Privacy Policy
Effective September 30, 2026
Cubewords is a daily crossword game owned by Chonkers LLC. Space Inch, LLC publishes it on the App Store, Google Play and the Galaxy Store under license from Chonkers LLC. In this policy, “we” means both. This policy covers the Cubewords apps for iPhone and Android and the Cubewords website, cubewords.xyz.
What we collect
No account needed. You can play without an account. Your progress, streak and reminder time are kept on your device, and the app sends us only the crash reports and counts described below, none of which include your name, email address or account.
Your account. If you sign in with Apple or Google, we receive an account ID from them, your email address (with Apple this can be a private relay address), and your name if you share it. Google also sends a link to your profile picture.
Your saved progress. While you’re signed in, we store your Cubewords progress with your account so you can pick it up on another device or on the website: the letters you’ve filled in, the squares you’ve revealed and other hints you’ve used, which cubes you’ve solved and how long they took.
Friends. When you’re signed in, you have a name that friends see (your first name and last initial from Apple or Google, until you change it in Settings) and a friend code that goes in the links you share. Anyone who plays one of your links can add you as a friend, and you can add them. Your friends see your name and, for each day’s cubes, whether you’ve played and solved them; once a friend has solved a cube themselves, they also see your time and hints on it. When a friend plays one of your links, we record that they played it and their time, so we can tell you. You can remove or block a friend in the app at any time.
Notifications. The daily reminder and other reminders are scheduled by the app on your phone, from your progress there. If you’re signed in and allow notifications, we store your phone’s push token and time zone so we can tell you when a friend plays one of your links or adds you as a friend, or, if you haven’t played for a few days, when a friend solves the day’s cube. We send at most one of these a day.
Creator codes. When you’re signed in and enter a puzzle creator’s code, we store whose code you entered and when, when you unwrapped their pack, and whether that was in the iPhone app, the Android app or on the website. We also keep the time of each wrong code, to limit guessing. We use these, with when your account first had Plus, to pay creators for the members they bring. Creators get counts, never your name, email address or account.
Purchases. Cubewords Plus is sold through the App Store, Google Play and the Galaxy Store in the app, and on the website through RevenueCat’s checkout, which takes payment with Stripe. They handle payment, and we never see your card details. RevenueCat keeps the record of your subscription: under a random ID on your phone, and under your Cubewords account once you sign in, so Plus works on your other devices and on the website. We store whether your account has Plus, when it first had it, and when it renews or ends. RevenueCat also tells us about every purchase, renewal, cancellation and refund, and we keep the store, plan, price and date of each, without who made it, to count sales. In the Windows app, Plus is sold through the Microsoft Store and stays with your Microsoft account in that app: the app asks the Store whether you have it, and we don’t receive or store that purchase.
Technical information. When the app or website loads cubes or saves progress, our hosting providers receive your IP address and basic details of the request, as with any online service.
Crash reports. When the app crashes or hits an error, it sends a report to Sentry so we can fix it: what went wrong and where in the app, the app version, the phone model and system version, and a random ID for this install of the app. Reports don’t include your name, email address or account, and Sentry doesn’t store your IP address with them.
Notification counts. To learn which notifications help, the app counts, under the same random ID for this install of the app, which of its notifications arrived, which were opened, which led to a solved cube within the hour, and when notifications were allowed or turned off. These counts don’t include your name, email address or account.
Play counts. To learn how Cubewords is played, the app and the website count, under the same random ID for this install of the app (or this browser): the days it’s opened; the cubes started, solved or left unfinished, with the time taken, the hints used and how much was filled in; shares; where Cubewords Plus was offered and whether it was then bought; the extras and looks opened; and, with each day, your streak, whether you’re signed in or have Plus, the app version and the platform. The first time, it also counts what kind of link opened it (a friend’s challenge, for example) or, on the website, the site or campaign that sent you there. These counts don’t include your name, email address or account, and we don’t link them to your account.
Apart from crash reports and the notification and play counts, we don’t use analytics, and we don’t use advertising or tracking. We don’t sell your information or share it for advertising.
How we use it
We use this information to sign you in, save and sync your progress, show you and your friends each other’s results, tell you what your friends do, deliver each day’s cubes, fix crashes and errors, learn how the game is played and which notifications help, and answer you when you write to us.
Who else handles it
- Supabase stores accounts, saved progress and the counts above, in the United States.
- Vercel hosts the website.
- Apple and Google handle sign-in and purchases in the app.
- Microsoft handles purchases in the Windows app.
- RevenueCat keeps the record of Cubewords Plus subscriptions, and Stripe takes payment for ones bought on the website.
- Apple’s push notification service delivers notifications to iPhones, and Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging delivers them to Android phones.
- Sentry receives the app’s crash reports.
- GitHub keeps encrypted nightly backups of our database for 30 days.
We may also disclose information if the law requires it.
Deleting your account
In the app, open Settings and choose Delete account. This deletes your account, the progress saved to it, your name and friend code, your friends, your results and RevenueCat’s record of your purchases right away and removes Cubewords’ access to your Sign in with Apple account. Deleting your account doesn’t cancel a Cubewords Plus subscription: cancel it first where you bought it. Copies in our encrypted backups are gone within 30 days. Progress kept on your device stays there until you delete the app.
You can also email us to ask for a copy of your information, to correct it, or to delete it.
Children
Cubewords isn’t directed to children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from them. If you think a child has given us personal information, email us and we’ll delete it.
Changes
If we change this policy, we’ll post the new version here and update the date at the top.