Privacy policy

Last updated November 14, 2026.

The short version

No accounts, no sign-ups, no tracking cookies. Your game progress and stats stay on your device.

What stays on your device

Hard Count saves your daily results, streaks, practice score and settings in your browser’s local storage so you can pick up where you left off. This data never leaves your device. Clearing your browser’s site data deletes it.

Analytics

We use privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics (Plausible and/or Cloudflare Web Analytics) to count visits and a few anonymous game events: a puzzle was started, solved on clue N, missed, or shared, and roughly how many days since your first visit. These counts aren’t tied to you, use no cookies or persistent identifiers, and aren’t sold or shared for advertising.

Advertising

Hard Count currently shows no ads. If ads are added later, they will be served by Google AdSense, which may use cookies to show and measure ads. Where the law requires it, you’ll be asked for consent first, and you can choose non-personalized ads. Google’s use of data is described at How Google uses information from sites that use its services. This policy will be updated before any ads appear.

Hosting

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, which processes standard request data (such as IP addresses) to deliver and protect the site. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

Children

Hard Count is a general-audience game and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13.

Contact

Questions? Email hello@hardcountgame.com.