Latest update: January 4, 2026

Types of Data collected

Among the types of Personal Data that IP Blocker collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: Usage Data, IP addresses, email address, first name, last name, shop domain, and user agent strings.

Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection.

Personal Data may be freely provided by the User (such as shop configuration settings), or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using IP Blocker.

Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by IP Blocker is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for IP Blocker to provide its services. In cases where IP Blocker specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service.

Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.

IP Blocker does not use cookies or third-party tracking tools. The Service operates through Shopify's app infrastructure and processes data only as necessary to provide IP blocking and bot detection functionality.

Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through IP Blocker (such as IP addresses added to blocklists) and confirm that they have the appropriate authority to manage such Data.

Mode and place of processing the Data

Methods of processing

The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.

The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of IP Blocker (administration, technical support, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, hosting providers, IT companies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.

Legal basis of processing

The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:

- Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes. Note: Under some legislations the Owner may be allowed to process Personal Data until the User objects to such processing ("opt-out"), without having to rely on consent or any other of the following legal bases. This, however, does not apply, whenever the processing of Personal Data is subject to European data protection law;

- provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;

- processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject;

- processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Owner;

- processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party.

In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Place

The Data is processed at the Owner's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. Data is stored using Supabase infrastructure, which may be located in various regions.

Depending on the User's location, data transfers may involve transferring the User's Data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred Data, Users can check the section containing details about the processing of Personal Data.

Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis of Data transfers to a country outside the European Union or to any international organization governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by the Owner to safeguard their Data.

If any such transfer takes place, Users can find out more by checking the relevant sections of this document or inquire with the Owner using the information provided in the contact section.

Retention time

Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.

Therefore:

- Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the Owner and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed or the User uninstalls the application.

- Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Owner's legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the Owner.

- Upon app uninstallation or receipt of a GDPR shop redaction request, all shop-specific data including blocked IP lists, configuration settings, session events, and bot observations shall be permanently deleted.

The Owner may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.

The purposes of processing

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Services, as well as for the following purposes: IP blocking and access control, bot detection and automation prevention, analytics and usage monitoring, and shop configuration management.

Users can find further detailed information about such purposes of processing and about the specific Personal Data used for each purpose in the respective sections of this document.

Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data

Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

Shopify Integration

Shopify OAuth and App Bridge

IP Blocker operates as a Shopify application and uses Shopify's OAuth system for authentication. When you install the app, Shopify provides us with your shop information and authentication credentials.

Personal Data collected: email address, first name, last name, shop domain, account owner status, locale preference.

Place of processing: United States and Canada - [Shopify Privacy Policy](https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy)

Database and Storage

Supabase (Supabase Inc.)

Supabase is a database hosting service that stores all application data including shop configurations, blocked IP lists, session tracking data, and bot observations.

Personal Data collected: shop domain, blocked IP addresses, user agent strings (truncated to 400 characters), session identifiers, configuration preferences.

Place of processing: Based on project configuration - [Supabase Privacy Policy](https://supabase.com/privacy)

IP Blocking and Access Control

Manual IP Blocking

Users can manually add IP addresses to their blocklist. These IP addresses are stored with an optional label and timestamp.

Personal Data collected: IP addresses, custom labels provided by the User.

Session Tracking

When a blocked visitor attempts to access the storefront, the app may record the session event for analytics purposes. This includes the visitor's IP address, a session identifier, the reason for blocking, and the timestamp.

Personal Data collected: IP addresses, session identifiers, block reason codes.

Bot Detection and Automation Prevention

Bot IP Range Detection

The app maintains a database of known bot and automation IP ranges (such as data center IPs from major cloud providers). When bot detection is enabled, visitor IPs are checked against these ranges.

Personal Data collected: IP addresses (for matching purposes only, not stored unless flagged as suspicious).

User Agent Analysis

The app analyzes user agent strings to detect headless browsers and automation tools (such as Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium, PhantomJS). Suspicious user agents are logged for review.

Personal Data collected: user agent strings (truncated to 400 characters), IP addresses, hit counts, first and last seen timestamps.

