At Wordle.Guide, we value your privacy and take it seriously. Our policy is to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website or mobile app. We may collect information directly or automatically. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information we collect, how we use it, and how we keep that information secure. It is our commitment to keep your information confidential and protected.
Information We Collect
We collect personal and non-personal information from our visitors through various means such as our website, app, or email services. This information helps us to understand our visitors better and provide them with a personalized experience. Here’s what we collect:
Personal Information; Information You Provide
We collect contact information such as your name, email address, and communication preferences for the purposes of email and newsletter communications. Additionally, we collect survey/questionnaire data such as basic demographic and psychographic information like gender, age range, race, income bracket, marital status, household size, interests, hobbies, etc. This information is submitted to Wordle Guide directly through website or email communication. Lastly, we collect contest and sweepstakes data such as name, home address, email address, phone number, and any declared responses to survey questions or forms for the purposes of entering a contest or sweepstakes for a given and posted prize/reward.
Automatically Collected Information
When you visit our websites, mobile applications, or view an email, Wordle Guide or a third-party service may collect non-personal information from your browser or device. This data is typically considered not personally identifiable information and does not personally identify you on its own. Examples of this information are usage analytics data, device-level data/log files, and advertising measurement data.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Cookies are used to track data and are small data trackers transferred to your device when it is used to access our web properties. Cookies can be used for several purposes, including to enable aspects or features on our properties or to remember your preferences, to better understand how you use our properties, and to provide you with more personalized advertising messages on and off our properties. You can instruct your browser to stop accepting third party cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from websites that you visit.
Wordle Guide and our third-party partners/affiliates may use cookies or other tracking technologies/beacons to collect usage information and personalize content and advertising. Visitors may choose to disable cookies through their browser settings, but this may limit access to certain features of our website.
How We Use Information We Collect
At Wordle Guide, we use the information we collect for various purposes. Firstly, we respond to inquiries, feedback requests, comments, or any other requests submitted by our visitors directly. We also personalize the experience of our visitors on our web and app properties by providing them with content recommendations similar to what they have interacted with previously on our properties. Additionally, we create a more personalized advertising experience based on visitors’ interests, including email communication.
We use the collected information to help authenticate any account created on our websites or mobile applications. For analytical and monitoring purposes, we analyze website usage information to help create new experiences, detect website bugs or suboptimal functionality, optimize our website services, or create new services. We also use this data to monitor our website traffic and visitor behavior on our properties.
Furthermore, we use the collected information to fulfill submissions to any website sweepstakes or promotions. Finally, we comply with legal obligations or requirements, as directed by Law.
How Do We Share or Disclose Information
At Wordle Guide, we take your privacy seriously and only share or disclose information with third-party companies in specific circumstances.
Service Providers and Affiliates
We may provide access to anonymized information to outside parties that perform services on our behalf. These services include subscription processing, managing email lists, payment processing, analytics, and other administrative services. We only share the information necessary for these third-party companies to carry out their services.
Clients, Contest and Promotion Providers
If you enter a contest or sweepstakes promotion that is sponsored by a third party or client, we may disclose the information you provide via the contest or sweepstakes to that third party for their use subject to their own policies. However, we will only do so if you have agreed to opt-in to marketing and promotions.
Third-Party Advertising Partners
Wordle Guide is supported and monetized by third-party advertising partners. These partners may employ technologies that allow for the delivery of personalized advertising on Our Properties. These technologies may collect specific and anonymized information to deliver more relevant advertising and marketing messages. We may also provide specific and anonymized information to service providers, who may attempt to match our data with their own, in order to provide you with a more personalized ad experience.
Law Enforcement/Legal Reasons
We may disclose information to legal parties if required by law or subpoena, or if such an action is necessary to comply with the reasonable requests of law enforcement, to protect the security or integrity of our properties and data, or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety and security of our organization.
We want to assure you that we take every precaution to protect your privacy and only share information when necessary and in accordance with our policies.
Our Relationship with Other Parties
Third Parties and Advertising Technologies:
Our websites and products may contain links, content snippets, or advertisements that lead to third-party websites or products/services. We want to make it clear that these links, content snippets, or advertisements are not necessarily an endorsement or representation of our affiliation with any of those other parties, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy policies.
We want to remind you that we cannot control third-party websites, products, or services, and they may place their own cookies or tracking technologies on your device to collect data or solicit information from you while using those services. We encourage you to learn about the privacy practices of those parties to protect your personal information.
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Social Media Providers
Our products include social media features from providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, or other third-party social services. We want to remind you that these social media companies may recognize your device or login information on their platform and collect information, or they may set a cookie or use other tracking technologies. Your interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policies of those third-party social media companies.
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| – Your interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policies of those third-party social media companies |
Protection and Security of Information
At Wordle Guide, we take the security of your information seriously. We employ appropriate administrative, technical, and security measures to prevent unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of your data. However, no system can be completely secure, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security. By using our Digital Products, you agree to assume any risk associated with the use of our services.
