Privacy

Random Group Generator doesn't have a server-side database, an account system, or any tracking of what you type into it. That's not a policy decision we could reverse later — the tool is built so there is no backend for names to be sent to in the first place.

Every name you type or paste, every rule you set up, and every group that gets generated is computed entirely in your browser, on your own device. Nothing is transmitted to us, logged, or stored anywhere outside your browser.

The one exception is your browser's own local storage, which we use to keep your current name list in place if you close the tab or refresh the page. That data stays on your device — it is never sent anywhere — and you can clear it at any time with the "Clear names" button on the tool, or by clearing your browser's site data.

If you use the Share link feature, your name list and settings are compressed and encoded directly into the URL itself, not stored on a server. Anyone with that link can see the names and settings encoded in it, so only share it with people you're happy to share that list with — the same way you'd think about sharing a document.

We use privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics (Plausible or Umami) to see aggregate page-view counts — never anything tied to the names you enter. If no analytics domain is configured, no analytics script loads at all.

Advertising. This site is funded by Google AdSense, which is what keeps it free to use. Google and its partners set cookies and similar identifiers to measure and personalise the ads you see, and they may use your IP address and browsing activity on this site to do so. That is Google collecting data about your visit — it is not us, and it never includes the names you type into the tool, which stay in your browser and are never sent anywhere.

Because advertising cookies are not essential, visitors in the UK and EEA are asked for consent before personalised ads are shown, and you can change or withdraw that choice at any time. You can also review and adjust what Google collects at My Ad Center and read how Google uses this data in its partner sites policy. Ads never appear in Present mode.

This matters in practice for the people who use this tool most: teachers handling class lists of children's names, and team leads handling colleagues' names. Neither should have to think about where that data ends up, because it doesn't go anywhere.

Questions about this page? Go back to the homepage to use the tool.