NAME COURT TERMS OF USE
Last updated: 28 September 2026
1. Who we are
Name Court is operated by T HAMMETT, trading as Name Court.
Contact: privacy@namecourtai.com
These Terms of Use govern your use of the Name Court website and its free naming service.
By using Name Court, you agree to these Terms.
2. What Name Court does
Name Court is an AI-powered naming service that lets you put a proposed name “on trial”.
The Judge asks questions about the name and the job you want it to perform, considers the information you provide and produces an AI-generated verdict.
The courtroom language, Judge, rulings and Name Court Jail are part of the presentation of the service. Name Court is not a court, regulator, professional adviser or official approval body.
3. AI-generated outputs
The Judge uses artificial intelligence.
AI-generated responses can be inaccurate, incomplete, inconsistent, unexpected or inappropriate. Different hearings about the same name may produce different questions, reasoning or outcomes.
A verdict represents an AI-generated assessment of a name based on the information supplied during that case. It does not establish a fact about a person, business, product or organisation.
You should use your own judgement before acting on any Name Court output.
4. Naming decisions remain your responsibility
Name Court is intended to help you think more critically about a naming decision. It does not make that decision for you.
A KEEP IT verdict does not mean that a name:
is legally available to use;
is available as a company, business, domain or social-media name;
can be registered as a trade mark;
does not infringe somebody else's intellectual-property or other rights;
has passed regulatory or professional checks;
is commercially successful, safe or suitable for every audience; or
is guaranteed to avoid offence, misunderstanding or negative associations.
Similarly, a negative verdict does not mean that you are legally or practically prevented from using the name.
Where appropriate, you should carry out your own searches and obtain relevant professional advice before committing money or making an important decision.
Government guidance itself recommends checking company-name and trade-mark availability rather than assuming that a chosen business name is clear to use.
5. Name Court is not professional advice
Name Court does not provide legal, trade-mark, financial, investment, medical, regulatory or other professional advice.
In particular, nothing generated by the Judge should be treated as:
a legal clearance search, trade-mark opinion, professional brand clearance, medical assessment, regulatory approval, investment recommendation or guarantee about future commercial performance.
If a naming decision carries significant legal, financial, safety or regulatory consequences, obtain appropriate professional advice.
6. The name is on trial, not the person
Name Court is designed to assess names and naming decisions, not the worth, character, appearance or legitimacy of the people who carry them. You must not use Name Court to harass, bully, threaten, humiliate, intimidate or target another person. You must not use the service to manufacture or distribute attacks against a real person, including by disguising that person as a product, pet, business or another category. Personal insults or grievances about somebody are not legitimate evidence about whether their name works.
7. Acceptable use
You must not use Name Court to:
commit, encourage or facilitate unlawful activity;
harass, threaten, bully, stalk, defame or deliberately humiliate another person;
promote hatred or unlawful discrimination;
sexually exploit, sexualise or endanger a child;
encourage or assist serious self-harm or suicide;
impersonate another person or organisation deceptively;
facilitate fraud, phishing, scams or other deception;
expose private or highly sensitive information about somebody without an appropriate lawful reason;
attempt to generate malicious code or interfere with the security or operation of the service;
bypass or defeat rate limits, safety controls or other technical protections;
use automated systems to abuse, overload or scrape the service without permission;
forge or manipulate Name Court share links or present fabricated material as an authentic Judge verdict; or
attempt to obtain private credentials, hidden security information or other information that you are not authorised to access.
Testing a provocative, unusual or controversial name is not by itself prohibited. The important distinction is between putting the name on trial and using Name Court as a tool to harm somebody.
8. Information you provide
You are responsible for the information you choose to give Name Court.
Please do not provide information that is unnecessary for the naming decision, particularly passwords, payment-card information, government identification numbers, medical records or other highly sensitive information.
You must not provide personal information about another person where doing so would be unlawful.
Our handling of personal information is explained separately in our Privacy Policy.
9. Sharing from Name Court
Name Court allows certain outcomes to be shared through public links.
A straightforward KEEP IT verdict may be shared as a named verdict containing the name, category and selected Judge output.
All other outcomes are shared only as anonymous Name Court challenge cards. Those challenge shares do not publish the name, category or case-specific Judge prose.
