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Privacy & Accessibility

Wheel Picker is a fair spinning wheel for picking names, chores or winners. It is free, carries no ads, and is made by Sky Wolf Studios.

Where your data goes

Nowhere. The names on the wheel is kept inside this page's own URL # fragment, which is why bookmarking or sharing the link keeps the wheel forever — the only thing ever written to localStorage is your chosen spin length, under the key `wheel.spin`, and the spin history is held in memory alone and disappears when you close the tab.

There is no upload, no server-side processing, no account, and no copy held anywhere we can reach. We could not hand your data to anyone if we were asked for it, because we do not have it.

How to check that for yourself

Turn off Wi-Fi and mobile data, reload and spin — it works, because the whole wheel is in the address bar in front of you. Watch the URL change as you add names: that is the entire storage and sharing mechanism, and there is nothing else. Open DevTools → Network while you spin and you will see no requests at all.

What we do not do

Permissions

The app asks for write-only clipboard access when you tap Copy link — most browsers show no prompt, and the app cannot read your clipboard, and only at the moment you use the feature that needs it. Your browser asks you, not us, and you can refuse — the rest of the app keeps working.

Who else is involved

Tips

The tip jar links out to a checkout page hosted by the payment provider on their own site. We never see or store card details. Tipping changes nothing in the app — every feature is free either way.

Hosting

The app's files are served by Google's Firebase Hosting, which — like any web host — keeps standard, short-lived server logs such as IP addresses, for security and operations. That log records that a browser fetched a page. It cannot record anything you type, because what you type is never sent to the host.

Children

This app is made for adults. It is not directed at children, and it collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.

Accessibility

We aim for WCAG 2.1 AA: labelled fields, keyboard-operable controls that keep their focus when the page redraws, visible focus rings, 44px touch targets that grow with the text-size setting, screen-reader announcements for changes, and colour contrast checked by build-time solver in both light and dark mode. The display panel in the header sets text size, spacing, contrast, reading style and motion, and those settings follow you across all of our apps.

If anything gets in your way, email us and we will fix it: stephenfurpahs@gmail.com.

Changes

If this policy ever changes in a way that affects what happens to your data, the change will appear here and the date below will move.