Privacy Policy
Languagle is a daily language-guessing game. There are no accounts and no sign-in. The only thing a server ever holds about you is an email address, and only if you choose to sign up for reminders. Here is exactly what the game does with data.
The short version
Your progress, your streak and your settings are kept on your own device and are never sent anywhere. Clear your browser storage and all of it is gone for good. Nobody has another copy, including me. The one exception is optional: if you ask for email reminders, your address is stored so they can be sent, and it is used for nothing else.
What is stored on your device
The game keeps three things in your browser's localStorage.
That is space on your own phone or computer. It is not sent to a server
and it does not follow you to another device.
- Your boards. For each puzzle you have played: the puzzle number, the languages you guessed, and whether the game is still going. This is what lets you close the tab and come back to the same board, and what remembers which previous days you have already finished so they are not offered to you again.
- Your statistics. Games played, games won, your current and best streak, and how many guesses your wins took. This is what fills the stats panel.
- Your settings. Whether colour-blind mode is on, whether you have dismissed the tip bar, and whether you have already been offered email reminders (so the offer is not repeated). Your email address is never stored in the browser.
That is the whole list. No identifier, no account, no email address, no name, and none of it leaves your device.
Email reminders (only if you sign up)
After you finish a game, the blue bar at the top offers a reminder to play, by email, daily, weekly or monthly. It is completely optional and the game works exactly the same without it. If you do sign up:
- What is stored. Your email address, how often you want reminding, a random code that makes your unsubscribe link work, and the dates you signed up, confirmed, and were last sent a reminder. Nothing about your games, your stats or your device is attached.
- What it is used for. Sending the reminder you chose, and nothing else. No newsletters, no marketing, no "we have a new product" emails. Your address is never shared, sold or added to any other list.
- Confirmation first. The first email asks you to confirm. Until you tap that link, no reminders are sent, and an address that is never confirmed is deleted automatically after a week.
- Leaving. Every reminder has an unsubscribe link and a link to change how often. Unsubscribing deletes your record completely; it is not just marked as inactive.
- Where it lives. The list is stored with Netlify, which hosts this site, and the emails are delivered by Resend. Both only process it to do those two jobs for me.
The legal basis is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by unsubscribing, or by emailing me and I will delete it by hand.
Feedback you choose to send
The Submit Feedback form sends something only when you type a message and press Send. It sends the text you wrote and nothing else. Your puzzle number, your board, your stats and your settings are not attached, so there is no way to tie a message back to a particular player. Delivery is handled by Web3Forms, which forwards it to me by email.
How to erase everything
Clear this site's data in your browser settings, or play in a private or incognito window so nothing is stored to begin with. The game works exactly the same either way. It will simply treat you as a new player each time.
Cookies
Languagle itself sets no cookies — your progress, streak and settings
use localStorage instead, a different mechanism that,
unlike a cookie, is never transmitted along with your requests. Google
AdSense, described below, does set its own cookies.
Advertising
Languagle shows ads served by Google AdSense. To do this, Google may set cookies or use similar identifiers on your device to measure ad performance and, where you've allowed it, personalise which ads you see. Languagle itself does not receive, see, or store any of that data — it is handled entirely by Google.
You can see and control what Google uses for ad personalisation at Google Ads Settings, and read how Google uses data from sites that use its services at Google's advertising policy.
Analytics
Languagle uses Simple Analytics, a privacy-first analytics service, to see roughly how many people play and which pages they visit. It sets no cookies and uses no trackers, so no consent banner is needed and nothing about it can identify you individually. It reports aggregate counts — things like page views, referring sites, country, device type and browser — never an IP address, a fingerprint, or anything else tied to you as a person.
You can see exactly what Simple Analytics collects (and doesn't) in its own privacy policy.
Links to other sites
The game links out to a few external pages: a portfolio, an email address, a tipping page, and the source behind each day's phrase. Following those takes you to services I do not run, each with its own privacy policy. Nothing about your game goes with you.
Children
Languagle is suitable for a general audience. The game asks for nothing to play. The optional reminder sign-up asks only for an email address; if you are under 13, please ask a parent before using it.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes in a way that affects what is stored or where it goes, the date at the top will change and the change will be described here.
Contact
Questions about this policy can go to mattscottingdesign@gmail.com.