Terms of Service

Last Update: 31th July 2024

1. Summary

ipapi.is proudly provides the ipapi.is API for your use, herein referred to as "Customer". We encourage responsible utilization of our API. Please note that any misuse, including but not limited to, creating multiple accounts, engaging in fraudulent activities, or unauthorized use of payment methods, will result in the termination of API keys and accounts. Your cooperation in maintaining the integrity of our services is greatly appreciated.

Subscription fees for paid accounts are either billed monthly or annually, depending on the agreement. Subscribers and ipapi.is may cancel the subscription at the end of each billing cycle (monthly or annually, depending on the agreement). However, we do not offer refunds. The free account tier is designated for testing and development purposes only and must not be used in commercial products. Additionally, creating multiple accounts to increase free tier API credits is prohibited.

You own the personal data that you provide to ipapi.is; we only act as processors of that data. If you require a copy of our Data Processing Agreement (DPA) for GDPR compliance, please reach out to info@ipapi.is.

Please be advised that the Terms of Service ("Terms"), functionalities of the ipapi.is API, and our pricing structure are subject to modification at our discretion. In the event of any changes to our pricing, we will provide you with at least 30 days' prior notice. While we endeavor to inform you about significant alterations to the Terms, we cannot assure comprehensive notification for all updates.

Our commitment at ipapi.is is to offer high-quality data through the ipapi.is API, striving for accuracy and reliability. Despite our best efforts, we acknowledge that inaccuracies may occur. As such, ipapi.is shall not be liable for any damages or losses resulting from the use of the ipapi.is API. It is important to understand that using the ipapi.is API and its services is at your own risk, and ipapi.is cannot be held responsible for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages arising from such use.

2. API Data and Database Usage Terms

ipapi.is provides IP intelligence "Database Products" to its customers. These products are databases in CSV or MMDB format, available for purchase and download:

  • Business Subscription
  • IP to Hosting Database
  • IP to Geolocation Database
  • IP to ASN Database
  • IP to VPN Database

Additionally, ipapi.is offers "API Data Subscriptions," allowing you, "the Customer," to query any IPv4 or IPv6 address via the ipapi.is API.

In summary, ipapi.is provides two classes of products:

  • "Database Products"
  • "API Data Subscriptions"

For both product classes, ipapi.is permits you, "the Customer," to use the product data as follows: After purchasing the product, you may use and process all data to support internal business processes. Examples of internal business processes include:

  • Using data from the API to block a malicious client in your service or app.
  • Blocking a client with an IP address listed in the IP to Hosting Database.
  • Geolocating clients with the IP to Geolocation Database and using this information to make internal business decisions, such as redirecting a client from the US region to the US section of your website.
  • Displaying enriched IP data in your backend, ensuring the data is not visible to the general public.
  • Displaying specific data samples to the public without allowing them or third parties to enumerate or query the full dataset. Publicly displayed data should never exceed 10% of the complete database.

In summary, you are permitted to use ipapi.is databases internally within your organization to support business processes, provided that a significant portion of the database (more than 5%) is not exposed or published outside your organization.

2.1. Business Subscription

The business subscription is described here: Business Subscription.

The business subscription contains all the data that is necessary to obtain the same data as using the API directly. Database formats are either in CSV, JSON or MMDB.

Most databases are updated on a daily basis. Some database are not updated on a daily basis, but at least once per week. For example, the geolocation database is not updated daily, since the underlying data does not change that often. The Abuser IP Database, which sources the is_tor, is_proxy and is_abuser fields is updated on a daily basis for instance.

2.2. Restrictions and Prohibited Uses

You are strictly prohibited from the following uses of ipapi.is data and databases:

  • Reselling or Redistribution: You may not resell, sublicense, lease, rent, or distribute ipapi.is data to third parties in any form, including but not limited to, exact copies or trivially modified versions of the data.
  • Public Sharing: You may not publish or disclose ipapi.is data in a manner that allows the general public or third parties to access a significant portion of the data. Publicly displayed data should never exceed 5% of the complete database.
  • Data Manipulation: Modifying the data in a trivial manner (e.g., adding a column without removing any original columns) to disguise its source or to facilitate redistribution or resale is prohibited.
  • External Access: You may not grant third parties access to the ipapi.is databases or API data, whether through APIs, web services, or any other form of data sharing mechanism.
  • Cloning and Derivatives: Creating derivative databases or products that allow extraction or reconstruction of the original ipapi.is data or a significant portion of it is not allowed.
  • Unauthorized Use: Using ipapi.is data for any purposes other than those explicitly permitted in these terms, including but not limited to, using the data in a manner that violates any applicable laws or regulations.

