Privacy policy

Who we are

LetsReview is a study app for the Licensure Examination for Teachers, on iOS and on Android. It is independent — we are not the Professional Regulation Commission, not the Board for Professional Teachers, and not connected to either. This policy covers the app and this website.

What we ask you for

Nothing. The app never asks for your name, your email, your number or your birthday, and there is no account to make. It does not ask to see your contacts, photos, camera, microphone, location or files, because it has no use for any of them.

We still cannot tell who you are. What the app does send is described in usage statistics and ads below — neither of them carries your identity, and neither can tell us how you personally are doing.

What stays on your phone

For the app to be useful, it has to remember a few things. All of it stays on your device:

• The questions themselves, which come with the app.
• Which ones you have answered, and whether you got them right.
• Any questions you saved to come back to.
• Your practice exam results.
• Whether you are taking the Elementary or Secondary LET, and your major if you are taking Secondary.
• Your exam date and daily reminder, if you set them.
• Whether you have unlocked Pro.

None of this reaches us. We could not look at your scores if we wanted to — there is nowhere for them to go.

One thing worth knowing, because it is out of our hands: if you have turned on your phone’s own backup — iCloud Backup on iPhone, or Google One on Android — then your phone may include this app’s data in that backup. That copy lives with Apple or Google under their rules, not ours. You can switch off backup for LetsReview in your phone settings if you would rather it did not.

Usage statistics

The app reports anonymous statistics to Google Analytics for Firebase, on both iPhone and Android. This is how we find out which parts of the app people actually use — that a screen is being opened and abandoned, say, or that a feature nobody asked for is going untouched.

What goes out is the shape of your use, not the substance of it: that a practice session started, that a question was answered right or wrong and in which subject, that a mock exam was finished, which settings you changed. Alongside it Google records the ordinary technical details — device model, operating system version, country, app version — and a random identifier for your installation.

What does not go out: your name, your email, your exact location, your scores as a record we could look up, or anything that names you. The identifier is tied to your copy of the app, not to you, and it is reset if you reinstall. We only ever see these numbers added together across everybody — there is no screen anywhere that shows us one person.

Google processes this on our behalf under Firebase’s privacy terms. You can stop it by turning off the analytics or advertising settings your phone provides — Allow Apps to Request to Track and analytics sharing on iPhone, Ads and Usage & diagnostics in Android settings.

Ads

Android only, and only if you have not bought Pro. The free version shows ads supplied by Google AdMob: a banner on the home and progress screens, and a full-screen ad after every third practice session. You can also choose to watch an ad in exchange for one free Mock Exam run — that one is entirely up to you, and nothing happens if you ignore it.

The iPhone version has no ads at all, whether or not you have paid. And buying Pro removes them on Android — that is part of what the payment is for.

To choose an ad, Google may use your device’s advertising ID, your rough location (the country or city your connection suggests, not your street), and the ordinary technical details of your device. It does not receive your name, your email, or anything about how you are doing in your reviewing. What Google does with ad data is covered by how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

Where the law requires a choice — in the EU and UK, for instance — the app asks for your consent before any ad loads, using Google’s own consent form, and it honours your answer. Everywhere, you can limit ad personalisation from your phone’s settings: Delete advertising ID or Opt out of Ads Personalisation under Android settings. The ads do not disappear, but they stop being tailored.

We do not use ads to build a profile of you, and we do not pass anything of yours to advertisers ourselves — we have nothing to pass.

If you email us

This is the one place where we end up with something personal about you, so it is worth being clear. If you write in — to report a problem, or to tell us a question looks wrong — we see your email address and whatever you put in the message.

We use it to write back, and for nothing else. We will not add you to a mailing list and we will not pass your address to anybody. Ask us to delete the email and we will.

Paying for Pro

Pro is a single payment, handled entirely by the App Store or Google Play. We never see your card number or your billing address — the app is simply told that a purchase went through, and it remembers that on your phone. Apple and Google keep the receipt, under their own privacy rules.

When the app goes online

Reviewing itself is completely offline — the questions are already on your phone and answering them needs no connection. The app reaches the internet to:

• buy or restore Pro, by talking to the App Store or Google Play;
• check whether a newer version is available (Android only);
• send the usage statistics described above; and
• fetch ads, on the free Android version only.

None of it sends us your answers, your scores or anything that names you, and none of it is used to build a profile of you. With no connection at all, the app still works for studying; the ads simply do not appear.

Children

LetsReview is made for adults preparing for the LET. It is not aimed at children under 13, we do not knowingly collect anything from them, and the app is not marked as child-directed to Google’s ad systems — because it is a professional licensure reviewer, not a children’s app. If you believe a child has been using it and you would like the installation’s statistics cleared, write to us and we will have them deleted.

What you can do

There is no account to close and no file of yours on our side to request or delete. You are in charge of everything:

• Erase it all: uninstall the app. Your progress goes with it.
• Stop reminders: clear the reminder time in the app, or turn off its notifications in your phone settings.
• Remove the ads: buy Pro, or use the iPhone version, which has none.
• Limit ad personalisation: reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone’s settings.
• Stop the usage statistics: turn off analytics sharing in your phone’s privacy settings.
• Delete an email you sent us: just ask.

The Data Privacy Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10173) gives you rights over your personal information, and similar laws apply elsewhere. If you think we hold something of yours, write to us and we will sort it out.

Other companies

We do not sell or rent your information, and we could not — we do not hold it. Two companies are involved, both of them under their own privacy rules rather than ours:

• Apple — distributes the iPhone app and takes the payment. Privacy policy.
• Google — distributes the Android app, takes the payment, provides the usage statistics through Firebase, and supplies the ads through AdMob. Privacy policy.

Ad data is shared with Google in the sense that serving an ad requires it. That is the one place anything of yours reaches a third party for a purpose other than running the app, and buying Pro ends it.

If this policy changes

The previous version of this page said the app had no ads and no usage tracking. That stopped being true when statistics were added, and this update is late — the page should have changed at the same time the app did. It is corrected above, and we are saying so here rather than quietly editing the date.

If a future version starts collecting something new, we will update this page before that version is released, change the date at the top, and say so in the app’s update notes. We would rather tell you than have you find out.

Get in touch

Anything about this policy, or about privacy in the app generally: villetorio@gmail.com. For anything else, the support page is the place.