Cookie Policy
Last Updated: January 2025
This Cookie Policy explains how Strands Games Collection ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our word connection games website. By using our site and playing our puzzles, you consent to our cookie practices as described in this policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit our word puzzle website. They are widely used to make gaming websites work more efficiently and to provide information to website owners about player behavior and preferences.
For word connection games like Strands, Letter Boxed, and Spelling Bee, cookies help remember your game progress, puzzle preferences (such as difficulty settings, theme choices), and display preferences over time, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you return to play.
💡 In simple terms: Cookies help our word puzzle website remember you and your gaming preferences to provide a better puzzle-solving experience.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
We use different types of cookies for various gaming and website purposes:
🔒 Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for our word games to function properly. They enable core functionality such as game security, session management, and puzzle accessibility.
- • Game session management
- • Security features for puzzle integrity
- • Basic website and game functionality
- • Local storage of puzzle progress
📊 Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how players interact with our word connection games, such as which puzzles are most popular, completion rates, and if they encounter errors.
- • Game loading times and performance
- • Popular puzzle tracking
- • Error reporting for game issues
- • Player engagement analytics
⚙️ Functionality Cookies
These cookies remember choices you make while playing our word games to improve your experience and personalize the puzzles for you.
- • Game difficulty preferences
- • Theme and display settings
- • Customized puzzle recommendations
- • Preferred game modes
3. Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies to enhance your word puzzle gaming experience:
🎯 Essential Game Operations
- • Enable basic word game functions
- • Maintain puzzle security and integrity
- • Remember your game progress across sessions
- • Save your puzzle solving statistics
📈 Analytics & Game Improvement
- • Understand how you interact with our puzzles
- • Improve game performance and puzzle quality
- • Identify the most engaging word games
- • Optimize puzzle difficulty and features
🎨 Personalization
- • Remember your gaming preferences
- • Customize your puzzle experience
- • Provide relevant word game recommendations
- • Adapt game interface to your preferences
🔄 Social Features
- • Enable sharing of puzzle achievements
- • Connect with social media for result sharing
- • Share Strands solutions and word discoveries
- • Community features and leaderboards
4. Third-Party Cookies
We may use third-party services that place cookies on your device to help us improve our word games and provide better puzzle experiences.
Third-Party Services May Include:
- • Analytics Services: Help us understand how players engage with Strands, Letter Boxed, and Spelling Bee
- • Social Media Platforms: Enable sharing of puzzle results and achievements
- • Content Delivery Networks: Improve game loading speed and puzzle performance
- • Security Services: Protect against cheating and maintain puzzle integrity
5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have several options for managing cookies on our word puzzle website:
🌐 Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. You can:
- • Block all cookies (may affect game functionality)
- • Allow only first-party cookies
- • Delete existing cookies (will reset game progress)
- • Set cookies to expire when you close your browser
📱 Mobile Gaming
On mobile devices, you can manage cookies through your browser app settings. Note that disabling cookies may affect your ability to save puzzle progress and game preferences.
⚠️ Important Gaming Note
Disabling cookies will significantly affect your word gaming experience. You may lose game progress, puzzle preferences, and the ability to save your achievements in Strands, Letter Boxed, and Spelling Bee.
6. Your Consent
By using our word connection games website, you consent to our use of cookies as described in this policy. You can withdraw your consent at any time by:
- Changing your browser settings to block cookies
- Clearing existing cookies from your browser (note: this will reset game progress)
- Contacting us directly with your cookie preferences
- Using private/incognito browsing mode (temporary sessions only)
7. Legal Basis for Processing
Our legal basis for using cookies depends on the type of cookie and its purpose in our word games:
🔒 Necessary Gaming Cookies
Used based on our legitimate interest in providing functional word games and maintaining puzzle integrity.
📊 Enhancement Cookies
Used based on your consent to improve gaming experience, which you can withdraw at any time.
8. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our gaming practices, new word games, technology updates, or legal requirements. When we make changes, we will:
- Update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page
- Notify users of significant changes when possible
- Post the updated policy on our website
- Ensure continued protection of your gaming privacy
We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our cookie practices for word connection games.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or our cookie practices related to our word games, please contact us:
Strands Games Collection Support
Email: privacy@strandsgames.net
Website: https://strandsgames.net
Subject: Cookie Policy Inquiry
Acknowledgment
By continuing to use Strands Games Collection and playing our word connection puzzles, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to our Cookie Policy. This policy works in conjunction with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service to protect your gaming experience.