Last Modified: June 23, 2026

The National Conference of Bar Examiners (“NCBE,” “we,” “us”) understands the importance of your personal information and provides this Privacy Policy to you so you can understand our privacy practices and our efforts to protect your information. This Privacy Policy describes our privacy practices and procedures as they relate to personal information we collect through our websites, including but not limited to www.ncbex.org, thebarexaminer.org, nextgenbarexam.ncbex.org, and the NCBE study aid platform (the “Site”), however accessed, and information collected when, for example, you provide information to NCBE over the phone or via email; create an NCBE Account; register for and take NCBE’s examinations (MPRE, MBE, MEE, MPT, UBE, and NextGen UBE); apply for prospective employment, consulting, contracting, or volunteer opportunities with NCBE; or request or use other products and services we make available (collectively the Site and our products and services constitute the “Service(s)”). 

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal information and how we handle it. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into our Terms of Use Agreement for the Site and Services or other binding agreement between you and NCBE (“Terms of Use” or “Terms”), and when you agree to the Terms you are acknowledging that you have read, understand, and also agree to this Privacy Policy. 

Information you supply when requesting accommodations for the MPRE is subject to the NCBE Privacy Policy for Applicants Requesting ADA Accommodations for the MPRE. For health data, NCBE has a Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy, which is applicable to consumer health data in certain states. 

Information We Collect

The information we collect varies, depending on the way you use our Site or Services or otherwise engage with us. For all other data not subject to a separate policy as described above, we collect, receive, process, and/or use personal information in the ways described below.

Personal Information

We use the term “personal information” in this Privacy Policy to mean any information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual; it does not include de-identified data, publicly available information, or NCBE employee information. As described below, we collect information that (a) you give to us; (b) we receive from others such as jurisdictions; (c) we collect automatically when you use our Site; and, in limited instances, (d) we infer. You are not required to provide any personal information to browse or access the public areas of the Site.  

We may collect the following types of personal information from you:

• name, including any formerly used names
• email address
• telephone number
• physical address
• date of birth
• Social Security or national identification number
• credit card or debit card number collected by our third-party payment processor
• information regarding your legal education, background, credentials, and related matters
• information needed for exam scoring services, including your NCBE Account information 
• information collected when you create or visit your NCBE Account, including NCBE Account number, NCBE Account information, race/ethnicity, and other biographic and demographic information 
• Exams: information collected when you register for any NCBE exam, including your first and last name, email address, phone number, date of birth, Social Security number, and year started law school; MPRE test scheduling records; test administration records; test results including data analytics related to your test experience; information about your use of our content and/or services (such as if you access your scores online, use our study aids, or complete our surveys); customer support or test administrator service provider account information and/or records; recordings and transcripts (such as if you email us for support); score transfer requests; and payment card information as needed to process your payments
• Character and Fitness Applications and Background Investigations: information collected in your character and fitness applications, which may include sensitive personal information. NCBE collects this information on behalf of jurisdictions to which you have applied for bar admission. The information collected in the character and fitness application is determined by the applicable jurisdiction’s requirements. NCBE does not use this information for its own purposes but instead acts as a service provider/processor for the respective jurisdiction(s). If you submit a character and fitness application, personal information, including sensitive personal information such as physical and mental health condition information, credit worthiness, and other personal information that may be considered sensitive, is collected and may be used for a background check. Please see the sample form for representative information collected and the Sensitive Personal Information section below 
• Test Centers: information collected by our service provider’s test centers, which may include audio and video recordings during check-in and throughout the test administration process to ensure compliance with NCBE and test provider rules and regulations to uphold testing integrity and security. Test centers maintain check-in/check-out logs and compile test irregularity reports that may be provided to NCBE as a result of an investigation or other review of a reported test anomaly   
• Exam Data: information collected during and after your exam, including data analytics and logs concerning your interactions, your usage of and performance on NCBE exams, your exam behavior including number of times an exam is taken, exam scores, and score transfer requests and associated details of such requests 
• Study Aids Through Our NCBE Study Aid Platform: information collected when you purchase study aids or other materials through the NCBE study aid platform, including your email address, billing address, and payment card information as needed to process your payments 
• Job Applicants: information in addition to applicable categories above including but not limited to available start date, desired salary, legal authorization to work in the US, visa sponsorship requirements, and information provided in a resume or cover letter

Personal information does not include anonymized, aggregate, statistical, or de-identified data or information contained in employment records. 

