Word War — Privacy Policy

Effective date: 26 October 2026

Word War is a word game made by an independent developer. This policy explains what the app collects, why, and what it never does.

The short version

Word War collects the minimum needed to let you sign in and play with friends: an email address for passwordless login, a display name, and your game results. There are no ads, no analytics SDKs, and no tracking of you across other apps or websites. Nothing is sold or shared with advertisers, because there are no advertisers.

We do look at game results ourselves, to tune how hard games are and how the letters are dealt. That stays with us: it is never sold, shared, or used to track you.

You can play most of the game as a guest, with no account and no email at all.

What is collected

If you sign in

• Email address — used only to send your 6-digit sign-in code and to let a friend who knows your address send you a friend request. It is never used for marketing. Your address is held in a separate, restricted table that the app itself cannot read. It is reachable only through a lookup that answers "is this person here, yes or no" and returns no contact details, so no one holding the app can extract the address list.
• Display name and a 4-digit code (e.g. Alex#1234) — how other players identify you.
• Sign-in tokens — stored on your device so you stay signed in.
• Last-online date — so friends can see who is around.

While you play

• Game results — scores, the words you found, which board positions you used, and the outcome of each game. This is what leaderboards, friend comparisons and the end-of-game heatmap are made of.
• Daily Challenge scores — so the daily leaderboard and your streak work.
• Achievements and cosmetics — which achievements you have earned and which name-card colour and badges you have equipped.
• Friendships, friend requests and challenges — who you are connected to, and the challenges you have sent or received.
• Room and lobby state — while an online match is in progress.

How game results are used

• To run the game — leaderboards, friend comparisons, streaks and achievements.
• To improve it — now and then we analyse game results and how the game is played (which modes, how often) to check whether games are too hard and whether the letters are dealt well. This is done by us only, with our own tools. It is never sold, shared with anyone else, or used for advertising or to track you.

If you play as a guest

A random identifier is generated on your device so the game can keep score. No email, no account, and no name is stored on our server. That identifier is saved on your device and stays the same until you delete the app or use Reset This Device in Settings; it is not derived from anything about you or your device, and it is not shared with anyone. Guests cannot use leaderboards, friends or challenges.

What is never collected

• No advertising identifiers, and no advertising SDKs of any kind.
• No third-party analytics or crash-reporting services.
• No tracking across other apps or websites.
• No location data, contacts, photos, microphone or camera access.
• No payment information. There are no in-app purchases. Every cosmetic is earned by playing.
• No message content beyond the words you play in a game.

Where it is stored

Game data is stored using Supabase, a hosted database provider, acting as a data processor. Traffic between the app and Supabase uses HTTPS. Nobody outside the developer and Supabase's infrastructure has access.

Sign-in emails are delivered by an email provider solely to transmit your login code.

Children

Word War is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their personal information. If you believe a child has created an account, contact the address below and it will be deleted.

Your choices

• Play without an account. Guest mode needs no email.
• Change your display name in Profile (limited to once every 7 days).
• Delete your account and data, in the app: Settings → Delete Account, then type DELETE to confirm. Your account and everything associated with it — email, name and friend code, scores, Daily results, words played, game history, achievements, friendships, friend requests and challenges — is permanently deleted from our server straight away, and the app clears what it kept on your device. You can also email the address below and it will be done for you.
• Reset this device if you play as a guest: Settings → Reset This Device clears your guest name and everything else the app keeps on your device.
• Sign out at any time in Settings, which removes the stored tokens from your device.

Retention

Data is kept while your account exists, and is deleted when you delete your account. There is currently no automatic expiry of old game history. Backups of the database, kept privately by the developer, may hold a copy for a while afterwards; a backup is never used to bring a deleted account back.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the updated version will be posted at this URL with a new effective date.

Contact

[email protected]

Philip O'Connor · deceptivelylit.com