Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 2, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how Spelling Bee NYT ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit or play our word game at spellingbeenyt.us (the "Website").

We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at [email protected].

1. Information We Collect

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:

• Register on the Website
• Express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services
• Participate in activities on the Website (such as playing our game or posting comments)
• Contact us

The personal information we collect may include:

• Personal Identifiers: Name, email address, and username.
• Game Data: Your game progress, scores, and achievements.
• Communications: If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access the Website.
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our Website and services.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To provide, operate, and maintain our Website
• To improve, personalize, and expand our Website
• To understand and analyze how you use our Website
• To develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the Website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
• To process your transactions
• To find and prevent fraud
• For compliance with legal obligations

3. Will Your Information Be Shared With Anyone?

We may share your information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share your information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Website, for payment processing, to contact you, and for other business purposes.
• Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
• With Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
• With Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
• With Other Users: When you share personal information or otherwise interact in public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed.
• Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.
• Vital Interests and Legal Rights: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, or as evidence in litigation.

4. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Website and store certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device.

We use the following types of cookies:

• Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms.
• Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our Website. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the Website.
• Functional Cookies: These cookies enable the Website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages.
• Targeting Cookies: These cookies may be set through our Website by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other websites.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Website.

5. Third-Party Websites

Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

6. How Long We Keep Your Information

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

7. How We Keep Your Information Safe

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Website is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.

8. Privacy of Minors

Our Website is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

9. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, such as:

• The right to access the personal information we have about you
• The right to request that we correct or update any personal information we have about you
• The right to request that we delete any personal information we have about you
• The right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information
• The right to object to the processing of your personal information
• The right to data portability (receiving a copy of your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format)

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected].

10. Updates to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

11. How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at:

Email: [email protected]
Address: San Francisco, CA, USA