Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 13, 2025

At URLsmush, we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our URL shortening service.

1. Information We Collect

1.1 Information You Provide

When you use our service, we may collect:

  • URLs you submit for shortening
  • Custom aliases you create
  • Email address (if you create an account)
  • Password (hashed and encrypted)

1.2 Automatically Collected Information

We automatically collect certain information when you visit our website:

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Pages you visit and time spent
  • Referring website
  • Clicks on shortened links (for analytics)

2. Advertising and Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. Google AdSense may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads.

2.1 Third-Party Vendors

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites.

2.2 Google's Use of Advertising Cookies

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

2.3 Opting Out

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our service
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our service
  • Understand and analyze how you use our service
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Prevent fraud and abuse of our service
  • Display relevant advertisements through Google AdSense
  • Comply with legal obligations

4. Data Sharing and Disclosure

4.1 Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies to facilitate our service, provide the service on our behalf, or assist us in analyzing how our service is used. These third parties have access to your information only to perform these tasks and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

4.2 Advertising Partners

We may share non-personally identifiable information with advertising partners (like Google AdSense) to serve relevant advertisements.

4.3 Legal Requirements

We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

5.1 Types of Cookies Used

  • Essential Cookies: Necessary for the website to function properly
  • Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our website
  • Advertising Cookies: Used by Google AdSense to personalize ads

5.2 Managing Cookies

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.

6. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the security of your information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information:

  • Access: You can request copies of your personal data.
  • Rectification: You can request correction of inaccurate data.
  • Erasure: You can request deletion of your personal data.
  • Restriction: You can request restriction of processing your data.
  • Objection: You can object to our processing of your data.
  • Portability: You can request transfer of your data to another organization.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at privacy@urlsmush.com.

8. Children's Privacy

Our service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us: