Privacy Policy for NYTGameHint

Effective Date: July 20, 2024

Welcome to NYTGameHint ("we," "us," "our"). We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://www.nytgamehint.com (the "Site"). Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.

1. Information We Collect

We provide hints and answers for NYT Games (Connections, Wordle, Strands, Spelling Bee, and Sudoku). Our Site is designed to be used without requiring you to provide any personally identifiable information (PII) directly.

  • No Registration Required: You can access all features of our Site without creating an account or logging in. We do not ask for your name, email address, phone number, or any other personal contact information.
  • Automatically Collected Information (Non-Personal Information): When you access the Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and your usage of our Site through Google Analytics. This information does not identify you personally and may include:
    • Your device's IP address (often anonymized or truncated by Google Analytics)
    • Browser type and version
    • Operating system
    • Pages you visit on our Site
    • Time spent on those pages
    • Referring website URLs
    • General geographic location (e.g., country or city) derived from your IP address
    • Date and time of your visit

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the non-personal information collected primarily through Google Analytics for the following purposes:

  • To Operate and Improve Our Site: To understand how users interact with our Site, identify popular features, troubleshoot issues, and enhance the user experience.
  • To Analyze Trends: To monitor and analyze usage patterns and trends to improve site navigation, content, and performance.
  • To Maintain Security: To help maintain the safety and security of our Site.

We do not use this information to personally identify you.

3. Sharing Your Information

We do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise share your personal information with third parties for their marketing purposes. We share the automatically collected, non-personal information with the following third-party service provider:

  • Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic and usage patterns. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect this data. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the Site (including your IP address) may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States or other countries. Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the Site, compile reports on website activity for us, and provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. You can learn more about Google's practices by visiting Google's Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can opt-out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We will not share your information with any other third parties except as required by law or to protect our rights.

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

As mentioned, we use Google Analytics, which utilizes cookies. Cookies are small text files placed on your device that help analyze web traffic.

  • What are Cookies: Cookies store information about your website visit, like preferences or session data.
  • How We Use Them: We use cookies solely through Google Analytics to gather anonymous usage statistics.
  • Your Choices: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of certain parts of our Site, although core hint/answer functionality should remain accessible. For more information on how to manage cookies, check your browser or device's settings.

5. Data Security

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect the non-personal information we collect via Google Analytics. However, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

6. Data Retention

We retain the non-personal data collected through Google Analytics for the period configured within our Google Analytics account settings, which is generally done to allow for trend analysis over reasonable timeframes (e.g., 14 months, 26 months, etc., or indefinitely based on Google's terms). This data is aggregated and anonymized for long-term analysis.

7. Your Privacy Rights (GDPR/CCPA)

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. Since we collect minimal, non-personally identifiable information primarily through Google Analytics:

  • Right to Know/Access: You can inquire about the categories of non-personal information collected.
  • Right to Opt-Out: You have the right to opt-out of tracking by Google Analytics using the browser add-on linked above.
  • Other Rights: Rights like deletion, correction, or portability are generally not applicable as we do not hold directly identifiable personal information linked to you that we can easily access, modify, or delete upon request.

For any privacy-specific concerns, please contact us.

8. Children's Privacy

Our Site is not directed to children under the age of 13 (or 16 in certain jurisdictions like the EEA), and we do not knowingly collect any information from children under this age. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected information from a child under the applicable age, we will take steps to delete such information as soon as possible.

9. Links to Other Websites

Our Site may contain links to other websites, such as the official NYT Games website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this 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 "Effective Date" at the top. 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. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
[email protected]