LinkydyEffective October 3, 2026
This policy covers the Linkydy Chrome extension (Chrome Web Store ID pgkcgodejfmhedclkalhoogidgiokhge) and this website. "Linkydy", "we" and "us" mean the team that builds and runs them. Questions or requests: founder@linkydy.com.
The short version
- Your collected leads, notes, statuses and message templates are stored locally in your browser. We don't upload your lead lists.
- Actions on LinkedIn run in your own logged-in browser session. Your LinkedIn password and session cookie never reach our servers.
- We receive data only when a feature needs it: your account email (for credits), a profile link when you click Find Email, post text when you ask the AI to draft a comment.
- The extension sends anonymous usage and error statistics so we can fix what breaks. You can turn this off with one switch.
- We never sell data and never use it for advertising.
1. Data stored only in your browser
The extension keeps the following in Chrome's local extension storage on your device: prospects you collect (name, headline, company, LinkedIn member ID), notes, statuses, tags, message templates, campaign history, your settings, and a summary of your own LinkedIn profile used to personalize the dashboard. This data is not sent to us. It is deleted when you remove the extension or clear its data, and you can export it to CSV at any time.
To act on your behalf, the extension reads LinkedIn's session cookie and uses it only for requests from your browser to linkedin.com. Linkydy never asks for your LinkedIn password.
2. Data sent to our servers to run features
| When | What is sent | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You sign in in the extension popup | Your email address; your LinkedIn public profile identifier | To keep your free credits and paid plan in sync and prevent abuse of free credits |
| You click Find Email / Find Phone | The LinkedIn profile link of that person, your account email, and your Apollo.io API key if you added one | To look up business contact details with our data provider (Apollo.io) and return them to you |
| You ask the AI to draft a comment or reply | The text of that post, the tone/language/instructions you chose, your account email | To generate the draft with an AI model provider and return it to you |
| You buy a plan | Payment is handled entirely by Stripe; we receive your email and plan | To activate your plan |
We also keep a log of a few account events (for example sign-in, upgrade and checkout clicks) together with your account email, so we can answer support requests and activate purchases. This log is covered by the usage-statistics switch in section 3.
Our backend runs on Render (United States). Contact lookups are performed by Apollo.io and AI drafts by our AI model provider; each receives only what is needed for that request.
3. Anonymous usage and error statistics
To learn which features work, where setup gets stuck and when LinkedIn changes break something, the extension sends usage statistics to Google Analytics 4. Each event contains:
- a random installation ID created by the extension (not linked to your name or email);
- the event itself — e.g. "collection completed: 25 profiles added", "connection request: sent / rate-limited", "panel failed to appear on a search page", "paywall viewed";
- technical context: extension version, browser language, which extension or LinkedIn page type it happened on (e.g. "search results"), and coarse counts such as "50–199 saved profiles";
- for errors: the error message and file name, with links, email addresses and long identifiers removed.
Statistics never include names, emails, profile links, search keywords, message or post text, notes, or API keys. Google may use your IP address to derive an approximate country; Google Analytics 4 does not store IP addresses. Statistics are retained for up to 14 months.
Once a day the extension also sends a short "still installed" signal with the same anonymous ID and coarse counts, which tells us how many people keep using Linkydy.
Turning it off: open the Linkydy popup and untick Share anonymous usage stats (also on the welcome page). This stops usage statistics, error reports, the account event log and the uninstall parameters described below. Every feature keeps working.
4. When you uninstall
Chrome opens linkydy.com/uninstall/ after you remove the extension. Unless you turned statistics off, the address includes the extension version, your install date, whether you had a paid plan, and how far you got in setup (e.g. "collected first leads"). It contains no installation ID or personal data. The short survey on that page is optional; anything you type there is sent to us only if you press Send.
5. AI agents (MCP)
If you connect an AI agent through the Linkydy MCP server, the extension talks to that server over a local connection on your own computer (127.0.0.1). Commands and results do not pass through Linkydy servers. The AI app you use (for example Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor) processes what you ask it to under its own privacy policy.
6. This website
linkydy.com uses Google Analytics to count visits and clicks on links such as "Add to Chrome". It sets no advertising cookies.
7. What we never do
- Sell or rent personal data, or use it for advertising or credit decisions.
- Transfer it to third parties except the service providers named above, to provide the feature you used, or when the law requires it.
- Upload your lead lists or LinkedIn session.
The use of information received from Chrome APIs adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
8. Retention, deletion and your rights
Local data stays on your device until you delete it or uninstall the extension. Account data (email, credits, plan) is kept while your account is active and deleted on request. Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR or CCPA) you can ask to access, correct, export or delete your data, or object to processing — email founder@linkydy.com and we will reply within 30 days. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
Our processing is based on providing the service you asked for (account, contact lookups, AI drafts) and on our legitimate interest in keeping the extension working and improving it (statistics, which you can switch off).
9. Children
Linkydy is a business tool and is not intended for anyone under 16.
10. Changes
If we change what the extension collects, we update this page and the date above before the new version ships. Significant changes are also announced in the extension.