Instinctle

Instinctle

Privacy

Instinctle does not require an account. Daily scores, your streak, and your best completed total are stored in your browser so this device can show what you already finished. Clearing the site’s data will erase them. There is no login, and switching devices does not carry those records over. For privacy questions, email hello@instinctle.com.

What stays on your device

The daily game saves the date, your answers, your scores, and whether you finished the five tests. Unlimited practice only stores a count of finished rounds. Archive replays, if saved at all, are kept separately and never overwrite today’s official score. Your browser also stores a random anonymous ID (instinctle:aid) in localStorage, not as a cookie, so we can tell whether this device came back on a later game day and can avoid counting the same play twice. It is not a name, email address, or account. Clearing the site’s data erases the game record and the anonymous ID. We do not sell that ID or use it for cross-site advertising.

If you share a result, the text is the puzzle number, your total out of 500, five color squares, a streak when it is at least two days, and instinctle.com. It does not include answers, coordinates, or true values.

What the site itself records

When you play, we record these game events: starting a game, the score for each confirmed answer (not the puzzle layout, your raw guess, or the true value), your total score when you finish, a successful share or copy of your result, and a return-visit signal if this device already played on an earlier game day. Game days follow America/New_York, including daylight-saving changes. We use these records to count real players, completion rate, average score, share rate, and next-day return. The events are stored in a Cloudflare D1 database that belongs to this site. We do not collect your name, email address, or IP address in plain text for this. Plays with ?qa=1, or a request that carries an X-QA: 1 header, are not recorded. Events from a page whose Origin does not match this site are rejected.

Cloudflare hosts the site and processes the technical requests used to deliver it. Google Analytics 4 uses measurement ID G-Q8SFM2ZK8R. The gtag script loads only on instinctle.com and www.instinctle.com, and never when the address includes ?qa=1. It is not loaded on staging (*.workers.dev) or any other host.

Advertising cookies

Instinctle does not currently run advertisements. No advertising script is loaded, and no advertisement slot is reserved on the page. The services currently configured are Google Analytics 4 and Cloudflare, which hosts the site and processes the requests used to deliver it. The paragraphs below describe how advertising cookies would work if advertisements are turned on in a later version. If that happens, this page will be updated to say that advertisements are on, and these terms will apply.

If and when advertisements are turned on, third parties, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a visitor’s prior visits to this site and to other sites. Google’s advertising cookies let Google and its partners serve ads based on those visits. You can opt out of personalized Google ads at https://www.google.com/settings/ads. You can opt out of personalized ads from some third-party vendors at https://www.aboutads.info/.

Services currently configured

  • Google AdSense is disabled. No advertising script is loaded, and no advertisement slot is reserved on the page.
  • Cloudflare Web Analytics is enabled on instinctle.com via Cloudflare's automatically injected beacon. That beacon is cookieless and collects aggregate page-view and performance metrics.
  • Game events are stored in a site-owned Cloudflare D1 database. Your browser keeps a random anonymous ID (instinctle:aid) so we can count return visits and avoid counting the same play twice. We record starts, the score for each confirmed answer (not the puzzle layout or your raw guess), completed totals, successful shares, and return visits. Game days follow America/New_York. Plays with ?qa=1, or a request that carries an X-QA: 1 header, are not recorded.
  • Google Analytics 4 is enabled on instinctle.com and www.instinctle.com only, and never when the address includes ?qa=1. Google may set first-party cookies named _ga and _ga_ followed by a measurement identifier.

For privacy questions, email hello@instinctle.com.

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