Who is responsible
the101company is the mobile development brand operated by Teodor Radu. Address: Gheorghe Constantinescu 49, Brăila, Romania, 810306. Privacy contact: contact@the101.company.
This website
This website has no login, checkout, analytics, advertising pixels or newsletter form. The playable level runs in your browser: it downloads word lists from this website to check your guesses, and never sends or saves your guesses.
Our hosting and domain providers process network information such as IP address, requested page, time and basic browser details to deliver the site and protect it from abuse. If you email us, Google Workspace processes the message so we can respond. Read the cookie policy.
How we use information and your rights
We process account and purchase information to provide the services you request; limited security and support information for our legitimate interest in protecting and maintaining the service; and optional notifications or advertising consent where consent is required. We may keep records to meet legal obligations. Withdrawing optional consent does not undo earlier lawful processing.
Where applicable, you can request access, correction, deletion, restriction or portability, or object to processing. Email contact@the101.company. We verify requests proportionately, without asking for passwords. You may also complain to your local data protection authority; in Romania this is ANSPDCP.
Apple, Google, Cloudflare and the website host may process information outside your country, under their own terms and applicable data-transfer rules. We do not sell your information.
The Connect app
About this policy
Connect is operated by Teodor Radu under the name the101company, at Gheorghe Constantinescu 49, Brăila, Romania 810306. This policy covers the Connect word-connection game for iPhone and iPad. Contact: contact@the101.company.
You can read this policy inside the app without an internet connection. Email and links to external websites require an internet connection.
Local play and account progress
Levels, dictionaries and the playable tutorial are bundled on your device and work offline in English (US), Spanish, Romanian, Italian, German, French, European Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Dutch, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Thai. Gameplay, coins, powers, rewards, purchase delivery records, settings and streaks are saved locally. Apple handles purchase verification and payments; starting a new purchase requires access to Apple. Advertising and account sign-in also require their respective online services.
Without an account, your progress and wallet stay on this device. Players 13 and over can sign in: the first time you sign in to an account on this device, the levels, wallet and streak you played without an account move into that account, and play without an account starts over. Connect then backs up your level boards, guesses, completed levels, selected language and streak history to your account so you can continue on another device. Each language has a separate board history. Your wallet (coin balance, powers, streak freezes, revealed letters and the record of rewards and purchases already credited) is also synced to your account, so it continues on another device and after reinstalling. Consumable delivery records stay on the device that received them. Signing out removes the active session but keeps each account’s local saves private. Signing back into the same account restores its saved progress and wallet.
Authorized support administrators can see accounts and progress, give coins or powers, set an exact coin balance, correct streaks, unlock all levels or adjust unfinished levels, and enable or disable ads. Explicit support ad settings can override ad-free delivery without deleting the underlying Apple purchase. While the signed-in app is active and online, it checks for corrections approximately every three seconds and applies them as soon as received; offline devices apply them after reconnecting. Consumable gifts are claimed once by one device. Changes are audited.
Online services
Bundled levels, spending coins, using powers, earning rewards and maintaining a streak work locally, without an account and without per-move server approval. Playing without an account sends no account or game progress data to Connect’s services. For signed-in players, account progress backup, verification of coin purchases and support corrections use encrypted HTTPS connections to Cloudflare-hosted services. Cloudflare processes network addresses and ordinary request information to deliver and protect those services.
Older daily and Premium connections may remain in an existing account history. Their previously collected records are retained until account deletion. The current game does not require a Premium subscription.
Apple and Google accounts
Signing in with Apple or Google is optional and available to players 13 and over; you can play and buy without an account. The account service verifies your provider identity and stores its stable identifier, the email address it supplies and your editable username, initially suggested from your email. Apple may supply a private relay address. We never receive your Apple or Google password or request access to contacts, mail or files. Google handles authentication under its policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Apple and Google identities are not automatically joined merely because their email addresses match. Sessions are stored securely on your device. Account settings let you edit your username, sign out, export your data, or delete your account after authenticating again with its provider. To enforce a parent’s withdrawal of app access, the service links a hash of a verified Apple app-transaction identifier to the Connect account and retains a minimal revocation record. This is separate from purchase ownership and contains no age range or birth date. Withdrawal restricts account services; data export, deletion and support remain available.
Account deletion revokes Connect sessions and removes the account records and backed-up progress. Provider authorization is revoked where supported. A deletion receipt containing an internal account ID can be retained for 90 days to prevent backup restoration from recreating deleted data; restricted support notes expire after 180 days. Security audit events retain internal identifiers and minimal reasons. Deleting an account does not cancel Apple billing or erase purchases held by Apple.
Apple handles payments; we never receive card details. Ad-free forever, Unlock all levels and the one-month ad-free pass belong to the Apple Account that bought them: they apply to everyone playing on that Apple Account, with or without a Connect account, and Restore purchases returns them on a new device. Apple verifies these purchases on the device, and Connect’s services do not record them. Coins, powers and streak recovery bought while signed in are verified by the service, which retains minimal transaction, product and account ownership identifiers to prevent duplicate delivery, and are delivered once into that account’s synced wallet. Bought without an account, they are recorded only in the wallet on that device and move into the first account you sign in to there. Per-account rights bought in earlier test builds stay with their Connect account. Refunds update all purchases. Legacy purchases without an account token are preserved only for the original account on the original device where trustworthy migration records exist.
