Privacy Policy

Last updated: 6 November 2026

1. What we collect

The free practice test works without an account, and its results are stored only in your own browser.

If you use “See a mistake?” under a question, we store the question’s number, your note, the kind of problem you picked, the language, whether it came from the free test or the study area and, in the study area, a short reference to your access pass. We do not ask for or store your name or email; your IP address is kept only as a one-way scrambled code (a hash) to limit spam, never the address itself.

2. What we do not collect

We never see or store your card number. Payments are processed by Paddle.com, our Merchant of Record. We do not collect your license application details, social security number or identity documents.

3. Why we use it

To give you the access you paid for, show your progress, answer support requests, improve the questions, and meet our tax and accounting obligations.

4. Who else processes it

We do not sell your data. If you arrived from a Google ad, your browser keeps that ad’s click id for up to 90 days (in local storage, not in a cookie) and it is passed with your order. To measure which ads work, we tell Google Ads that a purchase happened (its time and amount), together with that click id or with an SHA-256 hash of your email address, and nothing else. We do not use this data for anything else. If you do not want your (hashed) email address included, write to support@cacontractorexam.com and it will not be sent.

Google Ads conversion measurement: the public pages of this site load Google’s tag (gtag.js, not in the paid study area or on the sign-in pages). When you land on the page shown after a successful payment, it tells Google Ads once that a purchase happened: the amount paid (after any discount, before tax), the currency, the order number and an SHA-256 hash of your email address (worked out on our server, so the address itself is never sent to Google). When the payment window opens, it also tells Google Ads once that a checkout was started, with the price shown (before tax) and the currency, and nothing about you. Google uses this to tell us how many purchases came from our ads; we do not use it for ad personalization or remarketing. If your browser sends the Global Privacy Control signal, the tag is not loaded and nothing is sent.

5. How long we keep it

Account and progress data: while your access is active and for 12 months after it ends, so you can come back without losing your history. The technical log of the study area: 90 days, then deleted automatically. Payment records are kept by Paddle for as long as tax law requires. You can ask us to delete your data sooner.

6. Your rights

Write to support@cacontractorexam.com to get a copy of your data, correct it, or have it deleted. We respond within 30 days. If you are in the EU, UK or California you have rights under GDPR, UK GDPR or the CCPA; we apply the same standard to everyone.

7. Cookies

We use the cookies needed to keep you signed in and to remember your language. Google’s tag described in section 4 also sets first-party cookies on this site (such as _gcl_au, and _gcl_aw when you arrive from a Google ad) so that a later purchase can be linked to the ad click; they are used only to measure conversions, not for ad personalization. You can block or delete them in your browser, or turn on Global Privacy Control, and the tag is then not loaded. The ad click id described in section 4 is also kept in your browser’s local storage. If we add analytics later, this page will be updated first and we will ask for consent where required.

We count a few anonymous moments — that a visit arrived from an advert, that a practice test was started, reached its fifth or fifteenth question, or was finished, that the pricing section was seen, that a license classification was chosen above the prices or prep for a trade exam was asked for, that a purchase completed — together with the date, the language, the country your connection comes from (the two-letter code our hosting provider attaches to each request), the kind of site that sent you here (for example, a search engine; never the full address) and, if you arrived from an advert, that advert’s campaign name. For a practice test and for a checkout we also note which exam it is for (Law & Business, a trade exam such as General Building, or a two-exam pass); for a license choice, the classification code (for example C-33). No cookie is set for this, no identifier is created for you, and your IP address is not read or stored. Your browser keeps one word about where you came from (for example “google” or “chatgpt”) for up to 30 days, so that a later purchase is counted for the right channel, and the license classification you chose, so that the pages show the same plans next time; this leaves your device only as part of these counts and, if you buy, attached to your order so we know which channel the sale came from. After you buy, you may tap one optional button saying how you heard about us (Google ad, ChatGPT, Google search, a friend, other); it is added to the same counts and not linked to you. The counts cannot be traced back to a person.