Privacy Policy

By Hunters Guide. Last updated October 17, 2026.

Most of this site asks you for nothing. The one exception is the full practice exam, which asks for your first name and email before you start. We also run Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity. This page sets out exactly what that means for you.

Short policies are easier to keep true. This one describes what the site does today. It does not pad itself out with practices we do not have.

What we collect when you take a practice exam

Before a full practice exam starts, we ask for three things. Only two are required.

Your first name. Required.
Your last name. Optional. Leave it blank if you like.
Your email address. Required.

We also record which exam you signed up on, and whether you ticked the box asking for study tips. That box starts ticked, and you can untick it before you start. If it is ticked when you sign up, we record the date.

When you finish, we save your score, how many questions there were, and which sections you missed. That is what lets us tell you what to work on. We do not save your individual answers.

We do not record your IP address, your browser, or your device with any of this. We keep a small note in your browser so you are not asked again on your next visit. Clearing your browser data removes it.

The questions and explanations on every exam page stay readable without signing up. The topic drill pages ask for nothing and save nothing.

What we do with it

We link your results to you. That is the reason we ask.
We only send marketing email if the box was ticked when you signed up. Untick it and we will not.
Every email has an unsubscribe. Use it, reply and ask, or use our unsubscribe page.
We never sell it. We do not rent it or hand it to advertisers. There are no ads here.
Ask and we delete it. Email us from the address you used.

What we do not collect

No account or password. There is nothing to log in to.
No payment. Every page and every practice exam is free.
No contact form. Our contact page is a plain email link.

Where it is stored

Sign-ups and results are stored in a database on a server we run ourselves. The server is rented from ColoCrossing and sits in its data centre in Buffalo, New York, in the United States. ColoCrossing supplies the machine and the network; it does not read or process the database. Before 14 October 2026 the same data was held by Cloudflare.

Asking us to add an ammunition store

The "Request a store" form on the ammunition prices page stores the store name, its website, the province if you pick one, any note you type, and the time. It does not store your name, email or IP address. We delete each request once we have added the store or decided not to.

Reporting a problem with a question

Every practice question has a link to report a problem with it. A report stores five things: which exam, which question, the reason you picked, anything you typed, and the time. It does not store your name, your email or your IP address, and it is not linked to a sign-up.

We read reports to find and fix mistakes, and we delete them once the question is fixed or the report is dealt with. Please do not type personal details into the box. If you want a reply, email us instead.

Other tools on the site

The filters on the ammunition price page run entirely in your browser. They sort and hide rows that are already in the page you were sent. Whatever you type into that search box stays in your browser.

We use Google Analytics

Every page on this site loads Google Analytics 4. The measurement ID is G-W4Q15YQC5Y. It is the main reason this privacy policy exists.

We use it to see which pages people read and which ones they give up on. That is how we decide what to write next, and how we find a page that is failing.

The tag sets cookies in your browser. It also sends a record of each page view to Google. That record includes the page you are on, the site that sent you, your browser and device type, and a rough location worked out from your IP address.

Google handles that data under its own terms, not ours. Google explains what it does with data from sites like this one on its own partner sites page.

On practice exam and ammunition pages it also records a few actions: opening an exam, picking a topic to practise, seeing and closing the sign-up form, signing up, reaching a quarter, half and three quarters of an exam, finishing an exam and the score, which cartridge you picked, and which retailer link you followed. On the calculators, flashcards and checklists it records that a tool was used, a finished flashcard round and its score, and a printed checklist. Asking us to add a store is recorded too, but not what you wrote. It never records your name, your email, anything you type, or your answers to individual questions.

What we see at our end is totals. Page counts, rough regions, device splits. No name is attached to any of it, and we cannot trace a visit back to a person.

We use Microsoft Clarity

Microsoft Clarity records how a visit moves through a page, so we can see where readers get stuck. It loads on every page, after the page has finished loading. The project ID is yw4w3z6opn.

Unlike Google Analytics, Clarity keeps a replay of individual visits: where the pointer went, what was scrolled and tapped, and which answer options were clicked. It also builds heatmaps from many visits. Those replays have no name attached, and we cannot tell who a visit belongs to.

It masks all text. We run Clarity in its strict mode, so the words on the page and anything you type are hidden in recordings; only the layout, clicks and scrolling show. The practice exam sign-up form is also marked to be hidden entirely. Your name and email never reach Clarity.

