Who runs this site
Hearsays is a free browser game. It is run as a private, non-commercial project and is not connected to any real bakery, company or person.
The site is operated by Hearsays, based in Latvia. You can reach us at info@shiflo.app.
Privacy
Hearsays is built to work without knowing who you are.
- There are no accounts and nothing to sign up for.
- There are no adverts, no analytics and no tracking of any kind.
- The site sets no cookies.
- Nothing is loaded from other companies’ servers. The fonts, scripts and styles all come from this site.
What is saved on your device
So that you can leave a case and come back to it, the game saves a small record in your browser’s local storage under the name hearsays.v1. It holds today’s progress (the evidence you found, the claims you broke, your credibility and your time), your sound setting, and your totals (cases played, cases solved and your streak).
This record never leaves your device. It is not sent to us or to anyone else, and we cannot see it. Because it is needed for the game to do what you ask of it, it does not require a consent banner.
You can delete it at any time by clearing this site’s data in your browser, or with this button.
What the hosting company processes
The site is hosted by Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Avenue #4133, Covina, CA 91723, USA. When your browser asks for a page, Vercel’s servers necessarily receive the technical details of that request: your IP address, the date and time, the file requested and the type of browser. This is used to deliver the page and to keep the service secure and working.
Where the General Data Protection Regulation applies, the legal basis is the legitimate interest in running a secure, working website (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). We do not use this information to identify you and do not combine it with anything else.
Vercel may process this data on servers outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States, under the safeguards set out in its data processing terms. See Vercel’s privacy policy.
Your rights
Where the GDPR applies you have the right to ask for access to personal data held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to have its use restricted, and to object to its use. Requests go to info@shiflo.app.
You also have the right to complain to the data protection authority where you live. In Latvia, where Hearsays is based, that is the Data State Inspectorate (Datu valsts inspekcija).
Children
The game is suitable for a general audience and collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If the way the site handles data changes, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change with it.
Terms of use
The game
Hearsays is offered free of charge for your personal, non-commercial enjoyment. There is nothing to buy and nothing to pay.
It is provided as it is. We try to publish a working case every day, but we do not promise that the site will always be available, free of errors, or kept running. It may be changed or withdrawn at any time.
Fair use
Please do not attack, overload or interfere with the site, and do not copy it and present it as your own work.
It is all made up
Mill Street, Halloran’s Bakery, Petal & Stem, The Lantern Bookshop, the buyer called Dalen, and every person, business, product and event in the game are invented. Any resemblance to real people, living or dead, or to real businesses is coincidental.
The game shows petty theft in a comic setting. Nothing in it is advice or instruction.
Ownership
The game, its text, drawings, sound and code are © 2026 Hearsays. All rights reserved, apart from the fonts, which are used under their own licence as set out in the credits below.
Liability
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss or damage arising from the use of the site or from not being able to use it. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or takes away rights you have as a consumer under the law of the country where you live.
Law
These terms are governed by the law of Latvia. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live.
Credits
The typefaces are Barlow and Barlow Condensed by Jeremy Tribby and the Barlow project authors, and Courier Prime by Alan Dague-Greene and the Courier Prime project authors. All three are used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The copyright notices are in the font licence file.
The drawings are made in code and the sound effects are generated in your browser. Neither uses any outside artwork or recordings.