2.3. Data Protection and Security

You must implement reasonable security measures to protect ipapi.is data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Storing data in a secure manner that prevents unauthorized access or leaks.
  • Ensuring that only authorized personnel within your organization have access to the data.
  • Regularly reviewing and updating your security practices to align with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
  • Encrypting data at rest and in transit using industry-standard encryption methods.
  • Implementing access controls and authentication mechanisms to ensure only authorized use of the data.

2.4. Compliance and Auditing

You agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations regarding the use of ipapi.is data. ipapi.is reserves the right to audit your use of the data to ensure compliance with these terms. You must provide reasonable assistance and access to information necessary for such audits. Any identified non-compliance must be promptly corrected at your expense.

2.5. Termination of Use

ipapi.is reserves the right to terminate your access to its databases and API services if you violate any of these terms. Upon termination, you must immediately cease all use of the data and delete any copies in your possession. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in legal action to enforce compliance.

2.6. Amendments to Terms

ipapi.is may amend these terms from time to time. Any amendments will be communicated to you and will become effective upon such notice. Continued use of ipapi.is products after such notice will constitute your acceptance of the amended terms. If you do not agree to the amended terms, you must discontinue use of the services and notify ipapi.is of your intention to terminate your subscription.

3. Accepting these Terms

If you access or use the Service, it means you agree to be bound by all of the terms. So, before you use the Service, please read all of the terms. If you don't agree to all of the terms, please do not use the Service. Also, if a term does not make sense to you, please let us know by e-mailing info@ipapi.is.

If you are accepting these terms on behalf of an organization, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind the organization to these terms. If you do not have such authority, you must not use the Service on behalf of your organization.

4. Changes to these Terms

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. For instance, we may need to change these Terms if we come out with a new feature or for some other reason.

Whenever we make changes to these Terms, the changes are effective immediately after we post such revised Terms (indicated by revising the date at the top of these Terms) or upon your acceptance if we provide a mechanism for your immediate acceptance of the revised Terms (such as a click-through confirmation or acceptance button). It is your responsibility to check ipapi.is for changes to these Terms.

If you continue to use the Service after the revised Terms go into effect, then you have accepted the changes to these Terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, you must stop using the Service and notify us of your decision to terminate your subscription.

5. Privacy Policy

For information about how we collect and use information about users of the Service, please check out our privacy policy available at https://ipapi.is/privacy.html.

6. Third-Party Services

From time to time, we may provide you with links to third party websites or services that we do not own or control. Your use of the Service may also include the use of applications that are developed or owned by a third party. Your use of such third party applications, websites, and services is governed by that party's own terms of service or privacy policies. We encourage you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policy of any third party application, website or service that you visit or use.

7. Creating Accounts

When you create an account or use another service to log in to the Service, you agree to maintain the security of your password and accept all risks of unauthorized access to any data or other information you provide to the Service.

If you discover or suspect any Service security breaches, please let us know as soon as possible.

8. Your Content & Conduct

Our Service allows you and other users to post, link and otherwise make available content. You are responsible for the content that you make available to the Service, including its legality, reliability, and appropriateness.

When you post, link or otherwise make available content to the Service, you grant us the right and license to use, reproduce, modify, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute your content on or through the Service. We may format your content for display throughout the Service, but we will not edit or revise the substance of your content itself.

Aside from our limited right to your content, you retain all of your rights to the content you post, link and otherwise make available on or through the Service.

You can remove the content that you posted by deleting it. Once you delete your content, it will not appear on the Service, but copies of your deleted content may remain in our system or backups for some period of time. We will retain web server access logs for a maximum of 7 days and then delete them.

You may not post, link and otherwise make available on or through the Service any of the following:

  • Content that is libelous, defamatory, bigoted, fraudulent or deceptive;
  • Content that is illegal or unlawful, that would otherwise create liability;
  • Content that may infringe or violate any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of privacy, right of publicity or other intellectual or other right of any party;
  • Mass or repeated promotions, political campaigning or commercial messages directed at users who do not follow you (SPAM);
  • Private information of any third party (e.g., addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers and credit card numbers); and
  • Viruses, corrupted data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files or code.

