Privacy Policy
Ace the Test, a study aid for the US civics test
Last updated: 23 August 2026
The short version. Ace the Test has no accounts and asks for nothing about you. Your progress never leaves your phone. The app itself makes no network requests at all. The one exception is advertising: the app is free because it shows ads from Google AdMob, and Google collects some data in order to serve them. Everything below is the detail behind those two sentences.
Information the app collects
None. There is no sign-up, no login, and no profile. The app never asks for your name, email address, phone number, or location, and there is nowhere in it to enter them.
Information stored on your device
Your progress is saved locally, in the app's own storage on your phone. That is a single record containing:
- points, streaks, and which lessons you have solved
- how well you know each question, used to decide what to show you next
- your pop quiz scores
- your settings: which exam version you are studying and which language you read in
This is never uploaded, never transmitted, and never seen by anyone but you. It is not backed up to any server we run, because there is no server. You can erase it at any time from Settings › Reset progress, and deleting the app removes it completely.
Advertising
The app is free and carries ads supplied by Google AdMob. Google is an independent controller of the data it collects, and in the course of selecting and measuring ads it may collect:
- your device's advertising identifier (the IDFA on iOS)
- your IP address, and the approximate region derived from it
- device and operating system information
- whether an ad was shown, viewed, or tapped
What Google does with that is governed by Google's own terms, not ours. See the Google Privacy Policy and How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
We receive only aggregate, non-identifying reporting from Google, such as how many ads were shown. We do not receive, and cannot see, information about any individual person.
Your choices about ads
Personalized ads. On first launch, if you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you are asked through Google's consent form whether ads may be personalized. You can reopen that form and change your answer at any time from Settings › Ads › Manage ad choices.
App Tracking Transparency. On iOS, the system also asks for your permission before the advertising identifier can be used to track you across apps. Declining costs you nothing: you get the entire app exactly as before, and the ads are simply chosen at random rather than for you. You can change this later in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking.
There is no paid tier and no way to remove the ads, so declining either prompt does not restrict any part of the app.
What we do not do
- We do not sell or share personal information.
- We run no analytics, no crash reporting, and no tracking of our own.
- We have no server, so there is nothing for us to store or to lose.
Children
Ace the Test is a study aid for adults preparing for the United States naturalization civics test. It is not directed at children under 13, is not listed in the Kids Category, and we do not knowingly collect any information from children.
Study material
The questions and answers come from the civics test materials published by USCIS, which are works of the United States Government and are in the public domain. This app is an independent study aid. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or funded by USCIS or the United States government.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the revised version will be posted here with a new date at the top. Material changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions about this policy can go to enriqueiscoding@gmail.com.