Blinkall Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

Blinkall is operated by Blinkall Technologies. Our main product website and account dashboard are available through blinkall.com.

Blinkall's short-link and bio/profile services use the blk.al domain.

For privacy questions, account-related questions, or other support requests, you can contact us at hi@blink.ng.

2. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you use Blinkall.

A. Information You Provide to Us

When you create a Blinkall account, we collect your name, email address, and password. Passwords are stored using password hashing rather than being stored as plain text.

When you create or customize a Blinkall bio/profile, you may optionally provide a username, profile picture or avatar, phone number, social media accounts or links, biography, and other links or information you choose to publish.

You are not required to provide optional profile information.

We may also collect information you provide when you contact us, request support, report a problem, or otherwise communicate with us.

B. Links and Link-Management Information

Blinkall allows you to create and manage short links, bio pages, custom domains, QR codes, and other links. Depending on the features you use, we may collect and store short-link information, destination URLs, links added to your profile, custom domain information, QR-code-related information, UTM parameters, link names or titles, and other information necessary to manage your links.

C. Information Collected When Someone Visits a Blinkall Link or Profile

When someone visits a Blinkall short link, bio page, or profile, Blinkall may automatically collect technical and usage information. This may include IP address, country or approximate geographic location, device type, operating system, browser type, visitor identifier, cookies or similar identifiers, date and time of the visit, referral information, the Blinkall short link or profile visited, the link clicked, user-agent information, bot or automated traffic detection information, UTM or campaign parameters, and other technical information necessary to operate, secure, measure, and improve Blinkall.

3. Visitor Identifiers and Unique Visitors

Blinkall uses a first-party visitor identifier called visitor_id. When appropriate, Blinkall may create a random visitor identifier and store it in the visitor's browser.

This identifier helps us distinguish new visitors from returning visitors and calculate unique-visitor statistics for Blinkall links and profiles.

The identifier is designed to be random and does not itself contain your name, email address, or other directly identifying information. The current visitor identifier may remain in the browser for up to one year unless it is deleted earlier.

Blinkall does not provide this visitor identifier to Blinkall profile or link owners as a means of identifying individual visitors.

4. Link and Profile Analytics

Blinkall provides analytics to help users understand how their links and profiles are performing.

Depending on the feature being used, Blinkall may measure the number of clicks, countries, device types, dates and times, links that were clicked, referral information, and other aggregated or technical traffic information.

Blinkall users may view analytics associated with their own links or profiles. However, Blinkall does not provide profile or link owners with a visitor's IP address or visitor cookie/identifier merely because that person visited or clicked a Blinkall link.

5. Public Profiles and Information You Choose to Publish

Blinkall allows users to create public bio and profile pages. Information you choose to publish on a public profile may be visible to anyone who accesses that profile.

This may include your name, username, profile picture, biography, social media links, other links, Blinkall short links, and other information you choose to publish.

You should not publish information on a public Blinkall profile that you do not want other people to see.

A Blinkall profile can be made unavailable by removing the username associated with the profile, subject to the way the service and its links are configured.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Blinkall uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the service, maintain sessions, provide security, measure usage, prevent abuse, and understand how visitors interact with Blinkall.

These technologies may include authentication or session cookies, first-party visitor identifiers, analytics technologies, and other cookies or browser storage necessary for Blinkall features.

Our visitor_id cookie is used to distinguish new and returning visitors and help calculate unique visitor statistics.

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect some Blinkall functionality.

Blinkall is working toward implementing appropriate cookie-consent controls for technologies that require consent under applicable law.

7. Google Analytics

Blinkall currently uses Google Analytics on Blinkall short-link and bio/profile pages.

Google Analytics helps us understand how visitors interact with Blinkall and provides statistical information about traffic and usage.

Depending on Google's technology and our configuration, Google Analytics may process information such as device information, browser information, pages or profiles viewed, interactions, referral information, approximate location, and other usage and technical information.

Google processes information collected through its services according to its own privacy practices.

8. How We Use Personal Information

Blinkall may use personal information for purposes including:

• Creating and managing accounts
• Authenticating users
• Providing Blinkall profiles and bio pages
• Creating and redirecting short links
• Providing custom-domain functionality
• Providing QR-code functionality
• Providing link and profile analytics
• Measuring clicks and visits
• Calculating unique visitors
• Understanding how people use Blinkall
• Improving and developing our products
• Maintaining and securing our services
• Detecting and preventing fraud, spam, abuse, and automated attacks
• Troubleshooting technical problems
• Providing customer support
• Sending account and service-related communications
• Sending product updates and marketing communications where permitted
• Managing profile subscriptions
• Processing user-requested imports
• Complying with legal obligations
• Protecting our rights, users, systems, and services

9. Email Communications

Blinkall uses email to provide certain services and communicate with users.

These communications may include account verification, password-reset emails, important account or security communications, product updates, announcements, and marketing communications.

Where applicable, you may unsubscribe from marketing communications using the unsubscribe mechanism provided in the communication.

Blinkall currently uses UseSendi as an email delivery and marketing service provider.

10. Profile Subscriptions

Blinkall allows visitors to subscribe to updates from individual Blinkall profiles.

When a visitor subscribes to a profile, we may collect their email address, subscription status, the Blinkall profile they subscribed to, the date and time of subscription, confirmation information, unsubscribe information, and other information necessary to manage the subscription.

The subscriber's email address may be made available to the owner of the Blinkall profile to which the person subscribed. Profile owners may be able to view and export their subscribers' email addresses.

