This policy explains what personal data ipaddress.ae (“we”) processes when you use the website, why, how long we keep it and what your rights are. It reflects how the software behind this site actually works (see How it works) and is written with the UAE’s Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data in mind. Visitors in the European Union or the United Kingdom may also have rights under the GDPR.
Information we process and why
IP address and request headers. To show you your IP address, network and approximate location, our server reads the IP address of the incoming connection and the headers your browser sends (such as the user agent and preferred languages). We use them only to answer your request and to protect the site from abuse.
- The application does not store your IP address. For rate limiting it keeps a keyed hash in memory that is rotated every day.
- Network, routing, location and Tor data for your address come from datasets stored on our own server. Your address is not sent to any IP intelligence service.
- To show reverse DNS and registration data, your IP address is included in a DNS query to a recursive resolver and in an RDAP request to the regional internet registry responsible for it. The site operator can switch these live lookups off for visitors’ own addresses.
Lookups you perform. IP addresses, domain names and AS numbers you enter are answered from our own datasets where possible; DNS and registration lookups are sent to the name servers and registries that hold the answer (for .ae domains, the .ae Domain Administration’s WHOIS service). We do not keep a history of your lookups. Results are cached in memory for a limited time without any link to you.
Tools that contact other servers. The TLS, HTTP header, security header and redirect tools connect from our server to the public address you enter. The email DNS check and the DNS tools only send DNS queries. The WebRTC leak test asks Cloudflare’s public STUN server for your address from your browser — only when you start the test — so Cloudflare sees your IP address. The latency test only sends requests to our own server. Addresses in a bulk lookup are processed in memory and not stored.
Aggregate statistics. We count page views per page and per day, with lookup values removed from the path. No IP address, cookie or identifier is stored. Counting is skipped when your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control.
Contact form. If you write to us, we store your name, email address, subject and message so we can reply. Messages are deleted at the latest 12 months after receipt. The form may use Cloudflare Turnstile to prevent spam; in that case Cloudflare processes technical data about your browser.
Server logs. Our hosting infrastructure may keep short-lived technical access logs (including IP addresses) for security and troubleshooting. The application itself writes no visitor IP addresses to its logs.
Cookies and third-party services
We set no tracking cookies. If you switch language, a cookie remembers your choice. If the site operator enables Google Analytics or Google AdSense, these services are loaded only after you consent in the banner, and you can change your choice at any time. Google’s processing is described in Google’s privacy policy.
Storage, security and transfers
The information we keep (contact-form messages and anonymous counters) is stored on our own server and protected by access controls. Lookup values, including your IP address when you look it up, can reach DNS resolvers and internet registries that answer RDAP and WHOIS queries; many of them are outside the UAE. They receive only what is needed to answer the query. If the site operator connects optional commercial data providers, they are listed with their status on How it works.
Your rights
You can ask for access to the personal data we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it or to stop processing it. Because we do not store visitor IP addresses or lookup histories, in most cases there is no personal data we could provide, correct or delete; contact-form messages are the exception. Use the contact form for any privacy request.
Changes
We will update this page when the way the site processes information changes. The date at the top shows the latest revision.