Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 11, 2026

Chain is built to need as little of your data as possible. There are no accounts, and your game progress never leaves your device. This page explains the few places data is involved.

Who we are

Chain (“we”, “us”) is a free daily word game available at playthechaingame.com. You can reach us at hello@playthechaingame.com.

Game progress stays on your device

Your stats, streak, badge collection, calendar, and in-progress chain are stored in your browser using local storage. This information stays on your device, is not transmitted to us, and is not stored on any server. Clearing your browser data for this site will erase it.

Analytics

We use Vercel Analytics to understand aggregate, anonymous traffic (such as how many people visit and which pages load). It does not use cookies and does not identify individual visitors.

Advertising & cookies

We use Google AdSense to show ads, which helps keep the game free. To do this:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to our site and/or other sites on the internet.
• You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info.

For more on how Google uses data from sites that use its services, see Google’s policy.

Your choices & rights

Depending on where you live (for example, under the GDPR in the EU/UK or the CCPA in California), you may have rights to access, delete, or restrict the processing of your personal data. Because we don’t collect accounts or store personal data on a server, most of your data is already in your control: clear this site’s browser storage to remove your game progress, and use the advertising opt-outs above to limit ad personalization. For anything else, contact us at hello@playthechaingame.com.

Children

Chain is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we’ll revise the “last updated” date above.