Privacy policy

Last updated: September 25, 2026

Who runs this site

PracticeDMV is an independent study site for United States permit and driver knowledge tests. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any state DMV, motor vehicle agency, or government body. This policy explains what the site collects when you visit and the choices you have about it. If anything here is unclear, reach us through the contact page.

You do not need an account

There is no sign up, no login, and no email capture anywhere on this site. You do not give us your name, your email, or any other personal detail to read a guide, take a practice test, or use any tool. Practice progress that a tool keeps, such as a score on a simulated test, is stored in your own browser and never sent to us.

What is collected

The site uses two analytics services. Neither is used to build a profile of you by name, because the site never asks who you are.

• Google Analytics 4. Measures how pages are used: which pages are visited, how long a visit lasts, the referring link, and technical details such as device type, browser, operating system, and an approximate location derived from your IP address. Google Analytics 4 does not store the full IP address. This tells us which practice tests and guides are worth improving.
• Microsoft Clarity. Records anonymized session activity, such as clicks, scrolling, and mouse movement, and aggregates it into heatmaps and session replays. This shows where a page is confusing to use. Before you accept, Clarity runs without cookies: each page view is recorded on its own and is never linked to the next one or to a returning visit. Full sessions that follow you from page to page start only after you accept.

With your consent, both services set cookies. The site does not sell your data, and the analytics described here are not used to target advertising.

Advertising

PracticeDMV is free to use, and advertising is how it is funded. Ads on this site may be served by Google and by other third party vendors working through Google.

• Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or to other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and other sites on the internet. You can learn how Google uses this information in how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
• You can opt out of personalized advertising from Google at Google Ads Settings, and from many other vendors at aboutads.info and youronlinechoices.eu.
• In the UK, the EU and the EEA, personalized ads are shown only if you consent to them. Without that consent, any ads are non-personalized, which means they are chosen from the page you are reading rather than from your history.

Cookies and how consent works

Every visitor, wherever they are, is asked first. When you arrive, analytics consent is set to denied and a banner offers two equal choices: accept analytics or reject it.

• Before you choose, and if you reject, no analytics cookie is set. Google Analytics runs in Consent Mode v2 and sends only cookie free signals that carry no identifier, and Clarity records anonymous single page views as described above.
• If you accept, Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity may set their cookies, so visits can be measured across pages and over time.
• Global Privacy Control. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, analytics stays rejected unless you choose to accept it yourself.

Your choice is remembered in your browser so you are not asked on every visit. To change or withdraw it, use the Your Privacy Choices link in the footer of any page. Withdrawing consent switches both services back to cookie free mode and removes the Google Analytics and Clarity cookies this site set on your device.

The legal basis

Analytics cookies are set only on the basis of your consent, for every visitor. The cookie free measurement that runs before a choice, and after a rejection, sets no cookie and does not identify you; it relies on a legitimate interest in knowing whether the site works.

How long data is kept

Google Analytics 4 keeps user and event level data for the retention period set on the property, which follows Google's default of up to fourteen months, after which it is deleted automatically. Aggregate reports can persist longer. Microsoft Clarity keeps its recordings and heatmap data under Microsoft's default retention, which is generally around thirty days for session data. Each service is the processor of the data it holds, and each publishes its own retention terms, linked below.

Your rights and how to use them

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access the data held about you, to ask that it be deleted, and to opt out of its collection. Because this site never links what it collects to your name or email, the most direct way to exercise these rights is the same for everyone.

• Opt out of collection. Use the Your Privacy Choices link in the footer and choose Reject analytics. That switches analytics back to cookie free mode for you.
• Access or deletion. Analytics data is held by Google and Microsoft as processors. You can clear the cookies and site data in your browser to remove the local identifiers, and you can contact us through the contact page for help with an access or deletion request, which we will pass to the relevant service.

The services this site uses

Each service processes data under its own privacy terms:

• Google: Google Privacy Policy. See also how Google Analytics safeguards data.
• Microsoft: Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Changes to this policy

If what the site collects or how consent works changes, this page changes with it and the last updated date at the top moves. There is no version of this site where a change to your privacy is made quietly.

Questions about anything here, including a data access or deletion request, go to [email protected] or the contact page. To see how the rest of the site is built and sourced, read the methodology and who makes this site.