Privacy Policy
Word Everest is a word game that keeps to itself. The short version: we do not collect, store, transmit, or sell any personal data. There are no ads, no analytics, no tracking, and no account of its own.
Data we collect
None. Word Everest has no server of ours, no account system, no analytics, no advertising, and no crash reporter that phones home. We cannot see your climbs, your scores, your coins, the words you miss or save, your settings, or whether you play at all. The App Store privacy label for this app is “Data Not Collected.”
Data that stays on your device
What the game keeps, it keeps in its own storage on your device:
- Your climbs, stars, records and passes
- The words you missed and the ones you saved
- Today’s ladder and the past ones you have played
- Your settings, such as your difficulty, gloss language, reminder time and appearance
Uninstalling the game removes all of it. If you back up your iPhone or iPad, the game’s data is part of that backup, which is held by Apple or on your own computer, never by us.
Coins and iCloud
Your coin balance, and the record of the coins Plus has already added, are kept in your own iCloud account, through Apple’s iCloud, so reinstalling the game or playing on your other iPhone or iPad keeps them. That storage belongs to your Apple Account. We cannot read it, and nothing in it identifies you to us.
Game Center
Leaderboards, achievements and challenges with friends use Apple’s Game Center, if you are signed in to it on your device. Your scores and your Game Center name then go to Game Center, under Apple’s terms, and other players can see them on the leaderboards. We never receive them. You can play every part of the game without Game Center, and sign out of it in your device’s Settings.
Notifications
The daily reminder is a local notification scheduled on your device, only if you ask for it. There is no push service, no device token, and no server that knows when or whether you play.
Sharing and Acumo
When you share a solved ladder, it goes through your device’s own share sheet, to wherever you choose; the game sends nothing by itself. Study in Acumo opens the word in Acumo on your device, or Acumo’s page in the App Store if it is not installed. Neither app learns anything about you from the other.
Purchases
Coin packs and the Plus subscription are processed by Apple through the App Store. We never see your payment details. Apple tells the game only whether a purchase or a subscription is valid. You manage or cancel Plus in your Apple Account’s subscriptions, never with us. Apple’s handling of purchase data is governed by Apple’s Privacy Policy.
Third parties
Word Everest contains no third-party analytics, advertising or tracking code, and no third-party SDKs. Apart from Apple’s own services above, it talks to no one.
Children
Word Everest is a general-audience word game. It collects no data from anyone, of any age, and it has no chat and no way to message other players.
Content licences
The game’s words, meanings and examples come from the collection of Acumo, written for it. Pronunciations and sound-alike words come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon University, BSD licence), whose notice is reproduced in full in the game under Settings, then About, then Acknowledgements, with the licences of its two typefaces.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will update the effective date above and post the revised policy at the same address. Material changes will also be noted in the game’s release notes.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email support@lokotechnologies.ca. LOKO TECHNOLOGIES LTD., British Columbia, Canada. For help with the game itself, see Word Everest Support.