Privacy policy

Last updated: 13 November 2026.

Noodle Chess has no accounts, no ads, nothing to buy and no chat, and it does not track you across other companies' apps or websites. We do not collect your name, email, phone number, contacts, photos or location. The app asks for no permissions.

Your progress (settings, the game in progress, lessons done, puzzles solved, your puzzle rating and Daily run, the names you type for pass & play and your online friend list) is stored on your device. Deleting the app deletes it.

Links that leave the game (to our studio website, to our other games) sit behind a grown-ups check.

Anonymous play statistics

To see which characters, lessons and puzzle themes are played and where the game is played, the game sends anonymous play statistics to our own server (workaholicdevelopers.com). They are not sold, not shared with anyone else and not used for advertising. They contain:

• an anonymous player number worked out from the random ID the app makes for this device (not that ID itself, and not linked to you, your Apple or Google account, or any advertising ID);
• the app version, and whether you play in a browser, on iPhone/iPad or on Android;
• when you play and for how long (only while you are actually playing);
• which kind of game you start and how it ends: the character you played, pass & play, an online game, a lesson, or a puzzle theme (and whether it was solved). Never your moves or a name.

Approximate place: when the statistics arrive, our server works out the country, region and city from the internet connection and keeps only those. It does not keep your IP address, and we never use GPS or your device location.

On this website, clicking Play or an app-store link sends one anonymous click count, with a random number kept in your browser (no cookies), so we can see how many visitors go on to play.

Switching it off: in the game open Settings and turn off Share anonymous play stats; nothing more is sent. In a web browser that sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, the game and this website send nothing at all.

Online play

Online play is optional. When you use it, the game connects to our game server and sends:

• a random ID the app makes for this device (not linked to you, your Apple or Google account, or any advertising ID). The server turns it into a kid-safe made-up name (like "Quiet Heron 23") and an eight-letter friend code; nothing is ever typed;
• the clock you choose, the moves you play, draw offers, resignations, rematch votes and the preset emotes you pick, so the other player sees them;
• the friend codes you have added, so the server can tell you when those friends are online and pass invitations between you. Invitations only go to people who have added each other.

Rooms live in the server's memory only while a game is going on and are gone a few minutes after the last player leaves. For quick-match games the server keeps a rating, a games count and the made-up name against the friend code, nothing else: no game history, no IP addresses, nothing typed. Nothing is sold or shared with anyone else.

Children

The game is made for the whole family. It collects no personal information from anyone, has no chat and no way to type a name that other players see. Every link outside the game sits behind a grown-ups check.

Contact

Questions? Email info@workaholicdevelopers.com.

Noodle Chess is made by Workaholic Developers.