Welcome to shortenurl.org. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you about 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.
Who We Are
shortenurl.org is an online URL shortening service. Our website allows users to shorten long URLs for ease of sharing and tracking.
Contact Details
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at [email protected]
The Data We Collect About You
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
Identity Data: First name, last name, username or similar identifier.
Contact Data: Email address.
Technical Data: Internet protocol (IP) address, 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: Information about how you use our website, products, and services.
Profile Data: Your username and password, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
We do not collect any special categories of personal data (e.g., details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, political opinions, etc.).
How Is Your Personal Data Collected?
We collect data from and about you through:
Direct Interactions: You may provide us with your Identity, Contact, and Profile Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
Create an account on our website.
Use our services to shorten URLs.
Subscribe to our service or publications.
Request marketing to be sent to you.
Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out in this Privacy Policy.
How We Use Your Personal 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 perform the services you request from us, such as creating shortened URLs and providing related services.
To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our services.
To administer and protect our business and our website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
To use data analytics to improve our website, services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.
To comply with legal obligations.
Disclosures of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with the following parties for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy:
Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
International Transfers
We may transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or your country of residence, including to countries which have different data protection standards to those which apply in the EEA. Where we do so, we will ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal data.
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, altered, or disclosed. 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. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
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 to your personal data.
Request correction of your personal data.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data.
Request restriction of processing your personal data.
Request transfer of your personal data.
Withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. We may notify you in advance by email or by prominently posting a notice on our website. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please get in touch with us at [email protected].