The test
The test scores in your browser. Your answers are not sent anywhere to be worked out.
Your answers and your result stay in this browser. By default they live in session storage, which empties when you close the tab. If you switch it on, they are kept in local storage for seven days so you can come back; nothing is kept longer, and nothing is kept unless you chose it.
Nothing about a result is ever put in a URL, a receipt or an email. If you send the test to someone, they get the test, not your result.
Your free profile
To see your full result you can create a free profile. It is the only time anything about a result leaves your device, and it happens only if you ask for it.
What we keep. Your email address, and the results you save: the closest match and the scores the test worked out on your device. We do not keep your answers. A gender identity is sensitive information, so we keep it only because you asked us to, and only to show it back to you.
How you sign in. There is no password. We email you a link and a 6-digit code that work for 15 minutes. The email does not contain your result. Or you can continue with Google. The link, the code and the sign-in cookie are stored only as a hash (a scrambled form), never as they are.
Continue with Google. If you choose it, Google sends us a signed message with your email address. We check it and keep only the email address: not your name, your photo or anything else from your Google account. Google can vouch for Gmail and Google Workspace addresses; for any other address we also send you a code by email. We never send your answers or your result to Google. To offer it, the result page and your profile page load Google’s sign-in script before you sign in, so Google can see that you are on mygender.com. When the script runs and you are signed in to Google in this browser, Google may show its own sign-in prompt; we receive nothing unless you continue. That part is handled by Google under its own privacy policy, and Google may set its own cookies.
Where it is kept. In a database run by our host, Cloudflare. Sign-in emails are sent from [email protected] through our email provider, which sees your address and the email, never your result.
What we never do. We do not sell it, show it to anyone, use it for advertising, or send you newsletters. Nobody else can see your profile.
How long. Until you delete it. The button “Delete my profile” on your profile page removes your email, every saved result and every sign-in at once. You can also delete single results, or write to us.
Without a profile, your answers and your result stay on your device, as before.
What we count
Only totals: how many tests are started, how many are finished, how many result pages scroll down to a paid offer, and how many people click a paid option.
Each one is a single anonymous request to a file on this site — /c/test-start.txt, /c/test-complete.txt, and the files under /c/ for the offers on the result page being seen or clicked (/c/unlock-seen.txt, /c/purchase-intent.txt and the like), and on the short quizzes under /quizzes/ when a quiz is started, finished or leads to the full test (/c/quiz-am-i-non-binary-start.txt and the like). A few more count how far a test run gets (questions 12, 24 and 36), how far the result page is scrolled (a quarter, half, three quarters, the end), which parts of it are clicked, and which kind of page a link to the test was clicked on (/c/test-q12.txt, /c/result-scroll-50.txt, /c/cta-test-home.txt and the like). On every page, the same kind of request under /c/p/ names the page and one event: how far down it was scrolled, whether it stayed open and visible for 15 seconds, a minute or three minutes, and which part of the page a click came from and which section of the site it leads to (/c/p/gender/non-binary/scroll-50.txt, /c/p/home/click/hm-test/test.txt and the like). Nothing you type or answer is in it. On the result page, a tap on “does it fit” or on a share button is counted the same way (/c/result-fit-yes.txt, /c/result-share-whatsapp.txt); what you share, and whether you share, is up to you, and the message holds only your closest match. It carries the event name and nothing else: no answers, no result, no identifier, no cookie. The count is the host’s request log; these counts need no script and no third party.
Because nothing in it identifies anyone, a total is all it can ever be. It cannot be traced back to you, and there is nothing in it to delete.
Google Analytics
If you accept the box at the bottom of the page, Google Analytics counts your visit: which pages you open, roughly where from, on what kind of device. Google sets cookies for that and processes the data under its own terms. It is never told an answer, a result or a purchase. Nothing from Google loads until you say yes, and the choice is stored only in this browser.
Cloudflare visit counts
Our host, Cloudflare, counts visits with a small script of its own. It sets no cookie, does not follow you to other sites and does not identify you. It records which page was opened, the site you came from, roughly which country, and the kind of browser and device.
Buying a PDF
The two PDFs are paid for through Stripe, on Stripe’s own checkout pages. Stripe learns what any checkout learns: your email address, your payment details and, for the receipt, the name of the product. It is never told your result.
After you pay, Stripe sends you back here with a payment reference. A function on this site’s server checks that reference with Stripe to confirm the payment, and learns two things from it: that it was paid, and which of the two products it was. Then your browser builds the PDF from the result already on your device. The file is made on your device and is never uploaded.
Your browser then remembers for seven days that the PDF is unlocked, so you can download it again. That note holds the name of the product and nothing about your result.
What we keep about a purchase is what Stripe keeps on our behalf: the payment record, with the email address you gave at checkout and the time of payment. The terms of sale explain the refund rules and the proof we hold for them.
The email list
There is no email list today. The only form that collects an address is the free profile above, and it sends sign-in emails only: no newsletter, no marketing.
If a list ever opens, it will ask for its own, separate consent, and a profile will never be added to it on its own.
One exception, stated because it is one: if you ask for a specific guide from an identity page, the request necessarily carries the name of the guide you asked for — otherwise we could not send it. That is a page you chose to read, not an answer you gave a test, and it is the only thing about you stored next to your address.
Advertising
Ads are contextual: chosen from the page, not from you. They do not receive personal data from us.
No advertising tags run on the test or the result.
What a page loads
If you sign in to a free profile, we set two cookies: one that keeps you signed in on that device (it cannot be read by the page), and one that only says you are signed in. Both last 180 days, and signing out removes them. While you wait for the sign-in email, a third one, for 20 minutes, ties the link to the browser that asked for it. When Google’s sign-in loads (see “Continue with Google” above), its script stores one small cookie on this site, g_state, which remembers whether you closed its prompt. We set no other cookies ourselves. Google Analytics sets its own, and only after you accept it (see above). If an advertising partner ever needs consent for anything, you are asked first, with the box unticked.
The typefaces are served from this site, like everything else on the page. Nothing is fetched from a third party.
Age
MyGender is for people aged 16 and over.
Your rights
You can ask what we hold about you, and ask for it to be deleted.
For the test, there is nothing to delete: we never had your answers. Clearing this browser’s storage removes what it keeps.
For a free profile, the button “Delete my profile” on your profile page removes your email, your saved results and your sign-ins from our database at once.
For anything else, write to [email protected].
If you think we have handled your data badly, you can also complain to the data protection authority where you live.
Who is responsible
MyGender is the publisher of this site and the party responsible for it.
- Contact
- [email protected]
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