Kerbtest for parents

Many Kerbtest learners are 17, and many are paid for by a parent. This page answers what parents usually ask before they buy.

What you are paying for

R99, once, for 90 days of practice: timed mock tests in the same format as the computerised learner’s test, practice by topic, wording drills and a queue of the questions your learner keeps getting wrong. Every answer comes with a plain explanation and the law behind it.

It does not renew. There is no debit order and nothing is charged again. You do not have to remember to cancel.

We cannot promise your learner will pass. Nobody honestly can. What we can promise is that the practice is in the right format, the answers are explained, and every answer cites the law it comes from.

Buying for your learner

1. At checkout, type your learner’s email address, not yours.
2. Pay with your own card. Your learner does not need a bank card.
3. Your learner signs in at /shop/account with a link we send to their email. There is no password to set.

If you used your own email by mistake, email support@kerbtest.co.za and we will move the access to your learner’s email.

What we collect

Only an email address. We do not ask for a name, ID number, phone number, date of birth, school or address.

While your learner practises, we store their answers and mock test scores so the app can show progress and bring back questions they got wrong. That history is stored against a scrambled code made from the email address.

Card details go straight to our payment provider, Paystack. We never see or store the card number.

POPIA and children

Under the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), personal information of a child under 18 may be processed with the consent of a parent or guardian (sections 34 and 35). In practice:

• If your learner is under 18, you as parent or guardian should agree to them using Kerbtest. Buying it for them with their email is a clear way to do that.
• We collect the minimum we need to run the app, and nothing else.
• We do not sell or share your learner’s information. It goes only to the services we need to run Kerbtest (payments, email, hosting).

No marketing mail

We send only the emails needed to run your purchase: the receipt, sign-in links and replies to your questions. We do not send marketing or newsletters unless someone has clearly said yes to them, and every such email would have a one-click way to stop.

Deleting your learner’s data

• Your learner can do it: in the app, open Progress and press Reset my progress. This deletes all answers, scores and the weak-areas queue straight away.
• You can ask us: email support@kerbtest.co.za from your own address with your learner’s email and say you are their parent or guardian. We delete the data and confirm to both addresses within 2 working days.
• If nobody does anything: we delete practice history 12 months after the 90 days end.

Tax law makes us keep a record of each sale (order, amount, date and email) for 5 years. We keep only that.

Not connected to the government

Kerbtest is a product of Softnamic (Pty) Ltd. It is not affiliated with the RTMC, the Department of Transport or any driving licence testing centre, and our questions are not the official test questions.

Your learner can try 10 free questions first, with no sign-up.