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Cookie Policy

Last updated November 9, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Nathan Moore (doing business as PrintAWordSearch.com) ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit https://printawordsearch.com/. It explains what these technologies are, why we use them, and your rights to control our use of them.

For more information about how we handle your personal information more broadly, please see our Privacy Policy.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit a website. They allow the website to remember your actions and preferences over a period of time, so you do not have to re-enter them each time you visit or navigate between pages.

Similar technologies such as web beacons, pixels, and local storage work in comparable ways and are also covered by this policy.

2. Why Do We Use Cookies?

We use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • Keep the site functioning correctly
  • Understand how visitors use the site so we can improve it
  • Deliver advertising that helps fund the free puzzles we provide

3. Types Of Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary

These cookies and similar technologies make the site work. They are not used for advertising or analytics.

  • Games saved on your device (local storage). The puzzle player saves your games and your player settings in your browser, so you can come back to a puzzle where you left off. This stays on your device; it is shared with us only if you sign in.
  • Daily word search and Theme Seek (local storage). Each day’s game and result, for each game, so you can come back to it the same day and see how you did, and whether you’ve said "Not Now" to the offer of an account, so it isn’t shown again for a week.
  • Word search generator (local storage and session storage). A random ID for your browser, which lets us stop the generator being misused without an account. For as long as a tab is open, the puzzles made in it without an account, sealed so they can’t be read or changed: so you can print them again, open one again if you reload, and save them to your account if you sign up or sign in from that tab. If you choose Get Pro from Share Online, what you’ve typed in the form too, so it’s still there when you come back from checkout, for up to a day. They’re removed when you close the tab.
  • Spam check on the contact form (Cloudflare Turnstile). On the contact page only, Cloudflare Turnstile runs in a small frame from Cloudflare, just above Submit Form, to check that a message comes from a person and not a bot. It reads information about your browser and device for that check, and anything it stores is kept under Cloudflare’s own address, not ours. Cloudflare’s privacy policy for Turnstile, at cloudflare.com/turnstile-privacy-policy, explains it.
  • Paying for Pro (Stripe). On the checkout page, and on Stripe’s pages for your card, invoices and payments, Stripe sets its own cookies (such as __stripe_mid and __stripe_sid) to take the payment securely and prevent fraud.

If you create an account and sign in, we also set:

  • A session cookie, which keeps you signed in while you use the site.
  • A "remember me" cookie, only if you leave "Keep me signed in" ticked, which keeps you signed in on this device until you sign out. It lasts 400 days and renews each day you use the site, so it runs out only if you don’t use the site on this device for that long.
  • XSRF-TOKEN, which protects our forms and your account from forgery.
  • paws_auth, which tells our pages that you have signed in on this browser, and whether the account is an admin’s or has Pro, so a page can show the right parts straight away. It contains no personal information.
  • paws_known, which notes, in a scrambled form that doesn’t hold email addresses, the accounts that have signed in on this browser, for a year. If someone keeps guessing an account’s password, only these browsers can keep trying, so its owner can still sign in. It stays after you sign out.

Signing out ends your session and removes the cookies that keep you signed in.

Analytics

We use Umami Analytics to collect anonymous, aggregated data about how visitors use the site, such as which pages are visited most often and where visitors arrive from. Unlike most analytics tools, Umami does not use cookies and does not track individuals across sessions or devices. No personally identifiable information is collected.

Advertising Cookies

We use Google AdSense to show ads on some of our pages: the home page, puzzle and category pages, All Word Searches, the daily word search, Theme Seek and the word search generator. The pages for signing in, your account and paying for Pro, our policies and a puzzle shared from the generator don’t show ads, and our printable PDFs have none. Pro accounts don’t see ads: while you’re signed in with Pro, our pages don’t load Google’s ad code at all.

On pages with ads, Google and the ad companies it works with use cookies and similar technologies to show ads, to limit how often you see the same one, to measure how ads perform and to detect fraud. Some are stored under our address (such as __gads, __gpi and __eoi), and others under Google’s (such as IDE on doubleclick.net). Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and other sites on the internet. The cookies of other ad companies that Google works with may also be used to show ads here.

Google explains what it does with information from sites that show its ads, such as ours, in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services, and how it uses cookies for ads in How Google uses cookies in advertising.

Your choices. You can opt out of personalized advertising from Google in Google's Ads Settings, and from many other ad companies at aboutads.info or, in Europe, youronlinechoices.eu. You’ll still see ads, but they won’t be chosen by your interests.

In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, Google’s consent message asks you before cookies or similar technologies are used for ads, and you choose which uses to allow. If you don’t agree, Google shows only ads that don’t use them for personalized advertising. You can change your choice at any time with the privacy and cookie settings link the message adds to pages with ads.

4. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on this site are placed by third-party services. We do not control these cookies and they are governed by the respective third party's privacy policy. Third parties whose cookies may appear on this site include:

  • Google (AdSense and related services), and the ad companies Google works with, on pages with ads: Google Privacy Policy

5. How To Manage Your Cookie Preferences

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically:

  • View which cookies have been set on your device
  • Delete cookies individually or all at once
  • Block cookies from specific websites
  • Block all cookies entirely

For the cookies used for ads, you can also use Google’s choices described under Advertising Cookies, and, in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, the settings link from Google’s consent message.

Please note that blocking all cookies may affect how this and other websites function. For guidance on managing cookies in your browser:

6. Updates To This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, regulation, or how we operate the site. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated date at the top. We encourage you to check back periodically.

7. How Can You Contact Us?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, you may email us at [email protected] or contact us by post at:

Nathan Moore
14 Pleasant St
Westford, MA 01886
United States