SHSAT Prep privacy policy

Last updated: August 1, 2026

SHSAT Prep: Practice Tests is made by Simple Tree LLC. It is a study app for the New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, which means most of the people using it are thirteen and fourteen years old. We built it so that we never learn anything about them. The short version: the app collects nothing, because it has nowhere to send it.

No accounts

SHSAT Prep has no sign-up and no login. You never give us a name, an email address, a phone number, or a password, and there is no profile on our end to attach anything to. When you open the app for the first time it asks two questions — which test you are sitting, and roughly when — so it can build a study plan. Those answers live on your device. They are not sent anywhere.

The app does not talk to us

This is the part most privacy policies cannot say plainly, so we will: there is no networking anywhere in this app. It makes no web requests. It has no analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no advertising library, and no “anonymous usage statistics.” The one piece of third-party code it uses is SwiftMath, an open-source library that renders mathematical notation on screen; it also has no networking and collects nothing.

The practical consequence is worth stating: even if we wanted to know how many questions you got wrong, or which topics you struggle with, or how long you study, we could not find out. That information never leaves the device you typed it on.

What is stored, and where

• On your device. Your answers, your accuracy and streak, your study plan and test date, your error journal, and the handwritten working from the scratch pad. Deleting the app removes all of it.
• In your own private iCloud. If you are signed in to iCloud, that same information syncs between your devices using Apple’s CloudKit, in the private database attached to your Apple Account. This is the same mechanism that syncs Notes or Reminders. We are not a party to it: we cannot read that database, we cannot list who has one, and we receive no copy. If you would rather it did not sync, turn iCloud off for SHSAT Prep in iOS Settings and everything stays local.
• Nowhere else. There is no third destination.

Permissions we never ask for

The app requests no system permissions whatsoever. It has no camera, microphone, photo library, contacts, calendar, health, Bluetooth, or location access, and it cannot acquire them silently — iOS requires an app to declare each one in advance, and SHSAT Prep declares none. If iOS ever shows you a permission prompt attributed to this app, something is wrong and we would like to hear about it.

Purchases

SHSAT Prep is free to use, with a paid option that unlocks the full question bank, the lesson library and the full-length practice tests for a year. It is a single payment with no auto-renewal — nothing recurring, nothing to cancel, and no reminder emails, because we have no email address to send them to.

The purchase is handled entirely by Apple. We never see your card, your billing address, or your Apple Account. Apple tells the app one thing: whether a valid purchase exists. Restoring a purchase asks Apple the same question again. If you want a refund, that is Apple’s process, at reportaproblem.apple.com.

No ads, no tracking

There is no advertising in SHSAT Prep and there will not be. The app does not use the advertising identifier, does not participate in any tracking network, and will never present you with the App Tracking Transparency prompt, because it has nothing to ask permission for. Its privacy manifest declares no tracking and no tracking domains.

Children

This app is written for students preparing for an exam they sit in eighth or ninth grade, so we assume children use it. That is exactly why it is built the way it is: we collect no personal information from anyone, and that includes children. There is no account to create, no name to enter, no way for a child to publish anything, and no way for a stranger to contact them through the app. There is nothing for a parent to opt out of, because there is nothing being gathered.

The app is rated 4+ and contains no advertising, no in-app browser, no external links inside the study material, and no user-to-user contact of any kind.

What we don’t do

• We don’t sell your data. We don’t have your data to sell.
• We don’t share anything with advertisers, data brokers, or analytics companies.
• We don’t build a profile of you, your school, your scores, or your weaknesses.
• We don’t email you, because we never learn your address.
• We don’t use your work to train anything.

Your choices

• Stop the sync: turn off iCloud for SHSAT Prep in iOS Settings. Your work stays on the device.
• Delete everything: delete the app. To also remove the synced copy, use Settings › your name › iCloud › Manage Account Storage.
• Ask us anything: see Contact, below. You do not need an account to ask, and we will not ask who you are.

Changes to this policy

If the app ever changes in a way that affects this page — and we have no plans for it to — we will update this page and change the date at the top before that version ships. We will not quietly broaden it. If a future version ever collected anything at all, it would be described here in the same plain language, and Apple’s privacy label on the App Store listing would change to match.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does, can go through the support page. A person reads every message, and you do not need an account to send one — we will not ask who you are.

Simple Tree LLC

This policy describes what SHSAT Prep actually does, written in plain English on purpose. It is not legal advice.