Blinkall does not use profile-subscriber email addresses for unrelated Blinkall marketing.

Subscribers may unsubscribe from applicable profile communications.

11. Importing Information From Other Platforms

Blinkall is developing functionality that allows users to import information from other link-management or bio-profile platforms.

Where an import feature is available, users may choose to provide or import information from another platform into Blinkall. Blinkall processes imported information to perform the requested import and provide the resulting Blinkall profile or link-management functionality.

Blinkall is currently rolling out support for importing information from Linktree.

You should only import information that you are authorized to access and transfer.

12. Information We Do Not Currently Collect Through Payments

Blinkall currently does not process payments through the platform and does not currently collect payment-card information.

If Blinkall introduces paid plans or payment functionality, we will update this Privacy Policy to explain the relevant payment processing, information collected, and service providers involved.

13. How We Share Personal Information

Blinkall does not sell personal information to advertisers.

We may provide personal information to service providers that help us operate Blinkall, including providers for email delivery, email marketing, hosting, infrastructure, analytics, security, database or technical services, and other services necessary to operate Blinkall.

We may also disclose information when required by law or valid legal process, to investigate fraud or abuse, to protect Blinkall and its users, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, or similar business transaction.

14. Service Providers

UseSendi

Blinkall uses UseSendi to send account, subscription, product, and marketing emails. Depending on the type of communication, UseSendi may process information such as email addresses and information necessary to deliver and manage those emails.

Google Analytics

Blinkall uses Google Analytics to understand traffic and usage on Blinkall short-link and bio/profile pages. Google may process technical and usage information in accordance with its own privacy practices.

We may add or change service providers as Blinkall develops. Where a new provider materially changes how personal information is processed, we may update this Privacy Policy as appropriate.

15. International Data Transfers

Blinkall is being developed as a global service and may be used by people outside Nigeria.

Although Blinkall is starting in Nigeria, we may use service providers or infrastructure located in countries other than the country in which you live. As a result, personal information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in other countries.

Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, Blinkall will take appropriate steps to comply with those requirements.

16. Data Retention

Blinkall retains information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service and for legitimate purposes such as security, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, and legal compliance.

Account information

We generally retain account information while your Blinkall account remains active. If you request account deletion, we will take reasonable steps to delete your personal information from our active database, subject to information we reasonably need to retain for security, fraud prevention, legal obligations, dispute resolution, or similar legitimate purposes.

Profile and link information

Profile and link information is generally retained while you maintain the relevant profile or links. When you delete information or your account, we will take reasonable steps to remove it from our active systems, subject to legitimate retention requirements.

Analytics and technical information

Analytics and technical information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to provide analytics, understand service usage, maintain security, prevent abuse, and improve Blinkall.

Subscriber information

Subscriber information is retained while the relevant subscription remains active. After unsubscribe, we may retain limited information necessary to record the unsubscribe request, prevent unwanted future communications, resolve disputes, or comply with legal obligations.

Backups

Information deleted from our active systems may continue to exist temporarily in backups until those backups are overwritten or deleted according to our backup processes.

17. Account Deletion

You may request deletion of your Blinkall account by contacting us at hi@blink.ng.

We currently process account deletion requests manually. Once an account-deletion request is verified, we will take reasonable steps to delete the personal information associated with the account from our active database.

Some information may be retained where reasonably necessary for fraud prevention, security, legal compliance, dispute resolution, enforcement of agreements, preventing abuse, or maintaining required records.

18. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and which privacy laws apply to you, you may have rights regarding your personal information.

These may include the right to request access, correction, deletion, restriction of certain processing, objection to certain processing, withdrawal of consent where applicable, and portability of certain information.

To make a privacy request, contact hi@blink.ng. We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests to protect your information from unauthorized access.

19. Security

Blinkall takes reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

Our security measures may include password hashing, access controls, secure communications, database access restrictions, server and application security measures, monitoring, and abuse-prevention measures.

Access to Blinkall's database and user information is currently limited to the founders. Blinkall does not currently provide database access to contractors or external parties.

No internet-based service can guarantee absolute security. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Blinkall password and account credentials.

20. Children's Privacy

Blinkall is intended for individuals who are 18 years of age or older.

We do not knowingly permit individuals under 18 to create Blinkall accounts or use Blinkall as registered users.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a person under 18 in circumstances where we are not permitted to do so, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.

If you believe that a person under 18 has provided personal information to Blinkall, please contact hi@blink.ng.

21. Data Breaches

If Blinkall experiences a personal-data breach, we will assess the incident and take appropriate steps required by applicable law.

Depending on the nature and circumstances of the incident, this may include investigating and containing the incident, securing affected systems, assessing the information involved, notifying relevant authorities where legally required, notifying affected individuals where legally required or otherwise appropriate, and taking reasonable steps to prevent a similar incident from occurring again.

22. Third-Party Websites and Services

Blinkall may contain links to websites, applications, social networks, or other services operated by third parties.

Blinkall is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of third-party services. When you leave Blinkall or interact directly with a third-party service, that service's own privacy policy and terms may apply.

23. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as Blinkall develops, our data practices change, or legal requirements change.

When we make material changes, we may provide additional notice where appropriate. The Last Updated date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy indicates when the policy was most recently updated.

24. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, how Blinkall handles personal information, or wish to make a privacy request, contact us at:

Blinkall Technologies
Privacy & Support: hi@blink.ng
Website: blinkall.com
Short links and bio profiles: blk.al

Your use of Blinkall is also subject to our Terms of Service.