Last updated: September 2026
5001 Axolotls can be played entirely on your own, with no account and no connection. It contains no advertising and no analytics software. The browser version at turevskiy.com also offers a shared "Swim together" mode, described below; the iPhone, iPad and Android apps do not include that mode.
The only information the app saves is your language preference, kept on your own device and never sent anywhere. It just lets the app remember your choice the next time you open it. Nothing else about you or your device is recorded. If you play the shared mode in a browser, that version also keeps a random identifier on your device so the game can recognise you next time; it is not linked to your name, email address, phone number or any account elsewhere.
The app fetches its own static game files (sound effects, pre-recorded speech clips, translated text) from its own server as you play, purely to load game content — never to send any information about you. No third-party services, ad networks, or tracking SDKs are contacted at any point.
This section applies only to the browser version at turevskiy.com. The mobile apps do not include the shared mode and never contact a game server. Joining the shared reef creates a guest player: there is no sign-up, no email address, no password, and nothing for you to type. The server stores a random identifier, a nickname it picks for you from a fixed list of words, how long you have played, and how many creatures you have bumped into, so it can show a leaderboard. While you are swimming, your position in the maze is sent to the server and shared with the other players nearby, which is what lets you see each other. Your network address is used only to keep the server working and to limit abuse, and is not stored with your play record. There is no chat and no way to send text to other players.
If you have used the shared mode in a browser, you can delete your guest player at any time from the welcome screen there: choose "delete identity". This permanently removes your nickname, play time and bump record from the server. Nothing is kept afterwards.
The app does not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone, including children. The shared mode has no chat, no free text and no way to share personal details: nicknames are chosen by the server from a fixed word list, so nobody can enter one.
If this policy ever changes, the update will be posted on this same page.
5001 Axolotls is built on three.js and Capacitor, both released under the MIT License by their respective authors.
Translated text is generated with MyMemory Translated.net and Argos Translate. Spoken audio is rendered with Microsoft Edge's neural voices, eSpeak NG, and a REYD FastSpeech2 + HiFi-GAN model for Yiddish.
Questions about this policy can be sent to 5001Axolotls@turevskiy.com.