Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Play Wordsnake ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website playwordsnake.com and use our game service.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect includes:

Personal Data

You can play Wordsnake without providing personal information. Some features, such as saving your progress to an account, appearing on leaderboards or earning achievements, may ask you to sign in with your email address. If you do, or if you contact us, we may collect:

• Email address (if you create an account or contact us)
• A nickname you choose to show on leaderboards
• An anonymous account identifier, which we may create for you as a guest so your games can be linked to an account if you later sign up
• Name (if you provide it)
• Any other information you voluntarily provide

Automatically Collected Information

When you access our Service, we may automatically collect certain information about your device, including:

• IP address
• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• Pages you visit and time spent on pages
• Referring website addresses
• Device identifiers

Game Data

We may collect information about your gameplay, such as:

• Game scores and statistics
• Game preferences and settings
• Session duration and frequency

If you have an account, we also store your game history (including the moves needed to verify scores), your results and your achievements on our servers, so they can power leaderboards and sync between devices. Without an account, your stats, Daily results and streak stay in your browser's local storage on your device.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve our Service
• Process your requests and respond to your inquiries
• Monitor and analyze usage patterns and trends
• Detect, prevent, and address technical issues
• Personalize your experience
• Comply with legal obligations
• Protect our rights and the rights of our users

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to collect and store information about your preferences and activity on our Service. Cookies are small data files stored on your device that help us improve your experience.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

We also use your browser's local storage to remember your stats, Daily results, player name and, if you sign in, your session. This is needed for the game to work as described and stays on your device.

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, analytics and advertising cookies are off until you make a choice in the consent banner shown by Google's Privacy & messaging tool. We honor that choice through Google Consent Mode, and you can change it at any time. Elsewhere, analytics run by default.

5. Third-Party Services

Our Service may contain links to third-party websites or integrate with third-party services, including:

• Google AdSense: We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google may use cookies and other tracking technologies to serve personalized ads. You can learn more about how Google uses your data by visiting their Privacy Policy.
• Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics 4 on playwordsnake.com to understand how the game is used, such as page views and gameplay events (game started, word submitted, game over, share clicked). It respects your consent choice where consent is required.
• Supabase: Accounts, game history and leaderboards are provided through Supabase, which stores this data and handles sign-in on our behalf. If you never sign in, nothing about you is stored there beyond an anonymous guest identifier, and only if that feature is on.
• Google Privacy & messaging: Shows the consent banner described above and records your choice.

These third-party services have their own privacy policies. We encourage you to read their privacy policies to understand how they collect and use your information.

6. Data Storage and Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Data Retention

We will retain your information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Account data is kept until you delete your account or ask us to delete it, at which point your profile, game history and leaderboard entries are removed.

8. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:

• The right to access your personal information
• The right to correct inaccurate information
• The right to request deletion of your information
• The right to object to processing of your information
• The right to data portability
• The right to withdraw consent

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information provided in the "Contact Us" section below.

9. Children's Privacy

Our Service is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so we can delete such information.

10. International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ. By using our Service, you consent to the transfer of your information to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy Policy.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

12. California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including the right to know what personal information we collect, the right to delete personal information, and the right to opt-out of the sale of personal information (we do not sell personal information).

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us through our support email (affiliated with our other game Wordoku Online) at support@wordokuonline.com.