This Privacy Policy explains how Word Search by APPvark collects, uses, stores, and shares information when you use the game, create an account, install the app, make purchases, view ads, or interact with related website and app features.
By using Word Search by APPvark, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Depending on how you use Word Search by APPvark, we may collect the following types of information:
Account Information
We may collect account information such as your email address, display name, user ID, login status, and profile details when you create an account, sign in, or use account-based features.
We use this information to provide account functionality, save game progress, sync saved data, restore access to your account, personalize the app experience, and support account-related features.
Optional Profile Information
You may choose to provide optional profile information if available in the app. This may include optional profile details such as preferences or other profile fields used for personalization.
If optional sensitive profile information is available, such as sexual orientation, providing it is not required to use the basic game. Optional sensitive profile information is used only for personalization or profile-related features.
We do not sell optional profile information, and we do not use optional sensitive profile information for advertising or marketing.
Gameplay and App Interaction Data
We may collect gameplay and app interaction data such as saved games, puzzle progress, completed puzzles, statistics, scores, selected difficulty, selected game modes, settings, preferences, wins, losses, streaks, and similar gameplay activity.
We use this information to operate the game, save progress, restore saved games, personalize the app experience, show statistics, improve gameplay, maintain app functionality, and understand how the game is used.
Technical Data
We may collect technical data such as browser type, app version, device type, operating system, IP address, device identifiers, app diagnostics, crash data, performance data, and basic log data.
We use this information to operate the app, maintain security, prevent abuse, troubleshoot errors, improve performance, support compatibility, and comply with platform or legal requirements.
User IDs
We may assign or collect a user ID when you use the app, create an account, sign in, save progress, or use account-based features.
User IDs may be used to save game progress, sync saved data, restore account access, personalize the app experience, manage purchases, restore purchased features, prevent abuse, and maintain app security.
Device Identifiers and Advertising ID
Our app may collect or allow third-party services to collect device identifiers, advertising IDs, app-set IDs, IP address, diagnostic data, and similar identifiers.
These identifiers may be used for app functionality, advertising, ad measurement, analytics, fraud prevention, security, compliance, diagnostics, and performance reporting.
Users may be able to reset or limit use of their advertising ID through their device settings.
Cookies, Sessions, and Local Storage
Our app or website may use cookies, session tokens, local storage, or similar technologies to keep users signed in, maintain account sessions, save game progress, remember preferences, restore settings, and provide app functionality.
We do not collect users' general web browsing history or search engine history.
We may use collected information for the following purposes:
Word Search by APPvark may offer optional purchases, such as removing ads or unlocking app features.
Payments are processed by third-party app stores or payment providers, such as Amazon, Google, Apple, or Stripe where available.
We do not collect or store your credit card number, debit card number, bank account information, credit score, or full payment details.
We may receive limited purchase-related information, such as product ID, purchase status, transaction confirmation, receipt data, order status, entitlement status, or restore-purchase status.
We use this limited purchase-related information only to unlock purchased features, remove ads where applicable, restore purchases, prevent fraudulent purchases, and maintain app functionality.
Word Search by APPvark may display advertisements in supported versions of the game.
The app may use third-party advertising services, including Google AdMob and the Google Mobile Ads SDK.
These services may collect or receive information such as device identifiers, advertising ID, app-set ID, IP address, app interactions, ad interactions, diagnostic information, performance information, crash information, and approximate location inferred from IP address.
Advertising providers may use this information to:
Where permitted by law, advertising providers and their partners may use cookies, identifiers, or similar technologies to personalize advertising and measure ad performance.
Users in certain regions may be shown a consent message regarding cookies, personalized ads, non-personalized ads, and related privacy choices.
Users may be able to reset or limit use of their advertising ID through device settings.
We may use gameplay statistics, app interaction data, technical data, diagnostic data, and performance data to understand how the game is used, improve gameplay, fix bugs, maintain security, and improve app performance.
Analytics and diagnostic data may include information such as app launches, pages or screens viewed within the app, game modes used, completed puzzles, errors, crashes, device type, app version, and performance information.
Word Search by APPvark may use third-party services for hosting, authentication, account functionality, analytics, advertising, app store distribution, payment processing, purchase validation, crash diagnostics, and security.
Third-party services may include, where applicable:
These third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy policies, terms, and platform rules.
We do not sell your personal information.
We may share information only in limited situations, including:
We do not sell your email address, profile information, gameplay data, or purchase information.
Account and gameplay data may be retained for as long as needed to provide the service, maintain saved progress, restore account access, support purchases, prevent abuse, comply with legal obligations, and provide app functionality.
Technical logs, diagnostic data, and security records may be retained for a limited period as needed for troubleshooting, security, fraud prevention, and compliance.
If an account is scheduled for deletion, associated account data may be removed after the applicable delay period unless retention is required for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, or legitimate operational purposes.
If you create an account, you may be able to update profile information, change account settings, manage preferences, or request account deletion through the site or app where available.
Account deletion may remove account information, saved progress, profile details, and related account data, subject to any required retention for legal, security, fraud prevention, or purchase verification purposes.
Word Search by APPvark does not collect your general web browsing history or search engine history.
Cookies, session tokens, and local storage used by the app are used for app functionality, account sessions, saved games, preferences, and related features.
Word Search by APPvark is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law.
If you believe a child has provided personal information without proper permission, please contact us using the contact information below so we can review and take appropriate action.
Depending on where you live, you may have certain privacy rights under applicable law. These rights may include the ability to request access to personal information, correction of personal information, deletion of personal information, or information about how personal information is used or shared.
Users in certain regions, including the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, may be shown a consent message regarding cookies, advertising, personalized ads, non-personalized ads, and related privacy choices.
Where required, we rely on consent signals or other lawful bases to manage ad-related data use.
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to help protect information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, or alteration.
No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time.
Changes will be reflected on this page with an updated “Last updated” date.
Continued use of the game, app, or website after changes are posted means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.
If you have privacy or policy questions about Word Search by APPvark, please contact us at: