TRANSPARENCY & DATA PRIVACY
Privacy Policy
Effective Date: September 19, 2026 · Last Updated: September 2026
Notice: FreeRoadSignsTest.com is an independent educational resource and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any state Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), licensing agency, or the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
1. Overview & Educational Purpose
FreeRoadSignsTest.com provides free educational practice for United States road signs and driver licensing preparation. This Privacy Policy describes how this website operates, what data is stored on your device, our current site behavior, and future advertising disclosures.
2. Current Site Behavior
The current version of FreeRoadSignsTest.com operates with the following privacy characteristics:
- No Account Required: You do not need to register, log in, or provide personal credentials to use this site. If you use the Contact form, you voluntarily provide your name, email address, selected reason, and message.
- No Sale of Personal Data: We do not sell, rent, trade, or monetize personal user information.
- No Analytics Trackers: No third-party web analytics tools (such as Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager), tracking pixels, or behavioral profiling scripts are currently installed or loaded on this website.
- Provider Request Processing & Server Logs: Our hosting or network provider may process standard request information such as IP address, browser/user-agent information, requested URL, and timestamps for operation, reliability, and security. FreeRoadSignsTest.com does not maintain its own server-side user database or track individual visitor identities.
3. Contact By Email
The Contact page can prepare an email in your device's email application using the information you enter in the form. The form does not submit this information to FreeRoadSignsTest.com servers.
If you choose to send the email, your email provider transmits the message and we receive the sender address and information you include in the message. We use that information to respond to your inquiry and may retain correspondence as reasonably necessary for support, record keeping, abuse prevention, or legal obligations.
4. Client-Side Local Storage (Browser Storage)
To enable features such as progress tracking, theme selection, and test resumption without requiring user accounts or remote database servers, FreeRoadSignsTest.com stores application state locally in your browser via HTML5 localStorage.
This learning and preference data remains strictly on your device and is never transmitted to our servers. The application utilizes 8 fixed storage keys plus state-specific active-session and completed-history key families (which correspond to 10 keys across our 5 authorized launch states NC, MO, IL, VA, and GA, yielding up to 18 possible browser keys when practicing across every state):
| Storage Key / Family | Feature & Purpose | Storage Type |
|---|---|---|
frst_theme_preference_v1 | Stores your visual theme preference (Light or Dark mode). (Migrates legacy frst_theme if found). | Persistent local storage (Fixed key) |
frst_selected_state_v1 | Remembers your selected state preference on the homepage (e.g., NC, MO, IL, VA, GA, or US). | Persistent local storage (Fixed key) |
frst:progress:v1 | Stores learner mastery metrics, total questions answered, session counts, streaks, and sign-level attempt history for weak-sign review. | Persistent local storage (Fixed key) |
frst:daily:v1 | Tracks completion state, date, and user answers for the 5-question Daily Sign Challenge. | Persistent local storage (Fixed key) |
frst:timed:v1 | Stores your personal best score and date for the 60-Second Speed Challenge. | Persistent local storage (Fixed key) |
frst:survival:v1 | Stores your personal best streak and date for Survival Mode (one-strike practice). | Persistent local storage (Fixed key) |
frst_active_national_test_v1 | Stores in-progress national test sessions (question sequence and answers) so you can resume an unfinished test. Retained for up to 30 days. | Local session storage (Fixed key) |
frst_national_test_history_v1 | Stores a history of up to 10 completed national practice test sessions for review. | Persistent local storage (Fixed key) |
frst_active_session_[state]_v1 | State-specific active session key family (e.g., frst_active_session_nc_v1, frst_active_session_mo_v1, frst_active_session_il_v1, frst_active_session_va_v1, frst_active_session_ga_v1) for resuming unfinished state tests. | Local session storage (Dynamic family) |
frst_completed_history_[state]_v1 | State-specific completion history key family (e.g., frst_completed_history_nc_v1, frst_completed_history_mo_v1, frst_completed_history_il_v1, frst_completed_history_va_v1, frst_completed_history_ga_v1) retaining completed sessions. | Persistent local storage (Dynamic family) |
You can clear all stored progress and preferences at any time by clearing site data or cookies for freeroadsignstest.com in your browser settings.
5. Future Advertising & Google AdSense Disclosures
Please note: Google AdSense is not currently active on this website.
If advertising is enabled on FreeRoadSignsTest.com, or if we participate in Google AdSense in the future, the following advertising practices and disclosures will apply:
- Third-Party Advertising Cookies: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites on the Internet.
- Google Advertising Cookies: Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visits to FreeRoadSignsTest.com and/or other sites across the web.
- Managing Personalized Advertising: Users will be able to opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Google Ads Settings.
- Industry Opt-Out Portals: Users can also opt out of third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting AboutAds.info Choices or NetworkAdvertising.org.
Consent Management (CMP) for EEA, UK, and Switzerland
If and when advertising is enabled for visitors located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, FreeRoadSignsTest.com will integrate a Google-certified Consent Management Platform (CMP) compliant with the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) to collect and respect user consent choices prior to loading personalized ad technologies.
6. External Government Citations
FreeRoadSignsTest.com links to official government publications for factual verification, including the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), North Carolina DMV (NCDMV), Missouri Department of Revenue (DOR), Illinois Secretary of State (IL SOS), Virginia DMV (VA DMV), and Georgia DDS (GA DDS).
We do not control the privacy practices of external websites. We encourage you to review their respective privacy policies when visiting their domains.
7. Children’s Online Privacy (COPPA)
FreeRoadSignsTest.com provides general driver education materials. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under 13 years of age.
8. Third-Party Interactions & Feedback
While all practice, quiz progress, and configuration data remain strictly client-side on your local device, voluntarily visiting external resources or using our public issue tracker involves third-party platforms:
- External Feedback: If you choose to submit feedback or errata via our public GitHub issue tracker, you are interacting directly with GitHub, Inc. (a third-party service). GitHub Issues are publicly visible to anyone on the internet, and GitHub’s own Terms of Service and Privacy Statement govern that submission. Please never submit confidential, licensing, medical, or sensitive personal data.
- Government Links: Official state manual and statutory links navigate to external government domains (.gov) whose privacy practices are governed by the respective public authorities.
For more details on submitting editorial feedback, see our Contact & Feedback Page.
9. Disclaimer
This privacy policy is provided for technical transparency and user disclosure purposes. It does not constitute formal legal advice.