Privacy Policy

The short version

The names and lists you type into this site stay on your device. There is no account, no login, and nothing to sign up for. The site does use Google Analytics to count how it is being used, and Google AdSense to show ads, and both of those set cookies. The rest of this page explains exactly what that means.

Your entries stay in your browser

When you type names into a picker, or save a list, that text is written to your browser’s local storage. It is not sent to a server, because there is no server to send it to: every picker runs entirely in the page in front of you.

Clearing your browser data removes those saved lists, and they will not come back. They are not backed up anywhere, and nobody else can see them, including us.

Share links

If you use the share button, your list is encoded into the link itself rather than stored on a server. Anyone with that link can see the entries in it, so treat a share link the same way you would treat the list.

Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics to understand which parts of it get used. It records page views, and a small number of events: that a draw was made, which picker it was made with, which pre-made list it came from, and how many entries were in the list at the time.

It does not record the entries themselves, the name you gave a list, or the result of any draw. That line is deliberate, and it is the reason the event records a count rather than the contents.

Advertising

Ads on this site are served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners may use cookies to show ads based on your previous visits to this or other websites.

You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google Ads Settings, or opt out of third party advertising cookies more broadly at aboutads.info.

Cookies and local storage

Local storage holds your saved lists and your preferences, such as whether sound is on. It is read only by the site itself, in your browser.

Cookies are set by Google Analytics and Google AdSense, as described above. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The pickers will still work if you do.

Children

This site is suitable for classroom use and does not ask anyone for personal information, at any age. If you are a teacher using it with pupils, nothing a pupil types into a picker is transmitted or stored outside the browser on that device.

Your choices

You can clear your saved lists at any time by clearing site data in your browser. You can block analytics and advertising cookies with your browser settings or an ad blocker. Because there is no account, there is no stored profile to request or delete: the site holds nothing that identifies you.

Changes

If what the site collects changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top will move.