Privacy Policy
Last updated: [TO COMPLETE BEFORE LAUNCH: effective date]
Hintwordo is a free five-letter word solver and word game. You can use it without an account. This policy explains what data is processed when you use the site.
Who we are
Hintwordo (hintwordo.com) is operated by [TO COMPLETE BEFORE LAUNCH: legal name of the person or business operating Hintwordo, and country].
Contact: [TO COMPLETE BEFORE LAUNCH: contact email address].
What we process
Your guesses and tile colors are processed entirely in your browser and are not sent to us.
When you open a word's definition, that word (not your guesses) is sent to our server, which looks it up in public dictionary sources.
Our hosting provider (Vercel) processes standard technical data such as IP address and browser type to deliver the site and keep it secure.
Cookies and local storage
Hintwordo saves a few preferences in your browser's local storage, such as your last game settings and recently played words. They never leave your device.
If advertising is enabled, Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies as described below.
Analytics
We record anonymous usage events — for example that the solver was used or a game was completed — to improve Hintwordo. These events contain no names, email addresses or guesses.
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Advertising
Hintwordo may show ads provided by Google AdSense to keep the site free.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google's Ads Settings (adssettings.google.com), or opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies at www.aboutads.info.
Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Third-party providers
Hosting: Vercel Inc.
Advertising (when enabled): Google AdSense.
Definitions: Wikimedia Foundation (Wiktionary) and the Free Dictionary API.
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Your choices and consent
Where the law requires it — including in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland — we ask for your consent before personalized ads are shown, using a consent tool certified by Google. You can change your choice at any time from the privacy settings link on the site.
Until you consent, only non-personalized ads may be shown.
Children
Hintwordo is a general-audience word game and is not directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes
We'll update this page when our practices change and revise the date above.