Cookie Policy
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep, so that something can be remembered between requests. This page says exactly which cookies you can expect on BestNameIdeas, who sets them, what they are for, and how to refuse them. It is part of the Privacy Policy.
Cookies we set
One, for audience measurement. The site has no accounts to keep you logged into, no cart and no preferences to remember, so the only cookie we set ourselves is the Google Analytics one that tells a returning visit from a new one. The generators run in your browser and store nothing: reload the page and every trace of what you generated is gone.
Cookies set by others
Two kinds of third-party cookie can appear on a page here.
- Security and delivery cookies from the content delivery provider that serves the site. These tell automated abuse apart from real visitors and keep the site reachable. They are strictly necessary, they carry no advertising identifier, and the site does not work properly without them.
- Advertising cookies from advertising vendors, including Google and its partners. These are used to select which advertisements to show, to limit how many times you see the same one, and to measure whether an advertisement worked. They are not strictly necessary, and where the law requires it they are set only after you consent.
How to control cookies
Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies, either for all sites or site by site, usually under a privacy or security settings menu. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of the site from loading. Blocking advertising cookies does not.
You can also switch off personalised advertising at the source: Google offers an Ads Settings page that controls personalisation across the sites it serves, and the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Network Advertising Initiative run pages that let you opt out of many vendors at once. Those opt-outs are themselves stored in your browser, so they are lost if you clear your cookies or switch device.
For the audience measurement cookie specifically, Google publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics on every site at once, and blocking or deleting cookies for this site alone has the same effect here. Nothing on the site stops working if you do.
Where a consent banner is shown, it is the fastest control available: refuse, and the non-essential cookies are never set.
Do Not Track
Browsers can send a Do Not Track signal, but there is no agreed standard for how a site should answer it, so most sites ignore it. We build no profile of you and never try to identify you personally, so the signal makes little practical difference to what we do. If you would rather not be counted at all, the controls described in the section above switch the measurement cookie off.
Changes and questions
If a provider is added or removed, this page is updated to match. Questions about anything on it go to contact@bestnameideas.com.