Privacy Policy
Last updated 21 August 2026
The short version. Word Hug has no accounts and no sign-in. Your puzzles, streak, coins and settings are stored on your phone and nowhere else. We do not run analytics, we do not track you, and we do not sell anything to anybody. The only time data leaves your device is when you buy something, and then it goes to the app store and our payments provider so the purchase can work.
Who we are
Word Hug is made by Games for Strangers. If you want to ask about anything on this page, write to kinzinzombe07@gmail.com and a person will reply.
What stays on your device
Everything the game knows about you is written to local storage on your phone. It is not backed up to us, it is not synced between devices, and we cannot read it. That includes:
- Which puzzles and levels you have solved, and when
- Your current and longest streak
- Your coin balance and which hints you have used
- Which packs you own
- Your settings — sound, haptics, and your reminder time
Deleting the app deletes all of it. There is no copy anywhere else, which also means we cannot restore it for you if you lose your phone.
What we do not collect
We think this list is more useful than the one above, so it is deliberately specific. Word Hug does not collect, store or transmit:
- Your name, email address, phone number or date of birth
- Your location, at any precision
- Your contacts, photos, camera, microphone or files
- Your advertising identifier
- Analytics or usage events of any kind — there is no analytics SDK in the app
- Crash reports
There is no account to create, so there is nothing to log in to and no password to lose.
Purchases
The daily puzzle and the first fifty levels are free. If you choose to buy a level pack or a handful of hint coins, the purchase is handled by Apple or Google depending on your phone, and processed through RevenueCat, which tells the app what you own.
We never see your card. Apple and Google do not give it to us. What RevenueCat receives is a randomly generated identifier for your installation and the receipt for the purchase — enough to confirm you paid and to restore your packs if you reinstall. That identifier is not linked to your name or your email, because we do not have either.
- RevenueCat's privacy policy: revenuecat.com/privacy
- Apple and Google handle payment data under their own policies, which apply to the store you bought from.
Hint coins are consumable. Because they are spent on your device rather than held on a server, reinstalling the app restores your packs but not your unspent coins. We would rather say that here than have you find out.
Reminders
If you turn on the daily reminder, the app asks your phone to show you a notification at the time you picked. That schedule lives on your phone. There is no push server, we never receive a device token, and we cannot send you anything you did not ask for.
You can turn reminders off in the app's settings, or in your phone's own notification settings, at any time.
Word lookups
The puzzles are bundled inside the app, so playing needs no connection at all. We check our own word list against a public dictionary service while writing puzzles, but that happens on our machines before release — your phone never sends a word anywhere.
Children
Word Hug is suitable for all ages and contains no chat, no user-generated content, no social features and no way for one player to reach another. Because we collect no personal information from anybody, we collect none from children either.
The app does contain optional purchases. If you are a parent, your phone's built-in purchase controls will restrict them.
This website
wordhug.gamesforstrangers.lol is a static site with no analytics, no cookies and no tracking pixels. Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs, which may include your IP address, for security and reliability.
Your rights
Under the UK GDPR, the EU GDPR and similar laws elsewhere, you have the right to see, correct and delete the personal data a company holds about you. We hold none, so there is nothing to request — but the practical version of "delete my data" here is uninstalling the app, which removes everything.
If you would like to make a request or a complaint anyway, write to kinzinzombe07@gmail.com. In the UK you also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters — new data collected, a new third party involved, advertising added — the date at the top will change and the app's release notes will say so. We will not quietly widen it.