Privacy policy

FAL Ready · Last updated 30 October 2026

The short version

FAL Ready has no account, no analytics, no ads and no tracking. Your progress, and anything you note down on the way to your licence, is kept on your iPhone or iPad and, unless you turn it off, in your own private iCloud — the private storage of the Apple Account already signed in on your device, which I cannot read. Nothing is sent to me. The App Store privacy label for FAL Ready says Data Not Collected, and that is the whole of it.

These are the words in the app's own Settings (on an iPad it says "this iPad"), and this page does not widen them:

FAL Ready has no account, no analytics and no ads. Your answers, mocks and recital results are stored on this iPhone and in your own private iCloud, which only you can read.

Three things involve the network, and each one is named below: your iCloud backup, the purchase if you make one, and the web pages you open from the app — mostly those of Firearms Safety and Education New Zealand (FSE), and a few of mine on this website. The app sends none of them anything about you. Anything you share from the app goes only where you send it, from your own apps.

Who this is from

FAL Ready is made by one person, Scott, in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is an independent study aid for the New Zealand firearms licence theory test. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by Firearms Safety and Education New Zealand (FSE), New Zealand Police, the Mountain Safety Council or any government agency.

What FAL Ready records

Only what you do in the app, so that it can show you your own progress and bring back the questions you got wrong:

Every answer you give — which question, the option or options you chose, whether it was right, how long you took, when, and whether it was a quick test, a drill, the daily review or a mock
Every timed mock you finish — the score, the Seven Rules score, the time taken, the questions in the order you saw them, your answers, and whether it was at our standard
Every Seven Rules recital — when, how many of the seven you got right, and whether you passed. The words you type or dictate are checked and then discarded; only the result is kept.
Which of FSE's e-learning modules you have ticked off, in Recaps.
Your licence journey, only what you enter — the steps you mark done and when, the checklist items you tick, and anything you choose to fill in: your date of birth (for the age check), your FSE unique ID (so the booking email can include it), your course date, the date on your proof of address, how your theory test went, the expiry date on your licence card, the date you got your first firearm, your referees' names, whether you have a spouse or partner and your next-of-kin referee's relationship to you, your answers to the referee questions, which reminders you turned on, and whether you have dismissed the card about HuntFix. Every one of these is optional, and the app works without them.

Your readiness score and badges are not stored: they are worked out from the records above each time you look at them.

And a few settings that belong to the device and stay on it: the iCloud switch, light or dark appearance, whether you have seen the first screen, the last 60 quick-test questions (so they are not repeated straight away), whether the unlock was bought, so the app knows before the App Store answers, and whether the app has already asked for a rating on this device.

It does not record your name, your email address, your location or your contacts. Your date of birth and the details of your licence application are recorded only if you type them into the journey yourself.

The only permission it ever asks for is notifications, and only when you turn on a reminder: before your course, before your proof of address gets too old, before your licence expires, and while the 30 days to record your first firearm run. iOS schedules them on the device; nothing is sent anywhere to make them happen. It never asks for location, camera, microphone, contacts or photos.

Where it is stored

In a database inside the app on your iPhone or iPad.

The iCloud backup

Unless you turn it off, that database is also mirrored to your iCloud, so that weeks of study are not lost when you change phones.

It is your iCloud, not a service of mine. The copy lives in the private database of your own Apple Account, held by Apple, counting against your own iCloud storage, under Apple's privacy policy. There is no account to create and no server of mine involved at any point.
I cannot read it. Not your answers, not your scores, not a count of them. A developer can see the shape of the data in Apple's console — the names of the fields — and none of its contents.
One switch turns it off: Settings → Back up to iCloud. It takes effect the next time the app opens, and the screen says so. With it off, your progress stays on this device only, and a new one starts from scratch.
Settings tells you what is actually happening — whether the backup really is running, and why not if it is not.

Because the backup is on unless you turn it off, your progress does leave the device by default — for your own iCloud, and nowhere else. If you use FAL Ready on an iPhone and an iPad with the same Apple Account, that is also how the two stay in step.

