Privacy Policy

Who operates ShowIP.net

ShowIP.net is operated by Techbase. Contact: dan@techba.se.

Data we process

• Your public IP address, request host, user agent, browser and operating-system hints, selected request headers, and query parameters needed to answer the request.
• IP addresses, CIDR networks, domain names and user-agent strings you enter into lookup tools.
• Approximate network, ASN, and location data derived from MaxMind GeoLite2 data when available.
• Browser requests to OpenStreetMap tile servers when an approximate location map is loaded.
• First-party analytics events such as page views, endpoint clicks, copy actions, referrer path, visitor ID, session ID, and timestamps. Product-event metadata is intentionally small and should not contain raw IPs, headers, cookies, tokens, or lookup payloads.
• Server-side operational metrics for public routes, including request method, route path without query string, route group, status code, timestamp, low-cardinality user-agent category/family, and a daily HMAC requester key when configured. These records do not store raw client IP addresses, raw user-agent strings, headers, cookies, request bodies, or lookup values.
• Google Analytics measurement and consent-mode pings on public browser pages where Google Analytics is enabled. With denied analytics storage, Google tags are configured not to read or write analytics cookies.
• Administrator account data, sessions, and security events when an operator logs in to private admin screens.
• Advertising and consent data processed by Google AdSense, Google Privacy & messaging/Funding Choices, and advertising partners when ads or consent messages are shown.

Why we process it

• To show your public IP address, approximate network/location, and request details.
• To calculate CIDR/network details and provide machine-readable endpoint responses for scripts, tools, and AI agents.
• To keep the service reliable, debug errors, prevent abuse, and understand which tools are useful through first-party analytics, server-side route visibility, and Google Analytics where configured.
• To operate advertising and consent flows that fund the free public service.
• To secure administrator access and internal analytics screens.

Third parties

DNS tools send submitted names or addresses to DNS resolvers. The DNS comparison tool sends the domain and record type from ShowIP’s server to Cloudflare and Google Public DNS over HTTPS, without forwarding your browser’s IP address as an EDNS client subnet. The connection test contacts ShowIP’s IPv4-only and IPv6-only endpoints after you start it; these requests omit browser cookies and report the address visible to the service.

Google Analytics may use cookies such as _ga and _ga_<measurement-id> to distinguish visitors and maintain session state. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, analytics storage starts disabled and follows your choice in Google's consent message. Elsewhere, analytics storage is enabled by default. ShowIP.net disables Google Analytics collection when your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, or Google Analytics has already been disabled for this property. With analytics storage denied through consent settings, Google's consent mode can still send cookieless measurement pings.

Google and other advertising vendors may use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads, measure ads, prevent fraud and abuse, and personalize ads where consent and settings allow. OpenStreetMap tile servers receive normal browser requests when a map is loaded. MaxMind GeoLite2 data is used locally by ShowIP.net to estimate network and location details.

Google's Analytics cookie guidance explains the common GA4 cookies and default durations.

Google's AdSense privacy guidance asks publisher privacy policies to disclose Google and third-party advertising cookie use and personalized advertising choices. Google's EU user consent policy also requires legally valid consent for cookies/local storage and personal-data use for ads personalization where required.

Your choices

• Public tools and endpoints do not require a ShowIP.net account.
• You can use the plain text and JSON endpoints to avoid loading the browser map UI.
• You can manage Google Analytics and advertising choices in Google's ad settings and, where shown, through the Google consent message.
• You can block or delete cookies in your browser, but administrator login and some consent choices may stop working.
• You can contact us to ask about access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, or portability rights that may apply to your data.

See the Cookie Policy for a practical list of cookies and similar technologies used by ShowIP.net.

Retention and accuracy

IP geolocation is approximate and usually points to an ISP or network location, not an exact device location. First-party statistics retain individual server request records for 14 days and browser events, visitor/session details, requester observations, and hourly statistics for 90 days. Daily summaries are kept for two years; simple lifetime counters contain no visitor identifiers. Expired records are removed by scheduled maintenance. Backups may temporarily retain older records for recovery. These periods apply to ShowIP.net’s own statistics, not Google’s separate services.