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Privacy Policy
Short version: HardHat Prep does not collect your personal data. Your study progress lives only in your own browser and never reaches us.
Who runs this site
This site is operated as HardHat Prep ("we," "us"). Questions about privacy can be sent to [email protected].
What we collect
Almost nothing. HardHat Prep has no user accounts, no login, and no sign-up form. We do not ask for your name, email address, or any other personal detail, and there is no way for you to give us one.
- Your study progress — the questions you answer, your scores, and your readiness estimate are stored only in your own browser (using a feature called localStorage). This information never leaves your device and is never sent to us or anyone else. Clearing your browser data erases it, and it does not follow you to another device or browser.
- No cookies. We do not use cookies for tracking, advertising, or any other purpose.
- No accounts, no payments. The site is free and collects no payment information.
Anonymous visit counts
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits so we can tell whether the site is useful. This service is privacy-first and cookie-free: it does not use any tracking identifier, does not build a profile of you, and does not follow you across other websites. It reports only aggregate figures such as total page views and which pages are popular. We cannot use it to identify you.
Hosting and server logs
The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Like every website, delivering a page requires Cloudflare to briefly handle your device's IP address in order to send you the content and to protect the site from attacks and abuse. This is a standard, automatic part of how the internet works; we do not use those logs to identify or track individual visitors. Cloudflare's own handling of this data is described in its privacy policy at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.
What we never do
- We do not sell, rent, or share your data — because we do not collect it.
- We do not show advertising.
- We do not load third-party trackers, social media pixels, or analytics beyond the anonymous Cloudflare count described above.
Children
HardHat Prep is a study tool for trade-certification exams and is intended for a general audience. Because the site collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children either.
Your control
Since your progress is stored only in your browser, you are fully in control of it: use the "reset progress" option inside the app, or clear your browser's site data, to erase it at any time. There is no server-side copy for us to delete because none is ever created.
Changes to this policy
If we change how the site handles data — for example, if accounts or payments are added in the future — we will update this page and revise the "last updated" date above. Material changes will be reflected here before the new feature goes live.
Contact
Questions about this policy? Email [email protected].
HardHat Prep is an independent study aid and is not affiliated with WPI, ABC, AWWA, or any certifying body.