Privacy Policy
Short version: the puzzles you make stay in your browser. Word Find Creator has no accounts and no database of users. Custom words, titles and hidden messages are not uploaded, logged or used for advertising.
This policy describes how the site actually works today. It is not legal advice, and it will be updated before any advertising or analytics is switched on.
Who runs this site
Word Find Creator (wordfindcreator.com). Contact: kemelmidlej@gmail.com.
Data that stays on your device
To save your work and settings, the site uses your browser’s own storage (localStorage and IndexedDB). This data never leaves your device unless you export it yourself:
| What | Why | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Word list draft, title, message and settings in the maker | So you don’t lose work if you reload | localStorage |
| Puzzles you choose to save, favorites | Your library under Saved | IndexedDB |
| Progress (found words, hints, time) | Resume where you left off | IndexedDB |
| Daily puzzle history and streak | Show your streak | IndexedDB |
| Recently played library puzzles | Quick access, capped at 30 | IndexedDB |
| Preferences (theme, zoom, paper size, print size, sound, timer, interface language) | Remember your choices | localStorage |
You can delete individual items or everything at once from Saved → Delete local data, or by clearing this site’s data in your browser settings.
Puzzle creation and PDFs
Puzzles and PDFs are generated by code running in your browser. No word list, title or message is sent to our server or to anyone else to make a puzzle or a PDF.
Share links
A share link contains the whole puzzle — title, words and any hidden message — encoded in the part of the address after “#”. Browsers don’t send that part to web servers, but anyone who has the link can read it. It is not encrypted. Don’t put private information in a puzzle you share. Shared puzzles open on a page that loads no advertising or analytics code.
Server logs and hosting
The site is a set of static files served by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes technical data such as IP addresses and request details to deliver pages and protect against abuse. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy. We do not use those logs to identify visitors.
Fonts and third parties
All fonts are self-hosted. The maker, Saved, Shared, Daily, Teachers and individual puzzle pages load no third-party scripts. If you choose “Read a machine translation” on an article, that page’s text is sent to Google Translate by your browser; this option only appears on articles, never on puzzle tools.
Analytics
Analytics is currently turned off. If it is enabled in the future, it will only run on public pages, only with consent where required, and will never receive custom words, titles, messages, shared links or the part of an address after “#”. This policy will be updated first.
Advertising and cookies
Some guide, collection and directory pages show advertising served by Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a visitor’s 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 visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google My Ad Center (or Ads Settings). You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info/choices. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland you are asked for consent through a Google-certified consent tool before any personalized ads are shown, and you can change your choice at any time with “Privacy choices” in the footer.
Advertising never appears in the maker, saved or shared puzzles, the daily player, individual puzzle play or printed sheets, and never sits beside game controls. Ads are clearly labelled “Advertisement”. Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Children
The site is for a general audience, including families and classrooms. We don’t ask anyone, of any age, for personal information. Name and Date lines on worksheets are blank lines printed on paper — nothing typed into the site is collected.
Your choices and rights
Because we don’t hold personal data about you on our servers, there is usually nothing for us to access, correct or delete — your data is on your device and under your control. If you have a question or a request under the privacy laws that apply where you live (such as GDPR or US state laws), email kemelmidlej@gmail.com.
Changes
We’ll update this page whenever how the site handles data changes, and change the date at the top.