We have turned Clarity's cookies off. It cannot recognise you on a later visit, and each page you view is recorded on its own rather than joined into one visit. Microsoft handles the data under its privacy statement and the Clarity terms. The ways to block analytics listed below block Clarity too.

What stays on your own device

A few small things are saved in your browser's own storage, not in a cookie and not on our servers. If you sign up for a practice exam, your browser remembers a random sign-up number so you are not asked again. While you take an exam, your progress is saved after every answer, so a reload or a closed tab does not lose it. And on thegear checklists, the boxes you tick are remembered.

Saved progress never leaves your device. It is cleared when you finish, start a new set or press "Start over", and it expires after 14 days. Checklist ticks never leave your device either, and stay until you clear them. Clearing your browser's site data removes all three.

If you use the flashcards, your browser also keeps which review box each card is in and how often you tapped Got it or Again. That stays on your device too, and clearing your browser's site data removes it.

How to stop the analytics

You do not have to take our word for any of this. You can simply block it, and we do nothing to work around a reader who does.

An ad blocker or tracker blocker will stop the tag loading at all.
Browser tracking protection does the same thing on most modern browsers.
Google publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics across every site.
Turning JavaScript off stops it too.

The site is built to survive all of that. Every page, every practice question and every answer is plain HTML that was written at build time. Block the analytics and you lose nothing but the shuffle button.

Pages that run no analytics at all

A few pages load neither Google Analytics nor Microsoft Clarity. They are the pages readers in Quebec use most, and we keep them free of tracking with Quebec's privacy law in mind. Nothing about your visit to them is sent to Google or Microsoft.

Every visit passes through Cloudflare

Cloudflare sits in front of our server. It serves most pages from its own copies and handles the encrypted connection between your browser and the site.

To do that job, Cloudflare has to see your request. It keeps its own request logs and security records, and those include IP addresses. That is Cloudflare's own processing, covered by their privacy policy.

We run no request logging of our own on top of it. Our server records only its own errors and restarts, not who visited. What we see in the Cloudflare dashboard is traffic totals and security events.

If you email us

Our contact page publishes one address, [email protected], as a plain email link. Because the contact page has no form, nothing is captured on the way.

If you write to us, we then have your address and whatever you chose to put in the message. We keep it to answer you and to fix whatever you reported. We do not publish it, sell it, or sign you up to anything.

When you follow a link to another site

We link out to government pages, and on the ammunition page we link to retailers. Once you follow a link you are on their site, under their rules. Their privacy policy applies there, not this one.

Canadian privacy law

The federal law covering private-sector handling of personal information in Canada is the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, or PIPEDA. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada publishes a plain guide to it.

Among other things, PIPEDA provides a right to ask an organisation what personal information it holds about you, and to ask for a correction. If you took a full practice exam, we hold your name, email and results. Otherwise we hold nothing that names you, unless you have emailed us.

If you are in Quebec, the European Union or the United Kingdom, your own law may give you further rights. Write to [email protected] and tell us what you want, and we will deal with it.

When this page changes

This privacy policy describes what the site does as of October 17, 2026, rather than covering us for things we might do later.

If we ever add anything that collects, stores or sends your data, this page changes first and the date at the top moves with it. A policy full of clauses about practices a site does not have is worse than no policy at all.

Questions about your privacy

Do you use cookies?

Google Analytics sets cookies in your browser. Microsoft Clarity is set up not to use cookies, and we set none of our own. No part of the site needs a cookie to work, so blocking them costs you nothing here. Saved exam progress uses your browser's own storage instead, and never leaves your device.

Do you store my practice exam results?

If you signed up to take a full practice exam, yes. When you finish, we save your score, the number of questions, and which sections you missed, linked to the name and email you gave us. The topic drill pages ask for nothing and save nothing.

Will you email me?

Only if you ticked the box asking for study tips and new practice exams. That box starts ticked. If you untick it, we use your email only to link your results to you, and we do not send you marketing. Every email we send has a way to unsubscribe.

Do you sell or share visitor data?

No. There are no ads on the site and no sponsors who receive data. Four companies touch your data: Google and Microsoft, for analytics; Cloudflare, which every visit passes through on its way to the site; and ColoCrossing, the data centre where the server holding your sign-up sits.

How do I ask what you hold about me?

Email us from the address you signed up with, and we will tell you what we hold and delete it if you ask. If you never took a full practice exam and never emailed us, we hold nothing that names you.

Anything this page does not answer goes to our contact page.