Terms of use
Short, and meant to be read. Using Namesome means these apply.
Who you are dealing with
Namesome is made and run by one person working alone, with no company behind it. That is said plainly rather than dressed up: there is no support desk and no uptime promise, and the address on the contact page is the whole of it.
Free, and offered as it is
Every tool here is free to use — in a classroom, at work, at home — with no account and no payment. Nothing is guaranteed about availability, and a feature may change or go away. Keep your own copy of anything you would mind losing: your lists live in your browser, and only you have them.
What you type stays yours
The names, lists and messages you enter are yours. Sharing a wheel or opening a join list gives us only what that action needs — permission to store that list and show it to whoever holds the link, for as long as the privacy page says. Nothing you type is sold, passed on, or used to train anything.
What may not go on a shared page
A shared wheel, a join list and a Secret Santa can be opened by anyone holding the link, so what goes on them has limits: nothing unlawful, nothing that harasses or bullies a real person, nothing obscene, no spam, and nothing that infringes somebody else's rights. A short word screen runs wherever somebody types into somebody else's page — a join list, a Secret Santa, a draw record; it catches the obvious and it is not a moderator. We can refuse or remove anything that breaks this rule, and repeat offenders can be blocked.
Not for gambling
Namesome may not be used for gambling — through the pages, the API or the MCP server alike. This is a picker: it never handles money, never issues tickets, never charges to enter and never quotes odds, and using it as the drawing mechanism for something that does is outside these terms. A free prize draw at a school fair or on a social account is fine where it is legal for you to run one; a business whose trade is gambling is not.
If you run a draw, it is your draw
We make software; you decide what to do with it. Whoever creates a Secret Santa, a join list or a draw record is responsible for the people on it — for being entitled to enter their names, for telling them whatever they need to be told, for any rules or permits your event needs where you are, and for deleting it when it is done. Namesome is never the organiser, never the promoter and never the judge of a draw.
The API and the MCP server
The same terms apply to the programmatic interfaces as to the pages, plus three things. They may not be used for gambling, for abuse, or to promote violence or self-harm. They are rate-limited, and the limits can change without notice. And they carry no service-level promise at all: keys can be revoked and endpoints can change, so do not build anything critical on them.
Grown-ups hold the accounts
You need to be old enough to agree to this where you live, and this service is not directed to children. A teacher, a parent or a host is the user; a child on a register is a name on a list, not an account holder. There are no accounts for children.
When something is taken down
Shared content that breaks these terms, or that somebody reports with good reason, can be removed without warning — usually with no way to tell you first, because most shared objects have no account attached. The contact page carries the address for reports and for copyright complaints, and says what to put in one. Every shared page also carries a report button, which reaches the same person.
Changes, and the fine print there isn't
These terms can change, and the version you are reading is the one in force. Nothing here takes away a right the law where you live gives you, and if some part of it turns out to be unenforceable the rest still stands. Which country's law governs a dispute is not settled yet; it will be written here before it needs to be.