Sensitive Personal Information

We collect sensitive personal information for character and fitness applications, exam accommodations requests, and for research purposes described in this Privacy Policy. See below for details about withdrawing your consent. Sensitive personal information/sensitive data includes the following information: racial or ethnic origin, health data (i.e., a mental or physical health condition or diagnosis), sexual orientation, immigration status, citizenship or citizenship status, Social Security number or other unique government-issued identification number, financial information (including your financial account number or log-in information, or your credit or debit card number, in combination with any required security code, access code, or password that would permit access to your financial account), or genetic or biometric data that may be processed for the purpose of maintaining the security and integrity of our exams. 

Personal Information We Receive from Others

NCBE may receive personal information and sensitive personal information about you from other sources, such as bar admission authorities, jurisdictions, law schools, and our service providers related to our Services or Site. For example, we receive information from bar admission authorities, jurisdictions, law enforcement, and third parties (including background check providers) contacted as part of a character and fitness investigation, and service providers under contractual agreements with us to perform services with or on behalf of NCBE, such as test delivery providers. NCBE receives personal information, including any sensitive personal information, only as directed by a bar admission authority or jurisdiction related to the purposes outlined in this section; specific data categories received may include full name, alias, date of birth, Social Security number, applicant and/or seat number, law school name, pass/fail status, and JD awarded date. For job applicants, we receive any information provided through NCBE’s HRIS management system. 

Personal Information We Infer

We may combine the information that we have collected – directly from you, received from others, and automatically – to infer new information about you. We and our service providers/processors may infer the following categories of data, all of which are defined above: contact information, demographic information, financial information, interaction information, exam result forensics, character and fitness data, and preferences. 

Please note that some state privacy laws afford residents the right to opt out of profiling or automated decision-making with legal or similarly significant impacts; we do not conduct such profiling or automated decision activities. All determinations and/or decisions are made by bar admission authorities or staff authorized with the necessary authority to make such determinations or decisions pursuant to applicable rules, regulations, or terms governing such processes.   

Automatically Collected Information

As you interact with our Site and Services, we and/or our authorized service providers/processors may use automatic data-collecting technologies to collect certain personal information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including the following:

• Information about your Site activity. When you browse our Site, we collect IP address (static or dynamic), browser type and language, operating system, domain server, referring and exit pages and URLs, date and time of visit, length of session, the pages you visited while on the Site, and similar data.
• Information about your device. When you interact with our Site, we collect information about your device including type of computer or device, operating system and version (e.g., iOS, Android, Windows), carrier and country location, and similar data. Additional information collected from your device may include any of the following: Universally Unique ID (UUID), Advertising Identifier (IDFA), MAC address, hardware and processor information (e.g., storage, chip speed), and network type (e.g., Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G, LTE).
• Information about our system and server logs, including access logs.
• Information about your location based on data derived from your IP address. We do not collect geolocation data.  
• Analytics information. For example, web analytics data about your session help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Site and Services and understand more about our users. We use Matomo for web analytics due to its focus on privacy-first.  
• Data from the NCBE study aid platform (administered by third party service provider).
• Data from your interactions with NCBE exams, including forensic and other analytic performance data. 

The technologies we use for automatic data collection may include those described in the Cookies section below. 

How We Use Cookies and Tracking Technologies

NCBE and our service partners may use cookies, pixel trackers, web beacons, and other technologies to receive and store certain automatic information whenever you interact with the Site or use our Services. Cookies are small data files that are stored or accessed on one's browser each time one visits a website.

Cookies may store unique identifiers, user preferences, and other information. Cookies are used by NCBE to keep track of your log-in information while you are logged in to the Site. We use persistent and non-persistent cookies to make it easier for you to navigate the Site. If you reject cookies, you may still use the Site, but your ability to use some areas of the Site may be limited.

