1. Practising without an account
When you answer questions, your progress (which questions you answered, whether you were right, and which you saved) is stored only in your own browser using local storage. It is not sent to us unless you create an account. You can clear it at any time by clearing your browser’s site data or using “Reset this chapter”.
2. Accounts (optional)
If you create an account we store your email address, a securely hashed password (we never see or store the password itself), the date you last signed in, your practice progress and your mock exam results, so that the same progress is available on all your devices. We use your email only to confirm your address, to reset your password when you ask, and to reply if you contact us. Unconfirmed sign-ups are deleted automatically after 7 days.
You can delete your account at any time from Your progress → Delete account. This permanently deletes your account, progress and mock exam results.
3. Reports and contact messages
When you report a question we store your report, the question as it was at that moment, and a one-way scrambled (hashed) version of your IP address. The hash is used only to stop abuse such as automated spam, and is deleted after 90 days. Contact form messages are stored with the email address you give us so that we can reply; they are deleted within 365 days after the matter is closed, and their IP hash after 90 days.
4. Advertising
Exam Kata is supported by ads served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads, to measure them, and — if you allow it — to personalise them based on your visits to this and other websites. Learn more in How Google uses information from sites that use its services. You can turn off personalised ads in Google Ad Settings.
Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent through a Google-certified consent tool before personalised ads or analytics cookies are used. Until you choose, Google tags run in a restricted, cookieless mode. Visitors in U.S. states with privacy laws can opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information for advertising through the choices Google provides on this site.
5. Analytics
We use Google Analytics (through Google Tag Manager) to understand which pages are useful — for example, how many people visit a chapter — in aggregate. Where consent is required, it is used only after you agree.
6. Cookies we set ourselves
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
Session cookie and XSRF-TOKEN | Keep you signed in and protect forms from cross-site attacks. Only set on the sign-in, account and contact pages. | Session / 2 hours |
remember_web_* | Keeps you signed in if you tick “Keep me signed in”. | Up to 400 days |
ek_member | Tells the page to sync your progress because you have an account. It contains no personal data. | Up to 400 days |
The practice pages themselves set no cookies of ours.
7. Who we share data with
We do not sell your personal information. Data is processed by our web hosting provider (to run the site and send email) and by Google (ads and analytics, as described above). We may disclose information if required by law.
8. Children
Exam Kata is intended for adults and teenagers preparing for professional certifications. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or export your personal information, or to object to its use. Account holders can delete their account themselves at any time. For any other request, use the contact form and choose “Privacy or data request”.
10. Changes
If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top of this page.