Privacy
Axle (axle.quest) is a set of 10 free daily puzzle games: Axle, Reverse Axle, Slicle, Vennle, Trendle, Waterfle, Heat Maple, Rankle, Oddle and Axle Ships. You don't need an account to play. This page explains what data the games use, and how ads and tips work.
What stays on your device
Your progress, stats, streaks and settings are saved in your browser's local storage, so a reload keeps your game. They never leave your device unless noted below. Clearing your browser's site data removes them.
What our server sees
- Axle games: to check guesses, the Axle game sends your guesses and a random player id (made up in your browser, not linked to your name) to our server. We use finished games to show "Everyone today" totals.
- Rate limits: to stop abuse, the server stores a scrambled (hashed) version of your IP address, not the address itself.
- Feedback: if you send a report or a suggestion, we keep what you wrote and the puzzle it was about.
The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which keeps standard server logs. We don't sell your data.
Ads and cookies
To keep the games free, we show a short ad before each game, at most once per game per day. Ads are provided by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies and similar technology to show ads, measure them and, where you allow it, personalise them based on your visits to this and other websites.
- Learn how Google uses data from sites that use its services: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
- Turn personalised ads off at adssettings.google.com, or opt out of other vendors at aboutads.info.
- In the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland, you'll be asked for consent before any ad cookies are used, and you can change your choice at any time.
We ask Google to keep ads family friendly by blocking sensitive categories.
Tips
If you leave a tip, the payment is handled by Stripe on its own secure page. We never see your card details. Stripe shares the amount and the email you give with us so we can keep records. See stripe.com/privacy.
Children
The games are for everyone. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children, and we don't ask for names, emails or accounts to play.
Questions
Use "Report a problem" or "Suggest" in any game to reach us. If we change this page, the date at the top will change too.