Privacy Policy
Last Revision: May 2026
1. Professional Data Handling
Pingdo does not purposefully collect, store, or sell personal identifiable information (PII). In our diagnostic tools, IP addresses are used solely for the technical execution of ping requests within your local browser environment. This data is volatile and is never written to our persistent databases.
2. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising
To keep our engineering tools free to the public, we utilize Google AdSense to serve advertisements. Google and its partners use cookies to serve ads based on your visit to this site and other sites on the internet.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visitingAds Settings.
- Users may also opt out of interest-based advertising through the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt-out page.
3. Data Collection Details
During your visit, the following data types may be collected through automated means such as cookies and tracking technologies:
- IP addresses (anonymized)
- Browser type and version
- Pages visited and time spent
- Referring URL
- Device type and operating system
- Interaction with advertisements
4. Web Beacons & Tracking Pixels
Google AdSense and Google Analytics may use web beacons (also known as tracking pixels or clear GIFs) to collect information about page visits and ad interactions. These are small, transparent images embedded in pages that communicate back to Google's servers when loaded.
5. GDPR Data Subject Rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), users within the European Economic Area (EEA) have the following rights:
- Right to Access — You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Right to Rectification — You can request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- Right to Erasure — You can request that we delete your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to Restrict Processing — You can request that we limit the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to Data Portability — You can request a copy of your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
- Right to Object — You can object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
6. CCPA Privacy Rights
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California residents have the following rights:
- Right to Know — You have the right to know what personal data is collected, used, shared, or sold.
- Right to Delete — You have the right to request the deletion of personal data collected from you.
- Right to Opt-Out — You have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information. Pingdo does not sell personal data to third parties.
California residents may exercise these rights by contacting our support team at any time.
7. Do Not Track (DNT) Policy
Pingdo respects Do Not Track (DNT) browser signals. When your browser sends a DNT: 1 header, advertising cookies are not set during your visit.
8. Analytics & Cookies
We use Google Analytics (GA4) with anonymized IP processing to understand aggregate traffic patterns. This helps us decide which engineering tools require expansion or optimization. We do not track individual behavior.