Privacy

Your answers stay on your device

This page is short because we collect almost nothing. Reading it should take less time than the test.

The short version: no accounts and no server-side storage of your answers — the test scores in your browser, and your answers never leave your device. The public site does use standard analytics (Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity) to see which pages are visited; they never receive your answers or results, and they load only on the production domain — never in local development or preview deployments.

What we collect

Your quiz answers and results are never collected, stored, or transmitted by us — scoring happens in your browser, and results live only in your device’s local storage. Separately, we collect standard web analytics about site usage (pages viewed, approximate region, browser and device type) through the two services below. We don’t build advertising profiles and we never sell data.

Local storage on your device

To let you pause and resume, and to keep your last result, the test saves two entries in your browser’s local storage:

pst_progress_v1 — your current question position and answers, so you can continue later.
pst_result_v1 — your last four dimension scores.

These entries never leave your device and are not readable by other websites. You can erase them by clicking “Start over” on the test, clearing your browser’s site data, or using your browser’s “clear browsing data” option.

Share links

If you use “Copy result link” or “Share…”, the link contains only your four dimension scores (for example /results/?e=32&c=74&s=62&g=58). Your individual answers are never included. Anyone opening the link sees only what those four numbers encode.

Analytics and cookies

The public site uses two analytics services:

Google Analytics 4, via Google Tag Manager (container GTM-TK3S6NTX): standard page and event analytics. Google sets the _ga cookies (up to 13 months) to distinguish visits and sessions, and processes technical data (such as IP address, truncated in standard configurations) on our behalf.
Microsoft Clarity (project zdgwt1geja): anonymized interaction analytics — clicks, scrolls, and heatmaps. Clarity masks all text content it records by default and does not capture keystrokes.

Where analytics run: both services load only on the production domains (politicalspectrumtest.online and www.politicalspectrumtest.online). Everywhere else they are fully disabled and send nothing: local development (localhost, 127.0.0.1, ::1, *.local, private-network IP ranges, file://), Cloudflare preview deployments (*.pages.dev), and any staging or mirror host.

Your answers and results are never sent to either service. If you arrive via a shared result link, the four score numbers in that URL can appear in analytics page records; your individual answers never do. Any ad-blocker or browser tracking setting disables both services without affecting how the site works.

Fonts and external requests

Fonts (Fraunces and Inter, both under the SIL Open Font License) are served directly from this website. The only third-party requests this site makes are the two analytics services above — no advertising, no social-media widgets, no consent-tracking vendors.

Contact

Privacy questions or requests: hello@politicalspectrumtest.online. Last updated: November 14, 2026.