Privacy
haybale.io is a browser game. It has no accounts, no sign-in and no advertising of its own, and it does not sell or share anything about you with anybody. This page says exactly what it does keep, because the honest answer is short.
What stays in your browser
These are stored on your own device in localStorage. They
never reach our server, and clearing your browser data removes them:
- Your nickname and the machine and colour you picked.
- Your records — best train, best rank, how many runs you have driven, and how much you have grown in total.
- Whether sound is on, and which tip you were last shown.
- Which server you chose, if you changed it.
What the game server sees while you play
To run a multiplayer game the server has to receive your steering and send you the world around you. While you are connected it holds, in memory only:
- The nickname you typed (up to 16 characters) and your chosen colours.
- Your position, speed and score in the current round.
- Your network round-trip time, so collisions can be judged fairly.
None of it is written to a database — there is no database. When you close the tab, it is gone.
What is written to the server log
The server prints a line when a player joins and leaves, so we can tell
whether the game is healthy: a session number, the nickname, the
round-trip time, how long the session lasted and the best run in it.
The join line also notes the language your browser asks pages for
(for example tr-TR), which your browser sends to every
site it visits — we count them to decide whether translating the game
would help anyone, and they are attached to nothing else.
Logs rotate and are used only to keep the game running. Our web server
also records ordinary request logs, which include IP addresses, as
every web server does; these are not linked to gameplay and are not
used to build a profile of anyone.
Cookies and tracking
haybale.io sets no cookies and runs no analytics, no tracking pixels and no third-party scripts of its own.
When you share a run
Pressing Share creates a picture of your run and a link that contains your nickname, your score and how the run ended — nothing else. It is made on your device, and it goes only where you send it.
When you play on another site
If you are playing haybale.io embedded in a games portal (for example CrazyGames), that site is its own company with its own privacy policy, and its rules apply to advertising, accounts and analytics on that page. Where a portal offers it, the game may ask that portal to store your progress and to tell it your display name — nothing more.
Children
The game is suitable for all ages and collects nothing that identifies anyone, of any age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Your choices
Everything the game remembers about you is on your own device: clearing your browser's storage for this site erases all of it. If you would like anything else removed, or have a question, write to hello@haybale.io.
Changes
If this ever changes — for instance if the game starts saving records on a server — this page will say so, with a new date at the top.