1. Zero Account & Zero Permanent Media Storage
LinksDownload.com operates as a stateless, on-demand media stream extractor and format converter. You never need to create an account or sign in to download public videos, reels, carousels, stories, or MP3 audio tracks.
- No Media Archiving: LinksDownload does not build a permanent database of downloaded videos, photos, or MP3 files. Media streams are relayed directly to your browser or temporarily muxed in memory/ephemeral scratch files that are deleted immediately upon stream completion.
- Public Links Only: Our engine only accesses publicly shared URLs. We never ask for your social media passwords, session tokens, or private account access.
2. Local Browser Storage (100% On Your Device)
For your convenience, LinksDownload uses your browser's local storage (localStorage) strictly on your own phone or computer for two optional preferences:
- Theme Preference (
ld_theme): Remembers whether you prefer Crisp Light Mode or Midnight-Violet Dark Mode. - Recent History Chips (
ld_recent_v1): Stores up to your last 4 extracted links locally inside your own browser so you can re-open them quickly, with a one-click Clear button at any time. This list is never transmitted to third parties.
3. Privacy-Respecting Operational Telemetry & Rate Limiting
To keep LinksDownload fast, reliable, and protected against automated bot abuse, we record lightweight operational metrics:
- Daily Salted Visitor Hash: Instead of storing raw IP logs in analytics tables, visitor counts use a daily-rotating cryptographic SHA-256 hash combined with device class (Mobile, Tablet, or Desktop) to measure aggregate traffic and engine health.
- Abuse Prevention: Ephemeral sliding-window rate-limit counters protect the extraction engine from automated floods and expire automatically within minutes.
- Stream Health Metrics: Aggregate platform counts (e.g., Instagram, YouTube, Facebook), extraction latency in milliseconds, and error codes help our engineering team detect and repair broken extractors promptly.
4. Contact & Support Submissions
If you voluntarily submit a message, broken-link report, or copyright inquiry through our Contact Desk, we store only the name/handle, optional reply email, link, and message you provide so our team can review and respond to your request.
In-app reporting and flagging: If you use Report a problem or Flag this result, we store the category, details, source link/result title you choose to provide, optional reply email, report reference and review state. If you tick the technical-context option, we also store the displayed app build, selected tool and current error text. We do not attach downloaded media, converter files, passwords, cookies or your local recent-history list to reports. Reports are available to authorised support/admin staff for review; a report does not trigger an automatic takedown. We use a short-lived security cookie and a hashed connection identifier for submission protection and hourly limits. Contact us with your reference to request removal of a report.
5. Third-Party Platforms & External Links
When fetching media metadata or streaming public files, your browser or our proxy interacts with the originating content delivery networks (such as Instagram, YouTube, Meta, TikTok, X, or SoundCloud). LinksDownload is an independent utility and is not affiliated with or endorsed by those platforms. Please review the respective privacy policies of any external websites you visit.
6. Questions or Data Requests
Have a privacy question or want a support message removed? Reach out anytime through our Contact & Support Desk.