URL.ie Privacy Policy

Here is an English explanation of what we do and don't track. We don't set out to be evil.

The Data we track, and what we do with it.

Cookies

We don't use cookies yet. We will do, shortly, for advanced features. Right now though, we're cookie-less.


Your IP address

If you are just visiting this site, or have clicked on a URL.ie truncated URL, we will track your IP address, by way of logging, but do not share that with anyone (unless directed to by a court order or policing authority).

If you are a creator of a truncated URL, we track your IP address, in a database, and are prepared to share that IP address, openly, with our upstream provider, your ISP, and/or your upstream provider, in the event that a URL you have truncated has been reported in any case of spam, or illegal content.


Your browswer details

We store details about your browser (whatever details your browser shares publicly with all sites it visits). We don't do anything with this data other than accumulate it to focus our design efforts on popular browsers.


Dates/times

Dates and times get the exact same treatement as IP addresses above.


Identifying data

We only share identifying data in the event of abuse of our service. All other identifying data is ONLY accumulated and reported on, but not shared with a 3rd party.


 
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