Cookies we use include the following:

• Strictly Necessary: These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually set only in response to actions made by you that amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the Site will not work if you block them. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
• Performance: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our Site and will not be able to monitor its performance for issues.
• Functional: These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by authorized service providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, some or all of these services may not function properly.
• Analytic: These cookies and other technologies allow us to understand how you interact with our Site and Services (e.g., how often you use the Site, where you are accessing the Site from (e.g., country, state), and the content that you are interacting with). Analytic cookies enable us to support and improve how the Site and Services operate. For this purpose, we use Matomo cookies and session recorders to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Site and to understand more about the demographics of our users. If you do not allow analytic cookies, we will not know when you have visited our Site or how you have used our Services, and we will not be able to monitor performance. 
• Social Media: We provide social media widgets on our Site that link to social media pages for NCBE. These social media services are not owned or operated by NCBE. If you click on the social media widget, you will be taken to our page on the social media site, and a cookie may be set by the social media service to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. It is your choice whether to log in to your social media account. These sites are governed by their own privacy and related policies. Please read them to understand how they may use your information.

Managing Cookies

There are several ways to manage cookies. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help feature on most browsers provides information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies, or be notified when receiving a new cookie or similar tracker. Please note, however, that many of the cookies we use are “strictly necessary” cookies. By blocking or deleting them, you will not be able to access certain features of the Site. For more information about cookies and how to block them, please visit allaboutcookies.org. NCBE does not target advertisements to users, and we do not sell or share your personal information.

How We Use the Information We Collect

We use your information to provide, analyze, administer, enhance, and personalize our Site and the Services we provide to you. We also use your information to communicate with you and to conduct our business. Generally, NCBE uses your personal information to provide Services to you, and more specifically, to provide Services requested by you, such as testing services, score services, study aids, and character and fitness services. We also use your information to carry out our mission to serve the bar admissions community, to provide services including data to bar admission authorities including jurisdictions and law schools for the purposes of bar admissions reporting obligations, for our legitimate business purposes, and more specifically to:

• provide testing, character and fitness, ABA reporting, and other services, data, and information to bar admission agencies, jurisdictions, law schools, and attorney regulatory authorities;
• register you for a test, product, or service;
• process payments for our Services by our third-party payment processor;
• administer tests and process test results; 
• process exam scoring requests; 
• conduct character and fitness reviews and investigations (please see above regarding Sensitive Personal Information and view A Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act);
• conduct fairness and score validity research on our tests and content, considering all groups of examinees, including members of historically underrepresented groups, in a de-identified format so you cannot be identified (see below);
• maintain a permanent record of examinee performance;
• conduct research, maintain statistical data, and provide statistical and other NCBE test results data related to bar admissions, bar examinations including their results, and the legal industry to bar admission agencies including but not limited to jurisdictions and law schools;
• create or modify an NCBE Account;
• provide customer support; 
• respond to an inquiry or message you send us through the Contact Us form or when you exercise your privacy rights;
• provide you with updates, reminders, or other information about products and services that you have ordered or that may interest you;
• provide study aids to you to prepare for our exams, including via the NCBE study aid platform operated by our third-party service provider;  
• analyze and improve our Site or products and/or services; 
• personalize your Site experience;
• review and/or interview applicants for job opportunities; 
• protect you and NCBE from fraudulent transactions and investigate inappropriate or unauthorized use of NCBE systems, services, products, accounts, examinations, intellectual property, or other assets; and
• comply with applicable laws, regulations, or contractual requirements, or respond to subpoenas or government requests.

We may use your personal data to operate, maintain, and enhance the Site and Services with your consent, as permitted by law, as we may notify you, or as otherwise described to you in this Privacy Policy or at the point of collection.

We may de-identify personal data (so that you can no longer be identifiable) to proactively minimize the data in our possession when such identifying data is no longer needed. We may also de-identify data to remove it from records that must be retained for legal purposes when you request us to delete your personal data. We may use de-identified data for research purposes and other mission-related purposes as described in this Privacy Policy. When we de-identify data permanently for privacy purposes, we will use it only in its de-identified form and will not attempt to re-identify the information.

