Wordnetic privacy policy
Effective 15 October 2026
Who we are
Wordnetic is developed and owned by CPD Studios (ABN 80 768 422 971), based in Australia. If you have any questions about the privacy policy, how your data is stored, used, or any other questions, you can contact us at [email protected].
What this is
Wordnetic is a spelling puzzle game. This policy outlines what data leaves your device, when, who holds it, and how long it is kept.
Who this game is for
Wordnetic is not intended for children under 13. Accounts are not knowingly created for anyone under that age and no data is knowingly collected from them. If you believe a child under 13 holds an account, contact us and it will be deleted.
Playing without an account
No account is required to play. Your progress, your settings and the words you have found are stored on the device and are not transmitted to us. The application retrieves its own content files, including the word list, the audio and the video, which discloses your device IP address to the service hosting them. The store you downloaded the application from records that download against your store account and supplies us with aggregated statistics covering installs, sessions and crashes. Apple provides those statistics only for users who have agreed to share diagnostics and usage information with developers. The statistics we receive do not identify individual users.
If you sign in
Signing in with Google, Apple, Facebook, Discord or Twitch discloses to us the account identifier and the email address held by that provider. Your name and profile picture are not requested. The provider is informed that you have signed in to Wordnetic and handles that record under its own privacy policy, published at policies.google.com/privacy, apple.com/legal/privacy, facebook.com/privacy/policy, discord.com/privacy and twitch.tv/p/legal/privacy-notice. Signing in with an email address and password instead involves no third-party provider: the address is disclosed only to us. It identifies your account and receives the codes that confirm it and reset your password. The username displayed on leaderboards is chosen by you. A session token is held on your device until you sign out.
Game session data
Completing a ranked run while signed in transmits the mode played, the date, the duration, the words captured, the letter selection paths recorded during play, the timing of each selection, and whether adult words were enabled. Statistics about your game session are used to validate the authenticity of game sessions stored in leaderboards, and your score is calculated on our servers from that data rather than accepted from the application.
Advertising and purchases
Wordnetic displays advertising supplied by Google AdMob, which handles that advertising under the terms published at policies.google.com/technologies/ads. AdMob may process a device advertising identifier and technical information about your device in order to select and measure the advertising shown to you. On iPhone the game asks before advertising may use tracking, and in the EU and UK you can change your advertising consent at any time under SETTINGS > AD PRIVACY. You can limit this through the advertising settings on your device, and you can remove advertising from the game by purchasing the ad-free upgrade. The browser version of the game carries no advertising. Purchases are processed by the Apple App Store or Google Play, which supply us with a record of the transaction and no payment details. We do not sell your personal data. No general analytics or usage tracking software is included in the application.
Service providers
Data sent from the application is stored and processed by Supabase, which hosts the database and the authentication service, under the terms published at supabase.com/privacy. The application files are served by Cloudflare, which receives the IP address requesting them, under the terms published at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy. Distribution and payment are handled by Apple and Google under the terms published at apple.com/legal/privacy and policies.google.com/privacy. Each provider processes the data only to deliver its service to us. Your leaderboard username and score are published and can be read by anyone.
Where your data is held
The database and the sign-in service are hosted in Sydney, Australia. Our other service providers operate outside Australia, so data sent to them may be stored and processed in other countries, under the law applying in the country where it is held.
Data retention
Your email address, account identifier, username and account settings are retained until you delete your account. Session tokens expire and are reissued while you remain signed in, and are discarded when you sign out. A daily leaderboard entry is retained for 30 days. An all-time leaderboard entry is retained for the life of the account. The detailed record of a run, covering the words, the selection paths and the timings, is retained only while the entry stands within the top 5,000 of a board, after which it is reduced to the rank, the username, the score and a summary of the run.
Error logging and reporting
Faults are recorded by the application and may be transmitted with a description of the error and the state of the application at the time. A report you submit from within the application carries the text you write, the report category, the same record of the application state, and an email address where you supply one. Reports can be submitted with or without an account.
Tester sign-up
If you ask to test the iPhone app on wordnetic.com, we keep the email and country you enter so we can send you a TestFlight invite. They're stored with Supabase, used for nothing else, and deleted once the app launches, or sooner if you email [email protected].
Security
Data is transmitted over encrypted connections. Access is enforced by rules applied in the database itself, which restrict every account to its own records. Scores are derived on the server from the submitted game session data and cannot be set by the application.
Deleting your account
PROFILE → ACCOUNT → DELETE ACCOUNT removes your account and the data held against it, covering your leaderboard entries on every board, your profile, your username and your account settings on our servers. Deletion is permanent. A report you have submitted is retained with the account reference removed from it.
Your choices and your rights
You can sign out at any time and your progress remains on the device. PROFILE → PROFILE removes you from the leaderboards without deleting your account. You have the right to request access to the personal data held about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted and to receive a copy of it. Residents of Australia, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and several United States states hold further statutory rights and will not be treated differently for exercising them. Requests can be made from within the application or by contacting us.
Changes to this policy
This policy took effect on 15 October 2026. The version shown in the application is the current one and the date identifies it.