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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 4/6/2026

1. Information We Collect

SafeSlug is designed with privacy as a first principle. We collect the minimum amount of information necessary to provide our URL shortening service.

  • Account Information: If you create an account, we store your authentication details via our secure provider (Clerk).
  • Links: The target URLs you shorten are encrypted end-to-end at rest (AES-256-GCM). Only people with the short link can decrypt and access the destination.
  • Link Analytics: We store one analytics record per redirect with referrer hostname, generalized country code, and device class when available. We do not store raw IP addresses.
  • Website Usage Data: We use Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to understand how you interact with our website to improve the user experience. This includes tracking page views, clicks, mouse movements, scrolling, and session recordings.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect solely to:

  • Provide and maintain the SafeSlug service.
  • Use AI to generate smart slugs by sending page metadata to OpenAI strictly for summarization and slug suggestion.
  • Display your link analytics on your dashboard.
  • Analyze website traffic and optimize our platform layout and performance using Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity.

3. Data Security and Encryption

Your target URLs are encrypted before being saved to our database. Even if our database were fully compromised, the raw destination URLs would remain unreadable without the encryption key stored securely in our environment.

4. Third-Party Services

We use trusted third-party services to operate SafeSlug:

  • Authentication: Clerk handles secure login.
  • Database: Our infrastructure providers host and operate our encrypted application data.
  • AI Features: The OpenAI API is used solely to generate summaries, tags, and smart slug suggestions.
  • Analytics & Tracking: Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity help us analyze traffic and user behavior.

5. Manage Your Cookie Preferences

You can manage your cookie preferences at any time. Use the controls below to accept, decline, or reset your consent.

6. Contact

For any privacy-related questions or if you wish to have your data deleted, please contact us or use the account deletion tools in your dashboard.