Privacy Policy

This policy covers all visitors to wordsensei.com and anyone who creates a WordSensei account. By using WordSensei, you agree to the practices described here. If you don't agree, please don't use the site.

WordSensei is operated by the WordSensei team. When this policy says "we," "us," or "our," it means WordSensei.

We collect data in three ways: directly from you, automatically when you use the site, and through third-party services we use to run the platform.

We use your data to run WordSensei, improve the experience, and keep the platform free through advertising.

• Create and manage your account so you can log in and access your progress across devices
• Track your streaks, scores, and word history so you can see how you're improving
• Personalise the game experience based on your performance and vocabulary level
• Process reward redemptions and pay the reward to the mobile wallet number you provide
• Serve ads through our advertising partners to keep the platform free
• Send account-related emails like password resets or important policy updates
• Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and security issues
• Process referral codes and award bonus XP correctly

We don't use your data to build psychological profiles, make automated decisions that affect you in a significant way, or send unsolicited marketing without your consent.

WordSensei is free to use. Advertising is how we keep it that way. Ads on WordSensei are supplied by Google AdSense, which is our ad provider.

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

Advertising cookies are set by Google from domains including google.com, doubleclick.net, googlesyndication.com and googleadservices.com. Through them, Google and its partners may receive your IP address, browser and device information, and the pages you view, and may use that information to select and measure ads. How Google handles this data is governed by Google's own terms, not ours. You can read the details in How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps.

Where consent is required, we collect it through the cookie banner shown on your first visit. You can change that choice at any time on our Cookie Policy page. Until you give consent, advertising and measurement storage stay switched off.

We do not serve behaviourally targeted advertising to users who identify as minors, and we do not pass your name, email address, or reward account details to advertisers.

Children under 13 may not create a WordSensei account without verifiable parental consent. If you are under 13, please ask a parent or guardian to create an account for you or to provide consent before you register.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child under 13 has created an account without your knowledge, please contact us at contact.wordsensei@gmail.com and we will promptly delete the account and all associated data.

For users aged 13 to 17, we recommend a parent or guardian review this privacy policy with them. We limit the data we collect from younger users and do not serve behaviourally targeted advertising to users who identify as minors.

We don't sell your personal data. We share it only in the following cases.

If WordSensei is ever acquired or merged with another company, your data may be transferred as part of that transaction. We'll notify you before that happens and before your data becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Regardless of where you live, you have rights over your personal data. Here's what they are and how to exercise them.

To exercise any of these rights, email us at contact.wordsensei@gmail.com. We'll respond within 30 days. GDPR users in the EU may also lodge a complaint with their local data protection authority.

We keep your account data for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, we remove your personal data within 30 days, except where we're required by law to retain it longer.

• Account data (name, email): kept until you delete your account
• Game scores and progress: kept until you delete your account
• Reward and redemption records, including the mobile wallet number used: kept while your account is open and for as long as we need them to show a payout history and meet accounting and anti-fraud obligations
• Advertising cookies: set and expired by Google on its own schedule, and cleared from your device whenever you clear your browser cookies
• Server logs: kept for up to 12 months for security purposes

We update this policy when our practices change. When we do, we update the "last updated" date at the top of this page. If the changes are significant, we'll notify you by email or by showing a notice on the site when you log in next.

Continuing to use WordSensei after a policy update means you accept the revised terms. If you don't agree with the changes, you can delete your account before they take effect.