THE REVISION 
Privacy Policy
Last updated: 18 August 2026
This site is used by teenagers, often on school computers. It is built so that there is as little to protect as possible.
The short version. There are no adverts, no ad networks, no analytics, and no tracking cookies of any kind. You don't need an account to use anything. Your revision progress stays on your own device. The only personal information we ever hold is the email address attached to a purchase — and only if you buy something.
Who is responsible
The data controller for this site is Ross McKechnie, a sole trader in the United Kingdom trading as The Revision Arcade. For anything on this page, including any request about your data, email info@revisionarcade.com. A postal address is available on request.
If you just play the games
We collect nothing about you. No account, no sign-up, no name, no email, no profile.
The games do save a few things on your own device, using your browser's local storage. This never leaves your device and we cannot see it:
- Your progress through a game's questions, and which ones you've mastered — this is what makes spaced revision work.
- Small preferences, such as whether sound is on.
- A note that you've played before, so the site doesn't repeat first-time prompts.
- Your unlock code, if you've bought premium, so you don't have to type it in every time.
Clearing your browser's site data wipes all of it. That also wipes your revision progress, so keep your unlock code somewhere safe before you do.
Cookies: we don't set any. The storage described above is strictly functional — it exists only to make the thing you asked for work — which is why there's no cookie banner nagging you.
If you buy premium
Payments are processed by PayPro Global Inc., our authorised reseller and merchant of record. You give your payment details to PayPro, on PayPro's own checkout. Card and payment details never touch our servers and we never see them. PayPro's handling of that data is governed by their own privacy policy.
When a payment completes, PayPro tells our server about the order, and we store a single record of the purchase:
- the email address used at checkout;
- the unlock code issued for that purchase;
- which game or bundle was bought, PayPro's order reference, the date, and whether the purchase is still active or has been refunded.
That is the entire record. No address, no card data, no name unless it happens to be part of the email address.
Why we hold it: to give you what you paid for. The email address lets us find your code again if you lose it, and lets us confirm you're the buyer before we do. The code and status are what the site checks each time premium content loads. In legal terms, we process it to perform our contract with you, and — for keeping accounting records — to meet our legal obligations.
How long: we keep the purchase record for as long as your unlock is valid, because deleting it would switch your premium off. UK tax law separately requires us to keep basic records of a sale for six years.
We never sell, rent or share this data, and we don't send marketing emails. Your receipt comes from PayPro; the only email you'll get from us is a reply to one you sent.
Who else touches the data
Only the services that make the site run:
- PayPro Global — payment processing, receipts and licence delivery, as merchant of record.
- Netlify — hosting for the site and the database holding purchase records. Like every web host, Netlify processes server logs, including IP addresses, for security and reliability.
- Google Fonts — the site loads its typefaces from Google's font service, which means your browser requests those files from Google.
Some of these providers operate outside the UK. Where data is transferred abroad, it is protected by the safeguards required under UK data protection law, such as standard contractual clauses.
Children and young people
The Revision Arcade is built for GCSE and IGCSE students, so we assume many players are under 18 and design accordingly:
- Playing requires no personal information at all — no account, no email, no name.
- There are no adverts and no ad networks, so there is no behavioural profiling and nothing inappropriate can be served through them.
- There is no chat, no user profiles, no public leaderboards and no way for players to contact each other.
- Purchases should be made by a parent, guardian or bill payer, and the only personal data involved is their checkout email.
If you believe a child's information has reached us in a way it shouldn't have, email us and we'll delete it.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask us to give you a copy of the data we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or restrict or object to how we use it, and to receive it in a portable format. Email info@revisionarcade.com and we'll respond within one month. There's no charge.
One honest caveat: deleting your purchase record also removes the unlock it proves, so your premium access would stop working. We'll say so clearly before doing it.
If you think we've handled your data badly, please tell us first — but you also have the right to complain to the UK's regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office, at ico.org.uk.
Security, and changes to this page
The site is served over HTTPS, purchase records sit in an access-controlled database, and premium content is only ever released after a code is verified on our server. No system is perfect, but we keep what we hold deliberately minimal so there is little to lose.
If this policy changes, the "last updated" date at the top changes with it.