Privacy

Last updated 11 November 2026.

Words by Letters is a small independent project.

The short version

There are no accounts. The tools run in your browser, and the letters and text you type or paste are not sent anywhere. The site sets no cookies and shows no adverts today. We count visits, as described below.

What stays in your browser

The site does not save anything in your browser. It uses no local storage and sets no cookies.

What happens when you use a tool

Your browser downloads the page, its fonts, its scripts and, on the tools that search words, the site's own word list file. After that, everything you type or paste stays on your device and is checked there. A link from one of the lists may put a letter or two in the address, such as ?starts=x, and the page reads it in your browser.

Counting visits

We use Umami Cloud, an analytics service, in its European Union data region. When you open a page, your browser sends Umami a request. Like any web request, it carries your IP address and details of your browser.

Umami says it uses these to work out an approximate country and to tell one visitor from another with a scrambled identifier that changes every month, and that it does not keep the IP address. It sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser.

From this we see totals: which pages were opened, the site or search that sent the visit, the country, and the type of device and browser. The site does not record anything you do inside the tools.

Adverts

The site shows no adverts today. If that changes, this page will be updated first, and visitors in Europe will be asked for consent before any advertising cookies are used.

What our host sees

The site is served by Cloudflare. Like any web host, it processes your IP address and basic request details in order to deliver the pages and to protect against abuse. We do not use this to identify you.

Links to other sites

The Buy me a coffee link opens Ko-fi, a separate site with its own privacy policy. Nothing is sent to Ko-fi unless you follow the link.

Children

The site has no accounts and does not ask for names, email addresses or other contact details.

Changes

If what the site collects changes, this page will say so before it happens, and the date at the top will change.