Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

Charades4Kids.com ("we," "our," or "us") operates a free online charades word generator designed for children aged 4–12 and the parents, teachers, and caregivers who supervise them. Our website is located at charades4kids.com.

If you have any questions about this policy, you can reach us any time through our Contact page.

2. Information We Collect

2a. Information You Provide Voluntarily

If you contact us through our Contact page, you may provide your name and email address. This information is used solely to respond to your message and is never stored in a marketing database or shared with third parties.

2b. Automatically Collected Technical Data

Like most websites, we automatically receive limited technical information when you visit, including browser type, device type, pages visited, time spent on the site, approximate geographic region, and referring URL. This data is aggregated and anonymized, and we use it only to keep the site working well.

2c. Cookies

Charades4Kids.com uses two kinds of cookies:

• Essential, functional cookies that are necessary for the game tool to operate correctly (for example, remembering your timer and score settings during a game).
• Advertising cookies set by Google, our advertising partner, which are used to serve and measure ads on this site. Because our site receives child-directed treatment, these cookies are not used for personalized or behavioral advertising here — see Section 3 below for full details.

You can disable cookies at any time in your browser settings. The game tool will continue to work with cookies disabled.

3. Advertising on Charades4Kids.com

To keep Charades4Kids.com completely free for families, we display advertising served by Google AdSense. We want to be fully transparent about how this works:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. On most sites this enables personalized advertising — however, on Charades4Kids.com it does not, because of the child-directed settings described below.
• Because our content is directed at children, we have tagged our site for child-directed treatment under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This instructs Google to disable personalized, interest-based, and remarketing ads on our entire site, for all visitors.
• The ads you see here are therefore contextual and non-personalized: they are chosen based on the content of the page, not on who you are, your browsing history, or any profile.
• Google's use of advertising cookies on partner sites is described in Google's own policy: How Google uses information from sites that use its services.
• Users may opt out of personalized advertising across the web by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of some other third-party vendors' cookies at www.aboutads.info.

4. ⚠️ Children's Privacy — COPPA Compliance

Protecting children is the reason this site exists, and it shapes every technical decision we make:

• We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.
• We do not require children to create accounts, provide email addresses, or submit any personal data to use the game.
• We do not display behavioral or personalized advertising to any user, including children. Our site is tagged for child-directed treatment, so Google serves only non-personalized, contextual ads here.
• If we discover that a child has inadvertently submitted personal information (for example, through our contact form), we will delete it within 48 hours. Parents and guardians can request deletion at any time via our Contact page.

5. How We Use Information

The limited technical data we collect is used only to diagnose errors, understand which features are used, improve site performance, and respond to messages sent through our contact form.

We do not use any data collected directly by this website for marketing, profiling, or sale to any third party. Advertising on our site is handled by Google under the child-directed, non-personalized configuration described in Section 3.

6. Information Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell, rent, or trade any user information. We share limited information only with:

• Our hosting provider, which processes technical data under contractual restrictions in order to serve the website;
• Google, our advertising partner, which sets its own cookies to serve non-personalized ads as described in Section 3; and
• Legal authorities, only where disclosure is required by law.

7. Analytics

Where analytics are used, they are configured to be anonymized — without collecting IP addresses, device fingerprints, or cross-site tracking identifiers. Analytics data tells us things like "the animal word list is popular," never "who you are."

8. Your Privacy Rights

You may request access to, or deletion of, any personal information you have provided to us (such as a contact-form message) at any time via our Contact page.

California residents have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including the right to know what personal information is collected and the right to request its deletion. We do not sell personal information as defined by the CCPA. Visitors from the EU/EEA and UK have similar rights under the GDPR.

9. Third-Party Links

Our site may link to external websites (for example, image sources we credit). We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of external sites, and we encourage adults to review the privacy policy of any site they visit.

10. Changes to This Policy

If we update this policy, the new version will be posted on this page and the "Last Updated" date above will be revised. Material changes — such as the introduction of advertising described in this version — will always be reflected here clearly.

11. 📩 Contact Us About Privacy

Questions, concerns, or deletion requests? We're glad to help.

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