At Shorten, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal data you share with us. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you use our high-performance link shortening service.
1. Information We Collect
We collect minimal, necessary information to provide and continuously improve our services:
- Account Information: When you sign up, we collect your email address and authentication credentials.
- Link Data: We store the original destination URLs you submit and the custom aliases/slugs generated.
- Redirection Analytics: When someone visits a shortened link, we temporarily process routing metadata to generate analytics (e.g. click counts, device type, general browser type, and country/referer). We do not correlate click statistics with personally identifiable records.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information for the following core purposes:
- To build, run, and maintain your shortened link database.
- To display real-time usage metrics and analytics charts on your dashboard.
- To prevent fraud, abuse, and illegal redirection endpoints.
- To maintain application reliability and optimize server routing performance.
3. Data Protection & Security
We deploy strict technical safeguards to secure your database records:
- All API connections and browser redirects run under complete SSL/TLS encryption.
- We store credentials securely using industry-standard password hashing algorithms.
- We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information or redirect links to third-party advertisers.
4. Your Rights
You hold absolute control over your data. You may delete any created short links from your dashboard at any time, which permanently purges the link and all associated redirect analytics from our active storage.
5. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy practices, please contact us by creating an issue on our GitHub repository.