Accentle collects one piece of data tied to you: a randomly generated device identifier (UUID, via crypto.randomUUID()). This ID is created locally on your device the first time you launch the game — it is a random value, not a device fingerprint, and it is not tied to your name, email address, phone number, or any other personal information.
We use this ID to remember which content packs you've purchased or unlocked, your streak, your Daily/pub leaderboard rank, and (if you choose to enter one) a display name — so your progress persists across sessions and page refreshes.
Accentle uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to see aggregate traffic (e.g. how many people visited today). It is cookieless and edge-aggregated — it does not set a cookie, does not use a per-user identifier, and cannot be used to track you individually or across sites. We do not use Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Meta Pixel, or any advertising/tracking pixel. In the places listed under "Your privacy choices" below, it does not load at all, and our own visit counts are sent without your device ID. If we publish native apps for iOS and Android, they will not load it.
The following keys are stored locally in your browser or app, never sold, and used only to run the game:
accentMeta — your device UUID, active pack, and general game settings/stateaccentle.device — a mirror of your device UUID, used to keep your identity consistent across pages outside the main gameaccent.streak.count / accent.streak.lastDate — your daily-streak counteraccent.playtime.total / .sessions / .lastSession — how long you've played, kept on your device only (see below)accentle.bundleBannerX, accentle.refPromptSeen, accentle.partnerWinCtaShown — "don't show this again" flags for on-screen promptsPlay-time tracking (added for our playtest period) counts how long you actively play, entirely on your own device. It is not sent to our servers and is used only to show you your own play time in Settings.
There is no cookie banner.
We do not sell or share your personal information for advertising purposes (California CCPA/CPRA — "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information"). We have never sold player data and have no plans to.
You can choose to attach an email address to your player from the Profile screen. This is entirely opt-in. It is used to help you get your player back if you lose access to this device, and, only if you opt in to an offer stream (described below), to send you those offers. It is never required to play, never shown to other players, and never used for any other marketing you have not approved.
When you enter an address, we send a confirmation link (via Resend, our transactional email provider) to prove you own it. The link expires after 15 minutes and can be used once. We store the address and the time it was confirmed, tied to your device UUID. We do not store the raw confirmation link itself — only a one-way hashed version, which cannot be reversed back into a usable link.
To have your email removed, use the contact form.
At the end of a live game night at a venue, you can enter an email address to save your player account — the same optional email system described above, reached from a venue screen. The address goes to us, is attached to your player after you tap the confirmation link, and is used as described in "Optional email".
The venue you played at does not receive your email address.
At a game night you can opt in to three separate offer streams: offers from that venue, offers from Accentle itself, and offers from nearby venues. Each is its own choice — opting into one does not opt you into another. The composer of an offer (a venue or Accentle) writes it; Accentle delivers it in the app and, if your email is confirmed, by email. You can turn offers off from your Accentle profile at any time, and you can turn them back on. We do not share or sell your information.
If you work at a venue, its owner can add you as staff by entering your email address. We use that address to send you an invite and sign-in links, and to sign you in so you can run that venue's game nights. The venue owner can see the addresses on their staff list. Each link works once: an invite for 24 hours, a sign-in link for 60 minutes. While you are signed in we keep a record of your session, including the IP address you signed in from, for up to 7 days. We delete your staff record straight away when the owner removes you, about a week after an invite you never used runs out, or when the venue's account is deleted. The venue owner can also see which of their staff started, ran or ended a night, sent a room message, removed a player or opened the prize links, and when. That record holds no email address and no message text, and it is kept after you are removed. The owner also sees when staff accepted their invite, signed in, were sent a sign-in link or took a room message down, and this record is kept after a staff member is removed and after the venue's account is deleted. Staff can run the night. They cannot see players' email addresses or offer choices, or the venue's billing.
If you opt in, Accentle can send you browser/device notifications about your duels, and nothing else: "it's your turn" when a friend duels you, "your duel finished" when they play it, and "someone played your shared link" when a challenge you posted gets taken on. That's the complete list — never marketing, never anything else.
