Privacy Policy

What this service is

LinkkWinkk is accessible as a mobile web platform, a Progressive Web App (PWA) that you can add to your phone's home screen, and through downloadable applications on official mobile app stores (such as Google Play and Apple App Store). It matches people who travel the same route, share similar professional goals or interests, show each other a short profile, and let them message to arrange a meetup, whether on the go during a commute or at a scheduled location. That is the whole of the product.

Who operates this service

LinkkWinkk is operated by Kinexis Network Private Limited, a registered company recognized by India Startups, based in Maharashtra, India. For any privacy question, correction, or request to delete your account and data, write to linkkwinkk@gmail.com. A person reads that address and you will get a reply.

LinkkWinkk is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by LinkedIn. LinkedIn is used only as a way to sign in, exactly as described below.

Signing in: two ways, and we never see a password

You can sign in with LinkedIn, or with an email address. Both are described below.

When you tap Continue with LinkedIn, your browser or app leaves our interface and goes to www.linkedin.com. You sign in there, on LinkedIn's own pages, and LinkedIn sends you back to us. Your LinkedIn password is typed into LinkedIn and never into LinkkWinkk.

When you tap Continue with email instead, you type your email address on this site/app and we email it a six-digit code. You type that code back, and that proves the inbox is yours. The code works once, for ten minutes; only a scrambled form of it is stored. We refuse temporary, throwaway inboxes and addresses whose domain cannot receive mail. If your address is the one on your LinkedIn account, signing in this way opens that same profile.

No page or screen on LinkkWinkk has a password field of any kind, not for LinkedIn, not for us. If you are ever asked for a password on a page or app screen that says LinkkWinkk, you are not on this service.

We email you the sign-in code only in the minute after you ask for it. We send no SMS. We will never phone you, message you or email you asking for a code, and nobody from LinkkWinkk will ask you to read one out. If you receive a LinkkWinkk code you did not ask for, ignore it: nobody can sign in without typing it here.

The permissions we request at LinkedIn's consent screen are the three standard OpenID Connect sign-in scopes: openid, profile and email. LinkedIn shows you that list before you agree, and you can decline it there.

Things this service never asks you for, on any screen:

• A password, for LinkedIn or for anything else
• Card, bank or UPI details, or any other payment information
• A government identity number or a photograph of an identity document
• A one-time code that some other company sent you, or our own code anywhere but the sign-in screen

What we read from LinkedIn

Signing in with LinkedIn is how we know you are a real, named professional rather than an anonymous account. We ask LinkedIn for the standard sign-in permissions and nothing more, and what LinkedIn hands back is exactly three things:

• Your name
• Your profile photo
• Your verified email address, and whether LinkedIn has confirmed it

That is the whole of it. We also receive an identifier LinkedIn uses for your account with us, so that signing in again recognises you instead of creating a second account.

At the moment you sign in we make two requests to LinkedIn: one to its OpenID Connect userinfo endpoint, which returns those fields and no others, and one to download your profile photo from LinkedIn's image server. There is no background sync, and nothing that runs against your LinkedIn account afterwards.

Why we keep a copy of your photo. The photo link LinkedIn gives us stops working after a few weeks, so we store a copy of the image and show that to other signed-in members. It is replaced each time you sign in with LinkedIn, is never shown to anyone you have blocked or who has blocked you, and is deleted with your account.

What LinkedIn does not give us, and what we therefore cannot know from it:

• Your employer or company
• Your job title, role or headline
• Your work history, positions or dates
• Your years of experience or seniority
• Your skills, education, connections or connection count

Your role and company are yours to enter, and they stay self-declared. We do not confirm them against anything, not against LinkedIn, and not against a work email, because we do not ask for one.

What we never do with your LinkedIn account

• We never ask for your LinkedIn password, and we never receive it.
• We never post anything, anywhere, on your behalf.
• We never message your contacts.
• We never read your connections, and we never show them to anyone on your line.
• We never keep your LinkedIn access token after sign-in. It is used once and discarded.

What else we collect

• Your commute and travel patterns: the areas you travel between and the hours you travel, which matching runs on. Where your commute starts is rounded to about 500 metres and never shown to anyone else.
• Professional interests and networking intent: what you tell us about your goals, industry focus, topics of interest, and why you are looking to connect with other professionals.
• Your profile details: what you share about yourself, such as your role, company, experience band, and interests.
• What you send and arrange: your messages and the files you share in chats, the meetups and trips you propose or agree to, and your vehicle details if you choose to add them.

The app does not ask for a phone number and we do not ask for a work email. Screens that once asked for both, and the four-digit code that went with them, were removed on 6 September 2026. The checks this service performs are signing in with LinkedIn, and, if you sign in by email, receiving a code at that address. Your role and company are never checked against either.

Email sign-in was added on 27 September 2026. Since then we email you the sign-in code, and, if your phone could not be sent a notification about a request, a message or a meetup, the same notification by email. You can turn those emails off in Settings. We send no SMS. If this ever changes, this page changes first.

Filling your profile from your resume (optional)

Because LinkedIn's sign-in does not share your work details, you can upload your resume or the PDF LinkedIn makes of your own profile (on your profile: More, then Save to PDF), as a PDF or a Word file. We show you what we found: your name, current role and company, headline, work history and skills. Nothing is saved unless you tap Use these, and then only those fields. The file itself is never stored. Education, contact details and anything else in it are left out of your profile.

To read it, the file is sent once to Anthropic, the company that makes the Claude AI model, which extracts those details and sends them back to us. Anthropic does not use it to train its models and keeps it only for a limited time to operate and secure its service. If you would rather not, type your details instead.

Your email is never shown to other members

No member ever sees another member's email address, whether it came from LinkedIn or you typed it to sign in. Members see your name, photo, role, company, experience band, professional interests, and whether you signed in with LinkedIn or with a confirmed email. Nothing else.

Safety, Meetups, and Limitation of Liability

LinkkWinkk provides a platform for professionals to connect regarding shared commutes, professional interests, or networking intent. We verify professional identities via LinkedIn or email sign-in, but we do not conduct formal background checks, criminal record screenings, or identity vetting.

You are solely responsible for your interactions, meetings, and travel arrangements with other members.

Kinexis Network Private Limited, LinkkWinkk, and its affiliates accept no liability whatsoever for any loss, injury, accident, delay, dispute, or damages arising out of offline meetings, shared commutes, or interactions initiated through the platform. Always exercise standard personal safety judgment.

Who we share data with

We do not sell your data. We do not share it with advertisers. We do not use it to train machine-learning models.

Your data is held on secure servers we operate in India. The only third parties involved are:

• LinkedIn, for sign-in.
• Anthropic, for optional resume parsing.
• The provider of the servers we run on.
• Hostinger, whose mail service sends our emails.
• Google's and Apple's push services, which deliver notifications to your phone. A notification is encrypted before it leaves us.

They process data on our instruction and for no purpose of their own.

Payments

LinkkWinkk does not handle payments at all. We do not collect, hold, process or route money, we take no commission, and we ask for no payment details: no card, no bank account, no UPI ID. If members choose to share a travel cost or expense between themselves, that is entirely between them and happens nowhere near this service.

How long we keep things

• Your account and profile: for as long as your account exists.
• Sign-in sessions: 30 days, then they expire and are deleted.
• Messages and meet history: for as long as your account exists.
• Server logs, which include IP addresses: 30 days.

When you delete your account, your profile, commute, professional intent data, messages and verification records are deleted. Deleting from the app removes them straight away; a request by email is completed within 30 days. We may keep a minimal record of a safety report where we are required to, and we will tell you if that applies to you. See account deletion.

The website and the waitlist

When you join the waitlist on linkkwinkk.com we keep your email address and, only if you give them, your mobile number, city and the kind of phone you use, plus your choices about testing, the newsletter and WhatsApp or SMS alerts. Each choice is off unless you tick it. We also keep a short label for where you came from, such as "linkedin", never the full address of the page.

We send you a confirmation link first; if you never open it, your entry is deleted after 30 days. After that we email you once at launch with the store link, and send the newsletter only if you asked for it. WhatsApp and SMS alerts are sent only if you asked for them and only once we can send them. Every email has a link to change your choices or leave the list, and leaving deletes your entry straight away. Joining the waitlist creates no account. This website sets no cookies; see the Cookie Policy.

Your Rights and Governing Law

You can ask us to show you what we hold about you, correct anything wrong, or delete your account entirely. Write to linkkwinkk@gmail.com and we will act within 30 days. You do not need to give a reason, and asking costs you nothing.

This privacy policy and any disputes arising under it shall be governed by the laws of India, with exclusive jurisdiction resting with the courts located in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Beta

LinkkWinkk is in closed beta. If we change what we collect, we will update this page and tell existing members before the change takes effect.

Children

LinkkWinkk is for working professionals and is not intended for anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

How to check this page against the app or site

Everything above is meant to be checkable by opening the platform rather than taken on trust.

• Open any screen and look for a password field. There is not one anywhere.
• Look for a phone number field in the app. There is not one. The only code you type is the sign-in code we email you.
• Tap Continue with LinkedIn and read the address bar or system prompt. It directs to LinkedIn's own domain, and the permission list LinkedIn shows you is the one named above.
• Look for a place to enter a card, a bank account or a UPI ID. There is not one, on any screen. No amount of money appears anywhere in the product.
• Look for software downloads or installers (other than standard browser home-screen shortcuts or official app store listings). There are none.
• Write to linkkwinkk@gmail.com with anything this page does not answer.