Privacy

Privacy policy

Effective November 10, 2026. This page explains what Essential Flashcards stores and what advertising partners may store.

No account

You can study without signing up. Essential Flashcards does not ask you to register, and Essential Flashcards does not sell personal information.

Study progress stays on your device

Mastered, Still learning, and your best match time are saved only in the browser you are using. Essential Flashcards does not receive a copy and cannot restore those marks if you clear the browser's saved site data.

Advertising and cookies

Pages reserve space for Google AdSense. When an ad is shown, Google and other third-party vendors may use cookies and similar storage to serve ads, including ads based on your visits to this site and to other sites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on your visit here and elsewhere.

You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party cookies at the Network Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance. Blocking cookies may stop personalized ads.

Ad frames keep a set height so a loaded ad does not push the study text down the page. The break that appears every four cards uses the same idea: it opens over the page instead of shoving the cards downward.

Speech

Pronounce uses your browser's speech feature on this device. The term is not sent to Essential Flashcards. Your browser maker may handle speech under its own policy.

Server logs

The host that serves these files may keep ordinary logs: IP address, user agent, date, and the URL requested. Those logs are used to operate and secure the host. We do not use them to build a study profile.

Messages you send

If you email hello@essentialflashcards.com, we use the message to answer you or to correct a card. Do not include medical records or government ID numbers. We keep correspondence only as long as needed for that purpose.

Children

The site is written for adult career candidates. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the effective date at the top of this page changes with it. The version on this URL is the current one.

Contact

Privacy requests go to hello@essentialflashcards.com.