Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to URL Shortener Pro ("we," "our," or "us"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

• Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
• Contact Data: Includes email address and registered account information.
• Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
• Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website, shortened URLs, and services.

3. How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• To register you as a new customer.
• To process and deliver your shortened URLs and analytics.
• To manage our relationship with you including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
• To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data).
• To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences.

4. Analytics & Tracking

When you or your visitors use our shortened links, we collect data regarding the access events:

• IP Address: Used to determine unique clicks and rudimentary geographic location (Country/City).
• User Agent: Used to determine device type (Mobile/Desktop), browser, and operating system.
• Referrer: Used to identify traffic sources.

This data is presented to you in your dashboard analytics and is stored securely in our database.

5. Cookies

We use cookies to verify user sessions and improve the user experience. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website (especially the dashboard) may become inaccessible or not function properly.

6. Third-Party Services

We may use third-party services for specific functionality:

• Payment Processors: If you purchase a premium plan, your payment is processed by secure third-party gateways (e.g., Stripe, Razorpay). We do not store your credit card details.
• Advertising: We may display advertisements from third-party networks (e.g., Google AdSense) which may use their own cookies to serve relevant ads.

7. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know.

All passwords are hashed using secure algorithms (BCRYPT) before storage.

8. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.