CuteNick sets no cookies, runs no analytics, shows no ads and has no accounts to sign up for. There is no tracking pixel on this site and nothing here follows you to another one. What the site does keep is small, and this page describes all of it in plain English rather than in the usual boilerplate.
Last updated: 29 July 2026. This page is rewritten when the site’s behaviour changes — the date is not refreshed for cosmetic edits.
The short version
Everything CuteNick holds is in the table below, and none of it identifies you by name. If you only read one section, read this one.
| What | Where it lives | How long |
|---|---|---|
| The name you type into the generator | This site’s database, as a name plus a daily counter | About 35 days, then deleted automatically |
| How often a styled variant was copied | This site’s database, as a number | About 35 days, then deleted automatically |
| Your favourites list | Your own browser only | Until you clear it |
| A short-lived security token | Your own browser tab | Gone when you close the tab |
| Your IP address | Server logs; and briefly, as a one-way hash, to avoid double-counting | Logs rotate daily and are kept about 10 days; the hash expires after 24 hours |
| Cookies | Nowhere — none are set | — |
On a narrow screen the table scrolls sideways — swipe it to reach the last column.
What your browser stores
CuteNick uses two pieces of browser storage and no cookies at all. You can confirm that yourself: open your browser’s developer tools on any page here and look at the cookie list — it is empty.
- A session token, held in
sessionStorage. It lets the generator talk to the site without being abused by bots. It is not an identifier for you, and your browser discards it the moment you close the tab. - Your favourites, held in
localStorage, up to 200 saved nicknames. This list never leaves your device — it is not uploaded, and the site has no way to read it from the server. Clearing your browser’s site data deletes it.
Because nothing here is a tracking cookie, there is no consent banner to click away. That is not a loophole; it is what “no tracking” actually looks like.
What happens to a name you type
When you generate a nickname, the name itself is saved with a counter — no IP address, no visitor identifier, nothing that ties it back to you. The same is true of copy counts in the site’s own database: it records that a variant was copied, not who copied it. (The outbound call described further down is the exception, and it is listed there.)
Those counters are what the “trending names” list on the homepage is built from. So treat the generator like a public box: a name you type may appear, on its own, in a list of popular names.
Those counters are not permanent: a daily job deletes every row older than 35 days, so the popularity data is a rolling window rather than an archive.
Two filters apply, and it is worth being precise about which is which, because they do different jobs:
- On the data sent out for reporting, anything resembling contact details is dropped before it is counted: strings containing an
@, a web address, or a run of six or more digits never leave the site. - On the site’s own counter, the only filter is the blocked-word list. That means a string of digits typed into the generator can be counted and can appear in the trending list, because nothing there is checking for a phone number.
Even so, the honest advice is the obvious one: the generator is for a first name or a nickname, not for your full legal name, your address or anything you would not write on a postcard.
What we do with your IP address
Your IP address is used to stop abuse and to avoid counting the same visitor twice — it is not stored in the site’s own name database in readable form.
Concretely, it is used in three places:
- Rate limiting. The security token that the generator needs is signed with a one-way hash of your IP and a timestamp. The signature is checked, not looked up: there is no table of visitor IPs behind it.
- Counting once per day. To avoid one enthusiastic visitor inflating a name’s popularity, the site stores a one-way hash of (IP + name + day) for 24 hours, then it expires. The hash cannot be reversed into an address.
- Nothing of yours leaves with it if you do not type. Leaving the box empty and taking a random suggestion skips the outbound call entirely — there is no name of yours to send, so nothing you wrote travels alongside your address.
- Server logs. Like every web server, this one writes an access log: IP, time, page requested, browser string and referring page. Those logs are rotated daily and roughly ten days are kept, for security and troubleshooting.
Who else sees anything
Three kinds of third party are involved in serving this site, and each sees a different, limited slice. CuteNick does not sell data to anyone, and there is no advertising network in the picture at all.
- The hosting provider and the CDN in front of the site. Every website has this: to deliver a page to you, the network handling the request necessarily sees your IP address and what you asked for. It is also what blocks attacks.
- The nickname database service. CuteNick’s name records come from a third-party service, and there are two moments when a name and the request’s IP address are sent to it server-side: every time you generate from a name you typed, and every time you copy a styled nickname. Those are the only places where text you produced and an IP address travel together, which is exactly why they are spelled out here rather than buried.
- The font provider. Page fonts are loaded from Google’s font servers, so loading a page tells Google your IP address and basic browser information. No CuteNick data is attached to that request.
Aggregate popularity counts — a name, a number and a week, with no IP and no identifier — are also sent to a private reporting service used by the site’s operator to decide what to write about next.
If you want the specific companies named rather than described by category, ask at the address on the contact page and you will be told.
If you email us
An email to CuteNick is kept for as long as it takes to deal with it, and it is not added to any list. There is no newsletter here, so writing in cannot subscribe you to anything, and your address is never sold or shared.
Replies go to the address you wrote from. If you asked for something to be removed, enough of the request is kept to prove it was handled and to recognise the same request if it arrives twice.
Children
CuteNick is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them. That said, the site is realistic about who looks for cute usernames, so the design is deliberately defensive: no account, no profile, no uploads, no comments, no messaging between visitors.
The advice for a younger reader is the same as for anyone: type a first name or a made-up word into the generator, never your full name, school, address or phone number. If a parent or guardian believes a child has entered personal information, write to us and it will be removed.
Your rights, honestly assessed
If you are in the UK, the EU or a similar jurisdiction, you have rights to access, correct, delete and object to the use of your personal data — but the useful answer here is that CuteNick usually cannot connect any of it to you.
A request to “send me all data you hold about me” runs into a real limitation: what the site stores is a name and a number, with no identifier attached, so there is no way to prove which rows, if any, are yours. Rather than guess, we say so plainly. What we can do:
- Remove a specific nickname from the site’s lists, on request, with no reason required.
- Correct anything factually wrong on a page.
- Delete an email exchange with you, on request.
The legal basis for the small amount of processing described above is legitimate interests: keeping the site available and secure, and understanding which names people look for so the right pages get written. If you disagree with that assessment, you are entitled to complain to your local data protection authority, and you do not need our permission to do so.
Who is responsible
CuteNick is an independent project run by a private individual, not a registered company, and email is the channel of record for anything on this page. Write to the address published on the Contact CuteNick page — privacy requests are opened before anything else.
How the site is edited, checked and sourced is described on the About page. If you would rather skip all of this and use the tool, CuteNick asks you for nothing but a name you feel like typing.