Privacy

Last updated: 13 November 2026

Earndle is a daily guessing game about what people earn around the world. We built it to be fun and private. This page explains, in plain language, what data the game touches and why.

The short version

There are no accounts, no cookies, no ads and no third-party trackers. We never ask for your name or email address. When you play, our server stores your guesses under a random ID your browser made up, so we can show you how other players guessed. We also count visits to the website, without cookies and without storing your IP address.

What we store in your browser

• Your games: your guesses and score for each day you played, so a reload brings you back to where you were and so the calendar and your statistics (games played, average score, streak) can be shown, and the total pay from your practice games, for your career. These never leave your browser.
• Your settings: the currency you picked, whether you saw the instructions, and, if you turned it on, the time of your daily reminder.
• A random player ID: a long random code your browser makes the first time you play. It is not linked to your name, email, device or anything else about you.

This stays in your browser’s storage for this website only. Clearing your browser data for earndle.org removes it. It is needed for the game to work and is never used for statistics.

What we store on our server

• Your guesses: for each country you guess in the daily game, we store the puzzle number, the country, your guess, the time, and your random player ID. Only your first guess per country per day counts, so playing twice does not skew the results.
• What we do with them: we show every player a curve of how everyone guessed, the middle guess, and how close you were compared to others. We also look at totals, such as how many people played and finished each day, and the average score.
• How long: guesses are deleted after 90 days.

Practice games (the job emojis under the game) send nothing to our server.

We never store your IP address, your name, your email address, or any device or advertising ID. Other players never see your individual guesses, only the combined curve.

Daily reminder

You can ask for a daily reminder with the bell at the top of the game. It is off unless you turn it on, and your browser asks for your permission first. If you turn it on, we store the time you picked, your time zone, your random player ID (so we can skip the reminder when you have already played that day), and the delivery address and keys your browser gives us for notifications.

The reminder travels through the notification service of your browser’s maker: Google for Chrome, Mozilla for Firefox, Apple for Safari and Microsoft for Edge. That service can see the address and when a message arrives, but the message itself is encrypted.

You can turn the reminder off with the same bell or in your browser’s settings. We delete everything above when you turn it off with the bell, or when your browser’s notification service tells us the address no longer works. Your consent is the legal basis for this.

Website visit statistics

To see how many people visit earndle.org, our own server counts visits. Nothing is sent to anyone else for this. For each visit we record:

• the page and the date, and whether the game was opened from the Earndle icon on your home screen
• the website or app that linked to us, and the tag in the link if it has one (for example ?ref=tiktok)
• whether you are on a phone, tablet or computer, its operating system and browser, and your browser’s language setting
• your country, which Cloudflare, the network that delivers our website, works out from your connection

Programs that visit the site, such as search engines, AI crawlers and link previews, are counted separately by the name they give, and never as people.

We do not use cookies for this and store nothing on your device, which is why the site has no cookie banner. We do not store your IP address. It is used once, together with your browser details and a secret that changes every day, to make a daily code, so that reloading a page does not count you twice. The secret is deleted the next day, after which the code cannot be traced back to you, and codes from different days cannot be linked to each other. We only look at totals, and these records are kept for 90 days.

Playing on Alldle

When you play today’s game inside Alldle’s website (alldle.net), a website that lists daily games, Earndle also loads a small script from Alldle, so a finished day can count in your routine and streak there. It sends Alldle that you started and finished, your pay for the day, the time you took, the date, your screen width and a random ID the script keeps in your browser. If you are signed in to Alldle, it is linked to your Alldle account. We do not give Alldle your Earndle player ID or your guesses. None of this happens on earndle.org itself or on other websites, and Alldle’s own privacy policy applies on its website. Our legitimate interest in promoting the game is the legal basis for this.

Where it is kept

Our server and database are hosted by Railway, in the United States. Nobody else has access to them. The website reaches you through Cloudflare’s network, which passes on your country but stores nothing for us. We do not sell, rent or share any of the data above.

Files from other services

Earndle loads its fonts from Google Fonts. When your browser fetches them, Google can see your IP address and browser details the way any website you connect to can. We send Google nothing else, and the fonts do not set cookies.

Exchange rates

To show salaries in your currency, our server fetches the European Central Bank’s public exchange rates once in a while. That request comes from our server, not from your browser, and contains nothing about you. Your currency is worked out in your browser from its time zone and language, and is never sent to us.

What we do not do

• No third-party analytics (no Google Analytics or similar).
• No advertising.
• No selling or sharing of data. The only outside services involved are Google Fonts (above) and, if you turn on the reminder, your browser maker’s notification service.
• No tracking across other apps or websites.

Legal basis and your rights

We store guesses and count visits because we have a legitimate interest in running the game and knowing how it is used. You have the right to ask what we hold about you and to have it deleted. Because we never know who you are, we can only find your guesses through your random player ID: email us and we will tell you how to look it up, or simply clear your browser data for earndle.org and your old ID is no longer connected to you. You can also complain to your data protection authority; in the Netherlands, where Earndle is made, that is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.

Children

Earndle does not ask anyone for personal information, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone.

Changes to this policy

If we change how the game handles data, we will update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email [email protected]. Earndle is made by the maker of PIN IT!, so that inbox answers for both.