Privacy Policy

The short version

There is no account. We do not ask for your name, email address or immigration status, and your study progress is kept on your device.

The app shows ads and uses a few services from Google, Meta and Cloudflare, listed below. Usage statistics are optional, and you can turn them off at any time in Settings.

This website sets no cookies of its own and runs no analytics scripts.

Who we are

The app is published by LockTheories, the developer of Life in the UK Test on the App Store and Google Play. For anything relating to this policy or your data, contact us at patukhome@gmail.com.

Your study data

Your progress, answers, bookmarks, results and settings are stored on your device. They are not linked to an account, and they are deleted when you delete the app. We cannot see them or restore them.

Usage statistics

The app's Usage statistics setting, in Settings under Privacy, is on by default and optional. While it is on, the app sends pseudonymous usage data — linked to a random identifier, not to your name — to Google Firebase Analytics: for example, which features you use, your answers to questions, and any question errors you report.

We use it to fix and improve questions and translations, and to show lists of the questions that learners using the app most often miss or save. Those lists contain only totals, no personal data.

Turning the setting off stops usage statistics; it does not delete data already sent. It is separate from your advertising choices. Versions of the app before 3.0.6 do not have this setting.

Services we use

The app and this website use these services. Each receives your IP address and basic device information when it is used, and handles data under its own privacy policy:

• Google AdMob and Meta Audience Network — to show ads
• Google Firebase Analytics — usage statistics, only while the setting above is on
• Google Firebase Remote Config — to update app settings without a new release
• Google Fonts — the app's typefaces
• Cloudflare — hosting for this website, for question bank updates and for the question lists shown in the app
• Privacy policies: Google, Meta, Cloudflare

Advertising and your choices

The app is free and supported by ads. Personalised ads may use your device's advertising identifier; non-personalised ads do not, but still use limited data for reporting and fraud prevention.

In the UK and the EEA, the app asks for your consent to personalised ads when you first open it. If you decline, the app works in full and shows non-personalised ads. The app has no setting that reopens this prompt; to stop personalised ads at any time, use your device settings: on iPhone and iPad, Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking; on Android, Settings › Google › Ads, where you can also reset or delete your advertising identifier.

On iPhone and iPad the app may ask permission to track you. If you choose "Ask App Not to Track", your advertising identifier is not shared and you see non-personalised ads.

What we do not do

• We do not require an account, and we do not collect names, email addresses or documents
• We do not collect information about your immigration status, your application or your test booking
• We do not keep a profile of your progress
• We do not sell personal data

Children

The app is made for adults preparing for a statutory test and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has provided personal data through the app, contact us and we will look into it.

Legal bases and your rights under UK GDPR

The legal basis for personalised ads is your consent. Usage statistics and the other services above rely on our legitimate interests in running, improving and funding a free app; you can object to usage statistics by turning them off.

You can ask to access, correct or delete your personal data, to restrict or object to its use, and to move it. Because we hold no account or name for you, we usually cannot find data relating to you; if you ask, we will say so plainly and point you to the controls above.

You can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Data retention and international transfers

Your study data stays on your device until you delete the app. Our providers keep the data they handle for the periods set out in their own policies, and may transfer it outside the UK and the EEA using standard contractual clauses.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top and, where the change is significant, note it in the app's release notes.

Contact

Email patukhome@gmail.com. We aim to reply within a few working days. You can write in your own language.