Privacy

Last updated 13 November 2026.

The short version

• You can use the lessons, the drives and practice without an account. We keep nothing about you when you do.
• If you sign in, we keep your name, your e-mail address and the link to your Google picture, so that you can sign in.
• No advertising, no analytics, no tracking across other websites, and we never sell or rent your data.
• You can ask us for a copy of your data, or to delete it, at any time: [email protected].

Who is responsible for your data

LaneReady (laneready.co.uk) is run by an independent fellow learner with a technical background, based in the United Kingdom, who is the controller of your personal data under UK data protection law (the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018). Write to [email protected] about anything on this page. LaneReady is not part of, or approved by, the DVSA or any other government body.

If you use the site without signing in

• To send you a page, our server and our network provider (Cloudflare) see your internet address and what your browser asks for. We use your address for a few minutes, in memory only, to stop anyone flooding the sign-in form and other forms. We do not keep a log of who visited which page.
• Your practice progress and your sound setting are saved in your own browser (its local storage), not on our server. We never see them. Clearing your browser's site data removes them.

If you sign in

You sign in with your Google account. When you do, Google tells us:

• your name, your e-mail address and the web address of your Google profile picture;
• a number Google uses for your account, and the codes Google issues for the sign-in itself.

We then keep:

• your account (the details above) and which roles it has, for example a member;
• your sign-in sessions, so you stay signed in. A session ends after 30 days without use, or when you sign out;
• for people who check and publish roundabouts: a record of what they changed and when, so every published junction can be traced to the person who checked it.

We do not see or keep your Google password, and we ask Google for nothing beyond your basic profile.

Why we use it (our lawful basis)

• To give you the account you asked for: signing you in and showing your account (performance of a contract).
• To keep the site safe and working: stopping abuse, fixing faults and keeping backups (our legitimate interests, which do not override your rights).
• To show who checked a published junction: so that a mistake can be traced and corrected (our legitimate interests in accurate road information).

We do not use your data for advertising, and we do not make automated decisions about you.

Cookies and storage on your device

We only use what the site needs to work, so the law does not require us to ask first. There is no cookie banner because there are no optional cookies.

• Sign-in cookies (names starting __Secure-authjs or __Host-authjs): keep you signed in, protect the sign-in form from forgery, and remember which page to return you to. Set only when you sign in or start to.
• Local storage: your practice progress and sound setting, kept in your browser only.

Who else handles your data

Only companies that help us run the site, under contract, and only for that:

• Contabo: the server the site and its database run on, in Germany.
• Cloudflare: carries traffic to the site, protects it from attacks, and stores our encrypted backups.
• Google: only when you choose to sign in with Google. Google handles your Google account under its own privacy policy.

We will share data with others only if the law requires us to.

Data outside the UK

Our server is in Germany. The UK treats the European Economic Area as giving your data adequate protection. Cloudflare may handle traffic in other countries; it takes part in the UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, which UK law recognises.

How long we keep it

• Your account: until you ask us to delete it.
• Sign-in sessions: 30 days at most without use.
• Backups of the database: encrypted, and the oldest is deleted after about 30 days. So when you delete your account, it is gone from the backups within about 30 days.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of your data, to correct it, to delete it, to limit how we use it, to object to how we use it, or to have it in a form you can take elsewhere. Write to [email protected]. We will reply within one month. A button to delete your account yourself is not built yet; until it is, ask us and we will delete it.

If you are unhappy with how we handled your data, please tell us first. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint.

Young people

Many learner drivers are 17, and some start younger. You must be 13 or over to create an account. Because young people use the site, we keep the settings that protect them on for everyone: no advertising, no profiling, no tracking, no location, and nothing about you is shown to other users.

Changes to this page

If we change how we use your data, we will update this page and the date at the top, and tell signed-in users about any important change before it applies.