Privacy, in plain English
RhymeHamster doesn’t know who you are. There’s nothing to sign up for, and nothing follows you from page to page or site to site. Here’s exactly what leaves your computer and what never does.
Your rhymes are worked out on your own computer
The dictionary comes down with the page, and your browser finds the rhymes itself. Your search isn’t sent anywhere to be answered.
The site does keep one running count per word, so it can show which words people look up most. That count is just the word, a total and the dates it was first and most recently looked up. There’s no record of each search and nothing about who searched, from where or on what device. Two people looking up heart look exactly like one person looking it up twice.
Your settings never leave your browser
Rhymes you’ve hidden, your slant-rhyme dial, your recent words and your progress in the daily games are kept in your browser’s own storage on your device. We can’t see any of it. Clearing this site’s data in your browser erases it.
How many people came by, with no names attached
Once a day, your browser sends a few plain counts:
- that a visitor came by, with the size of the browser window (so the pages fit the screens people really use)
- whether that visitor looked up a word, and whether they were on a phone or a computer
- how many words they looked up that day
Your browser remembers that it already sent today’s counts, so you’re only counted once. It doesn’t send any ID, and the counts are added to daily totals.
An anonymous ticket, so we can count players
The first time you play a daily game, your browser makes up a random ticket, a short string of letters and numbers, and keeps it on your device. Each puzzle you play sends that ticket along with the puzzle, your score, how many hints you used, whether you finished or gave up and whether you shared it.
That’s how we count players and spot a puzzle that’s too hard. The ticket isn’t tied to your name, your email or anything else about you. Clear this site’s data and your browser makes a new one.
Only what you type, only when you press Send
- Suggest a rhyme: the rhyme you suggest and the word you were on.
- Feedback: your message, the word you were on and your email address (only if you type one) so I can write back.
The two outside companies involved
- Cloudflare hosts the site. Like any web host, its servers see your internet address so they can send you the page. RhymeHamster’s own code never records it. Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page visits without cookies.
- Google Fonts supplies some of the lettering. When a page loads a font, Google receives the usual information any browser sends when it fetches a file.
What RhymeHamster never does
- ask you to make an account or sign in
- set cookies of its own
- track you across other websites
- sell or share information about you with anyone
Questions? Write to [email protected] and I’ll answer. Jeremy Desmon, founder.
Last updated October 16, 2026.