1. Controller
Michael Herbigc/o COCENTER
Koppoldstr. 1
86551 Aichach
Germany
Email: somehowmikes@gmail.com
2. Hosting and delivery
This website is provided as a ChatGPT Site via OpenAI Ireland Limited, 1st Floor, The Liffey Trust Centre, 117–126 Sheriff Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 YC43, Ireland. Infrastructure from service providers including Cloudflare is used to deliver and protect the website.
When you visit, technically necessary connection and log data may be processed, including your IP address, time and date, requested URL, referrer, browser, operating system and device information. This supports secure and reliable delivery and prevents abuse.
The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest is safe and reliable operation. Retention of technical logs follows the hosting provider's necessary security periods. Processing outside the European Economic Area cannot be ruled out. OpenAI identifies adequacy decisions and EU standard contractual clauses as transfer mechanisms.
3. Name generators
Character and guild names are generated directly in your browser. We do not save your chosen filters or generated names in an operator database or receive them.
When you save a name, the name and its attributes are stored locally in your browser. Character and guild favorites are stored separately. They remain available after closing and reopening this site on the same device, including when you switch between the German and English pages. Unlocking removes a name from the saved collection. You can also delete these data using your browser settings. There is no synchronization between devices.
4. Anonymous usage statistics
To improve usability and name quality, somehowNAMES counts selected events: first and subsequent generations per open generator, saving, copying and sharing, selected race and generation mode, the selected site language, guild generator usage including chosen name language, style and faction, and active time while the site is visible. We also count switches between generators, visibility of Kinguin and Zygor offers, clicks on their links and copying the discount code. On race pages, we additionally count visits to the full generator.
Events are aggregated on the server by calendar day. The analytics database receives no entered or generated names, IP addresses, browser identifiers or persistent visitor or session IDs. Usage analytics do not use cookies or local browser storage. We do not embed an external analytics or advertising service.
Event transmission produces the connection data described in section 2 at the hosting provider. We do not link them to aggregated usage counts. Daily figures are deleted after no more than 400 days. Only a purely numeric grand total of generated name suggestions is retained indefinitely; it has no day, visitor or name reference and may later appear as a site counter.
The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is understanding usage, spotting errors and improving functions. You can object to this processing at any time via the email above.
5. Copying, downloads and sharing
Copying and image creation run locally in your browser. Downloaded name images are stored on your device. If you use your device's share function, you choose the destination; only then is content sent to that service, whose privacy policy applies.
6. External and affiliate links
This site includes ordinary links to Kinguin and Zygor Guides. We do not embed their content. When you click, the external website opens and its provider handles data under its own responsibility.
Both affiliate links contain an identifier, allowing the provider to attribute a visit to Michael Herbig and pay a commission for a qualifying purchase. No tracking pixels from these providers are embedded on somehowNAMES. Links are clearly identified as advertising and affiliate links.
7. Email contact
If you contact us by email, your message and contact details are processed to handle your request. Depending on the content, the legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) or (f) GDPR. Data are deleted once the request is complete, unless statutory retention requirements apply. The mailbox is provided by Google.
8. Providers' information
Further details on data processing are available from the providers:
9. Your rights
Subject to legal conditions, you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability and objection. You may withdraw consent with future effect. Email the address above to exercise your rights.
You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The Bavarian Data Protection Authority is particularly relevant to the controller.
10. Updates
We update this statement when features, services or legal requirements change. The version published on this page is authoritative.