Privacy policy

This is a draft policy written for the app's owner to review. It is not legal advice.

The app

Words Rancho generates crossword puzzles on your device. It has no accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no crash-reporting tools, and it does not send your personal data to us or to anyone else. We do not operate a server that receives data from the app. Building a crossword, solving it, printing it and saving it all happen on your phone.

What stays on your device

The app keeps the following in a local database on your phone (SQLite) so it can remember them: your settings (such as your theme, grid size and difficulty), the crosswords it generated for you, the crosswords you built yourself (including the words and clues you typed and any title you gave them) and your solving progress. This information is never sent anywhere by the app. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its data in your phone's settings, removes it. You can also delete a single crossword from My crosswords.

Backups

Your phone's own backup (for example Android backup to your Google account) may include your saved crosswords and settings. That backup is made by your phone's operating system under your own settings; we do not run it and cannot see it.

Printing and sharing

When you print a crossword or share it as a PDF, the app hands the file to your phone's own print and share dialogs. What happens next depends on the printer or app you choose, for example a messaging app or cloud drive, and is covered by that service's policy. Words Rancho does not receive the file.

What we collect

Nothing. We do not collect personal information, device identifiers, advertising identifiers, location, contacts, photos or usage statistics through the app, and we do not use third-party tools that collect them.

Purchases and app stores

Words Rancho is a paid app with a one-time purchase. There are no in-app purchases and no subscription. You buy and download the app from Google Play or the Apple App Store, and the store handles your payment and your account under its own privacy policy. We do not receive your payment details or personal details from the stores.

This website

This website is static. It does not use cookies or analytics. If you pick the light or dark theme with the theme button, that choice is saved in your browser's local storage on your device only, so the site can remember it. Like any website, our hosting provider may keep standard technical server logs (such as IP address and requested page) for security and reliability.

If you contact us

If you email support@wordsrancho.com, we receive your email address and whatever you write. We use it only to reply and to improve the app, and we keep it only as long as needed for that.

Children

Because the app collects no personal data, it does not collect data from children either. The app is meant to be clean for everyone, with no profanity, slurs or sexual content, but it is not designed for children and is intended for people aged 13 and over.

Your rights

Since we hold no personal data about you from the app, there is nothing to access, correct or delete. If you have emailed us and want that correspondence deleted, ask and we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

If the app changes in a way that affects your privacy, for example by adding advertising, analytics, accounts or any network feature, we will update this policy and the date above before the change is released.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@wordsrancho.com.