Privacy Policy

No account, no personal data required

PetName doesn't require you to sign up or provide any personal information to generate pet names. The species, style, and other details you pick are sent to our servers, and to the AI model that writes the names, only to generate that one batch of names — we don't build a profile of you from them.

What's stored on your device

Everything PetName remembers about you lives in your browser's local storage, on the device you're using. None of it is sent to our servers, and we have no copy of it:

• Names you save to your shortlist, their order, and small details about each (the reason it fits, the species, and where you saved it from).
• Preferences, such as the last species you picked, so the generator opens where you left off.
• The display name you give Name Match, if any, and a random device id that lets a match recognise you when you come back.
• Your Name Quiz result and your last Showdown winner.
• Which family votes you started or voted in (a private key that lets you delete your own vote, and the name you voted under).

Clearing your browser data, using a private window, or switching devices clears all of it. There's no way for us to restore it, because we never had it.

Shared links carry names in the URL

A shared list works without an account by putting the names into the link itself. We don't store these links. But anyone who has the link can read what's in it, and links can end up in chat apps, browser history and server logs along the way, so share them with people you'd share the names with anyway.

Family votes and Name Match are stored on our server

A family vote can't work with nothing stored, so we keep it in our database: the list of names, an optional headline and organizer first name, and each voter's first name (as they typed it) and top-3 ranking. There are no accounts; the vote is reachable through its link, so anyone with the link can vote and see the results, including who voted. A vote is deleted 30 days after its last ballot, or sooner when its organizer deletes it from the device that created it.

A Name Match works the same way: we keep the species, the list of names swiped, and for each person (up to four) their first name if they gave one, a random device id, and which names they loved or passed on. Anyone with the link can swipe and see everyone's picks. A match is deleted 30 days after its last swipe; there's no delete button, so don't put anything in it you wouldn't want kept that long.

Photo uploads

If you add a photo of your pet to get more personal name ideas, the image is sent to an AI captioning service (Google's Gemini) for that one request, to describe your pet in words. The description is used to generate names; the photo itself isn't stored by PetName.

Abuse prevention

To keep the generator free and available for everyone, we use your IP address and basic browser details (such as your browser's user-agent and language) to apply rate limits and detect automated abuse. This information is used only for that purpose and isn't linked to any other data we hold.

Analytics

We use Google Tag Manager to understand aggregate site usage (e.g. which pages are popular). This may set cookies and collect standard analytics data such as pages visited and browser type. You can block this with your browser's privacy settings or an ad/tracker blocker.

Embedded videos

Some blog posts embed YouTube videos using YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). The player loads from YouTube when you open the post, and YouTube's own privacy policy applies to it.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (e.g. under GDPR or CCPA), you may have rights to access, correct, or delete data we hold about you. Since we don't collect personal data tied to an account, there's typically nothing to request — what's saved on your device you can delete yourself by clearing your browser data, and a family vote you started can be deleted from the vote page. If you have a question or concern, contact us and we'll do our best to help.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the product changes. We'll update the "Last updated" date above whenever we do.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Reach us at [email protected] or through the contact page.