This page describes what actually happens to your data on FFNickname. It was written after reading the code that runs this site and measuring the live page, so a few parts contradict what sites in this niche usually claim.
Last updated: 25 August 2026.
Who operates this site
FFNickname (ffnickname.net) is operated from 10202 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90003-4573, USA. Contact: [email protected] or +1 240 454 5313 — the same details listed on our Contact page. We never message you first and we will never ask for a game password.
What is never collected
Starting with the absences, because that is usually the real question. There is no sign-up, no account, no newsletter and no contact form on this site, and comments are switched off. We never ask for your real name, date of birth, phone number, email address, player ID or password, and there is nowhere on the site where you could enter them.
The name you type, and where it goes
Said plainly, because a lot of sites in this niche say the opposite: the generator does not run entirely in your browser. The text you type leaves your device, reaches this site’s server, and from there goes to the service that holds the name catalogue.
- A name that has never been seen before is registered in that catalogue, so the next person searching it finds a ready-made list.
- So type a nickname, not your identity. Do not enter your full legal name, your address, your phone number, your email or someone else’s name attached to something you would not want published. What you type can become public.
If a page was created from something you typed and you want it removed, email the exact text and the page address. We remove it and pass the request to the catalogue service. No explanation needed.
Transfer to the name service
The catalogue behind the generator is not ours. It is operated under licence by an external catalogue provider on servers in the European Union, which means the data below leaves the country you are reading from.
- Sent: the text you typed and your IP address, when the name is new and has to be registered.
- Why the IP: to rate-limit automated abuse of a free service that requires no login. It is not used to profile you, and no profile comes back to us.
- Not sent: nothing else — the site collects nothing else to send.
- Retention: set by that provider, not by us. Deletion requests go through us and we forward them.
Advertising, and an IP record we do keep
The site is funded by Google AdSense. Google is an independent third party: it places its own cookies or similar identifiers and may use your IP address, device and browsing activity to decide which advert to show you. We never see that data — only aggregate earnings reports. You can review or switch off ad personalisation in My Ad Center, and Google explains its side on its partner-sites page.
There is one thing we store ourselves and you should know about it. To avoid showing the same visitor a particular advert repeatedly, the site writes your IP address into a small table on this server. Records older than two days are deleted automatically. Nothing else is stored alongside the address — no page, no name you typed, no identifier — and it is used for nothing else.
The analytics tag
The site also loads Google’s analytics script, so Google receives the address of the page you are on, your IP address and your browser details. Nothing you type into the generator is ever sent to it. Browser settings or extensions that block analytics work normally here — no part of the site depends on the tag.
Everything in one table
| Data | Purpose | Where it lives, and for how long |
|---|---|---|
| The text you type into the generator | Build the styled names and register a new one in the catalogue | This server, then the catalogue service in the EU |
| Your IP address, sent with a new name | Register the name and limit automated abuse | The catalogue service; retention set by that provider |
| Your IP address, stored here | Avoid repeating the same advert to you | A table on this server, deleted automatically after two days |
| Google advertising and analytics identifiers | Choose which advert to show and measure traffic | Google, under Google’s own policy |
| Page, browser, time and IP of each request | Standard server and security logging | Server logs, Cloudflare, Sucuri, Wordfence |
Server logs and security
- Cloudflare sits in front of the site as a delivery network and attack filter and sees the IP of every request; it may set its own security cookie, which is not one we place.
- Wordfence and Sucuri record suspicious login and probe attempts, including the source IP, to block attacks.
- Server logs keep the usual: address, time, page, browser. They rotate on the normal system schedule.
None of this is used to profile visitors, and we do not sell, rent or trade personal data.
Younger players
Most people looking for Free Fire nicknames are teenagers, which is why the site is built to work without collecting a single personal detail: no account, no profile, nothing identifiable to hand over. If you are a parent or guardian and a public page here was created from text identifying a child, email us — it is removed without argument and without asking you to prove anything.
Your rights and how to use them
- Ask what we hold. Email us. Usually the honest answer is nothing, because the site stores no visitor identifier — the only exception is the two-day advert record described above.
- Ask for a removal. Send the exact text and the page address; we delete it here and forward the request to the catalogue service.
- Opt out of ad personalisation in My Ad Center, or block the tags in your browser.
Residents of California and of other places with their own data-protection laws have additional statutory rights, including the right to know what is held and to ask for deletion. Exercise them through the same address — [email protected] — and say what you want and where the data appears.
Changes to this policy
If what the site does changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves. We do not quietly widen a policy to cover something new. Alongside this page there are Terms of Service, Usage Policy, Cookies Policy and About Us.
FFNickname is an independent fan site. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Garena, 111dots Studio or Free Fire. Those names are trademarks of their owners. Styled names are Unicode characters, not fonts, and may not display everywhere.
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