Word Walk: Bible Words Privacy Policy
Word Walk: Bible Words (“the App”) is a word game run by Joshua D’Alessio, an individual in Maine, USA (“we,” “us”). This policy explains what the App collects and why. The short version: we collect very little, there are no ads, no ad trackers and no analytics tools in the App, and we never sell your data.
What the App sends to our server
Playing alone and practicing stays on your phone. If you use online features (tournaments, challenges, leagues, invites), the App talks to our server and sends:
- Your nickname, the name you choose. Other players can see it on leaderboards, challenges and leagues.
- Scores and results: your score, how many words you found, the board or challenge code, and the time. To check that scores are real, the App sends the words you found with a score, but we keep only the count.
- An anonymous device ID: a random code the App makes so we can tell players apart (for example, so you don’t appear twice on one board). It isn’t your name, email, phone number or advertising ID.
- Skill tier and league details: the tier you play in for weekend tournaments, the leagues you create or join, and your weekly totals in them.
- Invite codes: if you use an invite code or share yours, we record the code, which device claimed it, and when, so we can count invites.
We don’t ask for your email address, contacts, location or photos, and the App doesn’t use them. The App has no accounts and no sign-in.
What stays on your phone
Most things are stored only on your device: your settings, nickname, stats, personal bests, daily streak, games played, Plus status on this device and tutorial progress. Uninstalling the App or clearing its data erases them. We can’t restore them.
How we use it
To run leaderboards, tournaments, challenges and leagues, to keep play fair and prevent cheating, to count invites, and to fix bugs. That’s all.
Who can see it
- Other players see your nickname and score on boards, challenges and leagues you take part in.
- Cloudflare runs our servers (Cloudflare Workers and storage) and stores and processes the data above for us. Like any internet service, Cloudflare handles your device’s IP address to deliver requests. We don’t store IP addresses ourselves or use them to identify you.
- Google processes any purchase if paid features are offered through Google Play (see below). We would never receive your card details.
We don’t sell or rent your information and we don’t share it for advertising. We may disclose information if the law requires it.
Purchases
Word Walk Plus is currently a demo in test builds: nothing is charged and no payment information is collected. If paid Plus is turned on later, it would be billed through Google Play with your Google account. Google would handle your payment details under its own privacy policy, and our server would learn only whether Plus is active. We would update this policy before that happens.
How long we keep it
- Hourly tournament scores: about 3 days.
- Daily tournament and weekend tier tournament scores: about 60 days.
- Challenge scores: about 30 days.
- League weekly totals: about 3 weeks. League membership records and invite records are kept as long as needed to run leagues and invites.
- All-time high scores, with the nickname that earned them, may be kept until removed.
These periods may change.
Children
Word Walk is not directed to children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from them. If you think a child under 13 has given us information, email us and we’ll delete it.
Your choices
You can change your nickname in the App. To ask us to delete your scores and nickname from our servers, email info@aftertheverse.com with your nickname and roughly when you played. Depending on where you live, you may have other rights to access or delete your data; contact us and we’ll help.
Security
We use reasonable safeguards, but no system is perfectly secure.
Links out of the App
The App links to our Terms and this policy, and may open your email app when you report a bug. Those places have their own practices once you leave the App.
Changes
If we update this policy we’ll change the effective date above and, for big changes, note it in the App.