Privacy Policy

This article explains how Alias URL Shortener handles, uses and stores user data.

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Written by HarshLast update 2 years ago

Who we are

Welcome to Alias URL Shortener. This Privacy Policy describes the policies and procedures of Alias URL Shortener. ("Alias URL Shortener", "we" or "us") on the collection, use, security and disclosure of personal information about you on https://alias.live (the "site") and the services, features, content or applications offered by Alias URL Shortener (collectively with the Site, the "Services"). It also describes your choices regarding use, access and correction of your personal information.


Scope

This Privacy Policy covers the treatment of the personal information gathered by Alias URL Shortener when you use or access the Services, or when you view or interact with a Alias URL Shortener's link (either our alias.live links of one of our branded domains). This Privacy Policy also covers Alias URL Shortener's treatment of any information about you that Alias URL Shortener's customers share with Alias URL Shortener.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of other businesses that Alias URL Shortener does not own or control, including other companies’ websites, services and applications (“Third Party Services”) that you can access through the Services, such as Facebook or Twitter, or to individuals that Alias URL Shortener does not manage or employ. We cannot take responsibility for the content or privacy policies of those Third Party Services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any Third Party Services you access.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it


When You Register for an Account

When you create an Account, we collect the information from you such as your name, email and password so that you can log in to your account. The email is collected for services such as forgot password, in case you forget your password and we can safely help you recover your password using Forgot Password feature on our Site. We never use your email to contact you without you initiating the conversation nor we sell any of the data to third party. Although Alias URL Shortener reserves the right to contact you when we believe it is necessary, such as for administrative and account management purposes.

When You Create a Alias URL Shortener Link

The main purpose of the website is to create shortened uniform resource locators (URLs) of websites ("Alias" or "Alias Links"). Users can create Alias Links without registering for an account. When you create an Alias Link, Alias collects and stores both the original URL and shortened URL and, if you are logged in your Account, we will associate that information with your Account. We do not collect nor store an IP Address's or any location neither we report the same to our users. Only the number of clicks gathered by that shortened URL is stored with the destination URL to report back to users.


When You Interact With Alias Link

Alias URL Shortener only collects the number of clicks with every Alias Link created through Services (on our alias.live links) on a third-party website. 


Third Party Services

Analytics

We use Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to analyze how the user interacts with our website helping us in making the necessary changes to the make the Site better. The Privacy Policy of Google Analytics can be found here and the Privacy Policy of Microsoft Clarity can be found here. We are not responsible for data collection and usage of data by these listed third parties. 

 

Who we share your data with

We do not share your data with any third party for any reason.


How long we retain your data

In this section you should explain how long you retain personal data collected or processed by the web site. While it is your responsibility to come up with the schedule of how long you keep each dataset for and why you keep it, that information does need to be listed here. For example, you may want to say that you keep contact form entries for six months, analytics records for a year, and customer purchase records for ten years.

Your data is retained by us as long as you wish to keep an account with us. You can ask us to delete your data from our server by filing a request at  account@alias.live.


What rights you have over your data

You can file a request to delete your data by mailing us at account@alias.live.


Contact information

You can contact us at privacy@alias.live for more information.


How we protect your data

Your data is stored in an encrypted database which makes the data at rest secured. The data in transit is secured using HTTPS protocol that encrypts the data from you to our servers.


Alias URL Shortener is not responsible for any harm caused by links created on its platform. While we do take steps to stop spam and phishing links created using our URL Shortener, some might still get by and we advise the user to take precautions while interacting with those links.


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