These terms cover cardlinks.co (“the site”), including the card maker, the templates, the guides and the tools. By using the site you agree to them. Cards and paid custom links made before the card maker moved to cardlinks.co keep working until they expire, and these terms cover them too. They are written in plain language on purpose; if something is unclear, ask.
The site lets you create an interactive birthday card from a title, names, an age, a message, and optionally a photo and an unlock date. It gives you a link to share. Whoever opens the link sees the card. The card and any photo are deleted automatically seven days after creation. Making a card is free and requires no account. An optional paid upgrade, described in section 6, gives a card a link you choose.
You keep ownership of anything you put in a card. By creating a card you give the site permission to store, process, and display that content to anyone who opens the link, for as long as the card is live (seven days, or a year for a paid card), which is what is needed to deliver the card and nothing more. You confirm that you have the right to use what you upload, including any photo of another person.
Do not use the site to create or share a card that:
Do not attempt to overload the service, bypass its limits, scrape it, or access cards that were not shared with you. The site may cap the number of cards created from one network address in a given period.
A card that breaks these terms may be removed without notice. Anyone can ask for a card to be removed early, including the person it is about, through the contact page. Removal requests are handled before anything else.
Cards are temporary by design. Once a card expires or is removed, its content and photo are gone and cannot be recovered. If you want a permanent copy, take a screenshot or screen recording while the card is live. The site is not responsible for content lost through expiry, removal, or outages.
When you create a card you can choose to pay for its link. The price is shown on the form before you pay: ₹79, paid by UPI or a card issued in India. For that you get:
Delivery. The upgrade is digital and immediate: the link works as soon as the payment is confirmed, usually within seconds and at most a few minutes. Nothing is shipped.
Payment. Payments are processed by Razorpay, and tips sent with PayPal by PayPal. The site never sees your card number, UPI PIN, PayPal login, or bank details.
Refunds and cancellation. Payments are final: there are no refunds and no cancellations once you have paid, including for a card removed for breaking section 3. If the link you paid for does not work, or someone else ended up with the name while you were paying, it will be fixed, or set up under another name you choose, at no extra cost. Ask through the contact page and include the card's link.
Tips. “Buy me a chai” is an optional tip of ₹25 or more through Razorpay, or of US$1 or more paid with PayPal on PayPal.me. A tip buys nothing and changes nothing on the site, and like the custom link it is final: tips are not refunded.
The site is provided as is. It is a personal project run by one person, and there is no promise that it will be available at any particular time, free of bugs, or suitable for any particular purpose. To the fullest extent the law allows, the site and its maker are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of it. Nothing here limits liability that cannot legally be limited.
The site uses Cloudflare for hosting and analytics, Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics for usage statistics, Razorpay for payments, and may show advertising through Google AdSense. Those services have their own terms and privacy practices. How the site itself handles data is described in the privacy policy.
The guides and templates are general writing help, not advice for any particular situation, and you use them at your own discretion. You are welcome to use any wording from them in your own cards and messages. Republishing the guides themselves, in whole or in substantial part, requires permission.
These terms may change as the site changes. The date below is updated when they do. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the new terms.
Questions about these terms go to the contact page.
Last updated: November 12, 2026