14 October 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how IPScanner collects, uses, and protects your information. By using the Service, you consent to this policy.
We collect information you provide, such as your name, email address, billing information, and content you send through our support channels.
We collect technical and behavioral data such as IP lookup history, timestamps, request patterns, browser info, and referral sources for analytics, abuse prevention, and feature optimization. We may also record on-site session activity (pages viewed, clicks, and mouse movements) using third-party analytics tools to understand how the Service is used and improve usability.
We use your data to: (a) operate and improve the Service, (b) process billing, (c) respond to support requests, (d) prevent abuse, and (e) send transactional emails. We never sell your data. In some places, such as California, our ad measurement may count as "sharing" under US state privacy laws. You can opt out at any time with Your Privacy Choices in the site footer or by turning on Global Privacy Control in your browser.
We may use third-party processors to operate the Service, including Stripe (payment processing and credit purchases), Cloudflare (network and security), email delivery providers, and analytics and advertising platforms (Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Google Ads; Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising). Stripe is our payment processor and receives the payment and billing details needed to take the payment; we remain the seller and merchant of record. These vendors are contractually required to handle your data securely and lawfully.
We retain your data as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described above or as required by law. Logs related to abuse or fraud may be retained longer. When you send an email address to the email check (directly or through Form Gate), we use it to answer and do not store it. The domain and the result are kept in the request log for 365 days, like other requests.
We use encryption, access controls, and monitoring systems to protect your data. However, no system is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee absolute protection.
If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR apply to your personal data. For the purposes of this regulation, IPScanner acts as the data controller for account and usage data, and as a data processor for data you submit when performing lookups via the API.
We process personal data under the following lawful bases: (a) performance of a contract, to provide the Service you sign up for; (b) legitimate interests, to secure, maintain and improve the Service and prevent abuse; (c) legal obligation, to comply with applicable law; and (d) consent for optional cookies and ad measurement where the law requires it, which you may withdraw at any time; elsewhere we rely on our legitimate interest in measuring our advertising, and you may object or opt out at any time with Your Privacy Choices in the site footer.
Subject to applicable law, you have the right to: access your personal data; rectify inaccurate data; erase your data ("right to be forgotten"); restrict or object to processing; data portability; and to withdraw consent. To exercise any of these rights, email privacy@ipscanner.io. We will respond within one month. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority (in the EU) or the Information Commissioner's Office (in the UK).
Your data may be processed outside your country of residence, including in the United States. Where data is transferred out of the EEA or UK, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) to ensure an adequate level of protection.
The Service is not intended for children under 16. We do not knowingly collect data from minors. If we learn we have collected such data, we will delete it.
We may revise this policy periodically. We will notify you of significant changes by email or a notice on our site.
In the EEA, the UK, Switzerland and Turkey, optional cookies load only after you allow them in the cookie banner. You can change your choice at any time with Manage Cookies in the site footer. Everywhere else, analytics and ad measurement are on by default, and you can switch them off at any time with Your Privacy Choices in the site footer. We treat a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal from your browser as an opt-out of advertising.
When advertising cookies are allowed (in the EEA, the UK, Switzerland and Turkey only after you agree, elsewhere by default until you opt out), we keep the ad click ID (gclid, gbraid, wbraid or msclkid) and campaign tags from the link you arrived on for 90 days, and store them with your account if you sign up. We may send that click ID with the time and value of a sign-up or purchase to Google or Microsoft to measure our ads. Under the same setting, Google may receive a hashed (SHA-256) copy of your email address for that measurement (Enhanced Conversions). If you decline or opt out, none of this is collected.
| Cookie | Provider | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| next-auth.*, klaro-consent | IPScanner | Necessary | Sign-in and your cookie choice | Session to 180 days |
| ipx_country | IPScanner | Necessary | Remembers your country so the site can adapt to your location | 24 hours |
| ips_aid | IPScanner | Analytics | First-party usage statistics, kept on our own servers | 1 year |
| _ga, _ga_* | Google Analytics | Analytics | Usage statistics, with your consent where required, otherwise until you opt out | Up to 2 years |
| _clck, _clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Analytics | Session analytics, with your consent where required, otherwise until you opt out | Up to 1 year |
| _gcl_au, _gcl_aw, _gcl_gb | Google Ads | Advertising | Links a sign-up or purchase to the ad click, with your consent where required, otherwise until you opt out | 90 days |
| _uetsid, _uetvid | Microsoft Advertising | Advertising | Links a sign-up or purchase to the ad click, with your consent where required, otherwise until you opt out | Up to 13 months |
| _uetmsclkid | Microsoft Advertising | Advertising | Keeps the Microsoft Ads click ID so a sign-up or purchase can be linked to the ad click, with your consent where required, otherwise until you opt out | 90 days |
| ips_adclick | IPScanner | Advertising | Ad click ID and campaign tags from your landing link, with your consent where required, otherwise until you opt out | 90 days |
IPScanner is a service operated by Minori LLC, 1209 Mountain Road Pl NE Ste N, Albuquerque, NM 87110, United States. Minori LLC is the data controller for the personal data described in this policy. Write to us at contact@ipscanner.io about anything in it.