Privacy
This page is provisional, gated on publication. We're stating our intended practice plainly below, but it hasn't been through formal legal review yet — treat it as our honest current commitment, not a finished legal document.
What a submission licenses
When you submit a name through the form on this site, you're licensing us to publish the name mapping only — the formal name and what it's known as. We never publish:
- Your story or any personal detail in it.
- Third-party personal details (anyone else named in your submission).
- Your email address, or any way to identify who submitted it.
What we store
We don't store raw personal identifiers. Submissions are keyed by a salted, one-way fingerprint derived from the name pair you gave us — it lets us rate-limit and de-duplicate submissions without ever storing or reconstructing who sent them.
How community entries get published
A submitted alias is not published on receipt. It publishes only after:
- at least 3 independent reports of the same mapping,
- across at least 21 days (so one person retyping the same thing three times doesn't count),
and even then it's labelled 🗣 reported — unverified — until a written source corroborates it. Every published community entry is one-click reportable and removable: if you see your family's name used in a way you didn't intend, tell us and we take it down while we sort it out.
Surname submissions
The surname-suffix decoder does not currently accept submissions. That intake is closed pending legal advice — surname claims touch family and regional identity in ways we want proper guidance on before opening it up.
Questions or a takedown request
Use the submission form's story field, or the escalation note it includes — a human reviews every message.