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Privacy policy

Last updated: June 17, 2026.

This document describes what dnsprobe (the “Service”) collects, why, and what choices you have. Plain language, no legalese pretending to be plain language.

Who runs this site

dnsprobe is operated by Info Media (Italy). Contact for any privacy enquiry: [email protected].

What we store on our servers

  • Probe results, keyed by domain only. When you run a probe, the DNS and TLS responses are written to a server-side file cache under a key like probe:example.com:2026051908. The TTL is one hour. A “latest result” copy is kept for up to seven days so the public /check/{domain} landing pages have content.
  • No association with your IP, user-agent, fingerprint or any identifier. The cache key is the hostname you typed in — nothing else. We do not log who probed what.
  • Web-server access logs rotate on a 14-day cycle and contain only what your browser sends (IP, request line, status, referer, UA) for security/abuse detection. They are never aggregated to personal profiles.

What we do NOT collect

  • Account data — there is no signup.
  • Your IP at the application layer (we don’t store it alongside the probe).
  • Cross-site tracking identifiers of our own.

Third-party services

To cover hosting costs and understand traffic at the page level we rely on a small number of third parties. These are listed exhaustively below.

Google AdSense

Ads on the results and per-domain landing pages are served by Google AdSense (publisher ID ca-pub-7438321394486031). AdSense uses cookies and similar storage to serve and personalise ads, measure delivery, and detect fraud. Google’s policy: policies.google.com/technologies/ads. You can opt out of personalised advertising at google.com/settings/ads or use the EU consent dialog above where applicable.

Google Analytics 4

We use GA4 with IP anonymisation enabled (anonymize_ip: true). GA helps us see which posts/pages people actually use so we can write more of what helps. No User-ID, no demographic linking, no advertising-feature signals.

Google Consent Management Platform

For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and other regulated regions, ad personalisation and analytics consent are gated through Google’s certified Consent Management Platform. You can change or withdraw consent at any time via the “Cookie settings” link in the footer.

Cookies

This site does not set any first-party tracking cookies. Cookies you may see in your browser come from Google AdSense and Google Analytics. See the cookie policy for the full table.

Legal basis (GDPR)

  • Service operation — legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)): running probes you explicitly request.
  • Advertising & analytics — consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) where required by your jurisdiction.
  • Security logs — legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)).

Your rights

Under GDPR you have the right to access, rectify, erase, port and restrict the processing of your personal data, and to object to processing. Because we do not store identifiers tied to you, access/erasure requests against the probe cache are technically meaningless — there is nothing “about you” to return or remove. For AdSense/GA-side data, please use Google’s data subject request flows.

You may also lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority. In Italy, the supervisory authority is the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (garanteprivacy.it).

Data retention

  • Probe cache: 1 hour (full result), 7 days (latest copy for landing pages).
  • Web-server logs: 14 days.
  • Analytics: per Google’s default (typically 14 months).

Transfers

Application servers are hosted in the EU. Google services (AdSense, Analytics) involve transfers to the United States under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.

Changes

If the way data is handled changes, this page will be updated and the “Last updated” date bumped.

Contact

[email protected]