Privacy
Two things can leave your device on this site: a cookieless record that a page was viewed, and a message if you choose to send one. The names on your wheel are not one of them.
Where is the draw made?
In your browser. The wheel, the weights and the random source all run on this device, so the entries you type are never sent anywhere to be drawn from. They travel in the address bar instead, which is what makes a wheel shareable — and it means sharing the link is your decision, because the entries go with it.
What is measured about a visit?
Visits are counted with Plausible, Vercel Web Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights. All three are cookieless, none of them profiles you, and the query string is stripped before any address is recorded — so the wheel that lives in the address bar never reaches them.
What does an account store?
An account is optional and stores three things: the address you signed up with, the name you gave, and the language you signed up in, so our emails arrive in it. No spin is recorded against it. Deleting the account on the account page removes all of it immediately.
Where are saved wheels kept?
It depends on whether you are signed in, and the strip above the entry list says which one applies. Signed out, a saved wheel is held in this browser’s own storage and never sent anywhere. Signed in, it is stored on our server against your account so it is there on every device, and what is stored is the wheel you saved and nothing else. Forgetting a wheel, or deleting the account, removes it immediately.
What happens to a message you send?
A message sent through the contact page is stored in a private repository on GitHub, a service operated in the United States, where the people maintaining this tool work through it. The text you write and the email address you supply are both stored there, and neither is published. Messages are kept for as long as that repository exists. If you would rather not use the form, write to the address on the imprint page instead.
What is stored on your device?
A service worker caches the pages you have opened so the wheel keeps working without a connection, and your light or dark preference, your sound settings and any wheels you saved while signed out are remembered locally. All of it stays on the device and is cleared with the site’s data in your browser settings.