Loadle is a free daily game with no accounts, no cookies and no advertising. This page says what little the site handles about you, in plain language.
Last updated 12 October 2026
The short version
- Nothing you do in the game is sent to a server. Your guesses, streak, statistics and settings live in your own browser.
- Visits are counted with cookieless analytics that cannot identify you.
- If you email us, we keep the email for as long as it takes to deal with it.
Who runs Loadle
Loadle is run by an individual based in the United Kingdom, who is the data controller for the purposes of UK data protection law. You can reach them at [email protected].
Playing the game
Everything about your play is stored in your browser's local storage on your device: the day's guesses, which clues you revealed, your statistics (games played, wins, streaks, guess distribution) and your settings (hard mode, dark theme). None of it is transmitted to Loadle or to anyone else. Clearing your browser's site data for loadle.app deletes it all. Local storage is used because the game cannot work without it; it is not used for tracking.
Loadle sets no cookies of its own.
Sharing your result
The Share button builds a short text (the puzzle number, your score and a row of coloured squares) and hands it to your device's share sheet or clipboard. Where it goes from there is up to you and the app you share it with. Nothing is sent to Loadle.
Analytics
Loadle uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits and see which pages are read. It is cookieless and does not fingerprint devices or follow you across sites. The script records the page viewed, the referring site, your browser type and country, and performance timings. Your IP address is used by Cloudflare to work out the country and is not stored by Loadle. Cloudflare's own terms for this service are at cloudflare.com/web-analytics.
Hosting and fonts
The site is served by Cloudflare, which as any web host sees the IP address of each request in order to deliver the page and to protect the site from abuse. Cloudflare's privacy policy is at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.
The typeface is loaded from Google Fonts, which means your browser requests the font file from Google and Google sees your IP address in doing so. Google states that it does not use these requests for advertising or profiling; its policy is at developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy.
If you write to [email protected], your email address and message are kept for as long as needed to reply and to act on what you raised, for instance to correct a curve, and then deleted. They are not added to any list or shared with anyone.
Changes
If the way the site works changes, for example if sponsorship or an optional account feature is added, this notice will be updated and the date at the top changed. Anything that involved collecting more than today would be made clear on the site itself.
See also the terms of use and the data and method page.