Privacy
This page explains the data kept by Namesome's tools and the analytics services used on the site.
Your names stay in your browser
The tools run on your device and keep names, settings and results in your browser's storage. Cloud features send data when you use them. Public pages also use the analytics described below, with page content masked for Clarity recordings. There is no advertising on Namesome.
The seven things that do reach us
Sharing a wheel, opening a join list, publishing a draw record, running a Secret Santa, signing in, reporting a shared page and offering one to the gallery store the feature data listed below. Analytics is described separately in this notice.
| What | How long | Counted from |
|---|---|---|
| A wheel, list or team sheet you shared with a link | 365 days | the last time somebody opened it |
| Shared quizzes and reports | 365 days | last quiz update |
| Quiz rooms, nicknames and answers | 24 hours | room creation |
| A wheel saved to your account | No fixed limit | it stays while the account does — deleting the account puts it back on the rule above |
| A join list, and the names people typed into it | 24 hours | the moment it was opened |
| A published draw record: the entries, the seed and the result | 365 days | the moment it was made |
| A Secret Santa: names, hints, sealed links and any addresses you entered | 60 days | the exchange date, or the day it was made if you gave no date |
| A sign-in link or code | 15 minutes | the moment it was sent |
| Your sign-in on this device | 90 days | signing in, unless you sign out first |
Every number in that table is read from the code that enforces it, so the page and the site cannot drift apart.
A row is unreachable the second it expires, and a nightly job then deletes it for good. Anything you delete yourself is deleted at once, not overnight.
Reporting a page, and offering one to the gallery
A report stores three things: the reason you picked from the list, whatever you wrote in the box, and the address of the page you reported. It has no expiry, because it is the evidence one person reads when deciding what to take down, and it outlives the page it is about; nobody else is ever shown it. Offering a wheel to the gallery stores the name you typed for it, on the shared wheel itself, and that name stays there whether the answer is yes or no. Neither asks for your name or your address, and neither publishes anything on its own.
Cookies, and what else sits on your device
Functional cookies remember language, sign-in, Secret Santa access and join-list ownership. Rosters, themes and saved wheels also use browser storage. Clarity may set analytics cookies; the storage page names them. Cloudflare may set its own short-lived security cookie.
How visits are counted
Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views without cookies. Microsoft Clarity measures interactions on public pages using heatmaps and session recordings, with page content masked. Clarity may use cookies to connect visits and sends usage data to Microsoft. Private pages whose URLs can contain access tokens do not load Clarity.
Email addresses
There are two reasons an address is ever held here. An organiser can ask us to email the sealed links for a Secret Santa instead of handing them out, and those addresses live with the event and go when it goes. And an account is an address and nothing else — no password, no name, no profile. We send the sign-in link and the messages you asked for, and nothing else, ever.
Classrooms and children
This site is not made for children to use alone: the teacher or the host is the user. Classroom registers never leave the device they were typed on, the page asks for first names only, and a register that has not been used for ninety days deletes itself. Classroom pages carry no advertising and never will, and nobody on a register is ever emailed.
Who else is involved
Cloudflare provides hosting, the database, the network, the visit counter, robot checks and email delivery. Resend provides backup email delivery. Microsoft provides Clarity analytics on public pages.
Getting rid of it
Everything you make has its own delete button — a shared wheel from the page that made it, a Secret Santa from the organiser's page, a draw record from its own address. An account can export everything it holds and then delete itself on the spot. If you would rather ask than click, write to us.