How We Share and Disclose Your Information

NCBE shares and discloses your information for various purposes in order to provide you with access to the Site and to our Services, to conduct our business, and to support ABA reporting requirements, including as follows:

• to service providers (including test delivery providers, consultants assisting with providing services to us, payment processors, data hosting and storage providers, study aid providers, and data analytics service providers); we have agreements with these service providers that obligate them to protect personal information and sensitive personal information and to comply with applicable law;
• to bar admission authorities that use and/or administer our examinations or exam data, including but not limited to jurisdictions and law schools;
• to bar admission and attorney regulatory authorities, law enforcement, and other third parties we contact for purposes of character and fitness investigations;
• potentially to bar admission and assessment industry organizations or researchers requesting data for researching the fairness of tests and test content and exam score validity, including for members of historically underrepresented groups, through aggregated, de-identified reports that do not identify individual test takers;
• to your law school with your consent when you register for and take the MPRE, including your first and last name, year started law school, and scaled MPRE score, to assist the law school in establishing and evaluating learning outcomes related to students' knowledge and understanding of established standards related to the professional conduct of lawyers, in accordance with ABA Standards 302 and 315 (and to discuss MPRE aggregated and de-identified score data with individual students);
• to your law school to support its ABA reporting requirements by facilitating bar passage report transmittal or when you transfer your UBE or NextGen UBE score to a jurisdiction other than the one you tested in, including your first and last name, NCBE Number, any aliases, date of birth, exam score, score transfer date, jurisdiction to which you sent your score, and the number of times you took the exam, to assist the law school with its reporting obligations in accordance with ABA Standard 316;
• when NCBE reasonably believes it is needed to (i) respond to information requests by law enforcement or other governmental authorities; (ii) comply with any law, regulation, subpoena or other legal process, or court order; (iii) investigate and help prevent security threats, fraud, malicious activity, or inappropriate, unauthorized, or illegal activity involving our examinations, services, this Site, or networks; or (iv) enforce or protect our rights and property, including intellectual property;
• in the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, sale of assets, dissolution, or similar event, as part of the transferred assets; or
•  in accordance with any consent to use or share your information that you provide us or where we have another lawful basis to process such information.

If you use a credit card to make a payment on this Site, we use a third-party payment processor that is PCI-DSS certified.

We may also share anonymized and aggregated data that does not identify you personally, such as for research and analytics purposes. This research information is not used to target or profile individuals. This information may be de-identified so that the information is no longer personal information. NCBE does not (and will not permit any third party to) associate individually identifying information with our research data. 

Data Retention

Except as set forth in this section regarding your online NCBE Character Report Application, NCBE will retain your personal information consistent with our legitimate interests and to comply with bar admission and assessment industry standards; any applicable laws, regulations, investigations, or litigation holds; our internal record retention policies and schedules; and/or contractual requirements.

We adhere to the following policies in determining when an online NCBE Character Report Application may be deleted from our systems (and no longer available for you to view or transfer):

• An unused application may be deleted after 90 days.
• An application that is never received by NCBE may be deleted after one year of nonuse.
• An application that is processed by NCBE will remain on our website server for five years from the date we receive the application. As long as your application remains online, you can transfer the data in the application to a new application for a supplemental report to the same jurisdiction or a new report to another jurisdiction (with certain exceptions).
• We may also retain information which has been de-identified, anonymized, or aggregated such that it can no longer reasonably identify a particular individual. 
• If you wish to delete your online NCBE Character Report Application, please contact us to determine whether you are eligible to have it removed. 

MPRE scores are retained permanently consistent with our retention policies. For exams administered by jurisdiction bar admission authorities, including the UBE, NextGen UBE, MBE, MEE, and MPT, please contact your state bar admission authority with any requests.  

Video and audio recordings of test sessions are retained consistent with our test delivery service provider retention policies and applicable law. 

Note that we may not be able to delete information in all instances, such as information retained in technical support logs and other business records. We will not be required to delete any information that has been aggregated, de-identified, or disassociated from personal identifiers such that it can no longer be used to reasonably identify a particular individual. 

Security

NCBE has physical, technical, and administrative safeguards in place to protect your personal information. Despite our security measures, no data transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. As a result, we cannot and do not warrant the security of your personal information. 

Messages that you send to us by email, including by use of the Contact Us form on the Site, may not be secure, and use of email is not recommended for sending us confidential or sensitive information.

