This Privacy Policy explains how OneTime Link processes secret content, operational data, analytics information, cookies, and advertising-related data when you use our website and services.
1. Secret Content
How a secret is processed
When you create a one-time link, the secret is transmitted from your browser to our server over HTTPS.
The application encrypts the secret before storing it in the database. The encrypted data remains stored only while the one-time link is active.
When a recipient accesses a valid and unused one-time link, the application server retrieves and decrypts the secret so that it can be displayed to the recipient.
After successful retrieval, the active secret record is deleted from the database and the same one-time link cannot be used to retrieve the secret again.
Expiration
If a secret is not retrieved, it remains available only until the expiration time selected when the one-time link was created.
Expired secret records are removed by the service cleanup process and are no longer available through the original one-time URL.
What we do not claim
Because encryption and decryption are performed by the application server, OneTime Link should not be considered a zero-knowledge service, browser-only encryption service, or end-to-end encrypted communication platform.
OneTime Link is designed for temporary sharing of information through single-use links. It should not be used as a substitute for a managed password vault, secrets-management platform, or another system intended for long-term storage, auditing, access control, or credential lifecycle management.
2. Information Processed by the Service
Depending on how you use the website, the service may process different categories of information.
Secret content
Secret content is the information entered by a user when creating a one-time link. It is encrypted before being stored in the application database and is retained only until successful retrieval or expiration.
Operational and technical information
Our hosting and application infrastructure may process standard technical information generated when a visitor accesses the website.
This information may include:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device and operating system information
- Date and time of requests
- Requested URLs
- HTTP response information
- Referring pages
- Security-related request information
This information may be processed for service operation, security monitoring, abuse prevention, troubleshooting, performance analysis, and maintaining the reliability of the website.
The application does not intentionally store a visitor's IP address as part of the secret record itself.
3. Secret-View Pages
Pages used to display one-time secrets are treated differently from normal public website content.
Google Analytics and Google AdSense are not intentionally loaded on one-time secret-view pages.
Secret content is not intentionally supplied to Google Analytics, Google AdSense, or other advertising services.
This separation is intended to reduce unnecessary third-party processing while a recipient is accessing information shared through a one-time link.
4. Google Analytics
On eligible public website pages, we may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the website and to improve our public content and services.
Where consent is required, Google Analytics is loaded only after the visitor accepts optional cookies through the website's consent controls.
Google Analytics may process information such as:
- IP address
- Approximate geographic location
- Browser information
- Device information
- Operating system information
- Pages visited
- Referral information
- Interaction and usage information
Information processed by Google Analytics is handled according to Google's own privacy policies, technical settings, and data-processing practices.
5. Google AdSense
Eligible public content pages may use Google AdSense to display advertising.
Advertising may appear on public areas of the website such as articles, guides, informational pages, and FAQ content.
Google AdSense is not intentionally loaded on one-time secret-view pages.
Google and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies and may process information such as:
- IP address
- Approximate location
- Browser and device information
- Advertising identifiers
- Cookie identifiers
- Page interaction information
- Advertising interaction information
The exact information processed by Google may depend on the visitor's location, consent choices, Google configuration, and applicable privacy requirements.
6. Cookies and Consent
The website may use essential and optional browser technologies for different purposes.
Essential technologies
Essential technologies may be used when necessary for security, website operation, user preferences, session functionality, or other functionality required for the website to operate correctly.
Optional technologies
Analytics and advertising technologies are considered optional where consent is required.
In those cases, services such as Google Analytics and Google AdSense are loaded only after the visitor provides the required consent through the website's consent controls.
Changing your choice
You may review or change your local cookie preference at any time using the Cookie settings link available in the website footer.
In regions where Google requires the use of a certified consent management platform, the website may also display Google's certified consent message or other consent controls required for Google services.
7. Data Retention
Active secrets
Active secret records are retained until successful one-time retrieval or expiration, whichever occurs first.
Expired secrets
Secrets that reach their configured expiration time without being retrieved are removed by the service cleanup process.
Operational logs
Operational, hosting, security, and server logs may be retained for a limited period according to security, troubleshooting, hosting, and operational requirements.
Consent preference
Your cookie consent preference may be stored locally in your browser so that the website can remember whether optional services were accepted or rejected.
8. Security
We use HTTPS to protect information while it is transmitted between your browser and the service.
Application-level encryption is used for secret content while it is stored in the application database.
However, no Internet-based system can guarantee absolute security.
Anyone who obtains a valid and unused one-time URL may be able to retrieve the secret associated with that link.
Users should therefore share one-time URLs only with their intended recipients.
For higher-risk information, users should consider enabling an optional passphrase and communicating that passphrase through a separate communication channel.
9. Third-Party Services
Public website pages may use third-party technologies or services required to provide website functionality, analytics, advertising, content delivery, fonts, accessibility features, or other supporting functionality.
These services may process technical information according to their own terms, privacy policies, data-processing practices, and technical requirements.
Third-party services used on public pages may include:
- Google Analytics
- Google AdSense
- Content delivery networks
- Web font providers
- Accessibility-related services or tools
Secret content is not intentionally supplied to Google Analytics or Google AdSense, and those services are not intentionally loaded on one-time secret-view pages.
10. External Links
Public pages on OneTime Link may contain links to external websites, documentation, products, standards, or other third-party resources.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or availability of websites operated by third parties.
Visitors should review the privacy policies and terms of external websites before providing information to those services.
11. Your Choices
Where optional analytics or advertising technologies require consent, you may choose whether to allow those technologies through the website's cookie consent controls.
You may change that preference at any time using the Cookie settings option available in the website footer.
Browser settings may also allow you to delete or block cookies and other locally stored website data.
Blocking certain essential browser technologies may affect the functionality of some website features.
12. Children
OneTime Link is not specifically directed toward children.
Users should not use the service to intentionally submit personal information about children where doing so would violate applicable privacy laws or regulations.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when the service, website functionality, third-party services, security practices, or applicable privacy requirements change.
When this Privacy Policy is materially updated, the revision date shown at the bottom of this page will also be updated.
14. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, the handling of secret content, cookies, analytics, advertising, or other data-processing practices associated with OneTime Link, please contact us.
Last Updated: October 2026