Privacy policy

Connecdle uses browser storage or the equivalent app storage to remember your theme preference and daily game progress. Daily progress can include your guesses, their feedback, completion status, score, displayed answer, and completion time. This information is not used to identify you. Completed puzzle dates, win or loss results, attempts used, scores, and completion times are also kept locally to calculate your played count, win rate, guess distribution, and streaks. You can remove this information by clearing the site or app storage.

The server-rendered website sets an essential, random game-session cookie so the same daily puzzle can also be played when JavaScript is unavailable. The cookie contains only an opaque token. It is host-only, marked HttpOnly and SameSite=Strict, sent securely in production, and expires when the puzzle changes at 00:00 UTC. It is not an advertising cookie and does not create a player account.

After the server form is used, Connecdle temporarily keeps the token's hash with the puzzle identifier, revision and date, server-controlled attempt count and status, one-time form-token hashes, and the guesses and feedback needed to resume that game. Expired session rows are removed in bounded cleanup batches. The separate scored-guess record described below can be retained for scoring review and model improvement after the temporary session expires.

When you submit a guess, the public API processes and stores data needed to score and improve the game. The guess record can include:

Connecdle does not require a name, email address, account, or user profile to play, and it does not intentionally attach an IP address to the stored guess record. Avoid entering personal information in the answer box. Network providers may still process IP addresses and technical request data as part of delivering and protecting the service.

Submitted guesses are used to return a score, detect abuse, measure scoring quality, review uncertain decisions, and improve future versions of the language model. Guess records are currently retained until they are no longer needed for those purposes or are manually deleted. Reviewed data may be retained in normalized or de-identified form for model evaluation and training.

Google Analytics helps Connecdle understand aggregate website usage, such as page visits and general device or browser information. Its tag may use cookies or similar technologies and sends measurement data to Google. Connecdle uses these reports to understand traffic and improve the game, not to create player accounts.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies or similar technologies to serve and measure ads based on visits to Connecdle and other websites. Google’s advertising cookies enable Google and its partners to personalize ads where consent and applicable law allow. A page can contact Google’s advertising systems whenever its ad tag is present, even if an ad is not ultimately shown.

Where required, a consent message provides choices before personalized advertising is used. Browser privacy settings and content blockers may also restrict third-party storage or requests.

Connecdle uses transport encryption, restricted service credentials, request limits, and access controls intended to protect the service. No internet service can guarantee absolute security. Depending on your location, you may have rights to request access, correction, or deletion of personal information. Send privacy questions or requests to hello@connecdle.com. Because Connecdle does not use player accounts, include enough context to understand the request without sending passwords or other sensitive information.

Connecdle is a general-audience word game and is not directed to children under 13. If this policy changes materially, its effective date will be updated here.