Privacy Policy

Effective June 24, 2026. This policy explains what information is and is not collected when you use PuzzleForge. In short: we do not ask you to create an account and we do not collect personal information ourselves. Some third-party services we use — advertising and affiliate partners — may set cookies, as described below.

Information we collect

We do not operate user accounts, mailing lists, or contact forms, so we do not ask for your name, email address, or any other personal detail to use the site. Puzzles are generated in your browser and in PDFs on demand; we do not store the puzzles you make or tie them to you. We do not sell or rent any data, because we do not collect personal data to begin with.

Cookies and third-party services

PuzzleForge is supported by advertising and by affiliate links, and those partners may use cookies or similar technologies that are outside our control:

• Advertising. We may display ads served by third-party networks such as Google AdSense. These vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies lets it and its partners serve ads to you. You can control personalized advertising and learn more through the links under “Your choices” below.
• Affiliate links. Some outbound links to puzzle supplies and books are affiliate links (for example, the Amazon Associates Program). When you follow one, the retailer may set a cookie to credit a possible purchase. We never receive your payment details. See our disclosure for details.
• Analytics. We may use privacy-respecting, aggregate analytics to understand which puzzles are popular. Any analytics are used only in aggregate and are not used to identify individual visitors.

Your choices

You can opt out of personalized advertising and manage ad cookies here:

• How Google uses cookies in advertising
• Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out
• Network Advertising Initiative opt-out

You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time; the puzzles will keep working without them.

Children's privacy

PuzzleForge is a general-audience site and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. Because we do not collect personal information from anyone, there is nothing for a child to submit to us.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, we will update the effective date above. Questions about privacy can be sent via our contact page.