Privacy Policy

Nothing. Every generator, from the number picker to the lottery lines, runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript. The ranges you set, the lists you type and the results you get are never transmitted to us. Close the tab and they're gone, with one exception: the Wheel of names saves your list and sound setting in your own browser so they are there next time, and you can clear it with the Clear list button.

We use Google Analytics (GA4) to see, in aggregate, which pages get visited, roughly how many people use the site, and which countries and devices they come from. This tells us which tools to build next. Google Analytics collects information such as your approximate location, browser and device type, the pages you view, and a cookie-based identifier, and Google processes it on our behalf. It never sees what you enter into a tool, because that stays in your browser. Google's own explanation of how it uses data from sites that use its services covers the details, and you can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on or by blocking analytics in your browser.

Advertising isn't switched on yet. When it is, we expect to use a mainstream provider such as Google AdSense to keep every tool free. Ad providers of that kind may use cookies to show more relevant ads, and where a personalisation choice is available, we'll surface it on the page. This section will be updated with specifics before ads go live.

The tools themselves don't set cookies. Google Analytics does: it sets first-party cookies on randomlyhq.com (their names start with _ga) to tell one visit from another. The Wheel of names uses your browser's own local storage to remember your list of names and your sound setting. The Secret Santa generator can make private links: the match is stored in the part of the link after the # symbol, which your browser never sends to any server, and the page removes it from the address bar as soon as it opens. Other tools may remember a small preference, but that stays on your device and is never read by us. You can clear or block cookies in your browser settings at any time and the tools will keep working.

If you use the contact form, the name, email address and message you type are sent through Web3Forms, a third-party form service, straight to our inbox. We use that information only to reply to you, and we don't add you to any mailing list because of it.

RandomlyHQ isn't directed at children, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age, through the tools themselves.

If what we collect changes, most likely when advertising is switched on, this page will be updated and the date at the top will move. We don't send out separate notices for a static page like this one.

Anything here unclear? The contact page is the fastest way to ask.