Privacy Policy

Last Update: [Updated April 2025]

At pathly.tr (“we”, ‘us’, “our”), we care about your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information when you use the pathly.tr website (the "Service").

By using the Service, you consent to the data practices described in this policy.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect various types of information from you:

  • Personally Identifiable Information (PII):
    • When creating an account: First name, last name, e-mail address.
    • When making a payment (via Paddle): We do not collect or store your direct payment information (credit card number, etc.). Our payment partner Paddle processes this information in accordance with their privacy policy. We may receive your subscription status and basic billing information (such as country, zip code - for tax) from Paddle.
    • When you communicate: Information you provide during support requests or feedback.
  • Non-Personal Information:
    • Standard web server log information, such as browser type, operating system, IP address (usually anonymized or used only briefly for country/city identification), referring website, pages visited, and date/time of visit.
    • Information collected through cookies and similar technologies (detailed below).
  • Smart Link Click Data:
    • Anonymized or partial IP address of users who clicked on the referred link (for country detection and abuse prevention purposes).
    • Operating system of the device used (extracted from the User-Agent header).
    • Date and time of the click.
    • Referring source (Referer header - if available).
    • UTM parameters (if available in the link).
    • ID of the Pathly.tr link clicked.
    This clickstream data is collected for the purpose of providing statistics to users of the Service (link owners). It is not used to identify individual clickers.

2. Use of Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

  • Provide, operate and maintain the Service.
  • Manage your account and process your subscription.
  • Improve, personalize and expand the Service.
  • Understand and analyze usage trends and patterns.
  • Develop new products, services, features and functionality.
  • Contact you directly or through our partners (customer service, updates, marketing, etc. - with your consent). -
  • Sending you emails (transaction notifications, newsletters, etc. - with your consent).
  • Discovering and preventing fraud.
  • Complying with legal obligations.
  • Providing users (link owners) with aggregated and anonymized statistics on link performance.

3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (web beacons, pixels, etc.) to track activity on our Service and to retain certain information.

  • **Requirement Cookies:** Required for basic functions such as session management and security.
  • **Performance and Analytics Cookies:** Help us understand how the service is used (e.g. Google Analytics - specify if you use it).
  • **Functional Cookies:** Help us remember your preferences (language, etc.).

You can reject or manage cookies through your browser settings. However, refusing some cookies may prevent you from using some parts of the Service.

4. Sharing Information

We do not sell, rent or share your personal information with third parties except as follows:

  • **Service Providers:** Third-party companies that perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, payment processing (Paddle), data analytics, emailing, customer service (we only share the minimum information necessary for them to perform their services).
  • **Legal Obligations:** When required by law or in response to legal process (subpoena, governmental investigation, etc.).
  • **Protection of Rights:** When we believe in good faith that the sharing is necessary to protect our own rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of our users or the public.
  • **Business Transfer:** In the event of a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal information may be one of the transferred assets.
  • **With Your Consent:** We will obtain your consent before sharing your information for any other purpose.

Aggregated, anonymized or non-identifying information (e.g. general usage statistics) may be shared with third parties for marketing, advertising, research or similar purposes.

5. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

Click statistics data is retained for a certain period of time depending on your subscription plan (e.g. 90 days for Free, 1 year for Basic, 2 years for Pro) and may be automatically deleted after that period.

6. Data Security

The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we try to use commercially acceptable methods (Supabase's security measures, SSL encryption, etc.) to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

7. User Rights (GDPR/CCPA etc.)

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have certain rights in relation to your personal data:

  • Right of access: The right to access the personal information we hold about you.
  • Right to rectify: The right to ask us to correct information that you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • Right to erasure: The right to ask us to erase your personal information under certain circumstances (the "right to be forgotten").
  • Right to restrict processing: The right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information under certain circumstances.
  • Right to object: The right to object to processing of your personal information under certain circumstances.
  • Right to data portability: The right to ask us to transfer the information we hold about you to another organization or directly to you under certain circumstances.

If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us by [Contact Information or Method - e.g. from your profile page or support email]. We may request additional information to verify your identity.

8. Children's Privacy

Our Service is not directed to persons under the age of 13 (or the age limit in the relevant jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from children without parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

9. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

Before the changes become effective, we will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service and update the "Last Updated" date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.

You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

10. Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us: