Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 2026

This is the privacy policy for the WhatIsMyIP API (whatismyip.technology/api) and its documentation site (whatismyip.codes). It’s short because we don’t do much.

What We Collect

Nothing.

Seriously. The API processes your IP address to return geolocation data, but it does that in memory. The lookup happens, the response gets sent back, and everything is forgotten. There is no database of requests. No log file with your IP in it. No analytics table tracking who looked up what.

Cookies

None. This site doesn’t set any cookies. The API doesn’t set any cookies. There are no session cookies, no tracking cookies, no “we use cookies to improve your experience” banners. Because there are no cookies.

Analytics

None. We don’t run Google Analytics, Plausible, Fathom, Matomo, or any other analytics tool on this site. We don’t count visitors. We don’t track page views. We don’t know how you got here and we don’t particularly care, in the nicest possible way.

Third Party Services

The API runs on Vercel’s edge network. Vercel may process standard HTTP metadata (like IP addresses in access logs) as part of their infrastructure. Their privacy policy covers that. We don’t access those logs for analytics or tracking purposes.

The documentation site is served through Cloudflare’s CDN. Same deal. Standard infrastructure stuff.

CORS

The API sends Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * on every response. This means any website can call the API from browser JavaScript. We mention this here because it means the API doesn’t restrict which domains can access it. Your browser makes the request directly. We see the request, process it, and forget it.

IP Address Handling

When you call the API without specifying an IP, it reads your IP from the incoming request to perform the lookup. That IP is used in memory for the geolocation query and is included in the JSON response sent back to you. It is not stored, logged, or saved anywhere on our end.

When you call the API with a specific IP address (like 8.8.8.8), your requesting IP is not stored either. The lookup target gets processed and the result gets returned. Nothing gets written to disk.

Data Retention

Zero. We retain zero data about API usage. There’s no retention policy because there’s nothing to retain.

Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy, you can reach us through outline.ad.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update it here. But honestly, “we don’t collect anything” is a pretty stable policy.