Notification of Security Incidents: You are responsible for notifying us immediately of any known or suspected unauthorized use(s) of your NCBE Account or any known or suspected breach of security, including loss, theft, or unauthorized disclosure of your account credentials or any other personal information. Any fraudulent, abusive, or otherwise illegal activity on your account may be reported to appropriate law enforcement agencies by us. In the event of a security incident that involves Site or Services users’ personal information, NCBE will notify you, the respective regulator, law enforcement, and/or individuals of such incident as required by applicable law or where NCBE deems appropriate.

Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you reside, and subject to certain legal limits, you may or may not have some or all of the following rights in relation to the personal information we have collected about you.  Please note that some countries’ (e.g., EEA) and states’ privacy laws afford residents the right to opt out of profiling or automated decision-making with legal or similarly significant impacts; as outlined herein, NCBE does not conduct these activities. 

• the right to be informed about our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information
• the right to know if we maintain your personal information, and if we do, to access that information (subject to the rights of others) and to request that we provide your information in a portable format when feasible
• the right to ask us to correct your information if it is incomplete or incorrect
• the right to ask that we delete your personal information in certain situations
• the right to object to our processing of your personal information, including the right to object to the use of profiling or automated decision-making which might significantly affect you or your information; profiling is defined in applicable laws generally as “any form of automated processing of personal information to evaluate, analyze, or predict personal aspects concerning an identified or identifiable individual’s economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements”; NCBE does not use any profiling or automated decision-making tools that significantly affect individuals
• if we are processing your personal information based on your consent, the right to withdraw your consent at any time
• the right to make a complaint with an applicable regulator 

Please understand that these rights are subject to limitations and may not be applicable to NCBE as a nonprofit organization or when NCBE is acting as a processor/service provider for state bar admission authorities and regulators. For example, we may require documentation to support certain corrections to your information, and we generally cannot restrict or delete personal information in those situations where our retention is required by bar admission or regulatory authorities, for investigations and litigation, for our legitimate internal business purposes, or to comply with law.

NCBE Accounts: If you have created an NCBE Account with us, access to some of your personal information is available through your account. You may log in to your account to edit your account profile or to change your password or email address. Please note that we may require additional information to authenticate your identity. For additional guidance on NCBE Accounts, please review the NCBE Account and NCBE Number section in the Website Terms of Use.

Character and Fitness Applications: If you wish to delete your online NCBE Character Report Application, please contact us to determine whether you are eligible to have it removed. 

Exams: MPRE scores are retained permanently consistent with our retention policies. For exams administered by jurisdiction bar admission authorities, including the UBE, NextGen UBE, MBE, MEE, and MPT, please contact your state bar admission authority with any requests.  

California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 (“Shine the Light” Law) permits California residents to opt out of disclosure of personal information to third parties for marketing purposes at any time. Please note that NCBE does not disclose your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes, so no opt-out is needed. Please also understand that NCBE is not subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) or to the California Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), as NCBE is a nonprofit organization. As stated earlier, NCBE does not sell your personal information, and we strive to provide clear notices of our privacy practices at the time of collection and honor your privacy requests when feasible.

Do Not Track and Universal Opt-Out Signals

Some website and platform browsers may be able to send a “do not track” signal to websites. This Site does not respond to do not track signals or similar mechanisms and requests. Also, some states require recognition of universal opt-out signals if conducting any targeted advertising or selling personal information. NCBE does not conduct targeted advertising or sell personal information and as such, does not recognize universal opt-out signals.  

EEA, Switzerland, and the UK Rights of Data Subjects

Currently the MPRE is administered only at test centers in the United States operated by our third-party service provider. In August 2021 and March 2022, NCBE offered administrations of the MPRE at our service provider’s international test centers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Individuals who wished to test outside the United States at a designated location provided their personal information to the test delivery provider to schedule and take the exam in the selected location. If you were an examinee who took the MPRE outside of the United States in August 2021 or March 2022, the test delivery provider transferred your personal information and MPRE responses to its affiliates in the United States and to NCBE in the United States for test administration purposes. As such, individuals located in the European Union and European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, and the United Kingdom could take the MPRE, and NCBE and its service providers processed their personal information (aka “personal data”) for test administration purposes and to fulfill a contract with candidates. As a result of this processing, such individuals may have rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, and similar regulations in Switzerland and the United Kingdom, including those rights described above under “Your Privacy Rights and Choices” section above.  

