Link Analyzer (“the app”) expands shortened links, traces redirect chains, shows the destination page’s title and description, warns about look-alike and suspicious links, strips tracking parameters, scans QR codes, and keeps a history. This policy explains what the app does with data — including the network requests that are the point of the app.
The app visits the link for you. To trace a link, the app sends requests directly to the link’s server and to every server it redirects to (up to 10), and downloads the final page to read its title and description. Each of those servers receives your device’s IP address and a standard browser user-agent, as it would if you opened the link in a browser. The app sends no cookies or identifiers of its own. Known redirect wrappers (such as Google, Facebook and Outlook safe-link URLs) are unwrapped on your device first, so the wrapper’s own server is not contacted.
Analysis starts as soon as a link arrives when you share it to the app, open it through the app’s link handler, or scan it as a QR code. In bulk mode the app visits each link in turn.
Optional VirusTotal check. If you save your own VirusTotal API key in Settings and tap Check security status, the app sends the final expanded link to VirusTotal with your key. Nothing is sent to VirusTotal otherwise, and no key is built into the app. VirusTotal’s handling of submitted links is governed by its own terms and privacy policy at virustotal.com.
Your history (up to 200 links, each with its redirect chain, page title and description, and your notes, tags and pins), your settings and your VirusTotal key are stored only on your device. You can delete entries or clear the history; exports are created only when you choose to share them.
This data is excluded from Android cloud backup and from device-to-device transfer, so Android does not copy it to another device or to your Google account.
Clipboard. When you open or return to the app, it checks your clipboard for a link so it can offer to analyze it. A link found there is remembered on the device so the same one isn’t offered twice, and it is not visited until you tap the offer. Clipboard contents are never sent anywhere.
QR scanning. The camera is used only while the scanner is open. Codes are decoded on your device by Google ML Kit; camera images are not uploaded. ML Kit may send Google anonymous diagnostic and usage information about the scanner itself.
Advertising. The app shows full-screen ads from Google AdMob, with Meta Audience Network as a mediation partner. To select and measure ads, these providers may collect your device’s advertising ID, your IP address and the approximate location it implies, and device, app and ad-interaction information. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and other regions where it is required, the app asks for your choice through Google’s User Messaging Platform before any ad is requested, and you can change it at any time from Privacy options in the app, which appears where it is required.
Google’s policy: policies.google.com/privacy
How Google uses data from apps that use its services: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Meta’s policy: facebook.com/privacy/policy
Analytics. The app uses Google Analytics for Firebase to see which features are used. Events record how a link reached the app (typed, shared, scanned and so on), the number of redirects rounded into a broad range, whether a warning was shown, and which features are used. Events never contain a link, domain or page title. Firebase also records some information automatically: an app-instance identifier, the device model, the operating-system and app versions, the app language, and an approximate country derived from your IP address, along with standard events such as the first open and the start of a session.
Crash reporting. Firebase Crashlytics receives a report when the app crashes: the error and stack trace, the device model, the operating-system and app versions, and an installation identifier.
Notifications. The app can receive occasional announcements through Firebase
Cloud Messaging. Android asks for notification permission after your first successful analysis in a session. If you allow notifications, the app subscribes this installation to a
general topic (all_users), and messages go to everyone subscribed to it — the
app does not target individual devices. Firebase may register a messaging token for the
installation; the token identifies the installation, not you. Turning notifications off in Android settings stops them.
The app is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them.
If this policy changes, the updated version is published at this address with a new effective date.