We never ask for this on your first visit, and never during a game. It's offered once, after you've finished with your first duel, and you can decline or ignore it with no further prompting.
We only accept a subscription issued by a recognised browser push service (Google, Mozilla, Microsoft or Apple), and we keep at most five per device — the browsers you actually use.
If you enable it, we store a push subscription — an opaque endpoint URL and two encryption keys handed to us by your browser (via the standard Web Push API). This subscription carries no name, no email, no phone number, and cannot be used to identify you outside of this game. It is linked only to your existing device UUID, the same identifier described above.
You can turn notifications off at any time from the toggle in the Friends tab — this deletes the subscription from our server immediately, not just locally. If your browser or device revokes the subscription on its own (e.g. you uninstall the app, or the push service reports it as gone), we detect that automatically the next time we try to send a notification and delete the stored row.
iOS note: Safari on iPhone/iPad only supports push notifications for a game added to the Home Screen ("Add to Home Screen"). If that isn't available, the notification toggle is hidden rather than offering something that can't work.
The Worst Accent Contest is a separate, adults-only (18+) area. To enter or vote you need a confirmed email address and you must confirm you are 18 or older. We ask your date of birth once to compute that; we store only the yes/no result and how you told us (declared date of birth, or a platform age signal, should a native app exist) — never the date of birth itself.
If you submit a recording: the audio is stored, automatically transcribed and checked for safety before anyone else can hear it, and — if approved — played back to other players from our servers, never downloaded to their devices. A losing entry's audio and transcript are deleted seven days after the contest closes; a winning entry is kept until you delete it yourself. We also store a public profile id (not derived from your email or device id), your chosen avatar, and your vote history within the contest.
Reports and blocks you file, and reports filed against you, are stored to enforce the contest's rules (see what's not OK) and are removed when your account is deleted, along with every recording, vote, and profile record tied to you — including if that removal has to wait for a background service to come back online, it is queued and never silently dropped.
This section does not change the general policy above for the rest of Accentle: outside the contest, no email or account is required to play, and the game remains rated for the general audiences described in "Children's privacy" below.
The Daily and pub-trivia leaderboards are optional and require only a display name — no email, no account. Your device UUID (not your name) is your identity; the display name is whatever you choose to type. Don't put personal information in your display name — it's shown publicly to other players.
The THREAD arcade game has its own optional high-score board. It is off unless you switch it on. If you do, the name you type and your score are shown publicly in a top-100 list, kept in a separate database from the rest of your data.
Your device UUID, entitlements, streak, leaderboard entries, partner attribution, optional email (if you attach one), and (if you opt in) push notification subscription are stored in a Cloudflare D1 database operated by Leafwind Studios Ltd. The database endpoint is accentle.com/api (installed apps may also reach it at accent-save.kingshotpro.workers.dev, the same service under its original address). This data is only queried when you load the game, play the Daily/pub mode, complete a purchase/redemption, send/receive a duel notification, or attach/confirm an optional email.
If you report content, or if something you write is flagged by our automated safety check, that item is stored in a moderation queue — also in the same Cloudflare D1 database — so a human can review it. Moderation queue entries and decisions are kept until we review them, and then for as long as we need the record; we do not yet run an automatic deletion schedule for these, and a fixed retention period is pending the same legal advice as the evidence-retention setting described below. Evidence of suspected child endangerment may be kept for longer, restricted to a small number of authorized reviewers, and retained even if you delete your account — see "Automated safety screening" below.
Cloudflare Web Analytics — aggregate, cookieless traffic analytics (see above). cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.
Cloudflare Workers AI — automated safety screening. When you type a display name, a club name, or a club announcement, that text is sent to Cloudflare's AI platform to check it against safety categories before it is published. Only the text is sent — no device identifier, no IP address, and nothing else about you. Cloudflare states that it does not use this content to train AI models and does not make it available to other Cloudflare customers. We keep the result of the check, not a second copy of the text. cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.
