Privacy

This page describes exactly what wbotz.link stores. It is short because the service does not collect much: there are no accounts, no passwords, and no advertising trackers.

When you create a link

We store the details you typed into the form:

• The WhatsApp number the link points at.
• The pre-filled message, if you wrote one.
• The short code, and the title if you set one.
• The IP address the request came from, and the time.

The IP address is kept so we can investigate abuse, such as someone generating thousands of links to spam with. It is not used for anything else.

Your phone number is stored solely to forward visitors to the right chat. We do not message it, sell it, share it, or add it to any list.

When someone clicks your link

So you can see whether your link is working, each click records:

• The time of the click.
• The country, taken from the network connection.
• The referring website, if the visitor arrived from one.
• Whether the device was a phone, tablet or desktop.
• A hashed identifier derived from the visitor’s IP address.

That last one deserves explaining. We take the visitor’s IP address, combine it with a secret salt that changes every day, and store only the resulting hash. This lets us count unique visitors within a day, while the original address is never written to disk and cannot be recovered from the hash. Because the salt rotates, the same person visiting tomorrow is not linkable to their visit today.

We do not use cookies for analytics. We do not build profiles of visitors, and no click data is shared with advertisers.

What is stored in your browser

The list of links you have made is kept in your browser’s local storage so you can find them again. It never leaves your device, and we cannot read it. Clearing your browser data removes the list, though the links themselves keep working.

We also store your light or dark theme preference in the same place.

How long we keep things

Links are kept until deleted. Click records are kept for analytics and are aggregated over a rolling window; because the IP salt rotates daily, older click rows lose any ability to identify a visitor within a day of being recorded.

Where the data lives

Link and click data is stored in a PostgreSQL database hosted by Supabase. The site is served from a global content delivery network.

Removing a link

Links created through the website form have no account attached, so we cannot verify who owns one from the record alone. If you need a link removed, contact ByteWeb from an address or number connected to it and we will take it down. Links created through the API can be deleted directly by their owner at any time.

Children

This service is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the date at the top of this page changes with it.