Submitting Privacy Requests

To make a request regarding your personal information or if you need further assistance regarding your rights, please contact us as detailed below in the Contact Us section and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable law and our lawful basis for processing your personal data. In some instances, our ability to grant these rights to you may depend upon our obligations to process personal information as a processor/service provider for bar admission authorities and regulatory agencies and/or for security, safety, fraud prevention reasons, compliance with regulatory or legal requirements, because processing is necessary to deliver the Services you have requested, or where we have a lawful purpose for processing. Where this is the case, we will inform you of specific details in response to your request. Note that certain NCBE services may have specific processes for correcting or updating personal information, such as information submitted in a character and fitness application or associated with a test registration or a score service. Refer to the specific instructions for those services. For additional guidance you can use the Contact Us form.

We will not retaliate or discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

Verification: For privacy-related requests, we will need to verify your identity. If you have an agent acting on your behalf, we will require proof of authorization from that agent. 

Appeals: NCBE will inform you of any action taken, and if we reject your request to exercise a right, we will provide you with a written explanation of our reasoning. You may appeal this response by contacting us as described in this Section. If you have concerns about the result of your appeal, you may contact the applicable regulator to the extent you have such privacy rights. 

If you are in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), you may file a complaint with the appropriate member state supervisory authority.

Lawful Bases for Processing

For personal information subject to the GDPR and other applicable laws, we rely on the following lawful bases to process the data as applicable:

• The processing is necessary to perform our contractual obligations in our agreements with you (such as to provide an examination, score services, or another product or service to you).
• You have given your prior consent, which you may withdraw at any time (such as for cross-border data transfers from the EU and other applicable countries, marketing purposes, or other purposes we obtain your consent for from time to time).
• The processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or court order or to exercise or defend legal claims.
• NCBE is acting as a processor/service provider for bar admission and regulatory authorities such as for exam development, character and fitness applications and investigations, and bar admissions data reporting obligations. 
• The processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, such as in improving and developing the Site and our Services, developing and administering exams, preventing fraud and cheating, and promoting safety and security as described in this privacy policy.

If you have any questions about or would like further information concerning the lawful bases on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us.

International Users and Transfers of Personal Information

NCBE and its Site and Services are located and operated in the United States. Personal information provided to us or our processors/service providers from outside of the United States or its territories will be transferred to NCBE, our third-party service providers, test delivery providers, jurisdiction bar admission agencies and regulatory authorities, and/or a test center to facilitate the purpose for which it was collected. If you are outside the United States or its territories and sending your personal information to us, our test delivery providers, our service providers, or state bar admission authorities, you understand, acknowledge, and consent to (where applicable) the cross-border and international transmission of any personal information that you may choose to provide to us to any country in the world, including countries without an adequate level of data protection. When NCBE’s service providers transfer personal information from the EU or other international locations to other countries, NCBE will ensure there are arrangements in place, such as Standard Contractual Clauses, with those service providers that are designed to ensure your personal information is protected in accordance with applicable legal requirements. If you do not agree to this international transfer of data, you should not use the Site and Services we offer or otherwise send us your personally identifiable information. If you choose to revoke your consent to such transfer, and this is the lawful basis for the processing, we may be unable to provide the Services requested by you.

Links to Third-Party Websites

For your convenience, we may provide links to other websites and social media platforms that we do not control. NCBE does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any such linked websites or platforms. If you submit information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. For information about how other organizations, including jurisdiction bar admission agencies, may collect and use your personal information, you should review their respective privacy policies when applicable to you.

Children’s Privacy

This Site and Services are not directed to minors under 16 years old. Accordingly, we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16 years of age, and persons under 16 years of age should not submit any personal information to NCBE.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

NCBE reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time, including to respond to new laws, regulations, or technology, or for other legitimate purposes. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically for such updates. If we change our Privacy Policy, the changes will be posted to this Privacy Policy on the Site, and the date of the update will be reflected in the Last Modified date provided above. If the changes will materially affect the way we use or disclose previously collected personal information, we will notify you about the change by sending a notice to the primary email address associated with your NCBE Account. 