Resend — sends the confirmation link if you choose to attach an optional email (see above), and delivers an internal alert to our moderation team when content needs urgent human review. Resend receives only the address you enter and the content of that specific message; it is not used for marketing sends. resend.com/legal/privacy-policy.
Stripe — processes web payments. When you purchase a content pack via the web, you are redirected to Stripe's hosted checkout. Stripe handles all payment card data. We receive only a confirmation that the purchase was completed, along with your device UUID (used to grant access to the purchased pack). Stripe's privacy policy is at stripe.com/privacy.
Payments — payments are handled by our payment processor, Stripe. If we publish a native iOS or Android app in future, purchases made inside it would be handled by Apple In-App Purchase or Google Play Billing respectively. We do not receive your payment details.
We do not use advertising networks or social login providers.
Text you write through Accentle's own account system that other players can see — a display name (including the name you use for a pub trivia night or at a Game Night Host table), a pub trivia team name, a club name, or a club announcement — is checked automatically before anyone else sees it, using local checks and Cloudflare's Workers AI (see "Third-party services" above). If the check finds something that may put someone's safety at real risk, that text is never shown to other players, and a real person reviews it. A person also reviews anything another player reports. A name typed inside a private room (Accent Rooms / Party Room) is sanitized to remove markup but is not yet covered by this automated check; report it the same way if you see something that shouldn't be there. The same is true of four other places: the older /party/ pages (Let's Play) send the names players type there to a separate Let's Play game server that does not use this check; the "say to the room" message a venue host sends is shown on that venue's screen and on players' phones without being checked; the name you type for the THREAD arcade high-score board, if you switch the board on, is shown in its public top-100 list without being checked; and display names saved before this check existed have not all been checked yet, so an older name may not have been checked. The name a venue owner types for their own venue gets the local word checks and the check for names that pretend to be Accentle when it is set or changed, but not the Workers AI check. A venue's offer gets the full check (local word checks, a no-links rule and Workers AI) before it is emailed to anyone.
If you believe someone is in danger, or that a message is grooming or exploiting a child, please report it right away. In an emergency, contact your local emergency services first.
Accentle is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. The game plays in the browser at accentle.com and is not available in any app store; if we publish a native app it will carry a 13+ rating (Teen on Google Play). If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, contact us at the address below and we will delete it.
Because players of any age reading level use this game together, the text covered by "Automated safety screening" above is checked automatically before it is shown, and anything suggesting a child may be at risk is reviewed by a person, not left to a machine. See "Automated safety screening" above for what is and isn't covered yet, and for how to report something.
Purchase entitlement records are retained indefinitely so that paid content remains accessible. The quickest way to delete your data is in the game: open Settings and choose "Delete my account". You can also use the contact form (topic: Privacy / data deletion); tell us the email address you protected your account with, or your friend code, so we can find your account. Please do not send your device identifier by message. We will process deletion requests within 30 days. When you delete your account, records of purchases you made are kept with the link to your device removed, so that someone who referred you is still paid what they earned. What stays is the amount, currency, date and state of each purchase and the payment processor's reference, so that a refund can still be matched; for an app-store purchase that reference is the store's transaction number, and the device identifier that used to be part of it is replaced. A tip you gave a venue is kept the same way, without your name or message, and so is the record of which partner link you used and when. So that a payment which reaches us after you deleted is not attached to you again, we also keep a one-way marker (a hash) of your old device identifier and the Stripe customer reference of your subscription; no retention period is set for it yet. A payment recorded after deletion keeps the amount, currency and Stripe's references, without your device link.
Entitlement data is transmitted over HTTPS. No payment card data is stored by Leafwind Studios Ltd at any point — all payment processing is handled by Stripe, Apple, or Google.
If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we will update the "Last updated" date below and, where appropriate, notify users through the game.
Accentle is run by Leafwind Studios Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales, company number 17252962. Registered office: 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ.
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Last updated: November 1, 2026