Privacy Policy

Last updated October 7, 2026

The short version

Anime Spotle has no accounts, no ads, and no tracking scripts. We store only what the game needs to remember your daily progress, to keep the service running, and to understand in aggregate how the game is played.

What we store

• A player cookie. A random ID in a secure, HTTP-only cookie named as_pid. It links you to your rounds so you can leave and come back. It lasts one year and contains nothing about you.
• Your rounds. Your guesses, the hints you picked, and whether you solved each daily anime, tied to the random player ID.
• A hashed network address. To limit abuse, we keep a one-way hash of your IP address for short-lived rate limits. We do not store the raw address.
• Basic device details. Your language, your country (estimated from your network, never your exact location), whether you use a phone, tablet or computer, your browser and operating system names, and the website you arrived from. These are general categories: we never store your raw browser string or your IP address. We use them only for combined statistics, such as how many people play and how they do.
• History on your device. The History and streak list is saved in your browser's local storage on your device. It is never sent to us.

Third-party content

Posters load from the MyAnimeList image servers, and details on the answer card load from Jikan, a public MyAnimeList API. Trailers are YouTube videos in privacy-enhanced mode and only load when you press play. Those services receive your browser's normal request data under their own privacy policies.

What we never do

We do not sell data, build advertising profiles, or share your rounds with anyone.

Your choices

Clearing this site's cookies removes the link between you and your past rounds. The game still works; it simply starts fresh.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date above will change with it.