Children’s Information Policy
At Wordle Guide, we care about the privacy and safety of children online. Therefore, our properties are not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect any information about children under the age of 13 on any of our properties. In the event that we discover any information on any visitor under the age of 13 has been collected, we will immediately delete that information. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that we have collected information from a child under the age of 13, please contact us through the “Contact Us” address at the bottom of this policy.
International Information Transfer
We may store and process your information in countries where Wordle Guide or its Affiliates operate, such as the United States and Vietnam. Please note that the data protection laws in these countries may have different standards of protection for your information than the country where you are located or your country of residence. However, any international information transfer would be anonymized information, not identifiable.
If you are using our products and services in the European Union or EEA, United Kingdom, or a United States State that has specific protection laws, please review the relevant sections below for more information regarding privacy rights associated with those locations. If you have any questions about this policy, please find the Contact Us link below.
Changes to This Policy
We may modify this Policy at any time to comply with industry or legal standards. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting the revised Privacy Policy. We will make an effort to highlight significant changes at the top of this page and indicate a revision date on the Policy itself. Your continued use of our Products and Services constitutes your acceptance of any revised Privacy Policy.
California Privacy Notice
Disclosure of Information
We take your privacy seriously and want to provide you with information on how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information. For California residents, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 provides additional rights to know, delete, correct, limit, and opt-out, and requires businesses collecting or disclosing personal information to provide notices and means to exercise rights.
In the past 12 months, we have collected various types of personal information, including Personal Identifiers, California Customer Records, Characteristics protected under California or federal law, Commercial Information, Internet/Electronic Network Activity Information, Geolocation Data, Other Personal Information, and Inferences. We may disclose specific categories of personal information or identifiers to the service providers, third-party advertising and analytics companies, and additional affiliates/providers outlined in our Privacy Policy.
Your California Privacy Rights
As a California resident, you have the right to exercise your rights related to your information under the following categories of information collected (subject to certain limitations under the CCPA, and the ability to verify your identity):
- Right To Access/Right To Know: You have the right to request or access all of the Personal Information that we have collected and disclosed in the past 12 months. Please note that you may access this information twice in a 12-month period.
- Right To Request Deletion: Under California law you have the right to request that we delete all Personal Information we have about you, under certain circumstances.
- The Right to Opt-Out of Sales/Sharing: Under California law you have the right to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your Personal Information that we have collected about you to third-parties now or in the future for the purposes of contextual advertising or analytics.
- Right to Limit Sensitive Personal Information Use: Under California Law you have the right to limit the use and disclosure of your Personal Information to only that necessary for us to provide specific Products or Services to you. We will not use or disclose your Personal Information after you have requested its limitation, unless you subsequently provide consent for the use of such Personal Information for other purposes.
- Right to Non Discrimination: Under California Law you have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights. Please note that if the exercise of these rights limits our ability to process specific Personal Information, we may no longer be able to provide you our products and services in their full capacity.
How To Submit a Request to Exercise Your Rights
We want to make it easy for you to exercise your privacy rights. To submit a request for the access of or deletion of your information, please submit a request by filling out the form on our website. Before we can process your request, we will need to verify your identity and confirm you are a resident of California. In order to verify your identity, we need you to provide us specific information via email to ensure your identity and verify your location. This process may require us to request additional personal information from you, including, but not limited to, your email address, phone number, or last communication with our products or services.
If we are unable to verify your identity and residence in the State of California we may decline your request for deletion or access to personal information. You may also designate an authorized agent, in writing or through a power of attorney, to request to exercise the rights on your behalf as directed by California Law. If you choose to use an authorized agent to exercise your rights under the CCPA, we require that you provide us with written permission to exercise your rights and to verify your own identity with us.
California “Shine The Light”
If you are a California resident, you may request a list of the categories of personal information disclosed by us to third-parties during the preceding calendar year for those third parties’ own direct marketing purposes, and a list of the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed this information. To make this request please refer to the Contact Us section of our Privacy Policy and specify that you are making a “California Shine the Light Request.” As with all above requests related to the CCPA we will need to verify your identity and residence in the State of California, and you may only request this once per calendar year.
Financial Incentives
At times, we may offer opportunities to receive certain benefits such as a discount or free service, that may require your personal information. These opportunities could be considered a financial incentive under applicable law. When you participate in a financial incentive, you agree to the terms of that incentive, and may revoke your participation depending on the incentive, for example, by opting out of emails or exercising a data deletion event.
Virginia Privacy Notice
As a Virginia resident, you have certain rights under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) regarding your Personal Information. Personal Information is defined as any information that is linked to or reasonably linkable to an identified person. However, Personal Information does not include anonymized data or publicly available information.
We may collect your Personal Information directly from you or automatically as defined in the “Information We Collect” section of this policy. Please note that precise geolocation data is considered Sensitive Personal Information under Virginia law.
We may share your Personal Information with our service providers who perform services on our behalf. However, we do not sell your Personal Information as defined under Virginia law, which is limited to the exchange or sale of Personal Information to a third party for monetary benefit.
Wordle Guide does share personal information, such as cookies and tracking beacons, with third parties for more personalized and customized advertising purposes. However, you have the right to opt-out of this sharing by following the instructions provided below.