Also, you agree that you will not do any of the following in connection with the Service or other users:

  • Use the Service in any manner that could interfere with, disrupt, negatively affect or inhibit other users from fully enjoying the Service or that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the functioning of the Service;
  • Impersonate or post on behalf of any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
  • Collect any personal information about other users, or intimidate, threaten, stalk or otherwise harass other users of the Service;
  • Create an account or post any content if you are not over 13 years of age years of age; and
  • Circumvent or attempt to circumvent any filtering, security measures, rate limits or other features designed to protect the Service, users of the Service, or third parties.

ipapi.is Materials

We put a lot of effort into creating the Service including, the logo and all designs, text, graphics, pictures, information and other content (excluding your content). This property is owned by us or our licensors and it is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. We grant you the right to use it.

However, unless we expressly state otherwise, your rights do not include: (i) publicly performing or publicly displaying the Service; (ii) modifying or otherwise making any derivative uses of the Service or any portion thereof; (iii) using any data mining, robots or similar data gathering or extraction methods; (iv) downloading (other than page caching) of any portion of the Service or any information contained therein; (v) reverse engineering or accessing the Service in order to build a competitive product or service; or (vi) using the Service other than for its intended purposes. If you do any of this stuff, we may terminate your use of the Service.

10. Hyperlinks and Third Party Content

You may create a hyperlink to the Service. But, you may not use, frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any of our trademarks, logos or other proprietary information without our express written consent.

ipapi.is makes no claim or representation regarding, and accepts no responsibility for third party websites accessible by hyperlink from the Service or websites linking to the Service. When you leave the Service, you should be aware that these Terms and our policies no longer govern.

If there is any content on the Service from you and others, we don't review, verify or authenticate it, and it may include inaccuracies or false information. We make no representations, warranties, or guarantees relating to the quality, suitability, truth, accuracy or completeness of any content contained in the Service. You acknowledge sole responsibility for and assume all risk arising from your use of or reliance on any content.

11. Legal Information

THE SERVICE AND ANY OTHER SERVICE AND CONTENT INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED TO YOU ON AN AS IS OR AS AVAILABLE BASIS WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. WE DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS (EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ORAL OR WRITTEN) WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE AND CONTENT INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE WHETHER ALLEGED TO ARISE BY OPERATION OF LAW, BY REASON OF CUSTOM OR USAGE IN THE TRADE, BY COURSE OF DEALING OR OTHERWISE.

IN NO EVENT WILL ipapi.is BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICE OR ANY OTHER SERVICE AND/OR CONTENT INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR ARE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CAUSES OF ACTION AND UNDER ALL THEORIES OF LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO ipapi.is. THIS SECTION WILL BE GIVEN FULL EFFECT EVEN IF ANY REMEDY SPECIFIED IN THIS AGREEMENT IS DEEMED TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from and against any and all costs, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including attorneys' fees, costs, penalties, interest and disbursements) we incur in relation to, arising from, or for the purpose of avoiding, any claim or demand from a third party relating to your use of the Service or the use of the Service by any person using your account, including any claim that your use of the Service violates any applicable law or regulation, or the rights of any third party, and/or your violation of these Terms.

12. Copyright Complaints

We take intellectual property rights seriously. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and other applicable law, we have adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances and, at our sole discretion, access to the service for users who are deemed to be repeat infringers.

13. Governing Law

The validity of these Terms and the rights, obligations, and relations of the parties under these Terms will be construed and determined under and in accordance with the laws of the Laws of Germany, without regard to conflicts of law principles.

14. Jurisdiction

You expressly agree that exclusive jurisdiction for any dispute with the Service or relating to your use of it, resides in the courts of the Country of Germany and you further agree and expressly consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction in the courts of the Country of Germany located in Berlin in connection with any such dispute including any claim involving Service. You further agree that you and Service will not commence against the other a class action, class arbitration or other representative action or proceeding.

15. Termination

If you breach any of these Terms, we have the right to suspend or disable your access to or use of the Service. In case of such termination, you must cease all use of the Service and delete any data obtained from the Service. We may also terminate your access to the Service at our discretion, with or without notice, if we believe your use of the Service poses a security risk, violates any applicable law, or could adversely impact ipapi.is or its users.

Upon termination, all provisions of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination shall survive, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity, and limitations of liability.

16. Entire Agreement

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and ipapi.is regarding the use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and ipapi.is relating to your use of the Service.

17. Feedback

Please let us know what you think of the Service, these Terms and, in general, ipapi.is. When you provide us with any feedback, comments, or suggestions about the Service, these Terms and, in general, ipapi.is, you irrevocably assign to us all of your right, title, and interest in and to your feedback, comments, and suggestions, including any intellectual property rights therein.

You agree that ipapi.is is free to use your feedback, comments, and suggestions in any manner and for any purpose, without any restriction or obligation to you.

18. Questions & Contact Information

Questions or comments about the Service may be directed to us at the email address info@ipapi.is.