Privacy
Dishdle is built to know as little about you as possible. This page says, in plain words, what is stored, why, and what you can switch off.
The short version
- 🙅 No account, no sign-up, no profile of you.
- 📱 Your progress and streaks live in your browser, on your device. We cannot see them.
- 📊 We count plays anonymously to improve the puzzles. There is a switch below to turn that off.
- 🗳️ Votes are anonymous. Photos are sent in by choice and reviewed by a human.
- 🚫 We do not sell data, run tracking ads, or share anything with data brokers.
Who runs Dishdle
Dishdle is run by an independent developer based in the United Kingdom, who is the data controller for the site. For anything on this page, including questions, requests or complaints, email hello@dishdle.com.
What stays on your device
The game saves a small amount of data in your browser so it can work: your puzzle progress, results and streaks, the date you first played, a marker that you already voted today, and your light or dark theme choice. None of it leaves your device, none of it identifies you, and no other website can read it. UK rules do not require a consent pop-up for storage like this, because it only does the thing you asked for: saving your game.
You can wipe all of it by clearing this site's data in your browser settings, and you can change the theme any time with the theme button in the header. Clearing data also resets your streaks, since we keep no copy.
Anonymous analytics, and the off switch
To see which puzzles land well and which pages break, we count plays: which game was played, the date, the puzzle number, win or loss, how many clues it took, and the streak length at that moment. Never your name, your contacts, the contents of your device, or your precise location. We never use your internet address to identify you, and we keep no logs of who visited which page.
Two services process these counts for us: Google Analytics and PostHog (hosted in the EU). They act on our instructions, and we do not allow them to use the data for their own advertising. If you would rather not be counted at all, flip the switch and this device sends nothing.
Outside the UK and Europe, PostHog also keeps a replay of how the page changed while you played, so we can watch a session back and spot confusing moments and bugs. Inside the UK and Europe nothing is recorded unless you have said yes to a consent prompt. Replays never include your name or identity, anything you type is masked on your device before it is sent, and the switch below stops replays along with everything else.
Anonymous analytics
On. Aggregate play counts only, never your identity.
What you send us
Votes. When you pick dishes in Versus, your choices are added to anonymous daily totals. We store the totals, not who voted, and nothing that could trace a vote back to you.
Photos. If you submit a photo we receive the picture, the dish name you typed, and the display name you chose to be credited as, if any. Photo metadata, like the location a picture was taken, is stripped on your device before anything is uploaded. Every submission is reviewed by a human; photos we do not use are deleted automatically within 60 days, and published photos stay in the game with your chosen credit until you ask us to remove them, which you can do at any time by emailing hello@dishdle.com. You must be 13 or older to send us a photo.
In legal terms: submissions happen with your consent, and the rest of the site runs on our legitimate interest in operating and improving a free game, always with the analytics switch above.
Hosting
Dishdle runs on Amazon Web Services. We have visitor access logging switched off, and our vote and photo systems do not record your internet address. Where data crosses borders in transit, it is protected by the safeguards in our agreement with Amazon.
Advertising
There are no ads on Dishdle today, and no advertising cookies or storage. If that ever changes, you will see a clear consent prompt first, with a real choice to say no before anything is stored, and this page will be updated at the same time.
Your rights
UK data protection law gives you rights over personal data, including access, correction, deletion and objection. Since almost everything lives on your own device, the quickest route for most things is simply emailing hello@dishdle.com. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
If this page changes, the date here changes with it. Last updated: 11 June 2026. See also the terms and contact pages.