Privacy policy
Last updated 13 November 2026
This policy explains what happens to information when you use Find Band Name at findbandname.com (the "site"). The short version: the naming tools run in your browser, we don't ask you to create an account, and we don't sell your personal information.
1. Information you give the tools
Generators. All name generation runs in your browser. Words you type (such as a keyword, or the real name you enter in the artist-name tools) are used only on your device to build names. They are not sent to us, stored on our servers, or included in share links.
Shortlist and votes. Saved names, notes and votes are kept in your browser's local storage. They never reach our server, and clearing your browser data deletes them. Shortlist and vote links carry the names inside the link itself, so anyone you send one to can read them.
Name checker. When you check a name, your browser sends that name directly to these services, each under its own privacy policy: MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation), Apple's iTunes Search API, Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation), and domain registration data (RDAP) services, including Verisign and rdap.org. Links to other sites (Spotify, social networks, trademark offices) only open when you click them.
2. Information collected automatically
Hosting. The site is served by Cloudflare, which processes technical data such as IP address, browser type and the page requested, and may keep request logs for security, abuse prevention and reliability.
Analytics (optional). If you choose "Allow analytics", we use Google Analytics to count visits and understand which pages are useful. It is off until you opt in. We disable Google signals and ad personalisation in Analytics, and send only the page path, without query parameters. Generated names, checker inputs, shortlist contents and votes are never sent to Analytics. You can change your choice at any time with "Analytics preferences" at the bottom of any page; withdrawing consent stops future collection and removes accessible Google Analytics cookies on this domain.
3. Advertising
To keep the tools free, this site may display ads served by Google AdSense. When ads are shown:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info (or www.youronlinechoices.eu in Europe).
- Google may also show non-personalised ads, which use cookies for frequency capping, aggregated reporting and fraud prevention.
Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent through a Google-certified consent message before personalised ads or advertising cookies are used, and can change their choice at any time. Learn more in how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
Ads never change which names the generators produce or what the checker reports.
4. Cookies and local storage
| What | Purpose | When |
|---|---|---|
| Local storage (shortlist, votes, theme, seen names, consent choice) | Remembers your saved names and settings on your device | Always; never sent to us |
| Google Analytics cookies (_ga, _ga_*) | Visit statistics | Only after you allow analytics |
| Google advertising cookies | Serving, measuring and limiting ads; personalised ads where you have consented or where permitted | Only on pages where ads are shown |
| Cloudflare security cookies | Bot and abuse protection | When Cloudflare's protections apply |
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The naming tools work without cookies.
5. Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR in Europe or state privacy laws in the United States, such as the CCPA/CPRA in California), you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal information, to object to or restrict processing, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for targeted advertising. We don't sell personal information. Because we don't run accounts and the tools work in your browser, we usually hold no personal information about you; for data held by Google or Cloudflare, you can also use their own privacy tools. To make a request, email hello@findbandname.com.
6. Children
The site is a general-audience tool and is not directed to children under 13. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children.
7. Changes
If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top of this page. Significant changes will be noted on this page.
8. Contact
Questions about privacy: hello@findbandname.com, or see the contact page.