Is a Will You Be My Valentine link safe to open?

It opens in your browser. There's no app to install.

On a free card you tap to open an envelope, then see your name and "Will you be my Valentine?" with a Yes and a No button. Tap Yes and a short celebration plays. After that the page offers to let you build a letter of your own. That's optional, and you can just close the tab.

A custom letter can have more in it: the sender's own words, photos, a date plan, or a voice note that only plays when you press play.

Free card. The address is myvalentine.to/ followed by your name. The name in the address is how the page knows what to show, and MyValentine doesn't save free cards as letters. Anyone who has the link sees the same card. Chat apps can show the name in the link preview. MyValentine asks search engines not to list these name pages.

Custom letter. The address is myvalentine.to/v/ followed by a 12-character code. The letter is stored with the sender's account, and anyone with the link can read it, see its photos and play its voice note.

Reply link. If someone answered you, the address starts myvalentine.to/response/ and includes both names.

Nothing, if you only opened the link. As the person who received it, you won't be asked for:

• your name or email
• a password or sign-in
• a card number or any payment
• an app download

The privacy notice puts it plainly: "We do not ask for your name or email." Making a custom letter of your own is different. That needs an email sign-in and a one-time payment through Stripe. Opening a link, or sending a free reply, never does.

On a free card, no. Free cards don't report your taps to anyone.

On a custom letter, yes. The sender is told whether the letter was opened and how many times, whether you tapped Yes, how many times you tapped No, and which option you picked. MyValentine doesn't record who opened it. All of this is in the privacy notice under "If someone sent you a link".

1. Look at the full address before you open it. On a phone, press and hold the link. On a computer, hover over it.
2. The part right after https:// must be exactly myvalentine.to. A name that looks close is a different site.
3. Ask the person in the same chat if you weren't expecting it.
4. Still unsure? Paste the address into a link checker you trust before opening it.

Close the page if it asks you to log in to "verify" something, enter card details, claim a prize, or install an app. MyValentine pages don't do any of that.