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Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 15, 2026•Last Updated: October 15, 2026

1. Introduction & Commitment to Privacy

At Broken Link Checkers (brokenlinkcheckers.com), we firmly believe that web diagnostic utilities should be fast, transparent, and respectful of your privacy. This Privacy Policy details our practices concerning how we handle website URLs, technical request data, and client browser interactions when you use our free broken link audit services.

We adhere to a strict privacy-by-design standard: we do not sell, rent, monetize, or harvest personal data or the contents of scanned web pages.

2. What Data We Process

When you interact with our website and link scanning engine, we process minimal operational information:

  • Target URLs Submitted for Auditing: The publicly accessible web addresses you enter into our scan input. These URLs are forwarded to our crawler engine solely to retrieve HTTP status codes and extract hyperlinks.
  • HTTP Response Headers & Status Codes: Diagnostic information returned by target web servers (such as status code 200, 301, 404, server latency, and Content-Type headers) to render your audit dashboard.
  • Standard Technical Server Logs: Like virtually all web servers, our infrastructure may temporarily log routine technical metadata such as IP addresses, browser User-Agent strings, and timestamp logs for error diagnosis and DDoS prevention.

3. Ephemeral In-Memory Processing (Zero Content Storage)

All crawl operations are designed to be entirely ephemeral. When our crawler analyzes a submitted URL:

We do not maintain a permanent database of your website’s private pages, customer databases, or proprietary content.

  1. The HTML payload is parsed in server memory to extract anchor href tags.
  2. The detected hyperlinks are verified via concurrent HTTP requests.
  3. The resulting diagnostic table is transmitted directly to your active browser session.
  4. The parsed document data is immediately purged from memory once the scan completes.

4. Cookies & Local Storage

We minimize browser storage mechanisms to only what is strictly necessary for user experience:

  • Local Storage Key (blc-theme): Used solely to remember your chosen theme preference (Dark Mode or Light Mode) between page views so your screen does not flash upon reload.
  • No Third-Party Advertising Cookies: We do not deploy third-party advertising cookies, retargeting pixels, cross-site trackers, or behavioral profiling trackers.

5. Third-Party Infrastructure Providers

To maintain global edge availability, low latency, and high security, we utilize trustworthy cloud infrastructure:

  • Hosting & Edge CDN: Cloud infrastructure (such as Vercel / Cloudflare) to deliver compiled static assets and secure TLS encryption.
  • Typography: Google Fonts (Geist / Geist Mono) to ensure clean, high-legibility developer typography.

6. GDPR & CCPA Compliance

Under regulations like the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you maintain fundamental rights:

  • The right to know what personal data is processed (we process none beyond standard ephemeral server connection logs).
  • The right to request data deletion.
  • The right to non-discrimination for exercising privacy rights.

7. Security

All traffic between your browser and Broken Link Checkers is encrypted in transit using industry-standard HTTPS and modern TLS 1.3 cryptographic protocols.

8. Contact & Inquiries

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to make an inquiry, please email our team at:

privacy@brokenlinkcheckers.com