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Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 2026 · Plain language, no legalese

The short version

We show you your IP address. We don't store your IP address. Every website you visit already sees the information we display — we just make it visible to you.

slash64.io is an IP address lookup tool. Its entire purpose is to show you what information your internet connection exposes to the websites you visit. We collect the minimum data necessary to run the live counters and globe — nothing that can identify you personally.

What we see when you visit

When your browser connects to slash64.io, Cloudflare's network (which powers this site) automatically provides the following — the same information any website receives:

DataExampleSource
IP address203.0.113.42Your internet connection
IP versionIPv4 or IPv6Your internet connection
CountryUSCloudflare geolocation
CityManchester, NHCloudflare geolocation (approximate)
ISP / OrganizationComcastIP registry (ARIN/RIPE)

City-level geolocation is approximate — it reflects where your ISP registered the IP address, which may differ from your physical location by tens or hundreds of miles.

What we store

We store only what is necessary to power the v4 vs v6 race counters. Specifically:

IPv4 dedup key
One-way hash of your IP + today's date + a secret salt
IPv6 dedup key
One-way hash of your /64 prefix + today's date + a secret salt
Coarse location
Latitude/longitude jittered by ~5km — used for the globe pin only
IP version + timestamp
Whether you connected via v4 or v6, and when

The hash is a one-way cryptographic function — it cannot be reversed to recover your IP address. The salt rotates daily, so hashes from different days cannot be linked together. This means we can count unique visitors within a day without storing or identifying who they are.

What we don't store

Your raw IP address
never stored
Cookies
none set
Browser fingerprint
not collected
Personal information
not collected
Search history
not collected
Cross-site tracking
none

The live feed and globe

The globe and live feed show recent visitor activity — city, country, ISP, and IP version. Your visit may appear in the feed. The location shown is the coarse jittered location described above, not your precise location. No IP addresses are ever displayed in the feed.

Feed data is held in memory only and is not written to any persistent database. It resets periodically.

Third parties

ServicePurposeTheir privacy policy
CloudflareHosting, DDoS protection, edge networkcloudflare.com/privacypolicy
Google FontsTypography (JetBrains Mono, Syne)policies.google.com/privacy
VPN providersAffiliate links — only activated if you clickSee each provider's policy

We use affiliate links for VPN providers. If you click a link and make a purchase, we receive a commission at no extra cost to you. These links are clearly labeled. We do not share any data with affiliate partners — the link click itself may be tracked by the affiliate program per their own privacy policy.

Cloudflare's role

slash64.io runs entirely on Cloudflare's infrastructure. Cloudflare acts as an intermediary between you and our servers and processes request data per their own privacy policy. Cloudflare may retain logs of requests per their standard practices. We do not control Cloudflare's data retention.

Children

slash64.io is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect any information from children.

Changes to this policy

If we make material changes to this policy, we will update the "last updated" date at the top of this page. Continued use of the site after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.