Privacy policy
FAL Ready · Last updated 3 October 2026
The short version
FAL Ready has no account, no analytics, no ads and no tracking. Your progress is kept on your iPhone and, unless you turn it off, in your own private iCloud — the private storage of the Apple Account already signed in on your phone, which I cannot read. Nothing is sent to me. The App Store privacy label for FAL Ready says Data Not Collected, and that is the whole of it.
These are the words in the app's own Settings, and this page does not widen them:
FAL Ready has no account, no analytics and no ads. Your answers, mocks and recital results are stored on this iPhone and in your own private iCloud, which only you can read.
Three things involve the network, and each one is named below: your iCloud backup, the purchase if you make one, and FSE's pages when you open one. None of them reaches me.
Who this is from
FAL Ready is made by one person, Scott, in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is an independent study aid for the New Zealand firearms licence theory test. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by Firearms Safety and Education New Zealand (FSE), New Zealand Police, the Mountain Safety Council or any government agency.
What FAL Ready records
Only what you do in the app, so that it can show you your own progress and bring back the questions you got wrong:
- Every answer you give — which question, the option or options you chose, whether it was right, how long you took, when, and whether it was a quick test, a drill or a mock
- Every timed mock you finish — the score, the Seven Rules score, the time taken, the questions in the order you saw them, your answers, and whether it was at our standard
- Every Seven Rules recital — when, how many of the seven you got right, and whether you passed. The words you type or dictate are checked and then discarded; only the result is kept.
And a few settings that belong to the phone and stay on it: the iCloud switch, whether you have seen the first screen, the last few quick-test questions (so they are not repeated straight away), and whether the unlock was bought, so the app knows before the App Store answers.
It does not record your name, your email address, your age, your location, your contacts, or anything about your licence application. It asks for no permissions at all — not location, not camera, not microphone, not notifications.
Where it is stored
In a database inside the app on your iPhone.
The iCloud backup
Unless you turn it off, that database is also mirrored to your iCloud, so that weeks of study are not lost when you change phones.
- It is your iCloud, not a service of mine. The copy lives in the private database of your own Apple Account, held by Apple, counting against your own iCloud storage, under Apple's privacy policy. There is no account to create and no server of mine involved at any point.
- I cannot read it. Not your answers, not your scores, not a count of them. A developer can see the shape of the data in Apple's console — the names of the fields — and none of its contents.
- One switch turns it off: Settings → Back up to iCloud. It takes effect the next time the app opens, and the screen says so. With it off, your progress stays on this iPhone only, and a new phone starts from scratch.
- Settings tells you what is actually happening — whether the backup really is running, and why not if it is not.
Because the backup is on unless you turn it off, your progress does leave the phone by default — for your own iCloud, and nowhere else.
What involves the network
There is no account to sign in to, and no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising and no third-party code of any kind. FAL Ready has no networking code of its own and no server of mine to talk to. Three things involve the network, and all of them are Apple's or FSE's:
Your iCloud backup, described above.
The purchase. If you unlock FAL Ready, Apple handles the whole transaction through the App Store. I never see your card details, your billing address or your Apple Account. Apple gives me anonymised sales totals — numbers, not people — and nothing in that reporting is connected to anything you do in the app. Restore purchase and Redeem a code are Apple's too. Family Sharing is arranged by Apple between the members of your family group; nothing about it passes through me.
FSE's pages. The first screen, the recaps, the answers and Settings link to FSE's own free e-learning and guidance. Those open in Safari's in-app browser, on FSE's website, and FSE's own privacy policy applies there, not this one. FAL Ready does not see what you do on FSE's pages and sends them nothing from the app.
Dictation
The Seven Rules recital can be spoken rather than typed, using the microphone key on your iPhone's own keyboard. That is iOS dictation, handled by Apple under its own privacy policy and your dictation settings. FAL Ready has no microphone permission and receives only the text.
Deleting your progress
Settings → Delete everything removes every answer, mock and recital result from your iPhone, and from your iCloud if the backup is on. It cannot be undone. Deleting the app removes it from the phone; if the backup was on, the copy in your Apple Account remains until you delete it there, in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud.
Schools and clubs
Schools, NZDA branches and FSE-approved clubs can ask for discount codes for their learners, and those codes are redeemed through Apple. I keep a note of which organisation was sent codes, when, and how many — never who redeemed one, which Apple does not tell me in any case.
Children and young people
FAL Ready is for people preparing for the New Zealand firearms licence theory test, and many of them are teenagers, often working through it with a parent. It collects nothing from anyone, whatever their age: there is no account, no profile and nothing sent to me.
Your data is yours
Because I hold none of it, there is nothing for me to hand over, correct or delete on your behalf, and no request you need to make. That stays true with the iCloud backup running: the copy is in your Apple Account, not mine.
The Privacy Act 2020 applies to me as a New Zealand developer. Under it, the position is simple: I am not collecting, holding or using your personal information. The iCloud backup does not change that — the data moves between your phone and your own Apple Account, and I am not a party to it.
Changes to this policy
If the app ever changes what it does with data, this page changes with it, before the change ships. The date at the top says when it was last revised.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or about anything to do with your data: [email protected]
Anything else — problems, suggestions, or a question you think is wrong: [email protected]
FAL Ready keeps your progress so you can see it and practise what you missed. It is a study aid, and the Firearms Safety Code and the Arms Act 2026 remain the authoritative sources.