Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 06, 2024

1. Introduction

Welcome to Checkthese's Temporary URL Shortener ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our temporary URL shortening service at checkthese.com/temporary/ (the "Service").

Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the Service.

2. Information We Collect

We collect the following information when you use our Service:

• IP Address: We automatically collect and store your IP address when you access our Service.
• Usage Data: We collect data about your use of the Service, including the date of use and connection time.
• Account Information: If you create an account, we collect and store your username, email address, and password (which is securely hashed).
• Shortened URLs: We store the original and shortened URLs you create, along with related metadata such as creation date and expiration date.
• Cryptocurrency Transactions: We may collect transaction details if you purchase account upgrades using cryptocurrency.
• Referral Program Data: If you participate in our referral program, we may collect information related to your referrals and accumulated credits.

We do not collect any metadata or additional information related to the audio, video and photo files uploaded through our Service.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service
• To monitor and analyze usage patterns and trends
• To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
• To enforce our Terms and Conditions
• To process cryptocurrency transactions and manage referral program credits

4. Cookies

We use cookies to enhance your experience on our Service. Cookies are small text files stored on your device that help us recognize your browser and remember certain information. Cookies on our Service may be stored for up to one month.

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.

5. Third-Party Services

We use Histats, a third-party web analytics service, to track and analyze traffic to our Service. Histats may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, and pages visited.

Histats.com
This website is using Histats.com web analytics, a web analysis service.
Histats service do not use third party cookies to identify users so cannot identify you out of this site, the service use only 1st party cookie which means that those are assigned and owned by this current website only in order to guarantee the highest privacy standards

Histats usage of this 1st party cookie help the website analyze how users interact with the site.
The information generated by the cookie relating to your use of this website is usually transferred to Histats.com servers and stored there.
All IP address which belong to Member States of the European Union will be anonymized.
For more information on terms of use and data protection, please visit https://www.histats.com

Purposes of the processing
On behalf of the operator of this website, Histats will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services related to website and Internet use.

Legitimate interests
The legitimate interest in the data processing lies in the optimization of our website, the analysis of the use of our website and the adaptation of its contents. The interests of users are adequately protected by pseudonymisation.

Legal basis
The legal basis for the use of Histats.com analytics is your consent in accordance with Article 6.1 (f) GDPR.

Recipients or categories of recipients
The recipient of the collected data is Histats.com.

Transfer to third countries
Personal data will not be stored, other data will be persisted on EU located servers and cloud providers managed by Histats.com

Data storage - duration
The data sent by us and linked to the 1st party cookie generated on this website then anonymized using a one-way only hashing technique are automatically deleted after 12 months. Data whose retention period has been reached is automatically deleted once a month.

Objection
You can prevent Histats from collecting any data in this website and other websites which uses Histats.com services setting the opt-out cookie

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. Shortened URLs and their associated data are automatically deleted after a maximum of one week, depending on the expiration time selected by the user.

Uploaded video and photo files are stored for a period of 24 hours, unless required to be retained for legal reasons or to be sent to the authorities.

However, we retain the following information for as long as necessary to prevent illegal activity or abuse:

• Original URL submitted
• Date of submission
• User who created the URL
• Token associated with the URL
• Cryptocurrency transaction details
• Referral program data

7. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the security of your personal information. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

Uploaded files are stored in a public folder accessible only via the generated file name provided at the time of upload. Users are responsible for safeguarding this file name to prevent unauthorized access.

8. Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Access the personal information we hold about you
• Request correction of any inaccurate personal information
• Request deletion of your personal information

To exercise these rights, please contact us at support@checkthese.com.

9. 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 information, please contact us at support@checkthese.com.

10. 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.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@checkthese.com.