Last updated: July 10, 2026
The short version: Railroadle runs entirely in your browser and we do not collect, store, or sell your personal data. No accounts, no cookies of our own; just minimal anonymous play counts (section 2). To keep the game free, a single ad may appear after you finish a puzzle; advertising is provided by Google (see section 3).
1. What stays on your device. Your progress, results, streaks, and settings are stored in your browser's local storage. They are never sent to us. Clearing your browser's site data deletes them permanently; we have no copy and cannot recover them.
2. What we receive. When the game loads, when you press Play, when you make your first move, when you finish a puzzle, and when you tap Share, your browser sends us one anonymous event: the puzzle number, trains used, routes claimed, par, medal, solve time, whether the device is a phone or a computer, the kind of place the visit came from (a search engine, a social site, a shared link, or typed directly; the address of the referring page itself is never stored), and a random anonymous device ID. That ID is a meaningless random number your browser makes up the first time you play; it contains nothing about you, is never linked to your identity, and exists only so we can count unique and returning players. Clearing your browser data resets it and permanently disconnects past results from your device. Beyond that, nothing. The Game is static files delivered by Cloudflare's content delivery network. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes technical request data (such as IP addresses) transiently to deliver content and protect against attacks, under Cloudflare's privacy policy. We see only aggregate, anonymous request counts, never profiles of individual players.
3. Cookies and advertising. We set no cookies ourselves. Ads are served by Google AdSense, which may use cookies or similar identifiers to serve and measure ads, under Google's privacy policy. Where the law requires it (for example in the EEA and UK), Google's consent tool will ask before any advertising cookies are used, and you can decline. You can also control ad personalization at adssettings.google.com, and read how Google uses data from partner sites at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Ads appear only after you finish a puzzle, never during play.
4. Sharing. The Share button opens your device's share menu, or copies your result to your clipboard where no share menu exists. Nothing is posted anywhere by us; you choose where it goes.
5. Children. The Game collects no data from anyone, including children, and is suitable for general audiences.
6. Future features. If we ever add optional accounts (for cross-device sync) or paid content, this policy will be updated before launch. Payments would be handled by a payment provider; card details would never touch our servers.
7. Your rights. The anonymous events we hold cannot be tied to you: the device ID is random and unlinkable, and we could not identify which rows are yours even if asked. Your progress and settings live on your device, under your control; clearing site data removes them and orphans any past events for good.
8. Changes. We may update this policy; the date above will change when we do.
9. Contact. contact@alvaforge.com