WORDSGAME


A Slack game to test your mastery of English and how good you are at forming words from random letters

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Privacy Policy


Wordsgame is an open source anagram Slack game for fun. Test your mastery of English with colleagues. The most minimal information required for the game to work effectively is collected

1. Information Collected

The following information is collected from Slack in order to operate the game

  • Team ID, ex: `TXXXXXXX`. This allows the game to select the correct authorization token in order to interact with your workspace.
  • Authorization Token, the token granted by Slack to the game in order to securely communicate with your workspace.
  • User IDs of those who submitted words for a game, ex: `UXXXXXX`
  • Channel IDs for communication, ex: `CXXXXXX`
  • All the responses to the thread i.e words submitted by users
  • All the data involved in each game is deleted at the end of the game. The data persisted in the database are Token, Team ID and Channel ID

2. Security

The information is saved in a secure database

3. Data retention

All the data pertaining to each game instance (channel name, channel id, start message id) is only saved for one minute (duration of the game). The data pertaining to authentication (team id, team access token, user who authenticated the installation and team name) is saved for as long as your team is authenticated to use the slack app

4. Third party

Each word submitted is sent to a third party API to confirm if it's an accurate English word

5. Request to delete or transfer data

If you want your records to be deleted, you can send a mail to femidotexe@gmail.com. Please include your slack team name or team ID

Let's Get In Touch!


Wordsgame is fully open source. If you have encounter any problem using the app please create an issue on github or send a mail