Privacy Policy
whatismineip.com ("we", "us") is a free tool that shows visitors their own public IP address and the approximate location associated with it. We designed it to process as little data as possible. This policy explains what is processed, by whom, and the choices you have.
1. The IP lookup itself
When you visit the homepage, your browser sends your public IP address to our server — this happens automatically with every website you visit anywhere on the internet; it's how the web works. We use it for exactly one purpose: to display it back to you, together with the approximate location, provider and network details derived from it.
- We do not require accounts, names, or email addresses.
- We do not build profiles of visitors or sell visitor data.
- Lookup results are shown to you and are not stored in a database by us.
2. Server logs
Like virtually all websites, our web server keeps standard, short-lived access logs (IP address, requested page, timestamp, browser user-agent) for security monitoring, abuse prevention and troubleshooting. These logs are rotated automatically and are not used for marketing or shared with third parties except where required by law.
3. Geolocation and map services
- IP geolocation — your approximate location may be resolved using a local geolocation database on our server, or your browser may query the third-party service ipwho.is directly to resolve your own IP. In the latter case, ipwho.is receives your IP address (which any service you connect to necessarily receives) solely to return its location data.
- Map display — the location map is embedded from OpenStreetMap. When the map loads, your browser connects to OpenStreetMap's servers, which is subject to the OSM Foundation privacy policy.
IP-based location is approximate (typically city-level) and is never your exact address.
4. Advertising (Google AdSense)
This site is funded by advertising served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to serve and measure ads, and — where you have consented or where permitted — to personalise them based on your visits to this and other websites.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
- You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, and manage other vendors' cookies at aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com (EU).
- For details on how Google uses data from sites that use its services, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
Visitors in the EEA/UK/Switzerland may be shown a consent message before personalised ads are served, in line with Google's EU user consent policy.
5. Cookies
We do not set first-party tracking cookies ourselves. Cookies you may encounter on this site are set by the advertising services described above. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time; the IP checker works fully without them.
6. Analytics
We currently use no third-party analytics platform. If that changes, this policy will be updated first.
7. Children
This site provides a general-audience network utility and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. We serve no content directed at children.
8. Your rights
Depending on where you live (e.g. GDPR in the EU/UK, CCPA/CPRA in California), you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal data, and to object to or limit certain processing. Since we don't maintain visitor accounts or profiles, most requests will concern the advertising partners listed above — their links include the relevant controls. For anything relating to this site directly, contact us below.
9. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as the site evolves (for example, if we add analytics or new features). The effective date at the top reflects the latest revision.
10. Contact
Questions about this policy or the site: contact@whatismineip.com.