Privacy

The URL you buy. Published on the homepage, then kept in the Ownership History permanently. That is the point of the site, so it is not something we can delete later.

Your email, if you give one. It is optional. It is used to tell you when somebody takes the link off you, and for nothing else. No newsletter, no list, nobody else gets it. Ask and we will delete it.

Your payment details. We never see them. Stripe handles the whole checkout and we only ever learn that a payment succeeded.

Visits. Umami, which is cookie-free and does not track people between websites. The green counter on the homepage is one number in a database counting page loads. It does not know who you are and neither do we.

Advertising. We run ads, so the Meta pixel (Facebook and Instagram), the X pixel and the Google Ads tag are on the site. It tells us which ads actually lead to somebody buying the link, by recording that a page was opened, that the buy page was reached, and that a purchase went through, along with the ordinary information any browser sends any website. It never gets the URL you bought. If you would rather not be included, an ad blocker or your browser's tracking protection will stop the pixel, or get in touch and we will sort it out.

Confirming a sale. Because ad blockers stop the pixel, a completed purchase is kept with a note of which channel sent you, meaning a word like "meta", "x", "google" or the name of the site you followed a link from. That is a fact about the traffic rather than about you, and it is the only part of this that is not deleted. A completed purchase is also reported to Meta and X from our server. To let them match it to the right ad, starting a checkout stores a few things from the request for as long as that checkout is open: their own click identifiers if you arrived from one of their ads, and your address and browser name. All of them are deleted in the same instant the purchase completes, before anything is sent, and are deleted anyway after a day if you never pay. If you gave an email address it is sent as a one way hash, never in the clear. This is the only place on the site that keeps an address rather than a hash of one, and it is the shortest lived thing here.

Who is here right now. The homepage says how many people are looking at it. That count is a one way hash of the address, rewritten while you are on the page and deleted five minutes after your last page load. It is a different hash from the one below, so the two cannot be matched against each other, and nothing about a visit is kept once the five minutes are up.

Messages. Anything sent through the form is stored so we can read and answer it. The form is open to anybody, so recent messages are counted against the same one way hash of the address, to stop it being flooded. That hash is deleted after a day; the message stays so it can be answered.

Abandoned checkouts. Starting a purchase holds the price and blocks everybody else, so unpaid attempts are counted against a one way hash of the address they came from. The hash cannot be turned back into an IP address, it is deleted the instant a purchase completes, and it is deleted anyway after a day. It exists so one person cannot sit on the link without ever paying for it.

No data sold to anybody, no accounts, no passwords, and nothing collected that is not listed above. To ask what we hold or have it removed, get in touch.