As a Virginia resident, you have the following rights regarding your Personal Information:
- Right to Access: You have the right to request any Personal Information we collect, which may include requests to obtain a copy of such information.
- Right to Delete: You have the right to request the deletion of your Personal Information that is collected by us.
- Right to Opt-Out: You have the right to opt-out of utilization of your Personal Information for purposes of targeted advertising messages, or the sale of personal data.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights. Please note that if the exercise of these rights limits our ability to process specific Personal Information, we may no longer be able to provide you our products and services in their full capacity.
Please note that these rights are subject to various exclusions and exceptions under applicable laws. To exercise these rights, we must be able to verify your identity and your authority to make these requests. We will verify your identity by using information that you provide, such as first name, last name, and email address.
If you are a Virginia resident and wish to exercise your rights, please fill out the form provided on our website or contact us using the information provided in the “Contact Us” section below.
Notice for Residents of Nevada
We want to make sure that residents of Nevada are aware of their rights under Chapter 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes. As a Nevada resident, you have the right to opt-out of future sales of certain covered information that we have collected or will collect about you. You can easily opt-out of these sales by clicking on the link provided or by contacting us at the email address in the “Contact Us” section of our Privacy Policy. We value your privacy and appreciate your trust in us.
Notice for Residents in the European Economic Area (EEA) and United Kingdom (UK)
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data
We only process your Personal Data if we have a Legal Basis to do so. These situations include: For our Legitimate Interests or those interests of a Third-Party; To Comply with Legal and Regulatory Obligations; To perform any contractual obligations to you; Where You have given us specific consent, including to send you email messages.
Legitimate Interests: We may collect or process Personal Information to pursue the legitimate business interests defined in the Purposes section below. For us to determine these legitimate interests, we balance our legitimate interests against the legitimate interests and rights of you and others and only process Personal Information aligned with those interests where they are not overridden by your data protection rights.
Purposes For Processing Personal Information and Legal Basis Processing
Below we have outlined our Legitimate Interests and Legal Bases for Processing any Personal Information that you have provided to us.
- To Provide Products or Services that you request: We Need To process your Personal Information in order to deliver specific services you may request of us according to any applicable contract between us.
- To Respond to inquiries, or provide other types of reader support: It is necessary for us to use your Personal Information to respond to any requests or inquiries you make to us or provide other types of reader support made at your request.
- To Provide, Personalize, Measure, and Improve Marketing Communications: This includes sending you promotional emails or communications or any other information that could be of interest to you specifically with your consent. We may also use specific analytics and Personal Information to better understand You, our readers, and how our Marketing Communications may perform. This processing is done with the basis of legitimate interest in undertaking marketing activities to offer products or services that may be of interest to you. These Marketing Communications may also include Events, Programs, Contests, Sweepstakes, or other Promotions.
- To Run, Evaluate, or Improve our Products/Services: This may include creating and testing new features for our Properties, using data to analyze or upgrade your user experience, optimizing and assessing the effectiveness of advertising messages or placements, and managing the effectiveness of our communications. It is in our legitimate interests to process Personal Information to carry out these activities.
- To Create a More Personalized Experience: This may include advertising messages, customized content recommendations, and specific offers or promotions to you based on your interests or digital behaviors, from us or third-parties. We will serve You this more personalized and customized experience only if you have consented to this Processing.
- To Enable Service Providers and Third-Parties to perform specific activities on our behalf: It is necessary for us to Process your Personal Information in order to deliver our Products and Services in their intended fashion. It is also in our legitimate interest to enable our Service Providers and Third-Parties to perform specific activities on our behalf.
- To Protect You and Create A Trusted Digital Environment: This may include compliance with our legal obligations, to ensure compliance through our agreements with you and other third-parties, to ensure safe, secure, and reliable Services, and to detect and prevent crime, assure compliance with our policies, and protect and defend our rights, interests, and property. In connection with the activities above, we may conduct internal research and profiling based on your interactions on various Sites, content you submit to the Sites, and information obtained from third parties.
Your Privacy Rights
If you are a resident of the EU, UK, or Switzerland, you have the right to access, rectify, or delete any and all Personal Information that we may have collected about you. You also have the right to restrict or object to our Processing of Personal Information that we have collected about you. In addition, you have the right to ask us not to Process your Personal Information or provide such information to third-parties. You may withdraw your consent at any time for any data Processing we do based on consent you have provided to us. We have listed out the Specific Privacy Rights available to you here:
- Right To Access: You have the right to ask us for confirmation on whether we are Processing your Personal Information, and access to that information.
- Right To Deletion/Erasure: You have the right to ask us to delete your personal data, as permitted under the GDPR.
- Right To Withdraw Consent: You have the right to withdraw consent that you have provided to us.
- Right To Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in the EU member state of your residence.
- Right To Restriction of Processing: You have the right to request the limiting of our processing and to Third-Party Processing.
- Right To Data Portability: You have the right to receive any Personal Information that you have provided to us, in a readable format.
- Right to Object: You have the right to object to our processing of