Privacy policy.

IGnony is built around the idea that an Instagram Story Viewer should not turn its own users into a product. We do not store the @usernames you search, we do not host the media we display, and we do not operate an IGnony account system that ties activity to your identity. You can use the core tool fully anonymously, every visit, without ever telling us who you are.

IGnony is a free service, and like most free websites it is supported by advertising. That means third-party advertising partners, including Google, may place cookies in your browser to help fund the site. This policy explains, in plain language, exactly what we collect, what our advertising and analytics partners collect, and how you can control or opt out of it.

IGnony processes the @username or profile URL you submit through the search bar in order to fetch publicly available Instagram content. That input is processed in flight on our server and is not written to any persistent database. We never ask for, collect, or store your Instagram login credentials, and there is no IGnony account to register.

Like any web service, our servers and content-delivery provider automatically log basic technical metadata for each request: the date and time, your IP address, your browser's user-agent string, the URL path requested, and the referring page. This information is used strictly for abuse prevention, rate limiting, error monitoring, security auditing, and understanding aggregate traffic. It is not used to build a personal profile of you, and these logs rotate out on a short cycle.

We may also collect aggregate, non-identifying analytics about how the site is used — for example, which pages are most visited and roughly where in the world traffic comes from — so we can improve the service. This is measured at the level of trends and totals, not individuals.

When you search a public Instagram @username, IGnony makes an anonymous server-side request to publicly available Instagram endpoints. The response is parsed and rendered in your browser. We do not store the photos, videos, or profile data we display — every item is fetched fresh on demand and discarded when the request finishes.

Connections between your browser and IGnony are end-to-end SSL encrypted. Connections between IGnony and Instagram's public endpoints are encrypted by Instagram. IGnony is not affiliated with Instagram or Meta Platforms, Inc., and all Instagram media belongs to its original creators.

A cookie is a small text file that a website, or a third party such as an advertising or analytics provider, stores in your browser. IGnony itself uses only functional cookies and local storage that are necessary for the site to work — for example, remembering your language preference and enforcing rate limits. We do not, ourselves, set first-party marketing or cross-site tracking cookies.

However, because IGnony displays third-party advertising, our advertising partners (described in the next section) do set their own cookies and may use related technologies such as web beacons and device identifiers. Those cookies are controlled by the advertising partners, not by IGnony. You can manage or disable cookies at any time through your browser settings, and you can opt out of personalized advertising cookies using the links in Section 6.

IGnony uses Google AdSense and may use other third-party advertising vendors to display ads that keep the service free. These vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website and other websites on the internet.

Google's use of advertising cookies, including the DART cookie, enables Google and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to IGnony and/or other sites on the internet. Third-party vendors and ad networks may also use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits. These cookies allow advertisers to show you more relevant ads and to measure ad performance; they do not give advertisers access to your Instagram account, which IGnony never touches in the first place.

You can learn more about how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Depending on the ad partners we work with, ads may be personalized based on cookies or non-personalized based only on general context and your approximate location.

Advertising partners we may use include Google AdSense and its certified partner networks. Each such partner operates under its own privacy policy. If we add or change advertising partners, this section will be updated accordingly.

You have direct control over personalized advertising. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings at https://www.google.com/settings/ads. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the industry opt-out page at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ (operated by the Digital Advertising Alliance) and, in Europe, https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.

If you prefer, you can block or delete cookies entirely through your browser settings, or use your browser's private/incognito mode. Opting out of personalized ads does not remove advertising from the site — it means the ads you see will be less tailored to you, based on general context rather than your browsing history.

IGnony may use privacy-conscious analytics, which could include a service such as Google Analytics, to understand aggregate site usage. Where such a service is used, it may set its own cookies and process technical metadata (such as IP address and user-agent) on our behalf. This data is used only to measure and improve the service and is not sold. Where Google Analytics is used, you can install Google's opt-out browser add-on from https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout to prevent your data from being used.

IGnony is hosted on standard cloud infrastructure. Those hosting and CDN providers may process technical metadata (IP, user-agent) to operate and secure their networks. Each of these third-party services — advertising, analytics, and hosting — operates under its own privacy policy, and we encourage you to review the policies of any provider you are concerned about.

We retain technical server logs only as long as needed for security and abuse prevention, after which they are automatically rotated and deleted. The @usernames and media you interact with are not retained at all — they are processed in memory and discarded when the request completes. Cookies set by advertising and analytics partners are retained according to those partners' own retention schedules, which you can review in their respective privacy policies or clear at any time through your browser.

IGnony is a general-audience website and is not directed at children under the age of 13, and in some jurisdictions under 16. In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at privacy@ignony.com and we will delete it promptly. We also do not knowingly permit advertising partners to serve personalized ads to children.

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the GDPR gives you rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to the processing of your personal data, and to data portability. If you are a California resident, the CCPA gives you the right to know what personal information is collected, to request deletion, and to opt out of the sale of personal information — and IGnony does not sell personal information.

Because IGnony does not maintain user accounts or persistent personal profiles, the practical scope of most access and deletion requests is narrow — chiefly any rotating server-log entries briefly associated with your IP. To exercise any of these rights, or to ask a question about them, email privacy@ignony.com and we will respond within the timelines required by applicable law.

IGnony is operated using cloud infrastructure that may be located in various countries. By using the service, you understand that your technical metadata may be processed in jurisdictions other than your own. We apply the protections described in this policy regardless of where the processing occurs.

If we update this policy, the updated version will be posted at this URL with a revised effective date at the top of the page. Material changes will be highlighted on the homepage for a period of time after publication. Continued use of IGnony after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

For privacy questions, GDPR or CCPA requests, cookie or advertising questions, or media takedown notices, email privacy@ignony.com. We read every message and reply within one business day on weekdays.