Welcome to Shtn.me. This Privacy Policy describes the policies and procedures of Shtn.me website. (“Shtn.me”, “we” or “us”) on the collection, use, security and disclosure of personal information about you on https://shtn.me (the “Site”) and the services, features, content or applications offered by Shtn.me (collectively with the Site, the “Services”). It also describes your choices regarding use, access and correction of your personal information.
This Privacy Policy covers the treatment of the personal information gathered by Shtn.me when you use or access the Services, or when you view or interact with a Shtn.me link (either our shtn.me links of one of our branded domains). This Privacy Policy also covers Shtn.me’s treatment of any information about you that Shtn.me’s customers share with Shtn.me.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of other businesses that Shtn.me does not own or control, including other companies’ websites, services and applications (“Third Party Services”) that you can access through the Services, such as Facebook or Twitter, or to individuals that Shtn.me does not manage or employ. We cannot take responsibility for the content or privacy policies of those Third Party Services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any Third Party Services you access.
Shtn.me may collect personal information about you as described in this Privacy Policy when you (i) register for the Site and the Services, through your user account with Shtn.me, including registering through a third-party social networking service (your “Account”), (ii) use the Services, or (iii) view or interact with a Shtn.me link (either our shtn.me links or one of our branded domains) on a third-party website. We collect the following types of information from you, some of which might be considered personal information under applicable law.
When You Register for a Shtn.me Account
When you create an Account, we may collect personal information from you, such as your name, phone number,
company name, industry, job title, company size and email address. If you create an Account using your login
from a third-party account, such as Google, Facebook, Twitter or Paylike, we will access and collect the
personal
information about you that the third-party account provides (which is based on your privacy settings with the
third-party account), so that you can log into your Account with us. We use your contact information to send you
information about our Services and communicate with you about your Account, your activities on our Site and
Services and policy changes. You may unsubscribe from receiving certain types of these messages through your
Account settings, although Shtn.me reserves the right to contact you when we believe it is necessary, such as
for
administrative and account management purposes.
Some features of the Services allow registered users to provide their own content to the Services, such as written descriptions of URLs, comments, images and video. Unless you request deletion of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy, all content submitted by you to the Services may be retained by Shtn.me, even after you terminate your Account and may continue to be shared by third parties, as described in this Privacy Policy.
When You Create a Shtn.me Link
One feature of the Services is the ability to create shortened uniform resource locators (URLs) of websites
(“Shtn.me Link”, “Shortened link” or "Shortened URL"). Users can create Shtn.me Links without registering for an
account.
When you create a Shtn.me Link, Shtn.me collects and stores both the original URL and the shortened URL and, if
you are
logged in to your Account, we will associate that information with your Account. Shtn.me also collects and
stores your IP
address, your location, which we derive from your IP address, the time and date on which you shortened the
original URL, and if you share a Shtn.me Link on a social networking platform, the name of the platform and your
username on that platform.
When You Interact With a Shtn.me Link
Shtn.me automatically collects personal information about the interaction (such as clicks or views) with every
Shtn.me Link created through the Services on a third-party
website. This information includes, but is not limited to: (i) the IP address and location derived from the IP
address; (ii) the referring websites or services; (iii) the time and date of each access; (iv) device settings,
such as browser type, operating system, and language; (v) cookies, as described below, and mobile advertising
identifiers and (v) information about sharing of the Shtn.me Link on Third Party Services such as Twitter and
Facebook (collectively, “Shtn.me Link stats”). As described in this policy, we use Shtn.me Link Metrics to
provide
the Services, to understand and analyze how our Services are used and to identify trends, and to detect, deter
and prevent malicious, fraudulent or unlawful activity. Please see the “Information We May Share” section of
this Privacy Policy for a description of how we may share information we collect when you create, view or
interact with Shtn.me Links.
Other Information We Automatically Collect
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect (i) your IP address and location derived from the IP address;
(ii) the referring websites or services; (iii) the time and date of each access; (iv) device settings, such as
browser type, operating system, and language; and (v) cookie information. This type of data enables us and third
parties authorized by us to figure out how often individuals use parts of the Site so that we can analyze and
improve them.
