Privacy Policy — MINE-WORD

Privacy Policy & GDPR Notice

Last updated: 11 July 2026

1. The short version

Mine-Word is a free browser game with no accounts, no sign-up and no forms. The game itself does not collect, store or transmit your guesses, results or any personal data. However, the site displays advertising served by Google AdSense, which may use cookies and similar technologies. Visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland are shown a consent prompt before any advertising cookies are used, and can refuse or withdraw consent at any time.

2. Who we are (Data Controller)

The data controller for this website is Drizzling Bytes LLC ("Chill Plays" is a project by Drizzling Bytes LLC). For any privacy matter, including exercising your rights under the GDPR, contact: [email protected]

3. What the game itself processes

Nothing personal. Game state (the hidden words, your guesses, lives) exists only in your browser's memory for the current session and is discarded when you close or reload the page. The games set a small number of localStorage entries (all prefixed mw-) that remember purely functional things: that you dismissed the first-visit notice, which tutorials you have completed, your preferred board size, and your own daily-challenge results and streaks. They contain no personal data, never leave your device, are strictly necessary for those functions (no consent required under the ePrivacy rules), and can be removed at any time by clearing your browser's site data.

When you finish a daily challenge, the game increments an anonymous counter ("played" / "cracked") in our statistics database so everyone can see how many players solved that day's puzzle. No identifier, account, or gameplay detail is sent — only the +1.

4. Hosting & content delivery (Cloudflare, Google)

This site is served through Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc.). Like virtually all web servers, Cloudflare temporarily processes technical data needed to deliver the page and keep it secure — your IP address and standard request metadata (time, requested URL, user-agent) — and provides us only aggregate, cookie-less traffic statistics (e.g. total requests per country). See the Cloudflare Privacy Policy. The anonymous daily-challenge counters described in section 3 are stored in Google Firebase (Google LLC / Google Ireland Ltd); requests to it carry the same kind of technical metadata. See Firebase Privacy and Security.

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google and its certified advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons and similar identifiers to serve ads, measure their performance, prevent fraud and — where you have consented — personalize the ads you see based on your visits to this and other websites.

EEA / UK / Switzerland: a consent message is shown before any advertising cookies are set. If you decline, only non-personalized ads (or no ads) with strictly limited technical processing are shown. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time via the “PRIVACY SETTINGS” link in the site footer (which reopens the consent tool) or by clearing this site's cookies.
Google as controller: for ad personalization and measurement, Google acts as an independent data controller. How Google uses data from sites that use its services is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and in the Google Privacy Policy.
Your ad choices: you can opt out of personalized advertising at Google Ads Settings, aboutads.info/choices (US) or youronlinechoices.com (EU).
US state privacy laws (CCPA/CPRA etc.): we do not sell personal information ourselves. Interest-based advertising may qualify as "sharing"; you can opt out via the links above or your browser's Global Privacy Control.

6. Legal bases (GDPR)

Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) — personalized advertising and any advertising cookies in the EEA/UK/Switzerland; withdrawable at any time with effect for the future. Legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) — delivering the website you requested, keeping it secure, and strictly limited non-personalized ad delivery and fraud prevention where permitted.

7. Your rights

Under the GDPR (and similar laws such as the UK GDPR) you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict or object to processing of your personal data, the right to data portability, the right to withdraw consent, and the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. For data processed by Google for advertising, you can also exercise choices directly via the links in section 5. You are always welcome to contact us and we will help where we can.

8. Children

The game's content is suitable for all ages, but the site is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children; ad personalization requires consent, which children under the applicable digital-consent age cannot give.

9. International transfers

Cloudflare and Google may process data on servers worldwide. Both Cloudflare, Inc. and Google LLC participate in the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and use Standard Contractual Clauses where applicable.

10. Changes to this policy

If the site's data practices change (e.g. new features or ad partners), this policy will be updated first and the date above revised.