Before creating a named public share, make sure that you are comfortable making the name and verdict public and that doing so does not infringe somebody else's privacy, rights or legitimate interests.
Do not use a Name Court share link to target, harass or expose another person.
Anyone who obtains a public share link may be able to view and redistribute it.
10. Removal of shared content
We may remove, disable or restrict access to a shared Name Court link where we reasonably believe this is necessary because of:
unlawful content or activity; harassment or abuse; infringement of another person's rights; privacy or safety concerns; manipulation or forgery; security risks; breach of these Terms; or a legal or regulatory obligation.
We may also remove old share links as part of operating or changing the service.
Name Court does not guarantee that any public share link will remain available permanently.
If you believe a shared Name Court page is unlawful, abusive or infringes your rights, contact us at privacy@namecourtai.com and provide the share link and enough information for us to investigate.
11. Safety reports
We may investigate reports that Name Court is being used to facilitate unlawful activity, harassment, threats, fraud, exploitation or other serious harm.
Where appropriate, we may prevent access to content, remove a share link, restrict use of the service or take other proportionate action.
Where the law requires us to preserve information, provide information to an authority or take another particular action, we may do so.
Reporting content does not guarantee a particular outcome, but we will consider reports in good faith and in accordance with our legal obligations.
12. Service availability and changes
Name Court is an evolving service.
We may change, improve, suspend or discontinue features where reasonably necessary, including for maintenance, security, safety, legal, technical or commercial reasons.
We do not promise that Name Court will always be available, uninterrupted or error-free.
We may temporarily place the service in recess where necessary to protect the service, users or our systems.
We will try not to make changes that unfairly remove rights that have already arisen under these Terms.
13. Intellectual property
The Name Court name, branding, visual design, site content and other material created for the service are owned by us or used with permission from the relevant rights holder.
You may not copy or use Name Court branding in a way that falsely suggests that you operate, represent or are endorsed by Name Court.
You retain whatever rights you have in information that you submit to the service.
You give us permission to process that information only as reasonably necessary to operate the service, generate your hearing and verdict, provide sharing where you request it, investigate reports, maintain security and otherwise operate Name Court in accordance with these Terms and our Privacy Policy.
Subject to these Terms and applicable law, you may use and share the AI-generated output you receive from Name Court.
We do not guarantee that AI-generated output is unique, capable of copyright protection or free from similarity to material generated for somebody else.
14. Third-party services
Name Court relies on third-party technology and infrastructure providers, including AI services.
We are not responsible for websites or services that are merely linked from Name Court and are operated independently by third parties.
Our Privacy Policy explains more about technology providers that process information on our behalf.
15. Liability
Name Court is a free AI-assisted naming tool. Its outputs are opinions and may be inaccurate, incomplete or unsuitable for your particular circumstances.
You remain responsible for decisions you make using Name Court, including decisions to adopt, register, promote or spend money on a name. Name Court does not guarantee legal availability, trade-mark availability, domain or social-media availability, commercial success or suitability for any particular purpose.
We are not responsible for losses arising solely because you chose to rely on a Name Court verdict as if it were professional advice, legal clearance, factual verification or a guarantee.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
Nothing in these Terms affects any statutory rights that you have and which cannot lawfully be excluded.
16. Future paid services
The current Name Court naming hearing is offered without requiring payment.
If we introduce paid services, including paid Court Clerk reports, additional terms, prices, cancellation information and other information may apply.
Those terms will be shown before a user commits to pay.
17. Restricting misuse
Where we reasonably believe that somebody is abusing Name Court, attempting to defeat its protections, creating security or financial risk, or seriously breaching these Terms, we may restrict or block their access to the service.
We may do so without advance notice where immediate action is reasonably necessary for security, safety or legal reasons.
18. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms as Name Court changes or as legal or regulatory requirements develop.
The latest version will show its effective date.
Where a change is material, we will take reasonable steps to draw attention to it.
Changes apply to future use of Name Court from the date they take effect and will not retrospectively remove rights that have already arisen.
19. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales.
If you are a consumer living elsewhere, this does not deprive you of mandatory protections or rights to bring proceedings in the courts available to you under applicable law.
20. Contact
Questions about these Terms, reports about public share links or other concerns about Name Court can currently be sent to: