Terms of Service

Last updated: November 14, 2026

The service

Secret Santa Generator (operated by Liu Zhongkai) lets an organizer run a Secret Santa gift exchange online: create an exchange, add participants, optionally set exclusion rules and wishlists, draw the names, and distribute one private reveal link per participant. The draw guarantees that nobody is assigned themselves and that every saved exclusion rule is honored; when the rules leave no possible draw, the service says so instead of producing an invalid one. The organizer is never shown the pairings.

Plans and limits

Plans differ by the number of exchanges, participants per exchange, and the features included (exclusion rules, wishlists, redraws, repair draws, printable reveal cards), exactly as listed on the pricing page. Paid plans are subscriptions sold through Paddle, our merchant of record; they renew monthly until cancelled, and cancelled plans keep their paid features until the end of the paid period. Feature availability is enforced by the service as described on the pricing page.

Organizer responsibilities

• You are responsible for the names and notes you enter. Only add people who have agreed to take part in the exchange.
• Reveal links are bearer links: anyone who opens one sees that participant’s match. Send each link privately to its owner, and never post a full set of links in a shared channel.
• The draw is final once links have been shared — other participants may already have seen their match and acted on it. Redraws and repairs change matches; use them before links go out, or tell your group clearly when a match has changed.
• Keep your account credentials to yourself; you are responsible for activity on your account.

Acceptable use

• Do not use the service to harass anyone, or to build lists of people for unrelated purposes.
• Do not try to guess, enumerate or brute-force reveal links, accounts or other exchanges.
• Do not upload malware, or probe the service for vulnerabilities outside a good-faith report to us.
• Do not resell or bulk-automate the service without our written agreement.

Availability and liability

We work to keep the service available through the gift-giving season, but it is provided “as is”, without a guarantee of uninterrupted availability. A draw produced by the service follows the rules you saved; we are not responsible for gifts bought, budgets agreed between participants, or exchanges that go ahead outside the service. To the extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim arising from the service is limited to the amounts you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

Changes

We may update these terms and the service’s features; material changes will be noted on this page with a new date. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept the updated terms.