bra.hm url shortener

Terms & Conditions

This website is provided for service as-is; there are no implied guarantees about functionality, security, uptime, or data retention. Links will be retained for as long as I am able to maintain the site.

bra.hm may not be used for the following:

  • Creating URLs for use in unsolicited advertising including but not limited to email and forum posts (i.e. do not use for SPAM purposes)
  • Linking to any file or website depicting actual or simulated child pornography
  • Linking to any content which is illegal in your area
  • Linking to other sites that also offer URL shortening/redirection (because creating a "chain" of redirects is often an attempt to hide malicious use, and also wastes bandwidth) - most of these should be automatically blocked anyway
  • Any other use which is illegal in your area

Because this is a personal URL shortener that I have made available for semi-public use by friends, I actively monitor and blacklist domains that submit spam. Because of spam concerns, a maximum of two URLs from the same domain (ie, sports.com) can be shortened per day. More requests result in a notification being sent to the administrator (me).

We reserve the right to remove any shortened URLs which we deem to have violated these terms and conditions, or that we believe violate the spirit of our terms or of fair usage (at our discretion). We may if we choose report use that is forbidden by our terms and conditions to the relevant governmental or law enforcement agencies, including relevant information such as the IP address of the link creator. We also reserve the right to block any abusers from using our service in future.

We do not collect any personally identifying information from users of this website. We store only the technical information necessary to provide our URL shortening service, such as the original long URLs. We may also store the IP addresses of computers using the bra.hm service (and similar usage information such as web browser/resolution) for the sole purposes of identifying abuse of the service and tracking anonymous usage trends. This information will not be made available to third parties.

URLs shortened by our website are not private and should not be treated as such. Third parties could easily guess the short URL that you are using, so you should not use bra.hm to link to sensitive or secure data.

Some of the above language was borrowed from is.gd in a well-intentioned way!