Cookie Policy
Last Updated: November 30, 2025
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide a better user experience, as well as to provide information to the website owners.
Cookies typically contain two pieces of information: a site name and unique user ID. When you visit IPInfoService, our server sends a cookie to your device, which allows us to recognize your device on subsequent visits.
How We Use Cookies
IPInfoService uses cookies for various purposes to enhance your experience and improve our service. Below is a detailed explanation of how and why we use cookies:
1. Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
- Session management and user authentication
- Security and fraud prevention
- Load balancing and server routing
- Remembering your cookie consent preferences
Duration: Session cookies (deleted when browser closes) or up to 1 year
2. Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us improve the way our website works.
- Counting visitors and tracking page views
- Understanding how users navigate through the site
- Identifying which pages are most and least popular
- Measuring website performance and load times
- Detecting and diagnosing technical errors
Duration: Up to 2 years
3. Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personalized features.
- Remembering your preferences (language, region)
- Storing your dark/light mode preference
- Remembering your recently searched IP addresses
- Keeping your settings across sessions
Duration: Up to 1 year
4. Targeting and Advertising Cookies
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites.
- Delivering advertisements relevant to your interests
- Limiting the number of times you see an advertisement
- Measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns
- Understanding your browsing habits across websites
Duration: Up to 1 year
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Service and deliver advertisements on and through the Service.
Third-Party Services We Use:
- Google Analytics: To analyze how users interact with our website and improve user experience
- IP Geolocation Providers: To provide accurate IP location information
- Content Delivery Networks (CDN): To ensure fast and reliable content delivery
- Advertising Networks: To display relevant advertisements (if applicable)
These third-party services have their own privacy policies and cookie policies. We recommend reviewing their policies to understand how they use cookies and protect your privacy.
Types of Cookies We Use
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| session_id | Maintains user session | Session | Essential |
| cookie_consent | Stores cookie preferences | 1 year | Essential |
| theme_preference | Remembers dark/light mode | 1 year | Functionality |
| _ga | Google Analytics tracking | 2 years | Analytics |
| recent_searches | Stores recent IP searches | 30 days | Functionality |
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences in several ways:
Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can set your browser to:
- Block all cookies
- Accept all cookies
- Notify you when a cookie is set
- Delete cookies after you finish browsing
How to Manage Cookies in Popular Browsers:
- Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and Security → Cookies and other site data
- Mozilla Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
- Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
- Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies
- Opera: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and other site data
Important: Blocking or deleting cookies may impact your experience on our website. Some features may not function properly without cookies enabled.
Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" (DNT) feature that signals to websites you visit that you do not want your online activity tracked. Currently, there is no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals.
We do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Cookie Policy.
Cookies and Personal Data
While cookies themselves do not typically contain personal information, they may be linked to personal data stored on our servers. Any personal data collected through cookies will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
We implement appropriate security measures to protect cookie data from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.
We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies.
Contact Us About Cookies
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
IPInfoService
Email: support@ipinfoservice.com
You can also reach us through our Contact page
Your Consent
By using our website, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with this Cookie Policy. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, you should disable them by following the instructions in the "Managing Your Cookie Preferences" section above, or you should not use our website.