Privacy Policy
At GoodShortcut, we strive to develop innovative services to
better serve our users. We recognize that privacy is an
important issue, so we design and operate our services with the
protection of your privacy in mind. This Privacy Policy outlines
the types of personal information we gather when you use
GoodShortcut's services, as well as some of the steps we take to
safeguard it.
The following principles apply to the personally identifying
information we ask for and that you provide. "Personally
identifying information" is information that individually
identifies you, such as your name, physical address or e-mail
address. You can find more details about the data we collect on
particular services by clicking the links on the side of this
page.
Data collection
GoodShortcut short link and some other services do not require
any personally identifying information.
GoodShortcut collects limited non-personally identifying
information your browser makes available whenever you visit a
website. This log information includes your Internet Protocol
address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of
your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify
your browser. We use this information to operate, develop and
improve our services.
Some of our services may require you to register for an account.
GoodShortcut asks you for some personal information in order to
create an account (typically your name, e-mail address and a
password for your account) and we will use that information to
provide the service. For certain services, such as our
advertising programs, we may request credit card or other
payment information which we maintain in encrypted form on
secure servers.
When we require personally identifying information, we will
inform you about the types of information we collect and how we
use it. We hope this will help you make an informed decision
about sharing your personal information with us.
Cookies
Upon your first visit to GoodShortcut, a cookie is sent to your
computer that uniquely identifies your browser. A "cookie" is a
small file containing a string of characters that is sent to
your computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to
improve the quality of our service and to better understand how
people interact with us. GoodShortcut does this by storing user
preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns
of how people click on the advertisement. Most browsers are initially set up to
accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies
or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some
GoodShortcut features or services may not function properly
without cookies.
Information sharing
We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information
to other companies or individuals, unless we have your consent.
We may share such information in any of the following limited
circumstances:
We have your consent.
We provide such information to trusted businesses or persons for
the sole purpose of processing personally identifying
information on our behalf. When this is done, it is subject to
agreements that oblige those parties to process such information
only on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy
Policy and appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith
belief that access, preservation or disclosure of such
information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights,
property or safety of GoodShortcut, its users or the public.
If you have an account, we may share the information submitted
under your account among all of our services in order to provide
you with a seamless experience and to improve the quality of our
services. We will not disclose your account information to other
people or non-affiliated companies, except in the limited
circumstances described in this Policy or with your consent.
We may store and process personal information collected on our
site in the United States or any other country in which
GoodShortcut.com or its agents maintain facilities. By using our
services, you consent to the transfer of your information among
these facilities, including those located outside your country.
In the event of a transfer of ownership of GoodShortcut.com such
as acquisition by or merger with another company, we will
provide notice before any personally identifying information is
transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share aggregated information with others. Examples of
this include how many users clicked on a particular
advertisement.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against
unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or
destruction of data.
We restrict access to your personally identifying information to
employees who need to know that information in order to operate,
develop or improve our services.
Updating your information
We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your
personally identifying information for many of our services. For
more information, please see the help pages for each service.
Links
The sites in the redirect results or linked to by GoodShortcut's
services are generated by people over whom GoodShortcut
exercises no control. These other sites may place their own
cookies on your computer, collect data or solicit personal
information.
GoodShortcut may present links in a format that enables us to
understand whether they have been followed. We use this
information to understand and improve the quality of
Changes to this Policy
Please note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time.
We expect most such changes to be minor, but there may be
changes that are more significant. Regardless, we will post
those changes on this page and, if the changes are significant,
we will also provide a more prominent notice. If you have any
additional questions, please feel free to contact us any time.
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