Privacy Policy
Effective August 10, 2026 · The Big Word is operated by Hendrick Design, LLC (“we”, “us”).
The short version
The Big Word has no accounts, no sign-ups, and no forms. We do not ask for your name, email, or any personal details to play. Your game progress lives in your own browser, not on our servers.
Game data stored on your device
The game uses your browser's local storage to remember things between visits: today's guesses, your statistics and streak, whether you've seen the how-to-play guide, and how many bonus words you've used today. This data never leaves your device, and we cannot see it. Clearing your browser's site data erases it (and, fair warning, your streak with it).
Analytics
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand overall traffic — roughly how many people visit and from which countries. It is a privacy-first tool: it does not use cookies, does not fingerprint your device, and does not track you across other websites.
Advertising
The Big Word is free and ad-supported. The site includes Google AdSense, which serves the advertisements you may see before the daily puzzle or bonus words. When Google serves ads, it may use cookies or similar identifiers to measure ad performance and, where permitted, personalize ads. Where the law requires it (for example, in the European Economic Area and the UK), you will be asked for consent before any such cookies are used, and you can decline. You can read about how Google uses information from sites like ours at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and manage ad personalization at adssettings.google.com.
Children
The Big Word is a general-audience word game. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included — we don't collect it from adults either.
Changes to this policy
If we ever add features that change how data is handled (for example, optional accounts for syncing streaks across devices), we will update this page and change the effective date above before those features go live.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your data: [email protected].