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How do you protect my privacy?

We will not disclose your email to third parties. We will not make personal information such as email addresses publicly available with our bookmark collection data. Your donations will remain anonymous, even if you donate as a registered user. This means that other users may see a link that was one of your bookmarks, but they will not know who donated it. We store your email and password solely for the purpose of updating your bookmark profile, and to send you reminders and news if you ask us.

We also remove links that start with file: or javascript: because files may contain usernames, and to avoid malicious javascripts.

What if I have files that I don't want to share?

We cannot search your disk! We only have access to the bookmark file that you willingly donate and upload to our site. Therefore we can only gain access to the URLs stored as your bookmarks. If these are public sites, we could in principle crawl them to access their content (as is done by other bookmark site that allow full-text search of bookmarked pages). However we do not currently plan to do so. If you have bookmarks that link to files residing on your computer, those files are not accessible to GiveALink nor to any other users/donors.

What if I bookmark sites that use my username and password in the URL?

In rare cases, some poorly designed websites might include a person's username and/or password as part of a URL (web address for their site). This is a very dangerous practice, as anyone can see this information when you contact such a site! You should avoid using any such site for your own protection. It is impossible for us to detect such cases among donated bookmarked URLs. So please be careful to ensure that your personal information does not appear in the bookmarks you donate, as these bookmarks would be visible to other GiveALink users!