Cookie Policy

Last updated: August 7, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies and similar technologies are used on luckynamepicker.com (the “Website”), why they are used, and how you can control them. It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.

What Is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your device. When you return, the site can read that file back. Cookies are what let a site remember that you muted the sound, or let an advertiser avoid showing you the same ad ten times in a row.

Alongside cookies, this Website and its partners may use related technologies that work in a similar way, including pixels and web beacons (tiny invisible images that report that a page or ad was loaded), tags and scripts, local storage, and advertising identifiers. Throughout this policy, “cookies” covers all of these.

First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are set by luckynamepicker.com itself. Third-party cookies are set by other companies whose services appear on our pages, such as our analytics provider and our advertising partners. We can control our own cookies; we cannot control what third parties do with theirs, which is why this policy links to their own opt-out tools.

The Categories We Use

1. Strictly Necessary

These make the Website work. They handle security, spam protection, load balancing, and remembering your cookie consent choice so you are not asked on every page. They do not track you across other sites and cannot be switched off, because without them the site would not function.

Typical lifespan: session to 12 months.

2. Preference

These remember small choices you have made, such as whether the wheel’s sound effects are muted or which theme you last used. They exist purely to make the site less annoying on your next visit.

Typical lifespan: session to 12 months.

3. Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to see, in aggregate, which wheels people use, which pages they arrive on, and where visitors come from. This tells us which tools deserve more work and which pages are confusing. We do not use analytics to identify individuals.

Set by: Google LLC. Typical lifespan: up to 24 months. Google Privacy Policy · Analytics opt-out add-on

4. Advertising

Advertising cookies are placed by our advertising partners and the ad exchanges they work with. They are used to decide which ad to show, to cap how often you see the same one, to detect click fraud, to measure whether an ad worked, and — where permitted — to build interest segments used for personalized advertising.

These are the cookies most people mean when they talk about being “tracked”, so they are the ones our consent notice asks about, and the ones you can most usefully turn off.

Set by: our advertising partners and their vendors. Typical lifespan: 30 days to 24 months.

Rejecting Cookies Does Not Remove Ads

This trips a lot of people up, so it is worth stating plainly: opting out of advertising cookies does not make the ads disappear. The Website is funded by advertising and ads will still be shown. What changes is that they become non-personalized — chosen from general context rather than from any profile of your interests.

How to Control Cookies

On this Website

Where the law in your region requires consent before non-essential cookies are set, a consent notice supplied by our advertising partner is presented on your first visit. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time by reopening that notice, or by clearing this site’s cookies in your browser so that it appears again.

Wherever you are, and whether or not a notice is shown to you, the browser controls and industry opt-out tools below always work and are entirely under your control.

In your browser

Every major browser lets you block cookies, delete existing ones, block third-party cookies specifically, or clear everything when you close the window. The settings live under Privacy or Security:

Blocking all cookies will not stop our wheels from spinning, but it may reset your preferences on every visit.

Industry opt-out tools

These let you opt out of interest-based advertising across many companies at once:

Note that these opt-outs are themselves stored in a cookie, so clearing your cookies will also clear the opt-out and you will need to set it again.

Global Privacy Control

Some browsers and extensions can send a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal automatically. Where the law requires it, we and our partners treat that signal as a valid opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal information for advertising.

Do Not Track

Browsers can send a “Do Not Track” header, but the advertising industry never agreed on what it should mean and no common standard exists. We therefore do not respond to DNT headers. We do honour the GPC signal described above, which does have legal standing in several US states.

Changes to This Policy

We will update this page whenever the cookies used on the Website change materially. The “Last updated” date at the top always reflects the current version.

Questions

Email contact@luckynamepicker.com and we will explain anything on this page in plain English.