We may receive a confirmation when you open an email from us. We use this confirmation to improve our customer service.
Shtn.me may use third-party APIs and software development kits (“SDKs”) to provide certain functions in our Services.
Third Party Services
Some features of the Services allow you to share your content and Shtn.me Links through your accounts with other
companies such as Facebook and Twitter. If you choose to connect Shtn.me to such Third Party Services, we may
collect information related to your use of those Third Party Services, such as authentication tokens that allow
us to connect to your Third Party Service accounts. We will ask you for permission before you authorize our
collection of this information. We will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was
provided to us. We may also collect information about how you are using the Services to interact with those
connected Third Party Services. Note that Third Party Services may have the ability to restrict the information
that is provided to us based on your privacy settings of that account.
To enable us to infer the location from the IP addresses of computers or devices that visit our website or click, view or interact with Shtn.me links as described in this policy, we receive IP-based location information from our third-party service provider. We also receive business contact information of our business customer contacts and prospects from our third party service provider.
Cookies and Other Similar Technologies
Shtn.me and its partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track
users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
Cookies are pieces of text that may be provided to your computer through your web browser when you access a website. Your browser stores cookies in a manner associated with each website you visit. We use cookies to enable our servers to recognize your web browser and tell us how and when you visit our Site and use the Services through the web.
Shtn.me cookies also allow Shtn.me to track when you have clicked on a Shtn.me Link. Each click of a Shtn.me Link is tracked using a unique identifier assigned to you in one or more cookies stored by your web browser and associated with Shtn.me. We may associate the unique identifier in our cookies with the other information we automatically collect when you use the Services, as described above, including your IP address, Shtn.me Links you click, Shtn.me Links you create, and information with your Account if you have one.
Most browsers have an option for turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allowing you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. If you disable cookies, you will not be able to use some features of the Services.
We partner with third parties to track utilization and behavior on our websites, display advertising on our websites, and to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third-party partners may use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags or similar technologies in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests.
This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Shtn.me only and does not cover the use of cookies by any Third Party Services. Shtn.me does not control when or how third parties place cookies on your computer, such as when you visit the website from a Shtn.me Link.
Opt-Out Mechanisms
You may ask Shtn.me not to delete all you user data. You can do that, by simply send a support message asking
for deleting all the data linked to you.
Note Regarding Children
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we learn that we have collected personal
information of a child under 13 (or older as required by applicable law), we will take steps to delete such
information from our files as soon as possible.
We use the personal information we collect for a variety of administrative and business purposes to:
Other Legitimate Interests
We also may use personal information to pursue legitimate interests, such as direct marketing, research
(including marketing research), network and information security, prevention of fraudulent, malicious and
unlawful activities, or any other purpose disclosed to you at the time you provide personal information or
allowed by law.
The Services are designed to help you share information with others. In addition, we provide Services to our Customers that use Shtn.me Link Metrics. As a result, some of the personal information generated through your use of the Services is shared publicly or with third parties as described below.
Shtn.me Links You Create
Much of your activity on and through the Services is public by default. For example, when you create a Shtn.me
Link, the original URLs you have shortened and the corresponding Shtn.me Links are publicly available.
Account Information
Where permitted by law, if you register a Shtn.me Account with an email address on a domain owned by an
organization, (for example, an employer or educational institution where you have an email account), we may
share your email address and information about your Account, such as the number of links you have created, with
that organization to explore the organization’s interest in creating or managing an enterprise account or for
related purposes.
Information We Share With Customers
We may share the personal information we collect as described in this Privacy Policy with our customers. When
you create a Shtn.me Link of one of our enterprise customer’s sites, the enterprise customer is able to view the
unshortened original URL, the date and time the Shtn.me Link was created, the location where it was created as
derived from your IP address, and aggregated information about clicks and views of the Shtn.me Links, including
the number of times the Shtn.me Link was shared, whether or not it was viewed, comparison of that Shtn.me Links
performance to that of all Shtn.me Links pointing to the same content, whether others are sharing a Shtn.me Link
to
the same content, geographic regions where the content is being viewed, and identification of social networks on
which the Shtn.me Links appear. In addition, we may share Shtn.me Link Metrics with customers to help them
detect,
deter and prevent malicious, fraudulent or unlawful activity.
