Effective date: July 5, 2026
Contact: support@mrdriversed.com
Mr. Driver's Ed is built to need as little of your data as possible. You can use the entire study app without an account, and by default nothing you do in the app leaves your device. This policy explains the three ways data can exist, two of which are optional and off until you choose them.
The short version
| What | Where | Default | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studying | Questions answered, progress, streaks, scores | Your device only | Always on-device |
| Optional guardian account | Guardian email, learner display names, synced progress | Our servers (AWS, United States) | Off until you create an account |
| Optional anonymous usage stats | Four milestone counts, no identifiers | Our servers, as aggregate counters only | Off until you turn it on |
We show no ads, use no third-party advertising or analytics SDKs, do not track you across apps or websites, and never sell or share personal data.
1. Studying (no account)
All study data — your answers, spaced-repetition state, streaks, exam results — is stored in a local database on your device. It is not transmitted to us. Downloading a state's question bundle is an anonymous file download from our content network; we have deliberately disabled access logging on it. You can export a copy of your study data or erase all of it at any time in Settings & privacy.
2. Optional guardian account and sync
A parent or guardian (an adult — creating an account requires attesting you are 18 or older) may create a free account to sync a learner's progress across devices and see it on a dashboard. If you do, we store:
- Guardian email address — to sign you in.
- Learner display names — names you choose to label learners on your dashboard (a first name or nickname is enough; it's only used to label the dashboard).
- Synced study progress — spaced-repetition state and practice-attempt history for each learner.
This data is stored with Amazon Web Services in the United States, encrypted in transit and at rest. It is used only to provide sync and the guardian dashboard — never for advertising, profiling, or sale. A second guardian can join only by redeeming a single-use invite code created by the learner's owner, and the owner can revoke that access at any time.
Teen devices have no account. A guardian pairs a teen's device using a one-time code. The teen's device gets a limited token that can sync only that one learner's progress. We do not ask the teen for a name, an email, or any account information. A guardian can unlink the device at any time, which cuts off its access immediately.
Export and deletion. In the app you can export a learner's synced data and delete a learner — deletion removes every synced record for that learner from our servers. Deleting your guardian account (Settings & privacy → Account & sync → Delete my account) removes the account and every learner you own, including their synced data; learners you merely co-oversee belong to their owner's household and are untouched. On-device data is separately erasable in Settings & privacy.
3. Optional anonymous usage stats
Settings & privacy contains a switch called "Share anonymous usage stats." It is off by default. If you turn it on, the app sends at most four one-time milestone events: started studying, passed a practice exam, reached the readiness threshold, and shared a pass. Each event contains only the milestone name, the state being studied (e.g. "AR"), and the platform ("ios" or "android") — no user ID, no device ID, no account link, and no study content. Our server stores these only as daily aggregate counters (for example, "how many devices passed a practice exam on this date"); it is technically incapable of describing an individual device. Turning the switch off stops sending and discards anything queued.
4. Children's privacy
Mr. Driver's Ed is designed for teen permit-seekers and their parents. On first launch the app asks an age question. If a user self-identifies as under 13, the app runs in offline-only mode: accounts, sync, device pairing, and usage stats are all unavailable, and we collect nothing from that device. Guardian accounts must be created by an adult. Learner sync is enabled by the guardian — the guardian controls what syncs and can delete it at any time (see section 2). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13; if you believe a child has provided us personal information, contact us at support@mrdriversed.com and we will delete it.
5. Service providers
We use Amazon Web Services (hosting, United States) as a data processor. If you sign in with Apple or Google (when available), Apple or Google handles that sign-in under their own privacy policies; we receive only what is needed to create your session. The app stores (Apple App Store, Google Play) may show you our listing and handle installs, ratings prompts, and in-app review dialogs under their own policies. There are no advertising or analytics SDKs in the app.
6. Data retention
We keep each category of data only as long as it serves the purpose it was collected for, and nothing is retained indefinitely — every category has a deletion path or an automatic expiry:
- On-device study data (purpose: your studying) — stays on your device until you erase it in Settings & privacy.
- Guardian account and synced learner data (purpose: sign-in, sync, and the guardian dashboard) — kept while the account or learner exists, deleted from our servers when you delete the learner or the account (see section 2).
- Anonymous usage counters (purpose: aggregate feature-use counts; contain no personal data) — expire automatically after about 13 months.
7. Your choices and rights
Everything above is user-controllable in the app: study without an account, export data, erase the device, delete learners and the account, and keep usage stats off. Depending on where you live you may have additional legal rights (access, correction, deletion, portability); contact us at support@mrdriversed.com and we will honor them.
8. Changes
If this policy changes, we will update it at this URL and update the effective date. A material change to what we collect will be called out in the app's release notes.