Last updated: November 12, 2026

Creek is a daily puzzle: a new stretch of an Austin creek every day, in any browser at releaf.site/creek and soon on iPhone. Creek has no accounts and no server of its own to send anything to, and it does not collect, store on any server, share, or sell any personal information. The web page that carries it is an ordinary page on the studio's website, and what that page asks of the web is described below.

What Creek keeps on your device

• Your progress. Creek remembers today's board and the stones you have turned so far, the days you have solved (that is how your streak is counted), the Practice difficulty you picked, whether the sound is on, and whether you have seen the first-visit card and the hint about holding the sheet for a closer look. It is never uploaded.
• Where it lives. In a browser, in that browser's local storage for releaf.site, under the names creek-day, creek-days, creek-level, creek-sound, creek-seen and creek-hint. In the iPhone app, in the app's own storage. Clear the site's data in your browser, or delete the app, and it is gone and your streak starts over. Where a browser blocks storage (some private modes), Creek keeps your visit in memory until you close the tab.
• Sharing. When the water runs through, Creek offers a short note: the stretch, your turns against par, a row of circles that gives nothing away, your streak and the address releaf.site/creek. Copy puts it on your clipboard. Share opens your device's own share sheet, where there is one. Nothing is sent unless you choose where to send it, and then it goes through the app you chose, under that app's own policy.
• Compass. Where a device might have a compass, the page offers a Compass switch that stays off until you tap it. If you turn it on, your device may ask first. Creek then reads which way you are facing to turn the sheet's rose. The readings are used on the spot and are not saved or sent.
• Sound and buzz. Creek makes its sounds as you play, and the Sound button mutes them. Where a device can vibrate, a stone gives a small buzz as it turns. Nothing is recorded, and Creek never uses a microphone.

Giving. Creek thanks the groups who look after the creeks it draws and points to where you can give to them. A link to a group's page for giving opens that group's own page in your browser (Safari on iPhone), outside Creek. The gift is made on their site, under their own privacy policy, and Creek never sees it.

The page at releaf.site/creek. Opening it asks the web for a few things. Your browser asks releaf.site for the page and the files it needs, Creek's one script among them. It asks Google Fonts for the two typefaces the page around the game uses, and Google sees that request, under its own policy. releaf.site keeps a plain count of how many times each page is viewed, a number that belongs to the page and says nothing about who looked. The servers that deliver the page can record the request itself, as any website's can: the time, the internet address it came from and the page asked for. Once the page has loaded, the game makes no network requests of its own. Nothing you do in it is sent anywhere.

The iPhone app. Creek is coming to iPhone, made to the same rules, so this policy covers it too. The app deals each day's creek on your iPhone, makes no network connections of its own and works offline. Your progress stays in the app's own storage. If you back up your iPhone, the backup may include it, under Apple's own policy.

What Creek does not do

• No accounts or sign-in
• No cookies
• No network connection of its own: the game in the browser and the iPhone app send nothing
• No advertising and no third-party SDKs
• No analytics, tracking or crash-reporting services of its own
• No microphone, camera, contacts or photo library access, and it never asks where you are

Beta testing. While the iPhone app is on TestFlight, Apple's TestFlight app tells the studio when you install a build, passes along crash reports, and sends any feedback you choose to write, under Apple's own policy. That comes from TestFlight, not from Creek.

Children. Creek collects no information from anyone, including children.

Changes. If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this address with a new date.

Contact. Questions: studio@releaf.site