Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Poople handles data for the daily word game, solver, leaderboard, comment wall, analytics, and advertising-related services.
Last updated: August 26, 2026
Who operates Poople
Poople is an independent web word-game helper available at https://poople.run/. The site provides a playable daily board, route hints, answer archives, solver tools, unlimited practice, leaderboards, and player notes.
Information we collect
Game and community data
When you save a score or submit a note, Poople may store the display name you choose, puzzle key, route details, help level, hint count, solve time, comment text, comment tag, reactions, review status, reports, appeals, and timestamps. We use this information to show leaderboards, recent solves, history views, and moderated comment walls.
Technical data
Our hosting, security, and community API providers may process IP address, browser user agent, request URL, referrer, device information, approximate location derived from network data, and timestamps. We use this data for security, rate limiting, spam prevention, uptime monitoring, and abuse investigation.
Analytics data
Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity are optional. Their scripts are not loaded until you choose Allow analytics in the privacy panel. Choosing Essential only keeps the game available without those scripts. You can reopen Privacy choices from the footer; withdrawing analytics consent clears accessible first-party analytics cookies and reloads the page without the optional scripts.
Advertising and Google products
Poople may use Google AdSense in the future. The AdSense ad-serving script is not intentionally enabled during the current site-review period. Before ads are enabled, Poople will configure applicable consent requirements, including a Google-certified consent management platform where required. If advertising is enabled later, Google and its partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, browser data, and other identifiers to serve ads, measure performance, prevent fraud, and personalize ads where permitted.
You can learn how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services at Google's partner sites policy page. You can manage Google ad personalization at Google Ads Settings.
Cookies and local storage
Essential local storage remembers theme preference, player name, local game progress, community client ID, privacy choice, and anti-abuse state. Optional analytics storage is used only after consent. You can clear cookies or local storage in your browser settings, though local progress, identity, and preferences may reset.
How we use information
- Operate the game board, solver, archives, leaderboards, comments, reactions, and challenge links.
- Moderate player notes, reject spam, block unsafe names, and investigate abuse reports.
- Measure site performance, traffic, content usefulness, and mobile usability.
- Protect the site from automated abuse, fake scores, excessive requests, and policy-violating content.
- Support advertising review, ad delivery, fraud prevention, and required publisher disclosures.
User-generated content
Verified leaderboard names may appear publicly. A new comment-wall note that passes automated pre-screening enters pending human review and is not public until it is approved. The submitting browser may show a private pending-review card so you know the note was received. Reported, rejected, or hidden notes are removed from the public wall while they are reviewed, and the original poster can request another review. Do not submit personal information, contact details, offensive language, links, private messages, or content you do not want reviewed for possible public display.
Sharing and service providers
We may share data with service providers that help operate Poople, including hosting providers, analytics providers, security/rate-limit systems, database providers, and advertising technology providers. These providers process data for the purposes described in this policy and their own applicable policies.
Children
Poople is a general-audience word game and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has submitted personal information, contact us so we can review and remove it.
Your choices
You can avoid posting leaderboard names or comments, clear browser storage, block cookies in your browser, use Google ad controls, and contact us about privacy questions or removal requests. Some features may not work fully if cookies, scripts, or local storage are disabled.
Contact
For privacy questions, data removal requests, or moderation concerns, contact Poople at contact@poople.run or use the Contact page.