Privacy Policy

NickStylish has no accounts, sets no cookies, and runs no analytics or advertising scripts. What it does do is send the name you type to the service that builds the styled versions, and keep a few counters so the trending list reflects real use. This page says exactly what that means, in the order it happens.

Last checked: 12 August 2026.

The short version

• You never sign in, so there is no profile of you to build.
• This site sets no cookies of its own, and loads no third-party scripts — no analytics, no advertising, no social widgets.
• The name you type leaves the site so it can be styled and matched with emoji. That is the main thing to know.
• The counters we keep hold no identifier — a row records a name and a number, never who asked for it.
• Counts are deleted after 35 days by a job that runs every day.

What happens when you generate a name

The moment you press generate, the text you typed is sent to the licensed name service that registers the name and returns the styled results. Your IP address is sent with that request, because the service uses it for its own rate limiting. The same text also goes to a translation service, which turns it into a keyword so that a third service can suggest emoji that suit it.

On this site itself, one row is added: the name, the day, and a counter. That row is what the trending list is built from, and it contains nothing about the person who triggered it.

Once a week, the totals — a name, an optional context such as a game, and how many sessions and generations it saw — are sent to the service we use to decide what to write about next. No address, no identifier and no individual event goes with them, only the totals.

We describe these services by what they do rather than naming their hosts, because publishing supplier hostnames invites abuse of them. If you want the specific names, ask us and we will tell you.

What happens when you share a nickname

Sharing is optional and nothing is shared unless you type it into the box and submit it. When you do, the nickname text and your IP address go to the same licensed name service, which stores the address alongside the submission.

That address is never displayed. Our code removes it from the response before the list of shared nicknames reaches any browser, so other visitors see the nickname and the date and nothing else. If you want a nickname you submitted taken down, email us and say which one — see the contact page.

Please do not put your real name, phone number, email address or anything else private into a nickname or into the feedback box. Those boxes are for decorated text, and anything you type into them is stored as you typed it.

What this site stores, and for how long

Everything below lives in this site’s own database unless the table says otherwise. None of these rows carries a name, an email address or an account.

Those anti-abuse markers deserve a note, because they are the only place your IP address touches our own storage. It is never written down as an address. It is combined with the day and the thing you did, run through a one-way hash, and the result is used as a short-lived key — enough to notice that the same visitor already voted on this page today, and useless for anything else. When the key expires, nothing remains.

Cookies, and what your browser keeps

This site sets no cookies. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to; you can check that in your browser’s developer tools on any page here.

Two things are stored by your own browser, on your own device, and are never sent to us:

• Your saved favourites — the names you tapped the heart on, so they survive a reload.
• A short-lived access token that lets the page talk to the tool without asking for a new one on every click.

Clearing site data for nickstylish.com in your browser removes both, immediately and completely.

The typefaces are served from this domain rather than from a font network. That matters more than it sounds: a hosted font is fetched by your browser, which hands the font provider your IP address and browser details on every page view, whether or not you interact with anything. Here there is no such request to make.

What we do not do

• No analytics. There is no measurement script on any page.
• No third-party assets. Every script, stylesheet and font a page loads is served from this domain.
• No advertising and no ad cookies. Nothing here is sold or promoted for a fee.
• No selling or sharing of data with anyone beyond the services described above, which exist only to make the tool work.
• No email collection. There is no newsletter and no sign-up form.
• No comments. Commenting is switched off across the whole site, so nothing can be posted here and no comment data is collected.
• No profiling. Nothing we keep can be assembled into a history of one person, because nothing we keep identifies a person to begin with.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13 and has nothing for them to sign up to. We do not knowingly collect information from children, and in practice we hold nothing that identifies any visitor of any age. If you believe a child has submitted something identifying — inside a shared nickname, for example — email us and we will remove it.

Your choices, and how to use them

Because we hold no record tied to you, most of the usual requests have nothing to act on: there is no account to access, no profile to correct and no history to export. What we can genuinely do:

• Remove a nickname you shared, along with the address recorded with it.
• Remove a note you left in the “was this helpful?” box.
• Tell you the specific services your request passed through, if you want them named.
• Answer any question about what is described here, in writing.

Write to contact@nickstylish.com. We answer within five working days, and requests of this kind are handled first. You do not have to prove who you are for a removal request — tell us which nickname or note it is, and that is enough.

Changes to this policy

When what the site does changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves. We do not backdate it, and we do not quietly rewrite what was here before: if something material changes, it will be said plainly rather than folded into a longer paragraph.

How the tool itself works, and who runs it, is set out on the page about the team behind the tool. The maker is on the NickStylish home page.