Privacy policy

Last updated: September 4, 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. Clarity records a session only after you have granted consent, in every region.

Both services set cookies and read similar device and usage signals. The site does not sell your data, and it does not use these services to serve you targeted advertisements.

Cookies and how consent works

When you first arrive, analytics consent is set to denied by default. Nothing is stored on your device and no analytics cookie is set until consent moves to granted. How that choice is offered depends on where you are.

• In the EU, EEA, and the UK, the site uses an opt-in model. A banner asks you to accept analytics cookies or to reject everything but what the site needs to work. Nothing analytics related runs until you accept, and if you reject, it stays off.
• Everywhere else, including the United States, the site uses an opt-out model. Analytics starts when you arrive, a notice tells you so, and you can opt out at any time from the same notice or from the control described below.
• Global Privacy Control is honored everywhere. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, the site reads it as an opt out, keeps analytics off, and records that choice without showing a banner.

Your choice is remembered in your browser so you are not asked again on every visit. To change or withdraw it, use the Your Privacy Choices link in the footer of any page. Withdrawing consent turns analytics back off and reloads the page so that session recording stops.

The legal basis

In the EU, the EEA, and the UK, the site relies on your consent as the legal basis for analytics cookies, which is why nothing runs there until you accept. Under United States state privacy laws, the site relies on a legitimate interest in understanding how the site is used, paired with a clear right to opt out, which is the opt-out model described above. Global Privacy Control is treated as a valid opt out in both cases.

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, or send a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser. Either turns analytics off 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 go to the contact page. To see how the rest of the site is built and sourced, read the methodology and who makes this site.