- request that we review or delete information previously submitted.
This information may include:
- your email address;
- your name, when you choose to provide it;
- the content of your message;
- the assessment or article concerned;
- general information about a country, school system, grade, or testing period;
- documents or links you voluntarily include;
- correspondence relating to your request.
Providing this information is voluntary.
However, we may be unable to respond when a message does not contain enough information to understand the request.
Information You Should Not Provide
Do not send Tests.School:
- a child’s full name;
- a child’s date of birth;
- a home address;
- a student identification number;
- school login credentials;
- private medical or psychological records;
- a complete identifiable score report;
- another child’s information;
- secure assessment questions;
- photographs or recordings of operational tests;
- scanned copyrighted test booklets;
- answer keys;
- paid preparation materials you are not authorised to share.
Where score terminology is relevant, type only the minimum information necessary and remove all identifying details.
Information Collected When You Visit
Like most websites, Tests.School and its technical service providers may process limited information generated when a browser requests a page or asset.
This may include:
- Internet Protocol address;
- date and time of the request;
- requested page or file;
- referring page;
- browser type and version;
- operating system or device category;
- general geographic region inferred from an IP address;
- language or locale information;
- HTTP response and error information;
- security and diagnostic information.
This information may appear in hosting, network, security, or server logs.
It may be processed to:
- deliver the requested page;
- maintain website availability;
- detect malicious or automated traffic;
- investigate technical errors;
- protect the website and its visitors;
- understand general website performance;
- comply with legal obligations.
Cloudflare Hosting and Network Services
Tests.School is deployed through Cloudflare Pages and may use other Cloudflare network, security, caching, and delivery services.
When a visitor requests Tests.School content, the request may pass through Cloudflare’s global infrastructure.
Cloudflare may process limited network and log information on our behalf, which can include an IP address and request metadata.
Cloudflare’s processing is governed by its own contractual terms and privacy documentation.
You can review Cloudflare’s current privacy information at:
https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
Cloudflare may process data in more than one country because it operates a global network.
Google AdSense and Advertising
Tests.School uses Google AdSense to display or support advertising.
When a page uses Google advertising services, the visitor’s browser may send information to Google or participating advertising providers.
Depending on the visitor’s location, browser, consent choices, Google settings, and the type of advertisement served, this information may include:
- the URL of the page visited;
- IP address;
- browser and device information;
- approximate geographic location;
- advertising cookies;
- first-party or third-party identifiers;
- local-storage information;
- ad impressions;
- interactions with advertisements;
- information used to prevent fraud and abuse;
- consent or privacy-choice signals.
Google may use this information to:
- deliver advertisements;
- measure advertisement performance;
- limit repeated advertisements;
- protect advertising systems from invalid activity;
- produce reporting;
- provide contextual advertisements;
- provide personalised advertisements where permitted and selected.
Google and participating advertising providers determine much of their own processing, retention, and security practices.
You can read how Google uses information from websites that use its services at:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Google’s advertising privacy controls are available at:
https://myadcenter.google.com/
Personalised, Non-Personalised, and Limited Ads
The type of advertisement served may depend on:
- your region;
- applicable law;
- your consent choices;
- browser restrictions;
- Google account settings;
- publisher advertising settings;
- the availability of advertising demand.
Personalised advertising may use information about interests or previous activity to select advertisements.
Non-personalised advertising does not use a personalised advertising profile for ad selection, but it may still use information such as:
- the current page;
- general location;
- device type;
- fraud-prevention signals;
- frequency controls;
- contextual information.
Limited advertising may use fewer identifiers or storage mechanisms, depending on the applicable configuration.
Choosing non-personalised or limited advertisements does not necessarily prevent all technical information from being transmitted to an advertising provider.
Consent and Privacy-Choice Messages
Depending on your location and the advertising configuration in effect, you may be shown a consent or privacy-choice message provided through Google or another consent-management platform.
Such a message may allow you to:
- consent to specified purposes;
- decline consent;
- manage individual purposes or providers;
- opt out of certain advertising uses;
- revisit a previous choice.
Where consent is the applicable basis for processing, you may withdraw it through the available privacy-choice interface.
The exact interface and available choices may vary by country and provider.
Google requires publishers serving personalised advertising in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland to use a Google-certified consent-management platform integrated with the applicable advertising-consent framework.
A privacy message or consent-management platform does not by itself guarantee compliance with every applicable law. The website operator remains responsible for configuring it appropriately.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
A cookie is a small piece of data stored by a browser.
Tests.School or its service providers may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as:
- website security;
- traffic management;
- consent records;
- advertising delivery;
- advertisement measurement;
- frequency control;
- fraud prevention;
- remembering privacy choices;
- maintaining basic functionality.