What involves the network

There is no account to sign in to, and no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising and no third-party code of any kind. FAL Ready has no networking code of its own and no server of mine to talk to. Three things involve the network:

Your iCloud backup, described above.

The purchase. If you unlock FAL Ready, Apple handles the whole transaction through the App Store. I never see your card details, your billing address or your Apple Account. Apple gives me anonymised sales totals — numbers, not people — and nothing in that reporting is connected to anything you do in the app. Restore purchase and Redeem a code are Apple's too. Family Sharing is arranged by Apple between the members of your family group; nothing about it passes through me.

The pages you open. The first screen, the recaps, the answers, the licence journey and Settings link to FSE's own free e-learning and guidance, and the journey also links to two of FSE's PDFs, MyFirearms and the New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association's branch finder. Those open in Safari's in-app browser, and each site's own privacy policy applies there, not this one. FAL Ready does not see what you do on those pages and sends them nothing from the app.

Settings' Help links (About, Support, Privacy, Terms) open these pages, on my website huntfix.app, in Safari. Once you tick Licence issued or enter your licence expiry date, the journey shows a single card about HuntFix, my hunting app; it opens huntfix.app in Safari only if you tap it, and the app remembers that you've dealt with it. The app sends my website nothing either.

What you choose to send

Three things in the app are made to be sent, and nothing goes until you send it yourself, from your own apps:

A share card for a badge or a practice-test result, made on your device and handed to iOS's share sheet when you tap Share. You choose where it goes and can edit the message first.
The booking email for the firearms safety course opens in your own mail app, addressed to FSE's published booking address, with your unique ID in it if you entered one. You read it, change it and send it — or not.
A message to your referees, through the share sheet, the same way.

FAL Ready doesn't see who you send any of them to.

The rating request

Once on each device, two seconds after the results of your first timed mock at our standard, the app asks iOS to show Apple's standard request to rate FAL Ready. iOS may decide not to show it. A rating or review goes to Apple under your Apple Account, as on any app, and the app never learns whether you left one.

Dictation

The Seven Rules recital can be spoken rather than typed, using the microphone key on your device's own keyboard. That is iOS dictation, handled by Apple under its own privacy policy and your dictation settings. FAL Ready has no microphone permission and receives only the text.

Deleting your progress

Settings → Delete everything removes every answer, mock and recital result, everything you entered in the licence journey and every reminder, from your device, and from your iCloud if the backup is on. It cannot be undone. It keeps your settings (the iCloud switch and appearance) and whether you've unlocked. Reminders already delivered stay in Notification Centre until you clear them. If the backup is off when you delete, the copy in your iCloud is untouched. Deleting the app removes it from the device; if the backup was on, the copy in your Apple Account remains until you delete it there, in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud.

Schools and clubs

Schools, New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association (NZDA) branches and FSE-approved clubs can ask for discount codes for their learners, and those codes are redeemed through Apple. I keep a note of which organisation was sent codes, when, and how many — never who redeemed one, which Apple does not tell me in any case.

Children and young people

FAL Ready is for people preparing for the New Zealand firearms licence theory test, and many of them are teenagers, often working through it with a parent. It collects nothing from anyone, whatever their age: there is no account, no profile and nothing sent to me.

Your data is yours

Because I hold none of it, there is nothing for me to hand over, correct or delete on your behalf, and no request you need to make. That stays true with the iCloud backup running: the copy is in your Apple Account, not mine.

The Privacy Act 2020 applies to me as a New Zealand developer. Under it, the position is simple: I am not collecting, holding or using your personal information. The iCloud backup does not change that — the data moves between your phone and your own Apple Account, and I am not a party to it.

Changes to this policy

If the app ever changes what it does with data, this page changes with it, before the change ships. The date at the top says when it was last revised.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything to do with your data: privacy@huntfix.app

Anything else — problems, suggestions, or a question you think is wrong: support@huntfix.app

FAL Ready keeps your progress so you can see it and practise what you missed. It is a study aid, and the Firearms Safety Code and the Arms Act 2026 remain the authoritative sources.