Privacy

What we store, what we do not, and for how long.

What we store about a link

• The link you entered.
• The code we gave it.
• When that happened.

That is all. Nothing in there says who created it.

What we do not store

• No IP addresses. Not of whoever creates a link, and not of whoever clicks one.
• No cookies. The site sets none at all, not even functional ones.
• No names, email addresses or accounts, because there are none.

Click statistics

On each redirect we record a few coarse things: the code, the country, the datacentre that handled the request, the domain of the referring page, and a rough browser category.

The country comes from Cloudflare's network rather than from an IP address we keep. From the referring page we store only the domain, never the path: a full referrer on a link shortener is close to browsing history.

This data is deleted automatically after three months.

Rate limiting

To limit abuse we count how many links a client creates. That count is keyed on a one-way hash of the address with a secret key, not the address itself, and it disappears within a day.

Abuse reports

If you report abuse we keep the code, your explanation, and any email address you choose to leave. That address is optional and used only to reply to you.

Legal basis

Storing the link itself is necessary to provide the service. The coarse click statistics and the rate limiting rest on a legitimate interest: knowing the service works, and preventing abuse.

Advertising

There is currently no advertising and no ad network is loaded. If that changes, a consent notice comes first, and this page will be updated before anything loads.

The Ko-fi link

Every page carries a link to support this project. It is an ordinary link: nothing is loaded and nothing is recorded unless you click it. If you do, you arrive at Ko-fi, where their own privacy policy applies.

Questions

Questions about your data can go through the Report abuse page.