Cookies may be:
- session cookies, which generally expire when the browser session ends;
- persistent cookies, which may remain until their stated expiry or until deleted.
Some technologies may use browser storage rather than a traditional cookie.
Browser Storage and Service Workers
Tests.School may register a service worker.
A service worker can support functions such as:
- caching public website assets;
- improving repeat-load performance;
- controlling how updated website files are retrieved;
- displaying an update or reload notice.
The website may use limited session storage to prevent repeated reload behaviour during an update.
Publicly accessible pages, scripts, stylesheets, fonts, or images may be stored temporarily in your browser cache.
You can normally remove this information through your browser’s site-data, storage, or cache controls.
Managing Cookies and Browser Storage
Most browsers allow you to:
- view stored cookies;
- delete cookies;
- block third-party cookies;
- block all cookies;
- clear site data;
- clear cached files;
- remove service-worker data;
- restrict local storage;
- configure tracking-protection settings.
Blocking or deleting storage may affect:
- advertising;
- remembered privacy choices;
- website caching;
- update behaviour;
- third-party services.
Browser controls differ by browser and device. Consult the current help documentation supplied by your browser provider.
Affiliate and Campaign Links
Some Tests.School pages contain affiliate links or campaign-tracking parameters.
When you follow one of these links:
- the destination website receives the request;
- the destination may receive the referring page;
- an affiliate or campaign identifier may be included in the URL;
- the destination may set its own cookies or identifiers;
- the destination may record whether a visit results in a purchase or another action.
Tests.School may receive a commission when a qualifying purchase is attributed to an affiliate link.
Affiliate tracking does not give Tests.School access to a child’s school-assessment account or official test result.
The external provider controls its own:
- account registration;
- payment processing;
- order history;
- cookies;
- customer-support records;
- product-access data;
- privacy practices.
Review the destination provider’s privacy policy and terms before submitting personal or payment information.
Email Communications
When you email info@tests.school, your message is processed through the email services used by you and by Tests.School.
Email communications may include:
- your email address;
- message headers;
- transmission metadata;
- attachments;
- the content of the conversation.
We may use this information to:
- respond to your enquiry;
- review a correction;
- investigate a complaint;
- manage a copyright request;
- document an editorial decision;
- protect the website’s legal interests;
- prevent abuse.
Email is not an appropriate channel for sensitive student records.
No Public User Accounts or Direct Checkout
At the date of this Policy, Tests.School does not provide public user accounts or process direct purchases through the website.
Commercial preparation products linked from Tests.School are generally sold and delivered by third-party providers.
Those providers process account, payment, and order information under their own privacy policies.
Tests.School does not receive complete payment-card information from an ordinary affiliate purchase.
How We Use Information
We may use information for the following purposes:
- operating and delivering the website;
- responding to messages;
- investigating corrections;
- reviewing reader feedback;
- protecting children’s privacy;
- maintaining website security;
- detecting abuse or malicious traffic;
- troubleshooting technical problems;
- monitoring basic service performance;
- managing advertising and affiliate relationships;
- complying with legal obligations;
- establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims;
- reviewing and improving editorial content;
- completing a business reorganisation or transfer where permitted by law.
We do not use an emailed student score to provide an official educational, medical, or psychological diagnosis.
Legal Bases for Processing
The legal basis for processing depends on the information, purpose, and law applicable to the visitor.
Where required, processing may rely on one or more of the following:
- consent, such as consent for certain cookies or personalised advertising;
- legitimate interests, such as maintaining security, answering enquiries, correcting content, and operating an informational website;
- performance of a request, when processing is necessary to respond to something you ask us to do;
- legal obligation, when information must be processed or disclosed to comply with law;
- legal claims, where processing is necessary to establish, exercise, or defend a claim.
Where consent is the legal basis, withdrawal of consent does not make processing that occurred before withdrawal unlawful.
When Information May Be Shared
Information may be shared with categories of recipients such as:
Hosting and security providers
These providers help deliver, secure, cache, and maintain the website.
Cloudflare is a current example.
Advertising providers
Google and participating advertising-technology providers may process information in connection with advertising, measurement, consent, fraud prevention, and related services.
Email and communication providers
Email infrastructure providers process messages sent to and from Tests.School.
Affiliate partners
An affiliate partner may receive a campaign or affiliate identifier when you follow a commercial link.
Professional advisers
Information may be shared with legal, accounting, security, insurance, or other professional advisers where reasonably necessary.
Authorities and legal recipients
Information may be disclosed when reasonably believed necessary to:
- comply with applicable law;
- respond to a valid legal process;
- protect a person’s safety;
- investigate fraud or abuse;
- protect the website’s rights or property;
- establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Business successors
Information may be transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, financing, asset sale, or similar business transaction, subject to applicable law.