Advertising and privacy choices
The app uses Google AdMob to show a banner below the keyboard and an interstitial at a natural break when you choose Next level after completing a level. TestFlight and development builds use Google test ads. Unavailable ads do not prevent playing or moving to the next level. Players under 13, and players whose required age check is incomplete, see only child-directed ads: Google treats these requests as child-directed and under the age of consent, so ads are limited, non-personalized and suitable for general audiences, and no consent form is shown. Teens whose age range Apple shares see no ads.
Players 13 to 17 receive non-personalized ads. Adults (18 and over, by Apple’s age range or the age screen) are asked through App Tracking Transparency whether ads may use the iOS advertising identifier; only if they allow it, and where any required consent has been given in Google’s consent message, may Google show personalized ads. Otherwise ads stay non-personalized. You can change this anytime in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Ads for players 13 and over are limited to content suitable with parental guidance (PG) or milder; children’s ads are limited to general audiences (G). Google publisher first-party identifiers stay disabled. We do not send Google your guesses, hidden answers, Connect account information, coin balance or purchase history.
Advertising still involves data processing. Google may process your IP address and approximate location, app- or device-related identifiers, advertisements viewed, interactions with ads, and crash or performance information to deliver, measure, secure and improve ads. Non-personalized ads are not data-free. Google handles this information under its own privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. For details of data use in partner apps, see https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Google’s User Messaging Platform checks which privacy choices apply before the app requests ads. Where required, a consent or privacy message appears. You can review or withdraw applicable choices in Settings → Advertising privacy choices. Choosing not to consent does not block the game; Google may serve only eligible limited ads or no ads. If privacy information cannot be obtained and no valid prior permission exists, the app does not request ads.
Google controls retention of advertising data under its policies. Uninstalling the app or resetting a level does not delete data already held by Google. Contact us about the app’s data practices, or use Google’s privacy controls for data held by Google.
Optional notifications and widget
Daily reminders are optional and scheduled locally on your iPhone for the next seven days. The app requests notification permission only after you choose to enable reminders or messages. It uses your preferred time and the current device time zone, and skips reminders for a day you have already played.
The Home Screen widget shares only the currently loaded start and finish words, solved-word count, completion status, streak and expiry with this app through an Apple App Group. It contains no account credentials, guesses or hidden answers. Signing out or switching accounts clears that snapshot.
If you opt into news while signed in and online messages are configured, the service stores an encrypted Apple push token, language, time zone, consent setting and associated app session. Apple receives the token and message to deliver notifications. The service uses this information to respect preferences and quiet hours; it does not use it for advertising. Revoked sessions cannot receive newly attempted messages. Offline sign-out unregisters the device locally, but already accepted messages cannot be recalled.
Inactive push registrations and campaign records are removed after 30 days by scheduled cleanup. Account deletion removes registrations. These server features stay disabled until credentials and scheduled cleanup are configured.
Resetting and deleting local data
Settings → Restart current level resets only the current level board. Unlocked levels, earned rewards, coins, powers, revealed letters and streaks remain. Earlier daily and Premium saves are separate.
To remove the app’s local documents, use Delete App in iOS. Offload App keeps these documents. Keychain credentials may survive deleting the app; sign out first to remove the local account session. Signing out or deleting the app does not cancel an Apple subscription. Coins, powers and your streak are also kept in this device’s Keychain, so they return if you reinstall the app on the same device.
iOS or iCloud backups may retain app data separately. Apple controls backup behavior, and you can manage your backups through your Apple device and iCloud settings. Deleting the app does not delete support emails or TestFlight reports.
Contacting the developer
If you email the developer, your email address and whatever text, images, or attachments you choose to send are used to respond and help with your request. Sending an email is optional and is not required to play.
TestFlight beta testing
When you install a beta through TestFlight, Apple collects crash and usage information and makes testing information available to the developer. You may also choose to send feedback, screenshots, or crash details. This information may include device and app details and, depending on how you joined the beta or what you submit, your name or email address.
The developer uses beta information to investigate problems and improve the game. The developer does not use it for advertising, sell it, or disclose it to third parties. Apple's collection and handling of TestFlight information are separate from the offline game's local storage and are described in Apple's TestFlight privacy information.
Retention and privacy requests
Support emails and independently saved copies of beta reports are kept only as long as needed to investigate or resolve the issue, then deleted. Apple controls retention of information held in TestFlight and its other services.
Contact support at the email address below to ask a privacy question or request deletion of support messages or report copies held by the developer. The developer cannot delete Apple's own records or copies of results you have shared with other people or services.
Children’s privacy
Connect is rated 4+ and children can play it without an account. Where Apple reports a regional requirement, Connect requests an age range from Apple; elsewhere, a neutral screen asks once for a birth month and year. Only the player’s age group (under 13, 13–17 or 18 and over) is kept, on the device. We do not save the birth date or send any age information to our servers. Players under 13, and players whose required age check is incomplete, play without an account: sign-in and online messages are unavailable, no account or game progress data is sent to Connect’s services, and only child-directed ads are shown, as described under Advertising. Children’s purchases go through Apple, including Ask to Buy where a parent has set it up. Apple or Google sign-in alone is not parental consent; any local requirement for parental permission for a teen’s data processing still applies. Parents and guardians can contact contact@the101.company about a child’s information or deletion.
Backups and deletion
Recovery snapshots of the service databases are encrypted and access-restricted. Our recovery procedure reapplies deletion records before restored accounts are served, so an old snapshot cannot reactivate a deleted account. Cloudflare keeps seven days of automatic point-in-time history; operator exports are kept for recovery and incident investigation and are reviewed manually.