Privacy Policy
isitdownrightnow.app shows whether apps and websites are working, based on problem reports from users. You don’t need an account. The site shows ads from Google AdSense and counts visits with Google Analytics, and Google uses cookies for both. This page lists everything the site stores in your browser, which services receive data when you visit, and what you can do about it.
What the site stores in your browser
The site sets no cookies of its own. It saves a few small items in your browser, each only after you press the button that needs it, and they never leave your device. Google sets cookies for the ads and for Google Analytics, and Cloudflare, which delivers the site, sets a cookie only if it has to show you a security check.
| Name | Part of the site | What it’s for | How long | Needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
theme |
Every page: the sun and moon button in the header | Remembers whether you chose the light or dark look. | Until you clear this site’s data | Only if you use it |
alert: and the service, e.g. alert:discord |
Service pages: the “Alert me” button | Remembers which services you want alerts for, so the page keeps checking their status while it is open and tells you when it changes. | Until you switch alerts off | Only if you use it |
| Notification permission (a browser setting) | Service pages: the “Alert me” button | Your browser’s record of whether you allowed this site to show notifications. | Until you change it in your browser’s site settings (switching alerts off doesn’t reset it) | Only if you use it |
pt-history |
Ping test | Your last 10 results (time, server, ping, jitter and lost pings), shown under “Your recent tests”. | Until you press Clear or clear this site’s data | Only if you run a test |
Google advertising cookies, e.g. __gads, __gpi, IDE (set by Google) |
Any page that shows ads | Let Google show ads, limit how often you see the same one, measure them and fight ad fraud. Where the law requires it, personalised ads only with your consent. | Up to 13 months | No |
Google Analytics cookies, _ga and _ga_ followed by an ID (set by Google’s script on this site) |
Every page | Tell a returning browser from a new one and group page views into visits, so we can count visitors and see which pages they use. They hold a random ID, not your name. In the EU/EEA, the UK and Switzerland they are set only after you agree. | Up to 13 months | No |
cf_clearance, cf_chl_* (cookies set by Cloudflare) |
Any page, but only after Cloudflare shows you a security check, which happens during attacks on the site | Proves you passed the check, so you can reach the site without being checked again. | About 30 minutes | Yes, for security |
Apart from Google’s ad and analytics cookies, nothing is stored when a page simply loads. The Google Analytics cookie lets Google tell that the same browser came back to this site; it works on this site only, and the site itself uses nothing to recognise you. You can block or clear this site’s data at any time. The site keeps working, in the dark theme and without alerts or saved test results.
Services that receive data when you visit
- Cloudflare delivers every page and protects the site from attacks, so it handles your IP address and browser details for each request. For visitors whose connection goes through a Cloudflare data centre outside the EU/EEA, Switzerland and the UK, Cloudflare Web Analytics also measures how fast pages load; Cloudflare says it uses no cookies or local storage for this. On the ping test page, Cloudflare tells your browser your IP address, country and nearest data centre so the page can show them to you; we don’t save them.
- Google AdSense shows the ads. Every page loads Google’s ad script, so Google receives your IP address, browser details and the page you are on, and can read and set its cookies. In the EU/EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google asks for your consent before showing personalised ads. See how Google uses data from sites that use its services.
- Google Analytics counts visits. Every page loads Google’s analytics script, which sends Google the page you opened and the page you came from, your browser, device and screen size, your approximate location (worked out from your IP address, which Google Analytics does not store) and the random ID in its cookie. We use it only for visit statistics: how many people use the site, which pages they read and how they found them. In the EU/EEA, the UK and Switzerland the script sets no cookies until you agree in Google’s consent message; until then it sends only measurements without cookies, which Google uses for estimates. Google processes this data, also in the United States, and keeps visit-level data for at most 14 months.
- Our hosting provider runs the web server in Frankfurt, Germany. Like any web server it may keep technical logs of requests, such as the time and the page requested. We don’t use them to profile visitors.
- Amazon Web Services receives requests only when you run the ping test with an Amazon server, or the world test: your browser then times answers from Amazon’s servers in up to 33 regions. They receive your IP address, but no cookies and not the page you came from.
- The service’s own website receives one request only when you press “Check from your device” on a service page: your browser asks that website (for example discord.com) whether it answers. The request carries no cookies and no referrer, so the service learns only what any visit to its site tells it, such as your IP address. The result appears on the page only. It is not sent to us and nothing is stored.
Fonts, website screenshots, X profile pictures and service logos are all served from this site, so they don’t contact Google, WordPress.com or X. The ads and Google Analytics are the exceptions: they come from Google.
Information our server collects from other services
To build the pages, our server, not your browser, fetches public information from other services: problem-report counts from a public outage-reporting service, official status pages, recent posts from services’ X accounts (through the FxEmbed service), website screenshots (WordPress.com), logos (Google and DuckDuckGo), reachability checks (check-host.net) and network records. These requests contain nothing about you.
Website checks and status badges
When you use the website check, our server in Frankfurt, Germany opens the home page of the address you typed (and up to 3 redirects). The website you check sees a request from our server, not from you. To reuse a fresh result and to allow each visitor 10 checks a minute, we keep the address and a shortened hash of your IP address in a small file on our server for about a minute; entries older than a minute are removed the next time anyone runs a check. The address you check is part of the page address, so it can also appear in the hosting provider’s technical logs described above.
Other websites can show one of our status badges, a small image with a service’s current status. When you open a page that shows one, your browser loads the image from our server, and our hosting provider may log that request like any other (see above). The badge sets no cookies and runs no scripts. Your browser usually tells our server which site the badge is on (the referrer), and our hosting provider may log that with the request.
Links to other sites
Links to services’ own websites, status pages and social media accounts open only when you click them, and we don’t pass on the address of the page you came from. The site you visit applies its own privacy policy.
Your choices and rights
- To remove everything listed above, clear this site’s data in your browser settings. On the ping test page, Clear removes your saved results.
- To change or withdraw your consent for ads, use the privacy settings link Google shows on the site, or turn off personalised ads at adssettings.google.com.
- To stop Google Analytics, decline or withdraw consent through the same Google privacy settings (EU/EEA, UK and Switzerland), block cookies for this site, or use Google’s opt-out browser add-on.
- To stop alerts, press “Alerts on” on the service page. To withdraw the notification permission, open your browser’s site settings for isitdownrightnow.app.
- We don’t run accounts or keep profiles. The personal data involved is the technical server logs described above and the visit data in Google Analytics, which is tied to a random ID, not to your name. Under data protection law, such as the GDPR in the EU and the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, you can ask for access to or deletion of personal data we hold, and you can complain to the data protection authority where you live.
This policy is effective as of 29 October 2026. We update this page whenever the site starts storing or sharing anything new.