Terms of Service

Effective Date: July 2025
Last Updated: October 2026

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing and using Chinese Name Translation ("the Service"), you accept and agree to be bound by the terms and provision of this agreement. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site.

2. Description of Service

Chinese Name Translation provides an offline-first English-name spelling lookup, an AI-assisted custom name generator, Chinese-to-English translation, a Chinese zodiac calculator, and related informational pages. The service includes:

  • Bidirectional Chinese-English name translation
  • Clearly labeled name spellings and separate personal name suggestions
  • Pronunciation guides and audio playback
  • Chinese zodiac lookup by birth date and zodiac information pages
  • Translation history storage (local browser only)
  • Social media sharing functionality

3. Use License

Permission is granted to temporarily access the Service for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:

  • modify or copy the materials
  • use the materials for any commercial purpose or for any public display
  • attempt to reverse engineer any software contained on the website
  • remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials

4. Translation Accuracy and Limitations

4.1 Best Effort Service: Offline mappings and AI suggestions may be incomplete or unsuitable for a particular pronunciation or region. We cannot guarantee accuracy in all results.

4.2 Cultural Context: Translations include cultural interpretations that may vary based on regional differences and personal preferences.

4.3 Not for Official Use: Our translations are for informational and educational purposes only. For official documents, legal purposes, or formal name changes, please consult certified translation services. Names suggested by the custom name generator are informal suggestions only; they do not become legal identity names for passports, visas, or other official documents.

4.4 Zodiac Calculations and Cultural Content: The zodiac calculator determines animal signs using the Chinese New Year as the year boundary, within a verified range of 1901–2100; other traditional conventions exist and may differ. Zodiac and cultural descriptions are general, informational content; they are not fortune-telling, predictions, or statements of fact about any individual.

4.5 User Responsibility: Users are responsible for verifying the appropriateness and accuracy of translations for their specific needs.

5. Privacy and Data Collection

5.1 Requests and Local History: Older translation history is stored locally in your browser. Submitted names and custom-name answers pass through our server to answer your request; unmatched names and custom-name answers are sent to our AI provider. We do not intentionally save them in our own application database.

5.2 Analytics: We may collect anonymous usage statistics to improve our service, but this does not include any personal information or translation content.

5.3 No Account Required: Our service does not require user registration or account creation.

6. Prohibited Uses

You may not use our Service:

  • For any unlawful purpose or to solicit others to perform unlawful acts
  • To violate any international, federal, provincial, or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances
  • To infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others
  • To harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate
  • To submit false or misleading information
  • To upload or transmit viruses or any other type of malicious code
  • To spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape
  • For any obscene or immoral purpose

7. Service Availability

7.1 Uptime: We strive to maintain high service availability but do not guarantee 100% uptime.

7.2 Maintenance: The service may be temporarily unavailable during scheduled maintenance periods.

7.3 Rate Limiting: We may implement usage limits to ensure fair access for all users.

8. Disclaimer

The materials on Chinese Name Translation are provided on an 'as is' basis. Chinese Name Translation makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaim and negate all other warranties including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights.

9. Limitations of Liability

In no event shall Chinese Name Translation or its suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on Chinese Name Translation, even if Chinese Name Translation or a Chinese Name Translation authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.

10. Governing Law

These terms and conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction where Chinese Name Translation operates, and you irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in that state or location.

11. Changes to Terms

We reserve the right to revise these terms of service at any time without notice. By using this website, you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these terms of service.

12. Contact Information

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