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: July 2, 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 post 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, 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
Poople uses analytics tools such as Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to understand page usage, traffic sources, game interactions, and layout issues. These tools may use cookies, local storage, IP addresses, device identifiers, session information, and interaction events. We use analytics to improve the game, navigation, page quality, and mobile experience.
Advertising and Google products
Poople may use Google AdSense or other Google advertising products. Google and its partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, browser data, and other identifiers to serve ads, measure ad performance, prevent fraud, and personalize ads where permitted. Third-party vendors, including Google, may place or read cookies on your browser or use web beacons because ads are served on this site.
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
Poople may use cookies or local storage to remember theme preference, player name, local game progress, community client ID, consent or privacy choices, analytics settings, and anti-abuse signals. You can clear cookies or local storage in your browser settings, though some game or leaderboard features 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
Leaderboard names and comment-wall notes are public when submitted. Do not post personal information, contact details, offensive language, links, private messages, or content you do not want displayed publicly. Poople filters and moderates community submissions, but no automated moderation is perfect.
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.