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Privacy policy
PassDrive is a study app and a website about the Irish driver theory test. This page says exactly what each of them does with information about you — which, in the app's case, is very little.
Last updated 29 October 2026No account and no sign-in, so there is nothing to profile
Your answers and progress stay in the phone’s own storage
No analytics, no advertising, no cookies on the site
The only things we hold are what you send through the contact form, a waitlist or an instructor listing
In practice
What this means on an ordinary day
The policy below is the full version. This is the part that changes anything for you.
Nothing to sign into
There is no account, so there is no password to leak, no profile to sell, and nothing of yours for anyone to ask us to hand over.
It lives on your phone
Answers, mock results, the date of your test: written into the phone’s own storage by the app, and never uploaded to us.
Nobody is counting
No analytics in the app, none on the site. We genuinely do not know how many questions you have answered or whether you passed.
The policy
Privacy policy in full
Who is behind PassDrive
PassDrive is made and published by ITSS, which is the data controller for anything described on this page. There is no phone line and no published email address to scrape — reach us through the contact form, which goes straight to the person who builds the app.
What the app keeps, and where
The app keeps what you do inside it — which questions you have answered, what you got right, your mock results, the date of your test if you enter one — in the phone's own storage. It stays on the device. There is no account, no sign-in, nothing syncing to a server, and no way for us to see it.
There is no analytics package, no crash reporter, no advertising network and no tracking of any kind in the app. We do not know how many questions you answered, or whether you passed.
Deleting the app deletes everything it stored. Nothing survives it, because there is nowhere else for it to be — which is what the deleting your data page is about.
Speaking your answer
In practice you can answer by voice. The microphone is only listening while you have tapped "Say your answer", and it stops as soon as it has heard one. PassDrive never records audio to a file and never sends audio to us.
On iPhone, PassDrive asks iOS to recognise the words on the device itself, and will not use voice answering if the phone cannot do that offline.
On Android, the phone's own speech recogniser does the work — usually Google's. Depending on the phone and its settings that may happen in the cloud, under Google's privacy policy rather than ours.
Either way, all PassDrive receives back is text, which it compares with the answers on screen and then discards.
Buying an unlock
Unlocks are bought through the App Store or Google Play. Apple and Google take the payment, hold the card details and issue any refund; we never see your payment information. What comes back to the app is simply whether the purchase exists, which is what opens the content.
This website
The site is a set of pages about the theory test. It sets no cookies, carries no analytics, no advertising and no social or tracking pixels, and loads its typeface from our own server rather than from anyone else's. There is nothing here to consent to, which is why you have not been asked — the cookie policy is the short version of that.
The site is hosted by Vercel. The contact form and the waitlists are handled on its servers in Frankfurt, in the EU, and what they send is stored by Neon, also in Frankfurt. Like any website, those servers keep short-lived technical logs — an IP address, the page requested, the time — which exist to keep the site up and to spot abuse. They are not used to build a profile of anyone.
The contact form
If you write to us, we receive your name, your email address, whichever test you picked and your message. We use it to answer you and for nothing else: no mailing list, no marketing, and it is never passed to anyone for their own purposes. The lawful basis is our legitimate interest in replying to someone who has asked us a question.
Messages are saved in our database, which Neon hosts for us in Frankfurt, in the EU. They are kept for up to 12 months so the thread makes sense if you write again, then deleted.
Category waitlists
On a test that is not live yet you can leave your email address to hear when it is. We keep the address and the test you picked, in the same database, and use them for that one message. Once the test is live and the message has gone out, the address is deleted. The lawful basis is your consent, and you can ask through the contact form to be removed sooner.
Driving instructor listings
A driving instructor who asks to be listed in the instructor directory sends us their name, driving school, ADI number, email address, phone number, website, the counties and towns they cover, what they teach, the languages they teach in, their offers and prices, and a few lines about themselves. We look the ADI number up on the Road Safety Authority's public register and, if it is there, publish the listing on passdrive.ie, and later in the app.
Everything on the form is published except the ADI number and, unless the instructor chose to show it, the email address, which we use only to reach them about the listing. The lawful basis is the instructor's consent, given on the form and recorded with the date. An instructor can ask through the contact form to change or remove their listing at any time; a removed listing is deleted from the database, not just hidden.
For learners nothing changes: the directory is a page like any other, and calling or messaging an instructor goes straight to them, not through us.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, object to how it is used, or ask for a copy. In practice this only ever concerns the contact form, the waitlists and instructor listings, since the app holds nothing of yours — ask through the form and we will act on it within 30 days.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled it you can complain to the Irish Data Protection Commission at dataprotection.ie.
Children
PassDrive is for people studying for a driving test, so it is written for over-17s and is not directed at children.
Changes to this policy
If what we do changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves. Anything that needed your consent would be asked for before it started, not announced afterwards.
Questions
What people ask about this
The same few every time, answered plainly.
Can you see how I did on my mocks?
No. The app never sends your results anywhere, so there is nothing on our side to look at. The figures on your readiness card are worked out on the phone, from the phone’s own record.
Is my voice recorded when I answer out loud?
No audio is ever written to a file or sent to us. The phone’s own recogniser turns what you said into text, the app compares that text with the options on screen, and then discards it.
Do you sell anything to advertisers?
There is nothing to sell. No advertising network, no data broker, no audience list — and no account to attach any of it to in the first place.
I am changing phone. Does my progress come with me?
No, and that is the trade for keeping it off our servers: progress is per phone. A purchase does move, because it belongs to your App Store or Google Play account — "Restore purchases" in Profile brings it back.
How do I get a copy of what you hold about me?
Ask through the contact form. In practice the only things we could hold are a message you sent us or your address on a waitlist, and we will send you a copy or delete them within 30 days.
Small print
The rest of it
Four short documents, and one form that reaches a person.
Still not sure?
Anything here you want explained, or a request about your own data — the contact form reaches the same person who writes the app.