For app users
What is public web data?
The anyIP SDK consent dialog says business customers use your internet connection and IP address to fetch public web data. Here is what that means, with examples, and what it never includes.
Public web data is what a website shows to any visitor who opens it: no account, no password, no payment, no special access. When a business customer sends a request through your connection, the website returns the same page it would return to a regular visitor in your country. Websites often show different prices, ads, and search results depending on where the visitor is, so customers want to see what you would see.
- The price of a London to New York flight on an airline's website.
- The average review score of a product on an e-commerce site.
- The text of an ad on a social network, and the page it links to.
- The results for a search such as "best pizza in town".
- A public marketplace listing, checked to see whether it is counterfeit.
Nothing on your device is read, collected, or reachable through your connection.
- Your messages, photos, files, contacts, or passwords.
- Your browsing, or anything you do in the app.
- Your identity or device details. Customers receive the page content and the country the request came from, nothing else.
- Anything behind a login, a paywall, or another access control.
- Banking, other financial-institution, and government websites, which are blocked by default.
Personal data is information about you: your name, your email, what you do on your device. Public web data is information a website publishes for everyone. The one piece of personal data involved when you opt in is your IP address, because that is how the internet routes any request, and the website being fetched sees it. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle it.
The Approved Use Policy has the full rules, Approved use cases lists what customers use the data for, and How it works and the FAQ cover the rest. Declining changes nothing in the app, and you can opt out at any time after saying yes.