Linktree Privacy Notice 2026: What It Shares With OpenAI

Linktree's current Privacy Notice took effect on 5 July 2026 and is live now. It lets Linktree share your profile picture, a summarized biography and your engagement metrics with OpenAI in response to ChatGPT searches. EU profiles are carved out of parts of it, and account settings now carry a switch to stop third-party sharing altogether.

What does Linktree's Privacy Notice say about OpenAI?

The clause sits in the section listing who Linktree discloses your information to, and it names OpenAI directly:

"with third party applications and services that integrate with Linktree, such as OpenAI. For example, individuals can search for User Profiles using the Linktree app within ChatGPT, and we may share basic profile information, a summarized biography, profile picture, engagement metrics, and other relevant data in response to those queries."

In plain language: Linktree runs a ChatGPT integration. When someone searches for a person inside ChatGPT and your profile is a match, Linktree hands OpenAI your basic profile information, a generated summary of your bio, your profile picture, your engagement metrics, and "other relevant data." That is search-result enrichment, not image-model training. Linktree's public MCP server at mcp.linktr.ee confirms this is a productized integration, not an experiment.

Can you stop Linktree sharing your data with OpenAI?

Yes. The Privacy Controls section now includes an explicit third-party sharing switch:

"Data sharing: You may choose to stop sharing your information with third parties through your account settings. This will disable any further data sharing with Linktree's business partners and third party integrations (such as integrations that provide access to the Linktree Services through other applications, like ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or other connector/integration compatible tools)."

Two limits are stated in the same paragraph, and both matter more than the switch itself:

"Stopping data sharing will not affect any information already shared with third parties or limit how those third parties use such information in accordance with their own policies. Once information has been shared with a third-party AI provider or application at your direction, that provider may retrain and process the information in accordance with its own terms and privacy policies, even after you disconnect the integration from Linktree."

So the control is forward-only: anything already sent is gone, and the receiving provider's terms govern it from there. Linktree also warns that switching sharing off "may affect your access to certain monetisation opportunities and reduce the discoverability of your User Profile on third party applications or services." That is the trade.

Which AI tools does Linktree name?

This is the part that has moved since the documents first went live. The Privacy Notice no longer talks only about ChatGPT:

"if you choose to authorize or enable third party services, applications or tools to connect or interact with the Linktree Services on your behalf, such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other third party tool, we collect information from that platform in order to perform the actions you authorize on your Linktree."

A separate paragraph spells out what a connected assistant can do once authorized: "creating, updating, deleting or reorganizing links, modifying your profile or appearance settings, updating social integrations, retrieving analytics, or managing multiple profiles." That is write access to your live page, granted to a chatbot. It only applies if you connect one, and Linktree puts the responsibility on you: "You are responsible for reviewing and approving the instructions you provide to connected AI applications."

Does Linktree train AI on your content?

Two separate clauses, and neither says what the viral version said.

The Privacy Notice names internal training in the section on how Linktree uses your data for itself:

"To inform, train and improve our algorithms so we can deliver the most relevant recommendations and content to you, including User Profiles that you may be interested in."

That is Linktree-internal recommendation modelling on creator data, not OpenAI. Separately, Section 14 of the Terms, titled "Generative AI," covers Linktree's own AI features and says Linktree "may process and store Inputs and Output (including conversation history) and share them with service providers (including AI model providers) for providing, maintaining, securing, and improving the AI Features." That purpose list is non-exhaustive, which is the broad part. Our breakdown of Linktree's AI training policy covers those clauses line by line, and the AI Insights chat is the feature they were written for.

Are EU users excluded?

Partly, by the policy's own wording. Two clauses in the sharing section, including the OpenAI one, close with the same sentence:

"Certain integrations or data-sharing features may not be available in all regions, including for Users or User Profiles located in the European Union."

"May not be available" is a hedge, not a guarantee, but the direction is clear: EU-located profiles get a carve-out that non-EU profiles do not. Linktree also states it may transfer personal information to Australia, where it is headquartered, and to the United States. If jurisdiction is your concern, our Schrems III checklist for EU creators covers it properly.

What did the viral post get right?

The story started with a Bluesky post, widely reposted on Tumblr, claiming Linktree would be "feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI." Against the live text: the 5 July date was right to the day, and the OpenAI integration is real, with profile picture among the listed fields. But "DALL-E" was the misread, since the clause describes a ChatGPT search integration rather than image-model training, and "all imagery on your landing page" overshot a policy that names one field, "profile picture." Directionally right, factually loose.

What should you check in any bio tool's terms?

This is the durable part, and it works whether you stay, leave, or are choosing for the first time.

1. License grant on uploaded content. Perpetual? Sublicensable? For what purposes?
2. Training language. Is there a clause permitting user content to train models or improve algorithms, and is there an opt-out?
3. Named third parties. Vague "partners" language is weaker than a named list. Linktree naming OpenAI, Claude and Cursor is, oddly, a point in its favour.
4. Whether the control is forward-only. Almost every opt-out is. Assume anything already shared stays shared.
5. Jurisdiction, data transfers, and how much notice you get before changes.

If you also run your own site, our free robots.txt generator handles the adjacent question of which AI crawlers can read it.

How does Linkero compare?

Full disclosure: I make Linkero, so treat this as posture rather than a promise.

Linkero has no AI feature. No generator, no chat, no insights assistant, which means no product that takes your inputs and passes them to a model provider, and no chatbot integration shipping creator profile data outward. Pages are served from the EU on linke.ro, and our privacy policy limits third-party sharing to service providers doing work on our behalf.

What I will not claim is that our terms contain explicit no-AI-training language, because they do not. The honest version is an absence rather than a written commitment: there is no AI product here to train on your content. Read our policy yourself before taking my word for it. For the feature comparison, we keep one at Linktree vs Linkero.

Should you leave Linktree over this?

There are three reasonable answers now, where in June there were two.

Switch the sharing off and stay. If the integration is the only thing bothering you, the account-settings control resolves it going forward. That was not a documented option when the story broke.

Decide on the diff. Linktree links the prior version of both documents beside the current ones, so a side-by-side read is easy. Our 2026 playbook breakdown covers the wider direction of travel.

Leave. If the friction had already stacked up (the price rises, the TikTok unsafe-URL flag, the broader trust questions) this is a fair last straw, and a forward-only opt-out does not undo what was already shared. Our migration walk-through covers moving without breaking your links.

FAQ

Does Linktree share my data with OpenAI?

Yes, if third-party sharing is enabled on your account. The Privacy Notice says Linktree "may share basic profile information, a summarized biography, profile picture, engagement metrics, and other relevant data" with integrated services such as OpenAI, in response to searches made through the Linktree app inside ChatGPT.

When did Linktree's Privacy Notice take effect?

5 July 2026. Both the Privacy Notice and the Terms carry that effective date, and both say that continuing to use Linktree on or after it counts as agreement. The prior versions remain linked beside the current ones.

How do I stop Linktree sharing my data with third parties?

Through your Linktree account settings, using the data-sharing control described in the Privacy Notice. It disables further sharing with business partners and third-party integrations, but does not claw back anything already sent, and Linktree warns it may reduce your profile's discoverability and monetisation options.

Is Linktree training DALL-E on my bio page images?

No. The clause covers a ChatGPT search integration that shares your profile picture among other fields when someone searches for you, not training of an image-generation model. Linktree's own AI features are governed separately by Section 14 of the Terms.

Are EU users affected?

Less than everyone else, by the policy's own wording. Two clauses, the OpenAI one included, say certain integrations and data-sharing features "may not be available" for users or profiles located in the European Union.