Privacy Policy
The site has a simple privacy policy. All submitted information is used only for access to the site and management of your user account. No information is sold or transferred to an external organization in any way for any reason.
Required information
With a local registration, the site only requires three pieces of personalized information.
- user name
- password
- email address
user name - used to log in / keeps everyone's information separate when posting Wordle results and making suggestions / will be used as a label for games posted, start word suggestions and other contributions shown on the site
password - keeps your account private to you / has to meet certain minimum requirements for complexity / stored as an encrypted hash with the latest protocols so even if the database is compromised, your password will not be recoverable
email address - used to confirm you registered the account, a process called double opt-in registration / any new account has to be activated through email before use to avoid fraud / email can also be used for automated password resets / no other uses are authorized
If you log into the site through a third party login, like a Gmail account or Twitter account, the only personalized information stored is your email address and your user name. Your password remains with the third party only. A local database entry is created to store information related to using the site and posting game results, but login is from the third party provider using the latest OAuth2 authentication protocol.
Optional information
In addition to the required information, the site has three optional pieces of information that it can collect. A display name different from the user name. An entry for location or type of English spoken. And an entry where you can put your favorite five-letter word, in keeping with the Wordle theme. These items are completely optional and will be displayed in the user profile if entered or other appropriate places on the site. You can remove them at any time on your account registration page.
Deleting your account
You can delete your account at any time from your Registration Details page linked from the Login page when you are logged in. When you delete your account, your required personally identifiable information (user name, password, email address) and optional first name are removed completely.
Your type of English and favorite word are retained anonymously with a generic user name, but you can remove them before you delete your account if you don't want them saved. Your saved games and suggestions are retained with a generic user name because they are not personally identifiable and they are part of the statistics and functionality of the site.
Your comments on the message boards/forums are retained to keep the flow of conversation intact but your username will be changed to a generic username. Please don't post any personally identifiable information there.
Cookies
The site uses cookies to keep track of you when you are logged in, so you don't have to log in again on every page you visit. That's called a session cookie and it's required in order for the site to have user logins available. When you open a new page, it allows the site to determine that you are the same user who opened and signed into the original login page. No other cookies are used and no other information is gathered in cookies.
Questions & Comments
For questions and comments, use the Comment form or the email address wordlestart @ gmail . com.