Privacy
Draft for review. This describes how the site is built. It isn’t legal advice. Before launch, confirm the feedback form’s provider and that Web Analytics is switched on, then remove this note.
Last updated: draft, October 2026
Donutle uses no cookies, doesn’t ask who you are, and doesn’t sell or share anything about you.
What stays on your device
The game saves a few things in your browser’s local storage so it can pick up where you left off. None of it is sent to us.
- Your progress on today’s donut: the letters you’ve placed, your moves and your time.
- Your results from past days, for your stats and streaks.
- Which donuts you’ve already rated.
- Whether you chose light or dark mode.
To remove it, clear this site’s data in your browser’s settings. That also resets your stats.
What our server counts
When you start a donut, finish one or rate one, the game tells our server so we can see how each day’s puzzle went. It sends only:
- the puzzle number;
- when you finish, your stars and your time in seconds;
- when you rate, thumbs up or down and too easy, just right or too hard.
The server adds these to running totals for that puzzle, such as how many people finished it and the average number of stars. It doesn’t store your IP address, a device or user ID, or any cookie with them, so the totals can’t be traced back to you.
Cloudflare
Donutle runs on Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare handles your IP address to deliver the site and to protect it from abuse. Our server, for example, limits how many updates one connection can send per minute, and Cloudflare keeps that count only briefly, in memory. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which doesn’t use cookies, doesn’t fingerprint your device and doesn’t follow you to other sites. It shows us totals, such as page views per day.
Apart from that analytics script, everything on the page, fonts included, comes from donutle.com itself, so loading the game doesn’t contact any other company.
Links to other sites
Two links take you to other services, and only if you choose to follow them:
- Buy me a coffee goes to Ko-fi. If you support Donutle there, Ko-fi handles the payment under its own privacy policy, and we see what Ko-fi shows creators about supporters.
- Send feedback opens a form hosted by another service. What you type is sent to that service and to us. You don’t need to include your name or email unless you’d like a reply.
If you write to hello@donutle.com, we use your address only to reply.
Questions
Email hello@donutle.com. If this page changes, the date at the top will change too.