Privacy Policy
Last updated: 6 August 2026
This page explains what information this website collects, what stays on your own device, and the choices you have. We have tried to write it in plain language rather than legal boilerplate.
The short version
We do not ask you to create an account, and we do not run a server that stores your games. Your puzzle progress and statistics are saved only in your own browser. The main privacy consideration on this site is third-party advertising cookies, which are described in detail below.
Information we do not collect
We want to be specific about this, because many privacy policies are vague. This website does not:
- require registration, a username, or a password;
- ask for your name, email address, postal address, or phone number in order to play;
- operate a user database or store your game results on our servers;
- sell personal information to third parties.
Information stored on your device
The game uses your browser's local storage to remember your progress and preferences between visits. This information never leaves your device and is not transmitted to us. You can inspect or erase it at any time through your browser settings.
| Stored item | Purpose |
|---|---|
| wordle-state | Your current unfinished puzzle, so you can close the tab and resume later. |
| wordle-stats | Games played, win streak, and guess distribution shown on the statistics screen. |
| wordle-settings | Preferences such as word length, daily mode, and colour-blind mode. |
| wordle-theme | Whether you chose the light or dark colour scheme. |
| wordle-sound | Whether sound effects are switched on or off. |
| wordle-visited | Records that you have seen the instructions, so they are not shown on every visit. |
Clearing your browser's site data for this domain removes all of the above. Doing so will also reset your statistics and streak, which cannot be recovered afterwards.
Advertising and cookies
This site is supported by advertising. Advertising is what allows the game to stay free to play.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your 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.
- Third-party vendors and ad networks other than Google may also place and read cookies in your browser, or use web beacons and similar technologies, to collect information as a result of ad serving on this website.
These technologies may collect information such as your approximate location (derived from IP address), device and browser type, the pages you view, and how you interact with ads. We do not control the data collected by these third parties, and their handling of it is governed by their own privacy policies.
How to opt out
You have direct control over personalised advertising:
- You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
- You can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info or optout.networkadvertising.org.
- You can block or delete cookies entirely in your browser settings. The game itself will continue to work.
- More detail is available in Google's policy on how it uses data from sites that use its services.
Opting out of personalised ads does not remove advertising; it means the ads you see are less closely tailored to you.
Consent in the EEA, UK and Switzerland
If you are visiting from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you will be shown a consent message before personalised advertising cookies are set. You may accept, refuse, or manage your choices individually, and you can change your decision later at any time through the consent link in the site footer.
Where consent is the legal basis for processing, refusing it does not prevent you from using the game.
Other third-party requests
To display correctly, pages on this site load web fonts from Google Fonts and icon files from the jsDelivr content delivery network. Loading these files necessarily reveals your IP address and basic browser information to those providers, as it does with any resource requested over the internet. No cookies are set by us for this purpose.
Links to other sites
This site links to other puzzle games and to external resources. We have no control over the content or privacy practices of those websites, and this policy does not apply to them. We would encourage you to read the privacy policy of any site you visit.
Children's privacy
This site is a general-audience word game and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Because we do not collect personal information from anyone, we hold no such data to remove; if you believe a child has provided personal information through a message to us, please get in touch and we will delete it.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, or delete personal information a website holds about you, or to object to its processing. Because this site does not maintain accounts or a user database, we typically hold no personal information about you to produce or erase. Data held on your device is under your own control and can be cleared through your browser at any time.
Residents of California may additionally have the right to know what personal information is collected and to opt out of its "sale" or "sharing" for cross-context behavioural advertising. You can exercise the advertising opt-out through the links in the section above.
For any request relating to advertising data specifically, note that the relevant data controller is the advertising provider rather than this website; the opt-out links above are the most direct route.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy to reflect changes to the site or to legal requirements. The date at the top of the page will always show when it was last revised. Material changes will be noted on the site itself.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent through the contact page.