LJ's Word Search Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 5, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how LJ's Arcade ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, shares, and protects information when you use the LJ's Word Search mobile application and related services (collectively, the "Service").

1. Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of information:

• Account information: your email address, username, display name, authentication identifiers, and information provided by Sign in with Apple when you choose that option. Authentication is provided by Supabase. We do not have access to your plaintext password.
• Game and social activity: friend requests, friendships, daily-puzzle completion status and times, custom-puzzle results, and related activity needed to provide comparisons with friends.
• Custom-puzzle content: puzzle titles, words, generated letter grids, share codes, recipients, and other information you submit when creating or sharing a puzzle.
• Notification information: device push-notification tokens and related delivery information used to notify users about shared puzzles. The app may also schedule daily puzzle reminders locally on your device.
• Purchase information: subscription product, entitlement, and transaction status supplied through Apple's StoreKit. Apple processes payment details; we do not receive your full payment-card information.
• Advertising and technical information: Google Mobile Ads and its consent tools may process information such as IP address, device or app identifiers, advertising interactions, product interactions, consent choices, approximate location derived from an IP address, and diagnostic data, subject to your device settings, consent choices, and applicable law.
• Local app information: puzzle progress, found words, daily puzzle history, generation usage, selected colors, preferences, and other information stored on your device.

2. How We Use Information

We use information to:

• Create, authenticate, maintain, and secure your account.
• Save puzzle progress and completion times and compare results with friends.
• Provide friend requests, friendships, custom-puzzle creation, sharing, and results.
• Send notifications you have permitted, including notifications when a friend shares a custom puzzle.
• Process and restore LJ's Word Search Pro entitlements and apply Pro features.
• Display and measure advertisements for users who do not have Pro.
• Apply daily custom-puzzle generation limits for free users.
• Diagnose problems, prevent abuse or fraud, enforce our rules, and improve the Service.
• Comply with legal obligations and protect users, the public, and our rights.

3. Information Visible to Other Users

LJ's Word Search includes social features. Your username and display name may be searchable or visible to other signed-in users. Friends may see your applicable daily and custom-puzzle completion times. People with access to a custom puzzle or its share code may see that puzzle's title, creator, word-search content, and results as provided by the Service. Your email address and password are not displayed to other users.

4. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information for money. We may disclose information in the following circumstances:

• Service providers: Supabase provides authentication, database, server-function, and related infrastructure. Google provides advertising and consent-management services. Apple provides App Store purchases, StoreKit subscriptions, Sign in with Apple, and push-notification delivery.
• Other users: information is shared with friends, custom-puzzle creators, recipients, and people using a share code as described above and as necessary to provide social features.
• Safety and legal reasons: we may preserve or disclose information if reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to lawful requests, investigate abuse or fraud, enforce our policies, or protect rights and safety.
• Business changes: information may be transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of all or part of the Service, subject to applicable law.

Third-party services process information under their own terms and privacy policies. You can learn more at Supabase Privacy, Google Privacy, and Apple Privacy.

5. Advertising and Privacy Choices

The free version of LJ's Word Search uses Google Mobile Ads. Google and its advertising partners may use device information, IP addresses, identifiers, consent choices, and interactions to deliver, limit, measure, secure, and personalize advertising as permitted by your consent choices and applicable law. Where required, the app presents a consent form before requesting ads. You can also control tracking permissions and advertising settings through iOS Settings. Pro subscribers do not receive these in-app advertisements while their entitlement is active.

For more information about Google's use of information from partner apps, visit How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

6. Push Notifications

If you allow notifications, we may use a device token to send notifications through Apple Push Notification service, including when a friend shares a custom puzzle. The app may also create local notifications for newly unlocked daily puzzles. You can disable notifications at any time in iOS Settings. Disabling notifications does not delete your account.

7. Subscriptions

LJ's Word Search Pro is offered as an auto-renewing subscription through Apple. Apple handles billing and payment information. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account subscription settings. Deleting the app or requesting account deletion does not automatically cancel an Apple subscription.

8. Data Retention

• Account information, friendships, puzzle records, completion times, and related records are generally retained while your account is active or as needed to provide the Service.
• When a custom puzzle is deleted, associated active-service records may also be deleted as provided by the app's database rules.
• Security records, transaction records, and limited logs may be retained longer when reasonably necessary for safety, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, legal compliance, or enforcement.
• Service-provider backups and logs may remain for a limited period after deletion under the provider's retention practices.
• Information stored locally on your device may remain until you clear app data or uninstall the app.

9. Account and Data Deletion

You can delete custom puzzles using the controls provided in the app. You can permanently delete your LJ's Word Search account and associated active-service data from the account screen by selecting Permanently Delete Account and confirming the request. You may also contact ljmiloscia24@gmail.com for account or data-deletion assistance. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request submitted by email. Limited information may be retained when reasonably necessary for legal compliance, security, fraud prevention, or backup purposes.

Account deletion does not automatically cancel an Apple subscription. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account subscription settings.

10. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or obtain a copy of your personal information, or to object to certain processing. You may:

• Edit available profile information and preferences in the app.
• Manage friends and delete custom puzzles through the app's controls.
• Manage notifications through iOS Settings.
• Manage advertising consent choices when the consent interface is available.
• Contact us to request access, correction, or deletion of account data.

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.

11. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information. No system or transmission method is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

12. International Processing

LJ's Word Search and its service providers may process information in the United States and other countries. Those countries may have data-protection laws different from those where you live. Where required, providers use recognized safeguards for international transfers.

13. Children's Privacy

LJ's Word Search is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information, contact us so we can investigate and delete it as appropriate.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as the Service changes. We will post the revised policy at this location and update the effective date. If required by law, we will provide additional notice or request consent.

15. Contact Us

For privacy questions or requests, contact:

LJ's Arcade
Email: ljmiloscia24@gmail.com
Website: https://ljsarcade.com