Privacy & terms

Privacy

Postle is run by an independent developer in Finland, who is responsible for the personal data described here. You can reach us at support@postle.gg.

What happens when you play

Your game

Your answers, results and streak are saved only in your own browser. They are never sent to us, and we have no way to see them.

Hosting

Cloudflare, our host, receives the technical details of each request, such as your IP address, to deliver the site and protect it from attacks. We don't keep IP addresses ourselves.

Counting visits

Cloudflare Web Analytics counts visits for us without cookies and without storing anything in your browser. It records which page was opened, the site that linked to it, the kind of browser and device, the country, and how fast the page loaded. It does not follow you from one visit to the next or across other sites, and it builds no profile of you. We rely on our legitimate interest in knowing how many people play. Cloudflare describes it in its Web Analytics overview.

Counting plays

When you answer a round, finish a day, share a result or tap one of our other games, the game adds one to a count on our server: which day it was, which round, and whether the answer was right. It is a tally, not a record of you. Nothing in it says who played, and no cookie, identifier or IP address is kept with it. We use it to see how many people play and which posts are too easy or too hard.

Profile pictures

The accounts' pictures are loaded straight from X's image servers and are not copied to ours. That means your browser contacts X to fetch them, and X receives your IP address and browser details, as it would for any picture it hosts. We tell your browser not to say which site asked. X handles this under its own privacy policy.

Links to X

The link to each original post, and the button that posts your result, open X. Nothing is sent to X unless you follow them, and nothing is posted unless you press Post there yourself.

Sharing

The Share button hands your score to your phone's own share sheet, or copies it so you can paste it. It goes only where you choose to send it.

What we don't do

There are no accounts and no advertising, and we don't sell or share data. Visits are counted without cookies, as described above. Google Analytics is optional: nothing is sent to Google unless you accept analytics cookies, as described under Optional site improvement. If any of this changes, this page will be updated first.

Why this is allowed

Delivering the site and keeping it safe is in our legitimate interest in running the game. Cloudflare handles requests for us under its Data Processing Addendum; pages may be served from the data centre nearest to you, which can be outside the EU, and for such transfers Cloudflare relies on the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework and the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

Age

Postle shows real posts unedited, and some contain strong language and adult themes. It is not aimed at children.

Cookies & storage

The game needs one entry in your browser's local storage in order to work. Optional analytics cookies stay off until you accept them. We do not use advertising cookies.

postle:v6

Needed for the game. Today's answers so far, and your record: days played, your current run and your longest run. It holds nothing that identifies you and stays until you clear it.

postle:analytics-consent:v1

Remembers whether you accepted or declined analytics, for 180 days. If your browser can't save it, your choice lasts for this visit only.

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Google Analytics cookies, set only if you accept. They tell browsers apart and keep visit information, and last up to 180 days without extending on each visit.

Optional site improvement

If you accept analytics cookies, Google Analytics measures visits and how the site is used. Google receives visit and device information, browser language, which of our three pages you opened, an origin-only referrer and cookie identifiers. We do not send your answers, your results or anything else in the address. Google Signals and advertising personalization are disabled. The legal basis is your consent. Declining does not affect the game.

Google also receives your IP address to derive approximate location. Google states that Analytics discards it before logging data; see its regional data collection information.

Change or withdraw your choice at any time through Cookie settings at the bottom of every page. Withdrawal stops future collection and removes our Analytics cookies. It does not undo data already collected.

Google may process data outside the EEA under its data-protection and transfer terms. Read how Google uses data and the Google data processing terms.

Your rights

To erase your game data, clear this site's data in your browser's settings. That is all of it: we hold no copy.

You can still ask us to access, correct, delete or restrict any personal data about you, or object to how it is used. Email support@postle.gg and we will reply within one month. If you're unhappy with our answer, you can complain to a data protection authority, such as Finland's Data Protection Ombudsman.

Posts & removal

The game quotes posts that well-known people published publicly on X. Each is shown word for word with the name, handle and date of the account that posted it and a link to the original. Posts remain the work of the people who wrote them; they are quoted here, briefly and with credit, for a guessing game. The second account in each pair is a wrong answer, and nothing is implied about that person.

We check posts against X before they are used and again from time to time, and take out posts that have been deleted.

Asking for a post to come out

If you are shown in the game, or act for someone who is, email support@postle.gg with a link to the post. You don't need to give a reason. We remove it from future games and from the site as soon as we can. The same address is the place for a copyright complaint or a correction if a post is shown under the wrong account.

Independence

Postle is not affiliated with or endorsed by X Corp. or anyone shown in it. Names, handles and profile pictures belong to their owners and are shown only to identify who posted what. Postle is also not connected to Wordle or The New York Times.

Terms

Free to play

Postle is free. There is nothing to buy and no account to make.

For fun

The game is entertainment. Showing a post is not agreement with it, and the posts are their authors' own words, not statements of fact by Postle.

As it comes

Posts, rules and features may change. Results can be lost if you clear your browser's data or switch device, and we can't promise the game will always be available.

Fair use

Play it, share your score, link to it. Don't try to disrupt the site or copy its collection of posts in bulk.

Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer law.

Contact

For questions, privacy requests, removal requests or accessibility feedback, email support@postle.gg.

The game can be played with a keyboard, announces each answer to screen readers and respects reduced-motion settings. It hasn't had a formal accessibility audit.