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Granny Wordsmith: Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 15, 2026

Granny Wordsmith is a word game made by Diderisoft LLC ("we", "us"). This policy explains what the game does with information about you. The short version: we collect almost nothing about you. Your progress stays on your device. If you play in the iPhone app signed in to Game Center, your scores go on the leaderboards under your Game Center name, unless you change it or leave; in the Android app or on the website, only if you pick a name. We keep that name and the results of your Daily Arcade games and Pick of the Day trees for the boards. The website and the app count, anonymously, how many people reach each step of the game (below). When an ad plays, Google's ad service sees some information about your device to show it; if you buy something, Apple or Google handles the payment.

What the game keeps, and where

The game saves your progress on your device only:

• streaks, pies, ribbons and coins;
• scores and best words;
• your settings, such as sound on or off.

It is not sent to us or to anyone else, except your games once you're on the leaderboards (below). Deleting the app deletes this information.

What we collect

Only what the leaderboards need, while you're on them. The game has no sign-in. The website and the app count, anonymously, how many people reach each step (below). We don't ask for your real name (though your Game Center name may be one, and you can change it), and we don't collect your email address, location, contacts, photos, or any identifier for your device.

The leaderboards

In the iPhone app, if you're signed in to Game Center, the game puts you on everyone's boards under your Game Center name, and tells you so on the home page, with a way to change the name or leave. Your Game Center name is all we take from Game Center. In the Android app and on the website, or if you'd rather, you pick a nickname yourself. While you're on the boards, we keep:

• your name on the boards, shown to everyone (if your Game Center name is your real name, you may want to change it);
• a random player number and a secret key, stored on your device, that let the game send your scores. We keep only a scrambled copy of the key;
• the results of each Daily Arcade game you play while on the boards: score, longest and best word, rotten apples and pies, and the day;
• the results of each Pick of the Day tree you play while on the boards, in the app or on the website: points, how many words you spelled, whether you picked it clean, and the day.

The game sends each game's moves too, so our server can replay it to check the score, but the moves aren't kept.

Games and trees you played earlier that day, before you were on the boards, are sent when you join. Trees from friends never go on a board.

The boards run on Cloudflare, which carries the requests and keeps short-lived logs (including your IP address) for security and fixing problems, under Cloudflare's privacy policy (https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/). We don't use them to track you. To change your name, use "Change name" on the leaderboard. "Leave the boards" deletes your name and all your scores straight away, and the app won't put you back unless you pick a name again. You can also email us to have them deleted.

The website, the web game and the app's counts

grannywordsmith.com, including the free web version of Pick of the Day at grannywordsmith.com/play, uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits. It uses no cookies and doesn't follow you to other sites. For each page view it records the page, the site that sent you (if any), your country, your type of device and browser, and how fast the page loaded. We see only totals, never anything that identifies you. Cloudflare, which hosts the site, also keeps short-lived request logs (including IP addresses) for security, under Cloudflare's privacy policy (https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/).

The web game also counts, anonymously, how many people reach each step: opening a game from its menu, starting or solving Granny's Riddle, starting a tree, finishing one, sharing, tapping "Get the app", writing a riddle for a friend. It notes where they came from (for example a link we posted or a QR code at a stand). Each browser counts once per step per day, nothing identifies it, and we keep only the daily totals.

The web game keeps your progress in your browser's own storage, on your device. Clearing your browser's data for the site deletes it.

The iPhone and Android apps count the same way. At most once a day, they note whether you opened the app, started or finished Granny's lesson, started level 1, won level 1, 3 or 10 for the first time, started a Daily Arcade game, started or solved Granny's Riddle, picked a Granny's Pick tree, shared, wrote a riddle for a friend, saw an ad, or bought coins or Granny's Club. They send only that step and your platform (iPhone or Android): no name, no account, no identifier for you or your device, and nothing about what you spelled. We keep only the daily totals.

Ads

The apps show ads in two ways: ones you choose to watch for a reward (an extra Daily Arcade game, a basket, coins, or a hint in Granny's Riddle), and, from level 11, a short ad between some levels. Granny's Riddle and Granny's Pick are never interrupted by an ad, and the web game shows none. Ads are provided by Google AdMob. To show an ad, measure it, and prevent fraud, Google's ad software in the app may collect:

• your device's IP address, and from it your approximate location;
• device and app details, such as model, operating system and language;
• how you interact with the ad;
• your device's advertising identifier: on iPhone only if you allow tracking when iOS asks (if you choose "Ask App Not to Track", it isn't used, and you still get ads and free games); on Android, your advertising ID, which you can reset or delete any time in Android's settings, under Privacy, then Ads.

Where the law requires it (for example in the EU and UK), the game asks for your consent before showing personalised ads, and you can change your choice any time in Settings, under "Ad privacy choices". Google's use of this information is covered by Google's privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and its page on how Google uses information from apps that use its services (https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites).

Members of Granny's Club never see ads.

Purchases

Coins and Granny's Club are bought through Apple's App Store on iPhone, or Google Play on Android. Apple or Google handles the payment; we never see your card or account details. The store tells the app what you bought so it can add your coins or start your membership. Manage or cancel a membership in your iPhone's Settings, under your name, then Subscriptions; or on Android, in the Google Play Store app, under your profile picture, then Payments & subscriptions.

Test versions (on TestFlight, or Google Play's testing tracks) may use free test purchases and sample ads. No money changes hands.

TestFlight

If you test the game through Apple's TestFlight, Apple may share with us the information TestFlight provides to developers:

• the name and email address you were invited with, if you were invited by email;
• crash reports;
• device and app version details;
• any feedback and screenshots you choose to send.

We use this only to fix bugs and improve the game. Apple's handling of this information is covered by Apple's own privacy policy.

Sharing a tree with a friend

When you plant a tree for a friend, the game makes a code from your words. The code is shared only where you choose to share it. We don't receive it.

Children

The game is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them. We keep only the name and games of players on the leaderboards, and nothing else that identifies them; ads are requested without personalisation where the law or your choices require it.

Changes

Future versions may add accounts or count more. Before they collect anything new, we will update this policy to say exactly what is collected and why. Whatever we count will stay anonymous and won't track you across other apps. The date at the top shows when the policy last changed.

Contact

Questions? Email support@diderisoft.com.