Information You Elect to Share
When creating a Shtn.me Link, you can share that Shtn.me Link through Third Party Services. Any information that
you
elect to distribute through Third Party Services, such as a social network post you create, may then become
accessible to users of those services. You can also access other Third Party Services through the Services, for
example by clicking on links in the Statistics page for a Shtn.me Link. We recommend that you review the terms
of
services and privacy policies of such Third Party Services that you access through the Services since Shtn.me
does
not control and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Services.
Information Shared with Service Providers
We may employ and contract with third parties to perform certain tasks on our behalf and under our direction
(our “Service Providers”). We may need to share information about you with our Service Providers in order to
provide our product with research and analytics on user behavior and to provide advertising products and
services to users, to process payments, and to provide email marketing and support services. Our agreements with
these Service Providers authorize them to use your information only as necessary to provide services to us.
Transfers to subsequent third parties are covered by the service agreements with our Clients.
Information Disclosed Pursuant to Business Transfers
We may transfer and/or provide information about our users in connection with an acquisition, sale of company
assets, or other situation where user information would be transferred as one of our business assets. You will
be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website.
In such a case, the acquirer of Shtn.me may continue to use your information as set forth in this policy or as otherwise allowed by law.
Information Disclosed for the Protection of Shtn.me and Others
Shtn.me may access, read, preserve, and disclose any information it collects when it has a good faith belief
that
doing so is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with a law, regulation, or compulsory legal request, including
process from a governmental law enforcement or national security agency, (ii) enforce the Privacy Policy or
Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations hereof, (iii) detect, deter, prevent or
otherwise address malicious, fraudulent or unlawful activity, (iv) respond to user support requests, or (v)
protect the rights, property or safety of Shtn.me, its users and the public. This includes exchanging
information
with other companies and organizations for protection from malicious, fraudulent or unlawful activity.
Information We Share With Your Consent
We will share information about you when you instruct us to do so, such as when you share Shtn.me Links or
content
with others through the Services or if we notify you that the information you provide will be shared in a
particular manner and you provide such information (like sharing/posting it with a third-party Service).
We retain the personal information we receive as described in this Privacy Policy for as long as you use our Services or as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, provide our Services, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws.
Your Account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You can prevent unauthorized access to your Account by selecting and protecting your password appropriately, limiting access to your computer and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your Account.
Shtn.me endeavors to protect the information it collects about its users using industry-standard security processes and controls, however, despite these efforts, no security measure is perfect or impenetrable and Shtn.me does not guarantee or warrant that such measures will prevent unauthorized access to the information about you that is stored by Shtn.me. In the event we experience a breach of security, we will promptly notify you if your personal information has been compromised, in accordance with applicable law.
You don’t need an Account to create Shtn.me Links, and you can use many of the features of the Services without registering, thereby limiting the type of information that is collected about you individually.
Shtn.me acknowledges that you have the right to access your personal information that we collect and are able to associate with you. If you have a Shtn.me Account, you may access, correct, or request deletion of your personal information by logging into your Account. Once logged in to your account, you will be able to view a history of the URLs you have shortened and the metrics pages for those URLs. You can request a complete copy of the personal information we store about your account by sending a support request in you account, asking for those informations. If you delete your Account, you will no longer be able to access or use the Services.
If you do not have a Shtn.me account, Shtn.me has no way of identifying you or verifying that you created or clicked on a Shtn.me link.
Please note that in the interest of ensuring that existing Shtn.me Links continue to function for all of our users, the Shtn.me Links that you have created and shared cannot be deleted or disabled (even if your Account is deleted), and any shortening and sharing activity that has already occurred on your Account also cannot be deleted. If you have concerns about any unauthorized use of your Account, you can delete your account within your Account settings.
Please see the Cookie section above for additional choices you may have.
If you are located in the European Economic Area, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe our Processing of your Personal Information violates applicable law.
Shtn.me may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes in the way we collect or use information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Services or sending you an email, and we will indicate when those changes will become effective. You are agreeing to be bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when you use the Services after those changes become effective.