Privacy policy

Last updated: June 2026

The short version: we don’t keep our own server-side log that ties your IP address to your visit. When you load the site, our edge endpoint reads your IP to show it back to you, then discards it. However, this is a free, ad-supported site, so we use third-party analytics, advertising, and affiliate services — and those third parties do collect data, including your IP, under their own policies. This page explains exactly what runs and what you can control.

What we collect ourselves

Our own tools are built to read your IP and connection details, display them to you, and store nothing server-side that links your IP to your session. The WebRTC leak test and other in-browser checks run entirely on your device — what they detect is not transmitted to us. We do not sell data, and we do not maintain our own marketing database about you.

Third-party services we use

To keep the site free, we rely on the following third parties. Each receives some data directly from your browser (which, by the nature of how the web works, includes your IP address) and processes it under its own privacy policy, not ours:

• Google Analytics 4 — measures site traffic and usage so we can understand which tools and guides are useful. It uses cookies and similar identifiers. See Google’s privacy policy for how it handles this data.
• Google AdSense — serves advertisements. Google and its partners may use cookies and your IP to show and measure ads, including personalised ads where permitted. You can manage Google ad personalisation in your Google account’s ad settings.
• Adsterra — an additional advertising network that may serve ads on some pages. Like other ad networks, it may use cookies and your IP to deliver and measure advertising under its own policy.
• Affiliate links — some links to third-party products or services (for example, in our guides) are affiliate links. If you click one and take an action such as signing up or purchasing, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. The destination site, and any affiliate-tracking partner, may set cookies or record the referral. We only link to things we’d genuinely point you to; the commission doesn’t change our recommendation.

We don’t control how these third parties process your data once your browser contacts them. We encourage you to review their privacy policies if you’d like the full detail.

Cookies & your consent

The analytics and advertising services above use cookies and similar technologies. We run Google Consent Mode v2 and gate non-essential cookies and storage behind your consent where required — for visitors in the EU, EEA, UK, Switzerland, and California, non-essential analytics and ad storage are denied until you agree. Outside those regions, analytics is granted by default and you can still decline. You can also clear or block cookies in your browser at any time, though some features may work less well.

Advertising & personalisation

Ads shown via Google AdSense and Adsterra may be personalised based on data those networks hold about you, where you’ve consented and where it’s permitted in your region. Where consent is required and not given, you should see non-personalised ads instead. You can opt out of personalised Google advertising through Google’s ad settings, and manage broader ad personalisation via industry tools such as the relevant ad-choices pages for your region.

Your choices

You can decline non-essential cookies via the consent prompt, opt out of personalised ads through the networks’ settings, use your browser’s privacy controls, and — if you’d rather mask your IP from every site including the third parties above — use a VPN (see our guide to hiding your IP). Depending on where you live, you may also have rights to access or delete data held about you; for data held by the third parties, those requests go to them directly.

Changes to this policy

If we add or change a service, we’ll update this page and the “last updated” date above.

Contact

Questions about this policy: [email protected].