Cookie Policy
Last updated: March 29, 2025
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, remember your preferences, and provide information to website owners.
Cookies can be "first-party" (set by the website you are visiting) or "third-party" (set by a domain other than the one you are visiting). They can also be "session cookies" (deleted when you close your browser) or "persistent cookies" (which remain on your device for a set period of time or until you delete them).
2. How We Use Cookies
Wordic Games uses cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
- To store your game progress, scores, and streaks locally
- To remember your preferences (such as theme settings)
- To understand how visitors interact with our Website through analytics
- To serve relevant advertisements through our advertising partners
- To prevent fraud and ensure the security of our platform
3. Types of Cookies We Use
3.1 Essential / Functional Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the Website to function correctly. They include cookies that store your daily puzzle completion status, game progress, word guesses, and high scores in your browser's local storage. Without these, core game features would not work. These cookies do not track you across other websites.
3.2 Analytics Cookies
We use Google Analytics (via Google Tag Manager) to collect anonymised information about how visitors use our Website. This includes data such as which pages are visited most frequently, how long users spend on the Website, and what devices they use. This information helps us improve the site experience. Google Analytics may set cookies such as _ga, _gid, and _gat.
You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
3.3 Advertising Cookies (Google AdSense)
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our Website. Google AdSense uses cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our Website and other sites on the internet. These advertising cookies allow Google and its partners to show you personalised advertisements based on your interests.
Google AdSense may set the following cookies (among others):
- DSID, IDE, RUL— Used by Google to register and report actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads, with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and showing targeted ads.
- __gads / __gpi — Set by Google to register user activity and improve advertising.
- NID— Used to store your preferences and other information, including preferred language, how many search results you wish to have shown, and whether you wish to have Google's SafeSearch filter turned on.
- CONSENT — Used to detect if a visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner.
Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the internet. You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings or aboutads.info.
For more information on how Google uses data when you use our site, see How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps.
4. Local Storage
In addition to cookies, Wordic Games stores game data (such as your daily puzzle results, guess history, streaks, and high scores) directly in your browser's local storage. This is a standard web technology similar to cookies but with a larger storage capacity. Local storage data does not expire automatically and is not sent to our servers. You can clear this data at any time through your browser's developer tools or by clearing your browser's site data.
5. How to Control Cookies
You have the right to control and manage cookies in a number of ways:
Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can usually find these settings in the "Options" or "Preferences" menu of your browser. You can set your browser to:
- Notify you when a cookie is set
- Block all cookies
- Block third-party cookies only
- Delete cookies when you close your browser
Please note that blocking or deleting cookies may affect your experience on Wordic Games. In particular, blocking functional cookies will prevent your game progress and statistics from being saved.
Opt-Out Links
6. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the technologies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us. You can also review our Privacy Policy for more information on how we handle your personal data.