Peakscor is an independent SAT® and AP® practice website at peakscor.com, built and run by its student founders in Houston, Texas. This policy explains what we collect, why, and what you can do about it. If anything here is unclear, email support@peakscor.com.
The short version
- You can practice without an account. Your progress saves to an anonymous guest account with no name or email, and some of it stays only in your browser.
- If you make an account, we also keep your email address, so your progress can sync across devices.
- We don’t sell your data, show ads, or use third-party analytics or advertising trackers.
- Peakscor is for students 13 and older.
- You can delete your account and its data at any time from the account menu.
What we collect
In your browser only
Your full-length test results, study plan, settings, vocabulary progress and daily free-question count are saved in your browser’s local storage and are not sent to us. You can remove them by clearing your browser’s site data for peakscor.com.
Guest progress, without an account
So your progress can save, Peakscor creates an anonymous guest account in the background when you visit. It has no name or email address. It is tied to a random ID that your browser makes up. It stores:
- your game coins, characters and map progress;
- your settings;
- your practice record: which questions you have seen or missed, and your accuracy by skill;
- which parts of Peakscor you used each day (for example, practice or games), so streaks and your study plan work and so we can count how often each feature is used.
With an account
- Your email address, used to sign you in and to send sign-in links. Passwords are handled by our sign-in provider and stored only in hashed form. We never see your password.
- A display name. New accounts get an anonymous name like “Climber 4F2A1”. It is never taken from your email.
- Your progress: everything a guest account stores, plus your Learn lesson and quiz progress, synced across your devices.
- Billing records, if you ever buy a plan: your Stripe customer ID and subscription status. Card details go straight to Stripe. We never receive or store them.
Technical information
Like any website, our hosting providers process your IP address and basic request details (such as browser type) to deliver pages and keep the service secure. A sign-in token for your guest account or account is kept in your browser’s local storage. We don’t use advertising cookies or third-party analytics tools.
How we use it
Only to run Peakscor: to sign you in, save and sync your progress, grade questions, show leaderboards, keep the service secure and fair, handle payments if you buy a plan, and reply when you contact us. We don’t use your data for advertising, and we don’t use it to train AI models.
Who we share it with
We don’t sell or rent personal information. We use a small number of service providers who process data only to run Peakscor:
- Supabase stores account data and handles sign-in, including sign-in emails. Its servers are in the United States.
- Vercel hosts the website.
- Stripe processes payments, only if you buy a plan.
- Google Fonts supplies the lettering in two of the games (Hole and Peak Defense). When those games load, Google receives standard technical information such as your IP address.
We may also share information if the law requires it, or to protect the safety of students or the security of the service.
What other people can see
Game leaderboards are public and show your display name and your scores. They never show your email address. Nothing else about your account is public.
Students under 13
Peakscor is meant for students 13 and older, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has made an account, email us and we will delete it.
Your choices
- Delete your account: open the account menu and choose Delete account. This permanently erases your account and everything stored with it on our servers, and clears Peakscor’s data in that browser.
- Guest data: if you never made an account and want your guest data deleted, email us and we’ll help.
- Clear data on your device: clear your browser’s site data for peakscor.com.
- See, correct or get a copy of your data: email us from the address on your account and we’ll respond within 30 days.
These choices are available to everyone, wherever you live.
How long we keep it
We keep account and guest data until it is deleted. When you delete your account, it is erased from our database right away. Copies in our providers’ encrypted backups are overwritten on their normal schedule, usually within a few weeks.
Security
All traffic is encrypted. Every database table has access rules so that each student can read only their own records, and those rules are tested automatically whenever the code changes. No system is perfectly secure, so if you think something is wrong, tell us right away.
Schools
Peakscor is independent. It isn’t provided by or through any school, and we don’t receive student records from schools.
Changes
If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use data you’ve already given us, we will tell you on the site before it takes effect.
Contact
Questions or requests: support@peakscor.com.