The GDPR-compliant link-in-bio page.

Why privacy matters for a link in bio

A link in bio sits right at the front: it's the one page you link everywhere, and everyone in your community lands on it. Whatever data is collected on that page happens under your name — even though the technology behind it comes from a provider.

That's the part most people miss: as the operator of your page, you share responsibility under data protection law for what gets loaded there. If your provider deploys tracking technologies that require consent, you are the one who needs that consent, not them. A link in bio without such tracking takes that problem off your plate instead of passing it to you.

Is Linktree GDPR-compliant?

There's no clean yes or no here, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling you something. Linktree is an established provider with a published privacy policy, a data request form and the usual data subject rights. What matters isn't whether a provider writes “GDPR-compliant” on their site, but whether the actual processing fits your use case.

According to their own privacy policy, Linktree is an Australian company (Linktree Pty Ltd, Collingwood VIC) and transfers personal information to Australia, the United States and other countries where it does business. The data collected includes IP address, device type, unique device identifiers, browser type and broad geographic location; cookies and similar technologies are used for analytics and advertising purposes.

None of that is unlawful in itself — Articles 44 ff. GDPR provide mechanisms for third-country transfers. But it does mean effort and residual risk on your side: you have to reflect those transfers in your own privacy policy and deal with the question of consent. When the provider and its servers sit in the EU and no advertising tracking takes place, that part simply falls away.

Privacy isn't an upgrade

With klixly, GDPR compliance is the default, not a premium feature. We run no cross-site tracking, set no marketing cookies on your visitors and store no plaintext IP addresses — for click stats we use daily-rotating, anonymised hashes that can't be traced back to an individual.

That means you get meaningful analytics without turning your community into tracking subjects — and without having to cobble together a consent banner. Less friction for your visitors, less legal risk for you.

Hosted in Europe, your data in Germany

Your account and bio data sit on servers in Germany, not in a US data centre. There's no upstream proxy in a third country and no tracking network reading along in the background.

For businesses and anyone serious about privacy that's a real difference: transfers to third countries under Articles 44 ff. GDPR — the classic sticking point with non-European services — simply don't arise, instead of having to be covered by contractual clauses.

What third parties load on your page

We have third-party content too — an embedded YouTube video, a Spotify player. The difference is when it loads: with klixly you first see only a preview, and the player is fetched only after your click. Until then, none of your visitors' IP addresses reach the video provider.

Profile pictures and thumbnails from such embeds also run through our own server rather than loading directly from the external platform. It sounds like a detail, but it's exactly the point where most pages give away data unnoticed.

Check it for yourself

You don't have to take our word for it — you can verify the important points yourself in a few minutes, with us as with any other provider.

1. 1Open any bio page with your browser's developer tools (the “Network” tab) and see which external domains it connects to.
2. 2Check the “Application” tab for which cookies are set and how long they last.
3. 3Read the provider's privacy policy sections on third-country transfers and on advertising/analytics technologies.
4. 4Check whether you can export your data yourself — directly in your account, or only on request.

Moved over from Linktree in minutes

Switching sounds like work — it isn't. Your links transfer quickly, and you only need to swap your shared URL in the places that matter. With a custom domain, even the address stays the same.

1. 1Sign up free and claim the username you want (klixly.app/yourname).
2. 2Bring your links across from the old tool — title, target URL and order rebuilt in minutes.
3. 3Style the page your way: colours, layout and profile picture.
4. 4Publish and put your new URL into Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and the rest — or connect your own domain, and the address stays unchanged.

Your data belongs to you

You can download your complete data as a GDPR export at any time — on every plan, including the free one, straight from your account and without filing a request form. And with your own domain, the address of your bio page belongs to you, so you don't lose the links you've spread everywhere when you switch. No lock-in, no holding your reach hostage.

Everything you'd expect from a modern link in bio

Privacy doesn't mean going without at klixly. You get freely customisable themes, a grid layout, analytics without a tracking wall, newsletter and contact forms, a tipping function and multiple pages under one account.

The free tier includes 2 bio pages and is enough for most people. Pro unlocks the rest for €4 a month (or €36 a year) — up to 10 pages, custom colours and advanced analytics.

Link tree, link list, link in bio — same principle

You'll see landing pages like this called a “link tree,” a generic term derived from the provider name Linktree. It always means the same thing: a page at a fixed address that bundles all your important links.

Anyone searching for a “GDPR-compliant link tree” means exactly what this page is about — just in different words.