Privacy policy

What this service does

links.et checks payment receipts. You give it a receipt link or reference from an Ethiopian bank or wallet, and it fetches the receipt from that institution and returns the parsed result. The service is run by Odit.

What we collect

• Account details: your name and email, either from signup or from Google if you sign in with it. Social sign-in shares only your name, email, and avatar. We never see your Google password.
• Usage records: which receipts your account verified and when, so caps and billing work and you can see your own history.
• Verified receipts: receipts we fetch are cached so that re-checking one is instant and free. The cache stores what the bank publishes at the receipt link.
• Receipt screenshots: if you upload a screenshot instead of a link, we keep the image for 90 days and then delete it automatically. We keep it so you can see what you sent on your own history page, and so we can tell why a screenshot was read wrong and fix it. Only you and Odit staff can open it. This applies to the demo on the home page too, which anyone can use without an account: those uploads have no account attached, so only Odit staff can open them, and they are deleted on the same 90-day schedule.
• A session cookie to keep you signed in. No advertising or tracking cookies.

The Links Verifier app

Links Verifier is the Android app a business and its staff use to check customer payments at the counter. On top of the above, it handles:

• Camera and photos: used only to photograph a receipt, or to pick a receipt screenshot from the gallery, when someone checks a payment or adds a receiving account. The photo is sent to links.et to be read and kept for 90 days, like other screenshots. The business owner, the business’s manager phones, and the phone that took it can see it.
• Paired phones: a staff phone gets a random token when the owner pairs it, and the name the owner gives it. The owner sees each phone’s checks and when it was last used. Staff phones never see the business’s balances or totals, only the accounts customers pay into and their own checks.
• Payment checks: the bill amount, the receipt the bank returned, and the result, kept as the business’s history.
• Connection checks: while the app is open it contacts links.et every few seconds to show whether the phone is online. These carry no personal data.
• Notifications: owner and manager phones are notified when a check needs a person. They are sent by the app itself, not by an advertising or tracking service.
• The app does not read SMS, contacts or location, and has no advertising or analytics libraries.

What we never do

• We never sell your data or share it with advertisers.
• We never post anything to your Google account.
• We never share one customer’s verification history with another customer.

Where data lives

Data is stored on servers we operate. Uploaded screenshots are the one exception: they are held in a private Cloudflare R2 bucket that only our servers hold keys to, because storing images well is not something we want to get wrong ourselves. Receipt fetches go directly to the issuing bank or wallet over their public receipt endpoints.

Deleting your data

Email us and we will delete your account, its usage records, and any screenshots you uploaded. Screenshots also delete themselves after 90 days whether you ask or not. Cached receipts are records of what the issuing institution publishes publicly and may be retained for other customers who verify the same receipt.

Contact

Questions about this policy: robelmezemir@gmail.com