Privacy
Three things can leave your device on this site: a cookieless record that a page was viewed, a message if you choose to send one, and the wheel itself if you press Share. Two measurement tools run only if you accept them. Nothing goes without you asking for it.
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. Spinning a wheel, editing it and saving it while signed out all happen without a single request leaving the page. The one button that sends a wheel anywhere is Share, and the next answer says exactly what it does.
What happens when you press Share?
Pressing Share stores that wheel on our server — its entries, their weights, the colours and the name you gave it — and hands you a short link to it. That is the only thing on this site that sends a wheel anywhere, and it happens when you press the button, never before. Anyone holding the link can open the wheel, so pass it on the way you would pass on the list itself; the address is eight random characters, so nobody arrives at one by guessing. A shared wheel is never listed anywhere and is kept out of search results, it is stored against your account only if you were signed in when you pressed Share, and it stays stored so the link keeps working — there is no way to take one back yet. To stop the button being used to fill our storage, how many links can be made in a day is counted against a one-way fingerprint of your network address; the address itself is never stored.
What does a live session share?
A live session is the one surface where the draw itself runs on our server, because its rules — one spin each, stock, turn order — only mean something if the counter is not in the spinner's hands. Creating a session stores the wheel and its rules under the host's account. Joining one stores the display name you type and every result you draw, and shows them to the other people in the room exactly as far as the session's rules say — the join screen names the rule before you take a seat. Your seat itself is a random token kept in your browser and sent to nobody else. The host can close or delete a session at any time; deleting it removes the room, every seat and every recorded result.
What is measured about a visit?
Vercel Web Analytics counts every visit. It is cookieless and does not profile you. Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity run only if you accept them: Google Analytics sets cookies, and Clarity replays how a page was used. Whichever are running, the address bar is trimmed of its parameters before anything is recorded — so the wheel that lives there never reaches them — and Clarity masks the names you type before they leave your browser. You can change your answer at any time.
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 becomes public when you publish a wheel?
Publishing is a deliberate act and nothing is published without it. What becomes public is exactly what you typed into the publish form — the wheel’s name, the story, the outcome, the number you gave for the group size — together with the wheel itself and the display name on your account. Your email address is never shown. The page is live and shareable at once, and it is kept out of search results until somebody here has read it; only then is it listed in the gallery. You can edit it, which sends it back to be read again, or take it down at any time from your published wheels, and taking it down removes the page for good.
What happens when you add a picture to a wheel?
Nothing is uploaded. The file you pick is read, resized and re-encoded by this browser, and the result is stored inside the wheel itself — so it goes exactly as far as the wheel does and no further. The re-encode also drops everything the original file carried around the image: no camera model, no date, no location. Positioning the picture on the wheel is arithmetic in this browser too, and it is saved beside it. The one way a picture leaves the device is a way you ask for: pressing Share stores the wheel, picture included, on our server so that the short link can open it, and saving it to an account puts it in that account’s row. The long link in the address bar cannot carry a picture at all, so it leaves it behind.
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.