Tests.School does not publish private email correspondence as a public comment automatically.
Third-Party Websites
Tests.School contains links to websites operated independently by third parties.
Examples may include:
- assessment providers;
- school districts or school boards;
- government education authorities;
- commercial preparation providers;
- research organisations;
- advertising destinations.
Tests.School does not control how an external website collects or uses information after you leave Tests.School.
Review the third party’s current privacy policy before:
- creating an account;
- purchasing a product;
- submitting a child’s information;
- uploading a document;
- accepting cookies;
- using an external test or platform.
Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, subject to legal, security, accounting, and operational requirements.
Retention may vary according to the type of information.
For example:
- an unanswered or routine email may be deleted when no longer needed;
- correspondence relating to a correction may be retained to document the editorial decision;
- legal or copyright correspondence may be retained for a longer period;
- security logs may be retained according to the settings and policies of the relevant infrastructure provider;
- advertising and consent records may be retained according to the provider’s settings and legal requirements.
When information is no longer required, we may delete, anonymise, or aggregate it.
Backup copies may remain temporarily until overwritten under normal backup processes.
International Processing
Tests.School can be accessed internationally.
Its hosting, advertising, email, and other service providers may process information in countries other than the country where you live.
Those countries may have different privacy laws.
Where legally required, the relevant organisation may rely on recognised transfer mechanisms, contractual protections, adequacy decisions, or other lawful safeguards.
External providers remain responsible for the international transfers they conduct under their own policies and legal obligations.
Children’s Privacy
Tests.School publishes information about school assessments and may be read by parents, guardians, educators, and students.
The website is not intended to solicit personal information from children.
Children should not email or otherwise submit personal information without the involvement and permission of a parent or guardian.
In particular, a child should not submit:
- their full name;
- their home address;
- their school login;
- their student number;
- their date of birth;
- their complete score report;
- medical or psychological information;
- secure test questions;
- another student’s information.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to Tests.School, contact us at info@tests.school.
We will review the request and take appropriate steps, which may include deleting the information where required.
Educational Records
Tests.School is not a school, school district, school board, or official student-record system.
The website does not require families to upload official educational records.
Sending a score report to Tests.School does not make Tests.School the official custodian of that record and may expose information unnecessarily.
Questions about access to, correction of, or deletion from an official school record must be directed to the school or educational authority responsible for it.
Security
We use reasonable organisational and technical measures intended to protect information under our control.
These measures may include:
- encrypted HTTPS connections;
- managed hosting infrastructure;
- network-security services;
- access restrictions;
- software updates;
- abuse monitoring;
- minimisation of information requested from readers.
No Internet transmission, email system, website, or storage method can be guaranteed completely secure.
You should not send sensitive information through ordinary email.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and the law that applies, you may have rights concerning personal information about you.
These may include the right to:
- request access;
- request correction;
- request deletion;
- restrict certain processing;
- object to certain processing;
- withdraw consent;
- request data portability;
- opt out of certain targeted-advertising uses;
- lodge a complaint with an appropriate privacy or data-protection authority.
These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions.
We may need to verify your identity and clarify the request before responding.
A parent or guardian may contact us regarding information submitted by their child.
To make a request, email:
Please describe:
- the nature of the request;
- the email address involved;
- the approximate date of the communication;
- the Tests.School page concerned, where relevant.
Do not send identity documents unless specifically requested through an appropriate secure process.
Advertising Privacy Choices
Residents of certain jurisdictions may have rights to opt out of particular advertising or data-sharing practices.
Available controls may include:
- a consent or privacy-choice message shown on Tests.School;
- Google My Ad Center;
- browser cookie controls;
- device-level advertising controls;
- opt-out tools provided by participating advertising organisations;
- a request sent to Tests.School.
Google My Ad Center is available at:
https://myadcenter.google.com/
Changing a Google advertising choice does not necessarily delete information held independently by Tests.School or another third party.
Corrections and Deletion Requests
When a request concerns information emailed directly to Tests.School, we will take reasonable steps to locate the relevant correspondence.
We may decline or limit a request where permitted by law, including where information must be retained for:
- legal obligations;
- fraud prevention;
- security;
- dispute resolution;
- freedom of expression;
- the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims.
We may retain a minimal record showing that a request was completed.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when:
- website functionality changes;
- a provider is added or removed;
- advertising practices change;
- legal requirements change;
- contact or operational details change;
- the policy requires clarification.
The updated date in the page metadata indicates the most recent substantive revision.
Changes take effect when the revised Policy is published, unless a later effective date is stated.
Where appropriate or legally required, an additional notice or consent request may be presented.
Contact
Privacy questions and requests can be sent to:
Please do not include sensitive information about a child in your first message.
This Privacy Policy should be read together with: