# FindIP Shield — Free Preview Terms Version: **free-preview-2026-08-09** These terms supplement the general FindIP Terms of Service and apply to the FindIP Shield Free Preview. By creating a Shield site you accept them; the version you accepted is recorded with your site. **Shield is provided free of charge, "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE", entirely at your own risk.** ## 1. What Shield is (and is not) during the Free Preview Shield provides **visibility and signals**: it observes visitor events on your site, enriches them with FindIP's IP intelligence, and shows you risk scores, network flags, and recommendations. Shield is **not** an enforcement, security-guarantee, or compliance product. Risk scores and recommendations (`allow` / `monitor` / `challenge` / `block`) are informational signals only — they may be wrong, incomplete, stale, or unavailable, and no accuracy, fitness for purpose, or outcome is promised. **Every decision you take — or don't take — based on Shield's output is yours alone**, including blocked legitimate users, admitted fraudulent ones, and any resulting loss. When intelligence is unavailable, Shield reports the visitor as **unknown** — never as safe — and you are responsible for how you treat unknown. No SLA, uptime commitment, or support obligation applies. The service, its features, its limits, and these terms may change or be discontinued at any time, with or without notice. ## 2. The free deal: Threat Network contribution Shield is free because free sites contribute **pseudonymized, infrastructure-level sightings** to the FindIP Threat Network, exactly as described in [The FindIP Threat Network](https://www.findip.net/docs/shield/threat-network.md) — that page is part of these terms. In short: network-level observations only (IP, network flags, coarse event class), your site present only as an irreversible pseudonym, never form values, never cross-site profiles of people, raw sightings retained 90 days. ## 3. Fair use Free does not mean unbounded: - Each site has a daily event quota (default 10,000 events/day) and per-minute rate limits. Ingest answers `429` beyond them. - A platform-wide emergency ceiling exists to protect the service; it is set far above normal use. - Sites that send fabricated, scraped, or deliberately misleading traffic — or attempt to bypass the SDK's privacy controls — may be disabled and their contributions quarantined. If you legitimately need more volume, contact support. ## 4. Your obligations — you carry all compliance responsibility Installing Shield is your decision as the site owner, and **all legal and regulatory responsibility for that decision sits with you**, including: - Installing the SDK only on sites you own or are authorized to instrument. - Determining whether visitor data collection is lawful for your site, in every jurisdiction your site serves — including providing all required visitor notices, privacy-policy disclosures, and consent flows (GDPR, ePrivacy/cookie rules, CCPA, and any other applicable law). Shield's `strict` mode and consent API are tools you may use; choosing and operating a compliant configuration is solely your responsibility. - Authorizing, by installing Shield, the data flows described in [The FindIP Threat Network](https://www.findip.net/docs/shield/threat-network.md) as part of the data processing you direct. - Every action taken against your visitors based on Shield's signals. - Not sending personal data outside the documented allowlisted fields. Shield strips undocumented and sensitive-looking data server-side as a courtesy backstop, not as a compliance service; attempting to send such data is a breach of these terms, and any consequences of data you push to the service are yours. ## 5. Data protection roles You are the data controller for all data collected from your site. FindIP processes that data as your service provider, strictly per this documentation, on your instructions given by installing and configuring the SDK. Pseudonymized Threat Network sightings are maintained for shared network-security intelligence and are engineered so they cannot be traced back to your site or your visitors' identities. It is your responsibility to ensure you may lawfully direct this processing for your site. ## 5a. No warranty, no liability TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW: THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. FINDIP AND ITS OPERATORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR ITS OUTPUT — INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR CLAIMS BY YOUR VISITORS OR USERS — EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY. THE SERVICE IS FREE; THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF FINDIP FOR ANY CLAIM SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR IT (ZERO). YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD FINDIP HARMLESS FROM ANY THIRD-PARTY CLAIM ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, YOUR SITE'S DATA COLLECTION, OR YOUR FAILURE TO PROVIDE LEGALLY REQUIRED NOTICES OR OBTAIN LEGALLY REQUIRED CONSENTS. ## 6. Retention, deletion, termination Retention periods are listed in [The FindIP Threat Network](https://www.findip.net/docs/shield/threat-network.md). You can delete a site at any time; its events, sessions, and aggregates are removed by the retention process. Ceasing to use Shield ends future contributions immediately; already-contributed sightings age out within 90 days. ## 7. Changes We may update these terms; material changes bump the version string. Your recorded acceptance stays attached to the version you accepted, and continued use after a re-acceptance prompt constitutes acceptance of the new version. ## Contact Support, data requests, and security reports: [info@findip.net](mailto:info@findip.net). --- Canonical page: https://www.findip.net/docs/shield/terms-free-preview · Markdown: https://www.findip.net/docs/shield/terms-free-preview.md · All Shield docs in one file: https://www.findip.net/llms-full.txt