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Can you get in trouble for tracking an IP address?
Nope. There’s no specific law preventing someone from targeting you with an IP grabbing tool. Your IP address is pretty much public information at this point – just like your street address or phone number. However, what someone does with your IP address can become illegal.
Are Websites allowed to track IP?
When you connect to a website, that website then sees your IP address. However, websites can’t trace that unique IP address to your physical home or business address. Instead, websites can tie your IP address to your internet service provider, city, region, and even possibly your ZIP code.
What information can website owner track about visitors?
Website owners can view information about you on their website such as what pages you have viewed and for how long. They can also see what source you have come from e.g. if you came to their website from Google, Bing, an email marketing campaign, a PPC ad or if you came to their website direct.
Can people tell if you have visited their website?
There’s just one problem: You can’t see exactly who visits your website. There are plenty of software solutions that say they can show you the exact identity of your website visitors. The reality is that there is no way to reliably identify and contact every anonymous visitor to your B2C or B2B website.
Is it legal to track your IP address?
It was originally thought not, as IP addresses need to be made public to ensure users can access the internet, and very little information can be drawn from just an IP address. However, they remain totally unique to each device, and some businesses can gain personal data from an IP address such as the ISP who assigned it.
How to track IP address of website visitors?
Using the ipstack API you will be able to locate website visitors at first glance and adjust your user experience and application accordingly. The ipstack API is being used by thousands of developers and corporates worldwide to know where the visitors are coming from and change the content based on their location.
Do you have to be public with your IP address?
However, an IP address needs to be public in order to work, and without the personal data held by your ISP matching your name with the IP address, there are very few who can discover your details from nothing but an IP.
Do you have to give consent for logging IP address?
The GDPR requires consent of the subject for collection or storage of personal data (in this case, IP addresses in a log file). No, it does not. To quote Miss Infogeek: GDPR DOES NOT MAKE CONSENT A MANDATORY REQUIREMENT FOR ALL PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA.