NAME COURT PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: 28 September 2026
1. Who we are
Name Court is operated by T HAMMETT, trading as Name Court.
In this Privacy Policy, “Name Court”, “we”, “us” and “our” mean the person or business responsible for deciding how your personal information is used.
For privacy questions, requests or complaints, contact us at: privacy@namecourtai.com
Name Court is the data controller for the personal information described in this policy.
2. What this policy covers
This policy explains what personal information Name Court processes when you use our website and naming service, why we use it, how long we keep it, who may process it for us, and the choices and rights available to you.
Name Court uses artificial intelligence to conduct an interactive naming hearing and produce a verdict. The AI output is generated from the name, category and information you provide during the hearing.
Name Court does not require an account to use the free naming service.
3. Information you provide during a Name Court hearing
When you put a name on trial, you may provide:
the name being considered; the type of thing you are naming; your answers during the hearing; and any Final Submission you choose to make.
We use this information to conduct the hearing and generate the Judge's responses and final verdict.
During an ordinary case, the hearing is stored in your browser tab so that the case can function and recover if the page is refreshed. Name Court does not ordinarily save your full hearing transcript in its application database.
Your case information is, however, transmitted to the AI and infrastructure services required to generate the Judge's responses and verdict.
Please do not enter information that you do not want processed for this purpose. In particular, Name Court does not need payment-card information, passwords, government identification numbers, medical records or other highly sensitive personal information.
4. Artificial intelligence
Name Court uses third-party technology providers to provide its AI functionality and hosting infrastructure.
At present, the Judge operates through Lovable's AI Gateway, using an OpenAI model. Case information needed to generate a response is sent through that infrastructure.
Name Court does not use hearing content to create advertising profiles or make decisions about you with legal or similarly significant effects.
The Judge's verdict is an AI-generated opinion about a name. It is intended to help you think about a naming decision. You remain responsible for any decision you make.
Our technology providers may process technical and service information as described in their own terms and privacy documentation. Lovable states that its arrangements with third-party AI providers restrict their training and retention of customer data.
5. Sharing a verdict
If you choose to share from Name Court, we create an unlisted public link. The information included depends on the outcome of the case.
If the ruling is KEEP IT, the public share may contain the name, naming category, ruling, ruling line, verdict body and closing line.
For every other outcome, including KEEP IT, WITH RESERVATIONS, PROCEED WITH CAUTION, RECONSIDER, GUILTY and NAME COURT JAIL, Name Court creates an anonymous challenge card. The shared record contains only the outcome needed to display that challenge. It does not store or publish the name, category, case-specific ruling line, verdict body, closing line, hearing transcript or Final Submission.
Anyone who obtains a share link can view it. Share links use hard-to-guess identifiers, are not publicly listed by Name Court and are marked not for search-engine indexing.
We keep shared records until they are deleted by us, you ask us to remove an applicable share, or we no longer need to provide the sharing feature. Copies may remain temporarily in platform backups after deletion.
6. Court Clerk waitlist
If you ask us to notify you when Court Clerk reports become available, we collect the email address you provide.
We use it only for the notification you requested. We do not add that email address to a general marketing mailing list unless you separately choose to join one in future.
Our lawful basis for this use is your consent. You may withdraw that consent at any time by contacting us.
Waitlist email addresses are currently retained until they are deleted by us or you ask us to remove yours.
7. Reporting a problem
Name Court includes a Report a problem feature.
If you report a technical problem, we may receive limited technical information needed to understand where the service failed. The technical report is designed not to include your hearing text automatically.
If you report The Judge or verdict, the report includes the user-visible case information needed for us to investigate what happened. This can include the name you entered, your hearing transcript, any Final Submission and the verdict. We tell you this before you submit the report.
We use problem reports to investigate faults, improve the service, monitor the Judge's behaviour and address safety or quality problems.
Case-containing problem reports are intended to be kept for approximately 90 days, unless we reasonably need to keep a particular report longer while investigating an unresolved issue. Deletion currently requires a manual process.
8. Analytics
Name Court uses limited first-party analytics to understand how the service is used and where people stop or continue through the naming process. We do not use advertising trackers or build profiles of individual visitors. Our analytics can record events such as:
landing-page viewing, category selection, starting a case, reaching a verdict and visiting the Court Clerk.
Where used, a random identifier exists only for the browser tab/session. It is not linked to your name, email address, IP address or a persistent account. We use analytics only to produce statistics and improve Name Court.
You can turn anonymous analytics off at any time using the Analytics settings link in the site footer.
9. Browser storage
Name Court uses limited browser storage, including sessionStorage and localStorage.
We use session storage for the active naming case so that the hearing can operate and, where possible, recover during the browser-tab session. This information is temporary and is not intended to persist as a long-term user profile.
We also currently use tab-scoped storage for limited first-party analytics as described above.
We also use localStorage to remember your analytics preference so that, if you turn analytics off, that choice can continue after you close the browser tab.
We do not currently use advertising cookies or third-party behavioural advertising trackers.
10. Security and abuse prevention
We use technical security measures to protect Name Court and prevent automated abuse.
These measures include rate limiting of AI requests. For this purpose, the service temporarily converts a visitor's network address into a one-way pseudonymised security key.
We do not store the raw IP address in Name Court's rate-limit database.
Rate-limit information is used only for security and availability. Each rate-limit counter has an expiry time, and expired records are automatically pruned during subsequent protected requests.
11. Other technical information
Our hosting and infrastructure providers may process technical information needed to operate, secure and troubleshoot the service, such as network information, request logs, timestamps and error information. Those providers process information under their own contractual, security and privacy arrangements. Name Court does not use this technical information for behavioural advertising.
12. Who processes information for us
We use specialist technology providers to operate Name Court.
These currently include Lovable for application hosting, backend infrastructure and AI Gateway services; infrastructure providers used by Lovable, including database/cloud infrastructure; and third-party AI model providers used through the AI Gateway, currently including OpenAI for the Judge.
These providers may use further subprocessors where necessary to provide their services. Lovable describes itself as processing published-app customer personal data on behalf of the customer and maintains information about its subprocessors and data-processing arrangements.
We may also disclose information where required by law, to protect our legal rights, or where reasonably necessary to investigate fraud, security incidents or misuse. We do not sell your personal information.
13. International processing
Some of the technology providers used to operate Name Court may process information outside the United Kingdom, including in the United States.
Name Court uses Lovable Cloud and Lovable’s AI Gateway. Lovable supports regional cloud hosting, but data sent through its infrastructure and AI services may also be processed by infrastructure or AI providers in other countries.
Where UK data-protection law requires safeguards for an international transfer, our providers state that they use recognised transfer mechanisms, including adequacy arrangements where applicable and approved contractual safeguards such as the UK International Data Transfer Addendum. We keep the providers and transfer arrangements used by Name Court under review.
You can contact us at privacy@namecourtai.com if you would like more information about the safeguards used for international transfers.
14. Why we use personal information
We rely on different lawful bases depending on what we are doing.
For operating the free Name Court service, handling security, providing deliberately requested Share links, investigating faults and improving the service, we rely principally on our legitimate interests in providing, protecting and improving Name Court, where those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.
For the Court Clerk notification waitlist, we rely on consent.
Where processing is necessary to perform a contract with you, including any paid services introduced in future, we may rely on performance of a contract.
We will update this policy before introducing materially different uses of personal information.
15. How long we keep information
We aim not to keep personal information for longer than we need it. Ordinary hearing state is temporary browser-session information and is not ordinarily stored as a full transcript in our application database. Court Clerk waitlist email addresses are retained while we need them to provide the notification requested, unless you ask us to remove yours sooner. Shared verdicts are retained while the sharing feature remains active or until they are removed.
Case-containing problem reports are intended to be deleted after approximately 90 days unless an unresolved investigation reasonably requires longer retention. Pseudonymised rate-limit information expires automatically over short security windows.
Analytics information will be retained only for the period reasonably needed to produce and understand aggregate service statistics. Session-level analytics information is retained for no more than 30 days. After that, it is deleted. We may keep aggregate statistics that no longer identify an individual browser session for longer so that we can understand trends and improve Name Court.
Information deleted from the active database may remain temporarily in managed backups until those backups expire. The exact platform backup-retention period is controlled by the hosting provider.
16. Your data-protection rights
Depending on the circumstances and lawful basis, UK data-protection law may give you rights including access to your personal information, correction of inaccurate information, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability and objection to certain processing.
Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal does not make earlier processing unlawful. The ICO requires privacy information to explain relevant rights, retention and recipients.
You have the right to object to processing based on our legitimate interests.
To exercise a privacy right, contact: privacy@namecourtai.com
We may need enough information to identify the relevant record. Because Name Court does not use user accounts and deliberately stores little identifying information, there may be cases where we cannot link an anonymous record to you unless you can provide information such as the relevant share link or report details.
17. Children
Name Court is not specifically designed or marketed as a service for children. We do not ask users to provide their age, and we do not use age information to profile visitors.
Name Court has been designed to collect and retain as little personal information as reasonably possible. We do not use behavioural advertising, create persistent user profiles or require an account to use the free naming service.
If we become aware that personal information relating to a child has been provided in circumstances where it should not have been collected or retained, we will take appropriate steps to remove it.
We keep the way Name Court is used under review. If evidence shows that the service is being accessed by children in significant numbers, we will review the protections and age-appropriate measures we apply.
18. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as Name Court changes.
If we make a material change to how we use personal information, we will update this notice and, where appropriate, draw the change to users' attention before the new processing begins.
19. Questions and complaints
If you have a question or complaint about how Name Court handles personal information, please contact us first at: privacy@namecourtai.com
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK data-protection regulator.
The ICO provides information and complaint services at ico.org.uk and its public helpline is currently 0303 123 1113.