About xaddr.com

xaddr.com is a free url shortener service that creates a short url from a long, complicated web address. This is useful when printing an address in a magazine or newspaper article, when you are giving a web url over the phone, or when sending a web address by email to avoid it being broken by word-wrap.

xaddr.com is part of the Tech-Pro Network, a group of websites owned and operated by Tech-Pro.net offering computer software and troubleshooting advice.

Safety

A criticism sometimes made of services like xaddr.com is that short urls may be easily be exploited for the wrong reasons. They may be used to conceal the real address in order to get web users to go to a page they might not want to visit.

xaddr.com tries to safeguard your online safety in several ways:

• Addresses are checked against the Spam Realtime URI Block List and the MailPolice Block List at the time of submission, to block the creation of short links to fraud sites or sites that have been advertised using spam.
• Addresses are checked against the MailPolice Porn Block List at the time of submission, to block the creation of short links to porn sites.
• When an xaddr.com short URL is clicked, it opens an intermediate landing page that shows the full destination address. You must click the link in order to visit it.
• The landing page checks the address against the block lists mentioned above in case it has been listed since the short url was created.
• The landing page provides a link that lets you check the McAfee SiteAdvisor rating for the destination address.

Note that the public Internet block lists used to perform the checks described above are not maintained by xaddr.com and we cannot be held responsible for the incorrect classification of any site.

Disclaimer

The operators of xaddr.com disclaim any and all responsibility for the content and any effect of viewing or downloading content linked using this site. Some content that does violate our terms of use may pass the automated checks described above. Although we do carry out periodic spot checks, we cannot undertake to check every link that is created. Please contact us to report any xaddr.com short address that you believe is in violation of our Terms of Use.

Privacy

In common with all other websites, the servers that host xaddr.com log information such as the IP address, time, date and pages viewed of all visitors. This information does not allow xaddr.com to identify users as individuals. xaddr.com does not store any information that could be used to track the addresses visited by any individual.

xaddr.com will not use addresses held in its database for any purpose other than to return the full address of short urls created to them.

Data Retention

In order to maintain a safe and useful short url redirection service, the operators of xaddr.com reserve the right to delete entries at any time, for any reason, without prior warning.

An xaddr.com short url may expect to be deleted:

• Immediately, or as soon as possible, if in our opinion its creation contravenes our Terms of Use.
• After a minimum of two years, if the link has not been used within that period.
• If the web page or resource that it refers to no longer exists.