Wordfib is a family word game made by Aimer Games ("we"). We built it so children and adults can play safely. This policy explains what we collect when your family has a Wordfib account, who can see it, and how to control it.
Privacy at a glance
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No trackers and no outside analytics in the game. We count plays ourselves, in total, never player by player.
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Children never give us an email. A parent (or a teen, for themselves) holds the account, and a parent sets up every player under 13.
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Parents control everything: they can see, change or delete a child's information, choose how the child appears on leaderboards, and withdraw consent, at any time.
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Children's information is used only to run and improve Wordfib, never for advertising and never to build a profile.
What we collect
A grown-up (a parent, or an adult playing alone) creates each Wordfib account, or a teen aged 13 to 17 creates their own. Children under 13 never create an account and never give us an email address, and a teen's account can't add players under 13. We store:
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The account: the account holder's email address, or their Apple or Google sign-in, and whether they said they're a grown-up or 13 to 17. If Apple hides the email, we receive a private relay address instead.
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Each player: a nickname (up to 16 characters), birthdate, avatar and game settings.
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Game progress: each player's level, answers, scores, streaks, word collection, badges and daily results, so progress can move between the family's devices.
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Tester notes, such as words marked "Sounds wrong", only if testing tools are on.
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Play counts: totals of how the game is played (games started and finished, how far rounds get, which words are missed and which wrong meanings are picked, how many players return), with no name, account or device identifier. For signed-in families we also add up the progress already saved to the account, across all accounts at once, to get the same kind of totals (see How we count plays and visits).
Your device also keeps a copy so you can play offline.
Why we collect it: to run the game, keep progress in step across devices, set fair starting levels, and show daily leaderboards; and to improve the game: finding words that are too hard or too easy for a level, and wrong meanings that confuse.
Why we ask for a birthdate: to pick a sensible starting level and to know when a player is under 13, so a parent's consent applies. We never show it to anyone.
How we count plays and visits
To make Wordfib better, we count how the game is played, in total, never player by player. When a round ends, the game sends our server the level, the game, how far the round got, and for each question which word it was, whether the answer was right and which wrong meaning was picked. It sends no nickname, birthdate, account or anything that identifies a player or device, and our server only adds it to running totals (like "word X was missed 41 times at level 2 this month"). Once a day the game also tells us whether this is a first visit or a return (and roughly how long since the last one), worked out on your device from the dates it already keeps.
To count visits to our public web pages (the home page, the word pages and word lists, this policy and our Terms of Use), we use Simple Analytics, through our own address. It isn't used inside the game. It uses no cookies and nothing that identifies you or your device: no IP address is stored and no fingerprint is made. It counts page views, which pages, the site you came from, and your country and device type, in total.
Our servers and our database provider may briefly keep IP addresses in their security logs, as every website does; we never add them to these counts.
We use these counts only to run and improve Wordfib, such as finding words that are too hard for a level or wrong meanings that are confusing. We never use them for ads, never build a profile of anyone, and never sell or share them.
Who can see it
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Your family: players in the same account see each other's nicknames, avatars and scores on the family board and rankings.
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Daily leaderboards: a board shows only a player's nickname, avatar and that day's score. Every player appears with their nickname by default. Players 13 and older can switch boards off. For a player under 13, a parent chooses (see Children): show the nickname, show a fun board name built from a list of words (such as "Clever Otter") instead, or don't show the player at all. There are no profiles to tap into, no messages and no friends lists.
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Companies that help us run Wordfib: our database and sign-in provider (Supabase), our email service for sign-in links (Resend), Apple and Google for sign-in, and Simple Analytics for counting visits to our public web pages (see How we count plays and visits). They may use your information only to provide their service to us.
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We never sell or rent anyone's information.
Children
Wordfib is designed for families, including children under 13. We follow the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
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A parent or guardian sets up every player under 13 and gives consent before we store that child's information. After the parent agrees in the app, we email the account's address, and the consent counts once the parent uses the code or link in that email. Until then, the child's player stays only on the parent's device.
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The parent's consent also covers showing the child's nickname, avatar and score on public daily leaderboards. This is on by default. At any time in Player settings, the parent can switch to a fun board name instead of the nickname, or take the child off the boards completely.
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A parent can review, change or delete a child's information, or withdraw consent, at any time in the app (Settings → Account) or by contacting us. Withdrawing consent deletes every player under 13 from our servers at once.
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Nicknames are checked as they're typed. Rude words, email addresses, phone numbers, links and social media handles are blocked, and a parent can rename a player at any time.
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Links that leave the game (such as Rate Us or Contact Us) sit behind a grown-up check.
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Children's information is used only to run and improve Wordfib, never for advertising and never to build a profile. When we add up play to improve the game, we use totals, never one child's play.
What Wordfib does not do
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No tracking across other apps or sites, and no analytics profiles. Play counts are totals only; we never look at one player's play for analytics, and never use play counts or progress for advertising.
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No selling or renting of anyone's information
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No chat or messaging between players
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No public profiles
Keeping and deleting your information
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Delete a player in Player settings to remove that player's information.
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Delete your account in Settings to remove your whole family's information from our servers right away, and from our backups within 7 days.
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We keep information only as long as the account is active.
Security and where data is stored
Information is encrypted while it travels between your device and our servers, and only the people who run Wordfib can access our systems. Our servers are in the United States.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we'll update the date above. For important changes, we'll tell you in the game before they take effect, and ask a parent for consent again where the law requires it.
Contact us
Questions about privacy, or a parent's request to review or delete a child's information: support@wordfib.com.