Q-Jam

IPSee — Privacy Policy

Owner: Q-Jam B.V.
Last updated: 2026-10-15

The short version

IPSee shows you facts about your own network: your connection, your Mac’s interfaces, your external IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, and whether the hosts you choose can be reached. Everything it measures stays on your Mac.

Two things leave your Mac:

  • The external address lookup. To tell you your external IPv4 and IPv6 address, IPSee asks Q-Jam B.V.’s own server at ipv4.ipsee.app and ipv6.ipsee.app, as every such tool must. This happens whether or not you share usage data.
  • Usage data, only if you choose Share when IPSee asks: counts of which features you use. It never includes anything about your network, and nothing in it identifies you or your Mac.

There is no account, no advertising and no crash reporting.

What stays on your Mac

All of it is kept in IPSee’s own sandbox container and never sent anywhere:

  • your reachability targets, their names, addresses and check results;
  • your preferences, including your answer about sharing usage data;
  • the addresses, interfaces and connection details IPSee shows you.

The reachability checks themselves go from your Mac straight to the hosts you added, as a ping, a TCP connection or an HTTP request. They pass through no Q-Jam server.

The external address lookup

When IPSee starts, every five minutes, and when your network changes, it sends one request to ipv4.ipsee.app and, if your Mac has IPv6, one to ipv6.ipsee.app. The server answers with the address the request came from. That address is your external address, which is the whole point of the request.

Each request carries a short-lived signed token that lets the server tell IPSee’s requests from others. The token holds the time it was made, a random number and IPSee’s build, and nothing that identifies your Mac. The server checks the token and does not record it, and it does not record your address: the only log it writes per request names the proxy in front of it, the method, the path and the result. The proxy in front of the server, like any web proxy, writes an access log of the requests it forwards, including the IP address each one came from. That log is used only to keep the service secure and running, and is deleted after 14 days.

Usage data

Only if you agree

IPSee asks once, the first time it starts, whether you want to share usage data. Nothing is sent before you answer, and nothing is sent if you choose Don’t Share. You can change your answer at any time in Settings › General › Share anonymous usage data. Turning it off drops anything still waiting to be sent, and sends one last event, analytics_disabled, so that Q-Jam B.V. can count how many people stop sharing. After that, nothing more is sent.

Events

If you choose Share, IPSee sends these events, and nothing else:

Event Properties When
app_launched none IPSee starts
popup_opened none You open the menu-bar popup
settings_opened none You open Settings
target_added type: icmp, tcp or http You add a reachability target — its type only, never its name or address
reachability_checks_toggled enabled: on or off You switch reachability checks on or off
about_opened none You open the About window
whats_new_opened none You open What’s New
privacy_policy_opened none You open this privacy policy, after choosing Share
analytics_disabled none You turn sharing off: sent once, as the last event

Each event also carries a timestamp, a random number that is new every time IPSee starts and is never stored, and the IPSee and macOS versions. It never carries your Mac’s model, your language or region settings, a lasting identifier, or anything about your network: no addresses, interfaces, target names or results.

Where it goes

Usage data is sent over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection to analytics.q-jam.nl, a server run by Q-Jam B.V. using Aptabase, an open-source analytics program. Q-Jam B.V. runs it itself, so no analytics company receives your data. The server runs in the United States, on Google Cloud Platform.

As with any server, it sees the IP address the data comes from. It does not store the address. It works out a country and region from it, which it does store. It also works out a number from the address and the versions sent, mixed with a secret that changes every day. That number lets it count how many people used a feature on one day, without linking one day to another.

The data is read by the people at Q-Jam B.V. who work on IPSee, to learn which features are used and what to improve. It is never sold, never used for advertising or marketing, and never combined with anything else about you.

How long it is kept

At most five years. Each event is deleted no later than five years after it was sent. Events from development builds are deleted after six months.

Sharing usage data is your choice under the GDPR (Article 6(1)(a)), and choosing Don’t Share changes nothing else about IPSee. You withdraw your consent by turning sharing off. IPSee then sends the single event analytics_disabled, which says only that sharing was turned off, and nothing more from then on.

Your consent covers the events and details listed above. If a later version of IPSee would send something this list does not name, it asks you again before sending anything, and sends nothing until you answer. If you chose Don’t Share, a change to the list never asks you again.

The data already sent has nothing in it that identifies you or links it to you, so Q-Jam B.V. cannot find the events that came from you in order to erase them. You can still write to the contact below with any question about it.

Changes

Any change to this policy appears here with a new date. A version of IPSee that would send something new asks you first.

Contact

Q-Jam B.V., a Dutch company registered with the Chamber of Commerce (KvK) under number 24399562, is responsible for IPSee and for the data described here.

Questions about this policy or your data, and reports of a security problem in IPSee or its server: privacy@q-jam.nl. Q-Jam’s website: q-jam.nl.

You may also complain to a data protection authority, such as the one in the country where you live or work.