Geo-Location Based Blocking

When bot detection is enabled, the app may use country codes provided by CDN headers (such as Cloudflare or Shopify) to block traffic from certain regions. Country codes are used for real-time decisions but are not persistently stored.

Personal Data processed: country codes (derived from IP geolocation by CDN providers).

Analytics

Internal Analytics Dashboard

IP Blocker provides an analytics dashboard showing blocked visitor statistics. This includes time-series data of blocked IPs, top blocked IP addresses, and bot provider breakdowns.

Personal Data collected: aggregated IP address data, session event counts, bot observation statistics.

Note: IP Blocker does not use any third-party analytics services such as Google Analytics or Facebook Analytics on its admin interface.

Third-Party Tracking Script Blocking

IP Blocker provides functionality to block third-party tracking scripts on your storefront for visitors that match certain criteria. The app can block:

- Google Analytics and Google Ads tracking

- Meta (Facebook/Instagram) Pixels

- TikTok tracking scripts

- Pinterest tracking scripts

- Snapchat tracking scripts

Important: IP Blocker blocks these services but does not collect data through them. The blocking is performed client-side through Shopify's app embed functionality.

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The rights of Users

Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by the Owner.

In particular, Users have the right to do the following:

- Withdraw their consent at any time.Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their Personal Data.

- Object to processing of their Data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their Data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent. Further details are provided in the dedicated section below.

- Access their Data. Users have the right to learn if Data is being processed by the Owner, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Data undergoing processing.

- Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their Data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.

- Restrict the processing of their Data. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of their Data. In this case, the Owner will not process their Data for any purpose other than storing it.

- Have their Personal Data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their Data from the Owner.

- Receive their Data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their Data in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that the Data is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on the User's consent, on a contract which the User is part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.

- Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.

### Details about the right to object to processing

Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the Owner or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.

Users must know that, however, should their Personal Data be processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn whether the Owner is processing Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, Users may refer to the relevant sections of this document.

### How to exercise these rights

Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact details provided in this document. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by the Owner as early as possible and always within one month.

### GDPR Compliance

IP Blocker fully supports Shopify's mandatory GDPR webhooks:

- **Customer Data Request**: IP Blocker does not store customer-identifiable personal information. Requests return an empty dataset.

- **Customer Data Erasure**: IP Blocker does not store customer-identifiable personal information. No action required.

- **Shop Data Erasure**: Upon receiving a shop redaction request, all data associated with the shop is permanently deleted, including: blocked IP lists, shop configuration, session events, and bot observations.

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Cookie Policy

IP Blocker does not set any cookies directly. The application operates through Shopify's infrastructure, which may set its own cookies for session management and security purposes. For information about Shopify's cookie practices, please refer to [Shopify's Cookie Policy](https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies).

Additional information about Data collection and processing

Legal action

The User's Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Owner in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of IP Blocker or the related Services.

The User declares to be aware that the Owner may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

Additional information about User's Personal Data

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, IP Blocker may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular Services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.

System logs and maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, IP Blocker and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with IP Blocker (System logs) and use other Personal Data (such as the IP Address) for this purpose. Debug logging can be enabled for troubleshooting but is disabled by default.

Information not contained in this policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Owner at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.

How "Do Not Track" requests are handled

IP Blocker does not track users for advertising purposes and therefore does not specifically respond to "Do Not Track" browser signals. The app's functionality is limited to IP blocking and bot detection as configured by the shop owner.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page and possibly within IP Blocker and/or - as far as technically and legally feasible - sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the Owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.

Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the User's consent, the Owner shall collect new consent from the User, where required.

Definitions and legal references

Personal Data (or Data)

Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.

Usage Data

Information collected automatically through IP Blocker (or third-party services employed in IP Blocker), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use IP Blocker, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.

User

The individual using IP Blocker who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject. In the context of this application, Users are primarily Shopify merchants who install and configure the app.

Data Subject

The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.

Data Processor (or Data Supervisor)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.

Data Controller (or Owner)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of IP Blocker. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of IP Blocker.

IP Blocker (or this Application)

The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.

Service

The service provided by IP Blocker as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.

European Union (or EU)

Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Legal information

This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).

This privacy policy relates solely to IP Blocker, if not stated otherwise within this document.