Contact Us

You can submit questions regarding this Privacy Policy by using the contact us form on the Site.

NCBE can also be contacted at privacy@ncbex.org.

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Last Modified: March 29, 2024

The National Conference of Bar Examiners (“NCBE”) is committed to respecting the privacy of your health data. This Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy describes what consumer health data NCBE collects and uses. 

Under the Washington State My Health My Data Act (the “Act”) and similar state consumer health privacy laws, “consumer health data” means personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies the consumer's past, present, or future physical or mental health status. 

NCBE collects, uses and shares consumer health data only as needed to provide the services you request, including test accommodations for the MPRE and as described below. 

Categories of Consumer Health Data We Collect and Purposes 

For the purpose of test accommodations evaluations, eligibility determinations and administration of test accommodations:

• medical information concerning the nature of your mental or physical impairment and how it limits major life activities
• information on how your mental or physical impairment affects your ability to take the MPRE under standard conditions
• information regarding treatment, medication, devices, or auxiliary aids used
• your history of accommodations
• a rationale for why the requested accommodation(s) is/are necessary and appropriate relative to your impairment(s) 

To enable website accessibility: 

• NCBE websites may collect information on use of accessibility tools, such as screen readers 

For internal operations, evaluations, reporting, compliance and aggregated research:

• We may also use the above categories of consumer health data for these limited purposes.

For consumer health data collected for character and fitness applications and investigations, NCBE is a contracted service provider for state jurisdictions and is not covered by the Act or similar laws as state agencies and their service providers are exempt from consumer health data laws. 

Sources of Consumer Health Data 

NCBE collects consumer health data from individuals that request test accommodations, use an accessibility feature on an NCBE website(s) or complete a jurisdiction character and fitness application. 

Categories of Third Parties with Whom We May Share Consumer Health Data 

NCBE does not sell consumer health data. NCBE may share the categories of consumer health data described above with certain third parties as follows. 

• Qualified independent professionals who assess the information in order to recommend to NCBE whether requested test accommodations are necessary and appropriate.
• Trusted service providers and contractors such as Pearson VUE that deliver the MPRE on behalf of NCBE or who otherwise assist us to provide our products and services to you. These service providers and contractors may use the data only as permitted in our agreements with them.
• NCBE employees, agents, and representatives as needed to administer test accommodations, character and fitness investigations or for the other purposes described above.
• As required or permitted by law, including with your consent and as needed to prevent, detect, protect against, or respond to security incidents, fraud, and as needed to preserve the integrity or security of our systems, or to investigate, report, or prosecute those responsible for any action that is illegal under applicable state or Federal law.
• For emergency medical or safety purposes.
• Upon written request by you, NCBE may release information regarding our decision on your request for test accommodations to third parties you designate.
• Jurisdictions that contract with NCBE to administer character and fitness applications and investigations.

Your Consumer Health Data Privacy Rights

In certain states, such as Washington, you have specific rights regarding your consumer health data (subject to certain exceptions). This section describes your rights and explains how to exercise those rights. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights. 

• You have the right to know if we are collecting, using or sharing your consumer health data, to access such data and to receive a list of the categories of third parties with whom we have shared your information.
• You have the right to withdraw your consent if we are processing your consumer health data with your consent.
• You have the right to request that we delete your consumer health data.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. We will need to authenticate your request and process it as required by applicable laws, generally within 45 days of us receiving your request. You have the right to appeal if we deny your request by requesting a review of our decision. If we deny your appeal, you may contact the Washington State Attorney General to submit a complaint. 

Contact Us

You can submit questions regarding this Privacy Policy by using the contact us form on the Site.

NCBE can also be contacted at:

National Conference of Bar Examiners
ATTN: NCBE Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy 
302 South Bedford Street 
Madison, WI 53703-3622 

Phone: 608-280-8550 
Fax: 608-280-8552 
TDD: 608-661-1275

Changes to this Privacy Policy

NCBE can modify this Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy at any time. When changes are made to this Privacy Policy, we will update the “last modified” date above.

MPRE Test Accommodations Privacy Policy