Privacy
NameFew shows no ads, runs no analytics scripts and doesn't sell data. This is a plain list of what it keeps and who else sees any of it.
If you just look around
- A random player ID in a cookie (
nf2, one year). It isn't linked to your name or email. It keeps your game record and stops duplicate answers. - A scrambled (hashed) form of your IP address, used to limit abuse.
- What you do: the names you appraise or compare, your taps, and your game and daily answers, tied to the random ID.
- AI opinion: when one is shown, the name you appraised (and public comparable sales) goes to Anthropic, the language-model provider, to write the opinion. Nothing about you goes with it.
If you sign in with Google
Signing in is optional. You need it to judge names, request human appraisals, watch a name or list a name for sale.
- From Google we get your name, your email address and Google's account ID for you. Google also sends a link to your profile picture. We keep the link and show the picture, loaded straight from Google, in your own account menu. Nobody else sees it.
- Google's sign-in script loads on the pages where you can sign in, so Google can see you visited them.
- We keep the above, your settings, your notifications, the names you watch or request, and your judging record (your answers and a score for how well you rank names with known prices).
- Your name isn't shown to other users. Appraisers appear only as numbers.
Checks against fake accounts
A human appraisal only means something if one person is one account, so we run some checks.
- At sign-in your IP address, browser type and language go to IPQualityScore, a fraud-checking service, and we keep the risk score it returns.
- We keep a device hash (a scrambled value made from your browser type, screen size, time zone, language and platform) and hashed IP addresses, and use them to notice when several accounts come from the same place.
NameFew sends three kinds of email: "your human appraisal is complete" for a name you watch, "someone is interested in buying your name" if you've listed one, and "you have a new message" when someone writes to you in a conversation about a name (at most one every six hours per conversation, and it never contains the message itself). They go through Mailgun, which handles your address and the message. Each has an unsubscribe link, and you can switch email off in your account.
For sale and inquiries
A listing (the name, your asking price and your note) is public. Your email isn't. When someone sends an inquiry about your name, we pass their message and email address to you so you can reply. When you send one, the owner gets your message and your email address. NameFew only passes the message along. After the first message, the conversation (messages, offers and replies) is kept in the site for both of you to read, until either of you deletes their account.
Feedback
If you send feedback, we keep the message, plus a contact detail if you type one. The operator reads it.
Deleting your account
"Delete my account" on your account page removes your sign-in, email, settings, notifications, watches, requests, listings, logos you uploaded or made, and inquiries. Your judging answers stay without any link back to you, because deleting them would change human appraisals other people are looking at.
Operator: B Klug (NamePros member b-klug). Questions: send a message there or use the feedback form.
Version 2 replaced the 2020 NameFew site, which also used Google sign-in. Data from the 2020 site is held privately by the operator and isn't shown or used here.