Privacy Policy

1. What we collect

• No accounts or contact details. The site has no sign-up, and no page asks for your name, email address, or phone number.
• Names you look up. The search box, Guess the Age, Name Your Group, and the baby-name checker look names up in your browser: your browser downloads a small file of names chosen by the first two letters of what you typed. When a name doesn't have its own page, the search takes you to a results page with that name in its address, so it reaches our hosting provider like any page request. The names in a shared Name Your Group link sit after the “#”, which browsers don't send to websites. None of this is linked to you.
• Technical data. Like any website, our hosting provider receives your IP address, browser and device type, the pages you request, and the page that referred you, and keeps them in short-lived server logs used to run and secure the site.
• Usage data. Google Analytics and Vercel Web Analytics record how the site is used: pages viewed, how you arrived, device and browser type, and approximate location. Our analytics events record outcomes, like a game score, never the names you type. See section 4.

2. How we use it

• To deliver pages to you.
• To keep the site secure, prevent abuse, diagnose problems, and understand overall traffic.
• To comply with law.

3. Who we share it with

• Service providers that run the site on our behalf: Vercel (hosting and website analytics) and Google Analytics (website analytics). They may process data only to provide their service to us.
• Legal and safety. When required by law, legal process, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of anyone.
• Business transfers. If Northwoods Ventures LLC is acquired or merges, information may transfer to the successor under this policy.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for targeted advertising.

4. Cookies and analytics

Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to understand how people find and use the site, so we can improve it. It uses first-party cookies and collects your IP address, device and browser type, the pages you visit, how you arrived, and your approximate location. Google processes this data for us. If you're signed in to a Google account and have allowed Google to personalize ads, Google may connect this data to your account to give us aggregate reports, such as visits across devices or broad age and interest groups; we see only totals, never who you are. We don't allow our Analytics data to be used to personalize ads, and we don't send Google your name, email address, or anything you type. You can control how Google uses your activity in your Google Account's data and privacy settings. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services. To opt out, install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Vercel Web Analytics. We also count page views with Vercel Web Analytics, from our hosting provider. It doesn't use cookies and doesn't store your IP address. It tells visits apart with a code made from each request, which is discarded after 24 hours, and gives us only totals: pages viewed, the site that referred you, device, operating system and browser type, and approximate location. See Vercel's Web Analytics privacy page.

There are no advertising tags on the site. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings; every page still works. If we add advertising or forms that collect information, we will update this policy first and describe them here.

5. Other websites

Our pages link to other sites, such as the Social Security Administration's data pages. What happens on those sites is governed by their own privacy policies.

6. How long we keep it

Server logs are kept for a short period, generally no more than 30 days, unless we need them longer to investigate abuse or as the law requires.

7. Your choices and rights

To ask what we hold about you, or to have it corrected or deleted, email support@agebyname.com and we will respond within 45 days. Residents of states with consumer privacy laws, including Connecticut, California, Colorado, and Virginia, and of the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, may exercise their rights under those laws the same way. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

8. Security

Pages are served over HTTPS. No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee against every breach.

9. Children

AgeByName is written for a general audience. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe we have, email us and we will delete it.

10. Changes

We may update this policy. The effective date appears at the top. See also our Terms of Service.

11. Contact

Northwoods Ventures LLC, operator of AgeByName. Email support@agebyname.com.