Cookie Policy
This page lists every cookie and browser storage item sieexampracticetest.com uses, what each one does and how long it lasts, and explains how to change your analytics choice. It forms part of our Privacy Policy.
1. The short version
- There are no advertising cookies and no social media pixels on this site.
- Google Analytics stays off until you press Accept. Its script is not loaded before then.
- Everything else is storage the site needs to work, such as your login, your cookie choice or a test in progress.
2. Cookies and browser storage
A cookie is a small piece of text a website saves in your browser, which the browser sends back to that site with each request. Local storage and session storage also keep data in your browser, but nothing in them leaves your browser unless the site's own code sends it. Session storage is cleared when you close the tab. Local storage stays until it is removed or you clear your browser data.
The tables below list both kinds, because they do similar jobs.
3. The cookie banner
On your first visit, a bar at the bottom of the page asks whether you agree to analytics cookies. It has two buttons of the same size and style: Reject and Accept.
- Reject: analytics stay off, and your choice is saved so the bar does not ask again.
- Accept: Google Analytics loads and may set the cookies listed in section 6.
- Ignore the bar: analytics stay off and the site works normally. The bar shows again on your next page.
Your choice is saved in your browser and never sent to our servers.
4. Local storage
| Name | What it does | How long | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
sie-cookie-consent | Remembers whether you pressed Reject or Accept on the cookie banner. Never sent to a server. | Until you change your choice or clear your browser data | Necessary |
accounts_hub_anon | A random practice ID that counts your free practice tests and quizzes when you are not logged in. Sent to our account service when you check your allowance, start a test or save an answer. | Until you clear your browser data | Necessary |
accounts_hub_token | Keeps you logged in. Set when you log in or create an account, and sent to our account service with each request you make while logged in. | Until you log out | Necessary |
sie_attempt:* | The reference of a test in progress on our account service, so you can carry on after a reload or on your next visit. | Until the test is finished | Necessary |
sie_quiz_maker | Remembers the topics, length and timing you chose in the quiz maker. | Until you clear your browser data | Necessary |
sie_pending_plan | Remembers which plan you picked if you have to log in or sign up before checkout. | Removed when checkout opens. Ignored after 48 hours. | Necessary |
sie-flashcards | Remembers which flashcards you marked as known or to review. Never sent to a server. | Until you clear your browser data | Necessary |
5. Session storage
These items are wiped when you close the tab.
| Name | What it does | How long | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
accounts_hub_login, accounts_hub_reset, accounts_hub_verify | Hold the one-time code from a login, password reset or email verification link. The code is moved out of the page address straight away, before anything else loads, so it is not left in your history or sent to any other service. | Until you close the tab | Necessary |
sie_quiz_maker | Passes your quiz maker settings to the page that runs the quiz. | Until you close the tab | Necessary |
sie_checkout, sie_purchase_sent:* | A random reference for a checkout you start, so that a purchase is counted only once. Written only if you pressed Accept, and used only by Google Analytics. | Until you close the tab | Analytics |
6. Cookies
| Name | Set by | What it does | How long | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
hub_vid | This site | The same random practice ID as accounts_hub_anon, kept in a first-party cookie as well so the free limit still applies if one of the two is cleared. | 400 days | Necessary |
_ga | Google Analytics 4 | Tells one browser from another so visits can be counted. | 2 years | Analytics |
_ga_* | Google Analytics 4 | Keeps track of a visit for reporting. The ending is our property ID. | 2 years | Analytics |
The two Google Analytics cookies are set only after you press Accept. The _ga cookies are set on sieexampracticetest.com by Google's script, so they count as first-party cookies, but the data they help collect goes to Google.
7. Checks that do not wait for the banner
Cloudflare Turnstile. Anonymous test starts and the sign-up and password reset forms load a bot check from Cloudflare. It runs in a frame served from Cloudflare's servers and uses the signals Cloudflare needs to tell people from bots, under Cloudflare's privacy policy. It is needed to protect the site, so it does not wait for the cookie banner.
Device hash. When you check your free allowance or start a test, the site works out a one-way hash from your screen, time zone, languages, hardware and a hidden canvas drawing, and sends it to our account service to count free use per device. Nothing is stored in your browser for this. The Privacy Policy lists exactly what goes into it.
PayPal. When you buy a plan you move to PayPal's own checkout pages, which use PayPal's cookies under PayPal's own policies. Those cookies are not set on sieexampracticetest.com.
Fonts are served from our own server, so loading a page does not send a request to a font service.
8. How to change or withdraw your choice
Use the button below, or Cookie settings in the site footer. It deletes your saved choice and any Google Analytics cookies on this site, then reloads the page so the banner asks you again.
9. Managing storage in your browser
You can block or delete cookies and site data in your browser settings. Clearing this site's data logs you out and removes a test in progress from this device. Your account and practice record stay on our account service.
10. Changes to this policy
If we add, remove or change a cookie or storage item, we update this page and its "Last updated" date. If a change needs a fresh answer from you, the banner asks again.
11. Contact
Questions about cookies: [email protected].