1. Who we are
LinkMagnet is operated by an individual based in California, USA. This Privacy Policy applies to our website, short-link tools, analytics features, Open Graph validator, and related services.
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This Privacy Policy explains what information LinkMagnet collects, why we collect it, the service providers involved, and the choices available to users.
Last updated March 12, 2026California-based and independently operated
2. Information you provide
- URLs, metadata, prompts, and other content you submit for shortening, validation, or preview generation.
- Account information we receive through Google sign-in, such as your name, email address, and profile image.
- Messages, feedback, or other information you send to us directly.
3. Information collected automatically
When you use LinkMagnet, we may collect technical and usage information such as browser details, device information, IP address, approximate location, referral information, and interactions with the site. Some of this information comes directly from your browser or from infrastructure and analytics providers we use to run the service.
On supported website pages, we may use Microsoft Clarity to better understand how visitors navigate and use the site through behavioral analytics such as page views, clicks, scrolling activity, session replay, and heatmap-style insights. We use this information to improve site content, navigation, usability, and overall product experience. We do not use Microsoft Clarity on LinkMagnet short-link redirect pages under /s/*.
4. Short-link analytics
When someone visits a LinkMagnet short link, we may record or derive analytics including click totals, referrer domain, country code, and device category. We use this information to provide reporting to the link owner, understand service usage, and improve the product.
5. Cookies and similar technologies
LinkMagnet uses cookies and similar technologies for authentication, security, analytics, and basic site functionality. We may also use local storage in the browser for product features such as preserving short-link claim state across sign-in.
Our analytics and site tooling providers may also set or read cookies and similar technologies to help us understand site usage, measure performance, and improve the service.
6. How we use information
- Provide, maintain, secure, and improve LinkMagnet.
- Authenticate users and support account access.
- Create short links, previews, reports, and analytics dashboards.
- Understand how visitors use supported website pages so we can improve content, navigation, usability, and product experience.
- Detect abuse, fraud, bugs, and security incidents.
- Screen submitted URLs with third-party security services to detect unsafe destinations and prevent abuse.
- Respond to support requests and communicate about the service.
- Comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms.
7. Service providers and third parties
Depending on the feature used, LinkMagnet currently relies on third-party providers for infrastructure and product functionality, including analytics and session replay tooling on supported website pages.
Submitted URLs may be transmitted to third-party security providers solely to detect abuse and unsafe destinations.
- Google for account authentication.
- Google Web Risk for malicious URL screening and abuse prevention.
- Vercel for hosting and analytics-related site tooling.
- Google Tag Manager for deploying analytics-related and site tooling.
- Microsoft Clarity for behavioral analytics such as session replay and heatmap-style insights on supported website pages.
- Sentry for error monitoring and debugging.
- AWS DynamoDB and Postgres for application data and analytics storage.
- OpenAI for some AI-assisted preview and summary features.
8. How we share information
We may share information with service providers that help us operate LinkMagnet. We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect rights and safety, to investigate abuse or security issues, or in connection with a sale, transfer, or restructuring of the service.
We do not sell personal information for money.
9. Retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, maintain security, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We may keep aggregated or de-identified analytics longer.
10. Your choices and California rights
You can contact us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information, subject to applicable law and exceptions. California residents may have additional rights under California privacy law, including the right to know what categories of personal information we collect and the right to request deletion.
11. Children's privacy
LinkMagnet is not intended for anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly permit accounts for minors. We also do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
12. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect information, but no method of transmission or storage is completely secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
13. Changes and contact
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the revised version here and update the last updated date.
Privacy questions or requests can be sent to contact@linkmag.net.