Privacy Policy

Overview

Connect.Game ("we", "our", or "us") is a free word puzzle game. This policy explains what happens to your data when you play: what we store, what our advertising and analytics partners collect, and the choices you have.

Data we collect

We do not ask you to register, and we never request your name, email address, phone number, or payment details.

Data is processed in three ways:

• Game progress — saved by your browser, on your device only. See below.
• Advertising data — collected by our advertising partners to select and measure ads. See Advertising.
• Analytics data — aggregate usage statistics that help us understand how the game is played. See Analytics.

Server access logs may record your IP address, browser type, and the pages you request, as is standard for any web server. These are used for security and troubleshooting and are not used to build a profile of you.

Game data in your browser

Connect.Game uses your browser's localStorage to save your progress. This data never reaches our servers and is not shared with anyone.

Specifically, we store:

• Statistics — games played, win percentage, current and maximum streak, and mistake distribution, kept separately for each mode and board size
• Daily puzzle results — whether you finished a given day's puzzle and how you did
• Game in progress — the state of an unfinished board so you can resume
• Interface preferences — small flags such as whether a prompt has already been shown

All of these keys begin with conn_. None of it identifies you, and you can clear it at any time.

Advertising

Connect.Game is free to play and is funded by advertising. We work with Ezoic, which places advertising on the site and works with a number of demand partners, including Google and other advertising exchanges.

To display and measure advertising, these partners may collect and process:

• Your IP address, and the approximate location derived from it
• Device and browser information, such as type, operating system, language, and screen size
• Pages viewed on this site, time spent, and interactions with ads
• Cookies and similar identifiers used to limit repeat ads, measure performance, and — where you have consented — personalise which ads you see

The full, current list of advertising partners and the purposes they process data for is available through the consent banner described in Your consent choices. Ezoic's own privacy policy is at ezoic.com/privacy-policy, and Google's at policies.google.com/privacy.

The authorised sellers of advertising on this domain are published at /ads.txt.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics and Ezoic Analytics to understand how the site is used — for example how many people play, which modes are popular, and which pages are slow. These tools collect information such as pages viewed, session length, approximate location at country level, and device type.

We use this only in aggregate. We do not attempt to identify individual visitors from analytics data, and we do not sell it.

Cookies

Cookies and similar technologies are used on this site for:

• Consent — remembering the privacy choices you make, so you are not asked repeatedly
• Advertising — selecting ads, capping how often you see the same one, and measuring performance
• Analytics — distinguishing one visit from another so statistics are meaningful

Your browser's own game data is kept in localStorage rather than cookies, and is never transmitted.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The game itself will keep working, though your saved statistics live in the same browser storage and may be cleared alongside them.

Your consent choices

If you are in a region where consent is required — including the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland — you will be shown a consent banner before personalised advertising cookies are set. You can accept, reject, or choose specific purposes and partners.

If you reject personalised advertising you will still see ads, but they will be non-personalised — selected on the basis of the page content rather than any profile.

California residents: we do not sell personal information for money. Some advertising practices may be treated as "sharing" or "selling" under the CCPA/CPRA; you can opt out using the same consent controls, or contact us using the details below.

Third parties

The following third-party services are loaded on this site:

• Ezoic — advertising, consent management, and analytics
• Google — advertising demand and Google Analytics
• Google Fonts — typefaces. When your browser requests them, Google's servers may log the request, including your IP address.

Each of these operates under its own privacy policy. We do not sell or rent your personal information to anyone.

Children's privacy

Connect.Game is a word puzzle suitable for a general audience. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Because the site carries advertising, we ask that children under 13 do not use it without a parent or guardian. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us and we will address it promptly.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights under the GDPR, the UK GDPR, the CCPA/CPRA, or similar laws — including the rights to access, correct, delete, or export personal data, to object to processing, and to withdraw consent.

Because we hold no account for you, most data relating to you sits either in your own browser or with our advertising partners. To exercise a right against a partner, use the consent controls above, or contact us and we will help direct your request.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the site changes — for example if we add or remove a partner. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date above. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us: