Privacy Policy

Bookkeeper Cert Prep is built to be used without giving up any personal information. We do not run accounts, we do not ask for your email, and we do not set tracking cookies. This policy describes exactly what happens to data when you use the site, and it only describes things we actually do.

Who we are

Bookkeeper Cert Prep is an independent comparison resource operated by Urban Algorithm LLC. We are the publisher and the data controller for this site. You can reach us through the Urban Algorithm contact page.

What we do not collect

We want to be plain about this because most privacy policies bury it. On Bookkeeper Cert Prep there are:

• No user accounts, logins, or profiles.
• No email sign-up, newsletter, or contact form that stores your address.
• No advertising cookies, tracking pixels, or third-party ad networks.
• No sale or sharing of personal information, because we do not hold any.

Analytics and anonymous aggregate statistics

We measure aggregate traffic with Umami, a privacy-focused analytics tool. It is cookieless and collects anonymized data only: it does not set cookies, does not fingerprint you, and does not build a cross-site profile.

Alongside page views, we record anonymous aggregate statistics about how the tools are used, for example the distribution of recommended credentials or the range of budget bands people select in the eligibility and cost checker. Everything sent is banded or bucketed, never an exact free-text answer, and carries no account and no identifier, so a single visit can never be traced back to you. We use it to see what is working, never to identify individual visitors. No analytics data is sold or handed to an advertising network.

Your inputs stay on your device

When you use the credential-fit recommender, the eligibility and cost checker, or the practice test, your answers and any saved progress are kept in your browser's own localStorage, and every calculation runs in your browser. That full record stays on your device: we never receive it, there is no account to delete, and there is no server-side copy of your results. When you finish an interaction we do receive the anonymous aggregate summary described above, with no identifier attached. Clearing your browser storage erases the on-device record.

Affiliate links

We currently run no affiliate program. If we ever add a disclosed affiliate link, we will disclose it where it appears, it will never sit on the recommender, the comparison, or the home page, and clicking it will not pass any personal information to the partner beyond a standard referral tag.

Third-party hosting

Like any website, our host and content-delivery network process the standard server request data (such as your IP address) needed to deliver the page to you. This is ordinary web infrastructure, is not used by us to profile you, and is not combined with any other data about you.

Children

This is a professional-credential decision resource intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect information from children, and in fact we do not collect personal information from anyone.

Changes to this policy

If our data practices change, we will update this page and move the effective date above. Because we start from collecting no personal data, any change would only ever be described here in the same plain terms.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Reach the publisher through the Urban Algorithm contact page. Bookkeeper Cert Prep is a project of Urban Algorithm LLC.