Cookie policy

Cookies we use

Only members of our team who sign in to the admin area receive a cookie:

• __Host-fl_session keeps a team member signed in to the admin area. It is strictly necessary, can’t be read by scripts, lasts up to 30 days, is renewed while the admin area is in use and ends at the latest 90 days after signing in.

What our free tools keep in your browser

Some tools keep what you make in your browser’s local storage, so it’s still there when you come back. It stays on your device and is never sent to us. Private windows and some browser settings stop it being kept; the tools still work, but forget your work when you leave.

• friendify:relationship-map keeps the map you build in the Character Relationship Map. “Start a new map” in the tool clears it.
• friendify:family-tree keeps the family you build in the Fictional Family Tree Maker: names, houses, years, colours, notes and who is joined to whom. “Start a new tree” in the tool clears it.
• friendify:name-favourites keeps the names you mark as favourites in the Character Name Generator. “Clear” under the favourites clears it.
• friendify:town-favourites, friendify:kingdom-favourites and friendify:tavern-favourites keep the names you mark as favourites in the Fantasy Town, Kingdom and Tavern Name Generators. “Clear” under the favourites clears each one.
• friendify:title-favourites keeps the titles you star in the Book Title Generator. If you starred a title made with your own words, the title is kept as it is, with your words in it, on your device only; the words you type are never kept otherwise. “Clear” under the favourites clears it.
• friendify:palette-favourites keeps the palettes you save in the OC Colour Palette Generator. What is kept is each palette’s colours as hex codes, never a name you typed. “Clear” under the favourites clears it.
• friendify:headcanon-handoff, in session storage rather than local storage, passes two names from the Character Relationship Map to the Headcanon Generator in the same tab. The generator removes it as soon as it opens.
• friendify:oc-template keeps the character you fill in on the OC Template & Profile Maker, but never its picture, which isn't saved anywhere. “Start blank” in the tool clears it.
• friendify:oc-backstory-handoff, also in session storage, passes a backstory from the Character Backstory Generator to the OC template in the same tab, and is removed as soon as the template opens.

What our capability demos keep in your browser

The capability demos download small AI models from our server the first time you load one, and keep them in your browser’s storage so the next visit starts at once. They are kept in a cache called friendify-models-v1, hold only the models’ files, and nothing about you or what you type. Large files are kept in pieces as they arrive, so a download that stops carries on where it left off. We ask your browser to keep them even when it is short of space; it may still remove them.

“Remove downloaded models”, under “About this demo” on each demo page, deletes them. The demos download them again if you load one later.

Security cookies from our network provider

The service that protects this website from attacks and overload may set a short-lived cookie to tell people from automated traffic, for example Cloudflare’s __cf_bm, which lasts 30 minutes. It holds no information that identifies you and is strictly necessary to keep the site available.

Removing them

You can delete cookies and stored site data at any time in your browser’s settings. Doing so signs team members out of the admin area and clears what the tools and demos kept.

If this changes

If we ever add cookies that aren’t strictly necessary, we’ll update this page and ask for your consent before setting them.