Animal Generator · Website policies
Privacy Policy
A clear explanation of what stays in your browser, what our service providers receive, and what happens when you contact us.
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1. About this policy
This policy explains how Animal Generator at animal-generator.net handles information. “We” refers to the operator of this website. The generator is free to use and does not require an account.
This policy covers this website, including its generator, reference pages and contact page. Other websites linked here have their own privacy practices.
2. Your animal picks and browser storage
Animal selection and filtering happen in your browser using the site’s animal catalog. We do not operate an account database or an API that receives your filter selections or saved pick history.
The generator saves the scientific names of previously picked animals in your browser’s local storage, under fieldnote-seen-animals. This helps prioritize animals you have not seen before. The record changes as you generate animals and new rounds begin. It is not linked to an account or synchronized between devices.
Local storage has no automatic expiry set by this site. You can remove the record by clearing site data for animal-generator.net in your browser settings. The generator still works if storage is blocked, but it may repeat animals across visits.
Sharing a result. When you press Share, the generator sends the animal name and a link identifying that animal to your device’s share feature, or copies the link to your clipboard. Your full pick history and filter selections are not included. Any app or service you choose to share with handles that information under its own privacy policy.
The animal photos are served from this website. Loading a result requests its image file from our host, so ordinary request logs may reveal which animal image was loaded, even though the saved pick history stays in your browser.
3. Hosting, fonts and external links
Hosting. Vercel delivers the website and its local photo files. When you visit, Vercel may process technical request information such as your IP address, requested URLs, browser information, referrer and request times to deliver and protect the service. See Vercel’s Privacy Notice for its practices.
Fonts. The main pages load fonts from Google Fonts. Your browser connects to Google’s font servers, which receive information needed to answer the request, including your IP address, the requested font URL and browser request headers. See Google’s Privacy Policy.
Photo and research sources. The generator serves its animal photos locally rather than embedding them from Wikimedia Commons or iNaturalist. If you follow a source, license or other external link, that service receives your visit and its own policy applies.
5. Contact messages and feedback
Use the online form on our contact page for questions, feedback, corrections, copyright concerns or privacy requests. You do not need a Tally account to send a message.
Online form. The contact form is provided by Tally. Submitting it sends your email address, message, website label and contact-page path to Tally so we can receive and respond to your feedback. Tally stores form responses and sends a notification to our account email inbox. We have disabled the form’s “save answers for later” option; incomplete messages are not intentionally saved by that feature. Loading the form also connects your browser to Tally and transmits technical request information. See Tally’s Privacy Notice and privacy information for form respondents.
Spam protection. The online form uses Google reCAPTCHA. It may process technical and interaction information and use cookies to distinguish people from automated submissions. See Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Replying to you. We use the email address in your message to respond. Our email provider processes notifications and replies under its own privacy practices.
We use correspondence to answer questions and investigate reported problems, and retain it only as needed for that purpose and any applicable legal obligations. Sending feedback does not subscribe you to marketing emails.
General site or policy questions can also be raised through the project’s public issue tracker. Issues are public: do not include private correspondence, personal information or sensitive privacy requests there.
6. Your choices
You can use the generator without providing your name or email address, clear its local history through your browser’s site-data controls, and choose whether to open external links or send a message.
To request access to, correction of or deletion of a contact message we hold, use our contact form. Provide enough information to locate the message without sending unnecessary sensitive details. We may ask for information needed to verify the request and will respond as required by applicable law.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal information, or object to or restrict certain processing. Local pick history can be removed directly on your device; we cannot look up a browser-only history by name or email. For information held by a third-party provider, consult that provider’s privacy notice and request channels.
The generator does not ask children for personal information. Parents and teachers should avoid including children’s personal details in feedback or public issues.
7. Security and policy updates
The site is delivered over HTTPS. No internet service can guarantee absolute security. Hosting and other service providers may process technical information in countries outside your own; their policies explain their handling and retention of that information.
We will revise this page when our data practices change and update the date above. Please also read our Terms of Service and Disclaimer for the limits of the animal information and the licenses that apply to photographs.