Privacy Policy — What SnapNick Records (and Doesn’t)

SnapNick has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking pixels. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to fill in. This page sets out what is recorded anyway — server logs, one aggregated word counter, settings your own browser keeps, what the public nickname wall stores, and what gets passed to the outside services that make the generator work — and how long each one lasts.

Last updated: 7 August 2026.

The short version

We record which words people generate nicknames from, and our server keeps standard access logs for ten days. Generating a name sends that word — and, to one of our services, your IP address — to the outside services that supply the name and emoji data, and copying or sharing a nickname sends that nickname and your IP address the same way. There is no account, no analytics and no advertising, so nothing here builds a picture of you over time.

What SnapNick records, where it lives and how long it stays — scroll sideways on a narrow screen.

What we do not do

• No accounts. There is nothing to register for, so there is no name, email or password to lose.
• No analytics. There is no Google Analytics, no Tag Manager, no Meta pixel and no heatmap tool on this site.
• No advertising. We run no ads and no ad-network cookies.
• No selling or sharing. We do not sell, rent or trade anything about our visitors, because we do not hold anything worth selling.
• No profiles. Nothing we store links one visit to another, or one word to one person.

What your own browser stores

Two things, both of which stay on your device and are never sent to us. Your light/dark theme preference, and your list of saved favourite nicknames (capped at 200 entries).

These use your browser’s local storage, not cookies. Clearing your browser’s site data for snapnick.com erases both immediately, and you do not need to ask us to do it.

What our server records

Our web server keeps an ordinary access log, which includes your IP address, the page requested, the time and your browser’s user-agent string. Every website server does this; it is how errors and abuse get diagnosed.

These logs rotate daily and we keep ten days of them. After that they are overwritten. We do not mine them, build reports from them, or connect them to anything else on this page.

What the nickname generator records

When you press generate, the word you typed is added to a weekly count. We would rather tell you this plainly than let you assume the tool forgets everything.

The record is a word and a number — for example, that “cool” was generated 40 times last week. The table it lives in has no column for an IP address, a session, a device or any other identifier, so there is nothing to link a word back to the person who typed it.

Some of this leaves our server. Generating a name is not purely local, and you should know exactly what travels:

• The word you typed and your IP address go to the nickname service that supplies our name data, so that its own abuse and rate limiting can work. This request is made by our server, not your browser.
• The word you typed also goes to a translation service, which turns it into the tag used to pick matching emoji, and that tag then goes to an emoji service.
• The weekly totals are sent once a day to our own hub, which is how we see demand across everything we run. Each entry carries the word, the context it was generated in (for example a game name, when there is one), how many sessions and how many builds — and nothing else. No IP address and no identifier travels with them, and the hub keeps them as long-term demand history rather than deleting them on a schedule.

Two safeguards apply automatically:

• Anything that looks like personal data is skipped. If what you typed contains an email address, a web address, or a run of six or more digits, it is discarded and never counted.
• Your IP is used once and thrown away. To stop one person inflating a count, we build a one-way marker from your IP address, keep it for 24 hours, and delete it. Your IP itself is not stored alongside the word.

If you would rather not be counted at all, use the generator in your browser’s private window.

The public nickname wall — and what copying sends

Under the generator there is a wall of nicknames shared by visitors, and anything you add there is public. Other people see it, and they can like or dislike it.

Tapping copy also shares. This is the part people do not expect, so we will be blunt about it: when you tap a generated nickname to copy it, that nickname is sent to our nickname service together with your IP address, so the copy can be counted and the name can surface on the wall. Copying is not a private action on this site. If you want a name without sending anything, select the text by hand instead of pressing the copy button.

What not to put there. Do not add real names, phone numbers, addresses or anything else that identifies a person. An automatic filter rejects some submissions, but it is not a substitute for your judgement — assume anything you add is permanent and public until you ask us to remove it.

To have an entry removed, email us with the nickname and we will take it down.

Third parties that see your request

Six, and here is what each one gets. We would rather list them than write “we may share data with service providers”.

• Cloudflare sits in front of this site and handles security and delivery, so it processes your IP address to serve you the page. It may set its own security cookie when it needs to check that a request is not automated.
• Google Fonts supplies the typeface. Your browser fetches it from Google on every page, so Google receives your IP address. This is the only third party your browser contacts directly, and we are working on serving the font ourselves to remove it.
• Our nickname data service supplies and ranks the name material, and hosts the public wall. Our server sends it the word you typed and your IP address when you generate, and the nickname and your IP address again whenever you copy one or add one to the wall.
• A translation service receives the word you typed, to turn it into the tag we use to match emoji to a name.
• An emoji service receives that tag and returns the decorative characters shown with your results.
• Our own demand hub receives the weekly totals described above — words and counts, never an IP address.

Except for Google Fonts, every one of these is contacted by our server rather than by your browser, so none of them receives your cookies, your browser fingerprint or your browsing history on other sites.

One limitation we will not hide: two of these services are currently reached over an unencrypted connection, which means the data described above — including your IP address in the nickname service’s case — is not protected in transit. We have flagged this to be moved to an encrypted connection, and this page will be updated when it is.

Children

SnapNick is a general-audience site and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect anything from them. There is no account and nothing that asks for a name or an age — but the nickname wall does accept submissions from anyone, so a child could type something there. If you believe a child has posted personal details on it, tell us and we will remove them immediately. If you believe a child’s personal data has somehow reached us, write to us and we will remove it.

Your rights, and how to use them

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what data an operator holds about you, to have it corrected or erased, and to object to its use. We honour those requests regardless of where you are — it costs us nothing to do so.

In practice the honest answer to “what do you hold about me?” is almost always “nothing we can find”. We have no identifier to search by, so we cannot locate your visits even if you ask us to. What we can do is delete a specific counted word, tell you exactly what is in our logs for a given time window, or confirm that we hold nothing at all.

Send requests to [email protected] and we will reply within five working days. Full details of how to reach us are on the contact page, and what you may do with the names you generate is covered by our terms of use.

Changes to this policy

If what we record changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves. We will not quietly widen what we collect and leave an old policy up — if we add analytics or advertising one day, this page will say so before it happens, not after.

Frequently asked questions

Does SnapNick use cookies?

SnapNick itself sets none. Your theme and favourites use your browser’s local storage, not cookies. Cloudflare may set a security cookie of its own when it checks whether a request is automated.

Are the nicknames I generate saved to my account somewhere?

There are no accounts, so no. Your favourites list lives in your own browser and never reaches us. Only the word you started from is counted, and only as an aggregate number.

How do I delete my data?

Clear your browser’s site data for snapnick.com and everything stored on your device is gone. For anything on our side, email us — although in most cases there is nothing tied to you to delete.

Is this GDPR compliant?

We have designed the site to need as little personal data as possible, which is the core of what those rules ask for, and we honour access and erasure requests from anyone. We are a small independent site, not a certified enterprise, and we would rather describe exactly what we do than claim a badge.

Why count the words at all?

Because it is how we decide what to build next. Seeing that a name or style is being generated repeatedly tells us to cover it properly. It is the only measurement on the site. The totals are shared with our own hub so we can see demand across everything we run, but they travel as words and numbers only — never with an IP address or anything that points back to you.