Updated 5 June 2025
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy explains how we use any personal information that you provide to us through our Wheel of Names.
We use encryption to protect your information. Our database automatically encrypts all data before it is written to disk.
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, Wheel of Names is a Data Controller of your personal information. Our legal basis for collecting and using your personal information depends on the information we collect and the specific context in which we collect it. We may process your personal information because:
We may also collect personal information that you give us during your communication with us regarding our services, such as technical support threads. In addition, we may need to use your personal information for audits and compliance with our legal obligations under applicable law.
We also use third-party tools to facilitate, operate and manage our website. These tools use cookies and other tracking technologies. Such tools are created and managed by parties outside our control. As such, Wheel of Names is not responsible for what information is actually captured by such third parties or how such third parties use and protect that information.
This Site is affiliated with Publisher First, Inc. dba Freestar ("Freestar") for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Freestar will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Freestar's data usage, please visit the Freestar website.
You have the following data protection rights:
In addition, if you are a California resident, you have the right to request from us to disclose to you: the categories of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources from which it is collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling it, the categories of third parties with whom we share it, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
You may submit your requests to exercise your rights under the GDPR and CCPA by contacting us:
Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your personal information.
| Activity | Data Collected | Processor | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visit the website | Time of visit, browser type, location (city-level), internet service provider, ads you may have seen or clicked recently | Advertisers' systems. Many of our ads are Google ads. You can adjust or turn off ad personalization in Google Ad Settings. | Per advertiser policy |
| Visit the website | Time of visit, browser type, location (city-level), internet service provider. We only track how many people visited from each city, not who visited. Your IP address is anonymized before being sent to Google Analytics. | Google Analytics | 14 months after being collected |