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These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Pingvero, including its free Internet and network tools, guides and other resources. By accessing or using the website, you agree to these Terms — if you do not agree, please do not use Pingvero.

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1. Getting Started

Acceptance of These Terms

By accessing or using Pingvero, including any of its tools, pages or resources, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. These Terms apply to every visitor and user of the website, whether or not you use a specific tool.

If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, please stop using Pingvero. We may update these Terms from time to time, as described in the Availability and Changes section below, so we encourage you to review this page occasionally.

2. The Website

About Pingvero

Pingvero is a website that provides free, browser-based tools and information to help you check and understand your Internet connection and network settings. These include tools that measure Internet speed, WiFi performance, ping, latency, jitter and packet loss, as well as tools that look up IP address, DNS and WHOIS information, check network ports, and calculate subnets and bandwidth.

Pingvero is not an Internet service provider, a hosting provider, a telecommunications operator or a professional cybersecurity service. It provides informational and diagnostic tools intended to help you understand your own connection and network — nothing more. No account is required to use any tool on the website. You can read more about the project on our About page.

3. Using the Tools

Use of Pingvero Tools

Pingvero's tools are made available primarily for informational, diagnostic, educational and troubleshooting purposes. They are designed to give you a helpful reading on how your connection or network is behaving at a given moment — not a certified, professional-grade or legally binding assessment.

Results can vary depending on factors outside Pingvero's control, including your device, browser, network, Internet service provider, the location of the server used for a test, network congestion, WiFi conditions, an active VPN, firewall settings, operating system and other technical factors. A different result on a different run, device or network does not, on its own, mean that a tool is malfunctioning.

4. Reading a Result

Accuracy of Results

The results produced by Pingvero's tools and calculators — including Internet speed tests, ping and latency tests, jitter tests, packet loss tests, IP and DNS information, WHOIS information, port checks, subnet calculations and bandwidth calculations — are provided "as is" and can be affected by the technical conditions described in the section above.

Treat each result as an indication of network behavior at the time it was generated, not as a guarantee of the performance of your connection, a server or an Internet service provider. Pingvero does not warrant that any result is complete, uninterrupted, error-free, or representative of performance at any other time or on any other network.

5. Ground Rules

Acceptable Use

When using Pingvero, you agree not to do any of the following.

  • Engage in any unlawful activity or use the website for an unlawful purpose.
  • Attempt to disrupt, damage or interfere with the operation of the website or its tools.
  • Abuse, overload or place unreasonable demand on Pingvero’s services or infrastructure.
  • Send automated requests that create an unreasonable load on the website.
  • Scrape or extract content or data from the website at a scale that could harm its availability.
  • Attempt to bypass any security measure or access control on the website.
  • Interfere with other users’ ability to access or use Pingvero.
  • Use Pingvero to facilitate or support any malicious or harmful activity.

We reserve the right to restrict or suspend access to Pingvero for anyone who does not comply with this policy.

6. Technical Abuse

Prohibited Technical Activity

In addition to the acceptable use rules above, you agree not to engage in any of the following in connection with Pingvero.

  • Automated abuse of any tool, page or endpoint.
  • Sending an excessive volume of requests to the website.
  • Attempting a denial-of-service or similarly disruptive attack.
  • Attempting to exploit a vulnerability in the website or its infrastructure.
  • Attempting to bypass rate limits, authentication or other security measures.
  • Conducting malicious scanning of the website or its infrastructure.
  • Otherwise interfering with the systems Pingvero relies on.

This policy exists to protect the website and its users. It does not grant any right to test, probe or attack Pingvero’s infrastructure, with or without permission implied elsewhere on this site.

7. Outside Dependencies

Third-Party Services and Information

Some of the information and functionality provided through Pingvero relies on third-party services, databases, APIs or infrastructure outside our control — for example, when looking up DNS, WHOIS or IP-related information. Pingvero does not guarantee the availability, accuracy, completeness or timeliness of information obtained from third-party sources.

Pingvero is not responsible for outages, errors, delays or changes on the part of any third-party service that its tools may depend on to return a result.

8. Ownership

Intellectual Property

The Pingvero name, logo, website design, original content, software, graphics and page structure are the property of Pingvero or its licensors and are protected under applicable intellectual property laws, to the extent such protection applies.

You may view and use Pingvero's tools for your own personal or internal purposes. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, modify or distribute Pingvero's content, design or underlying code without permission, except as permitted by applicable law. Pingvero does not claim ownership of third-party trademarks, content or data that may appear through its tools, such as domain, DNS or WHOIS information belonging to third parties.

9. What You Enter

User-Provided Information

Some Pingvero tools ask you to enter information — such as a domain name, IP address or port number — in order to return a result. Pingvero only asks for what a given tool needs in order to function.

How information you enter into, or that is generated by, Pingvero's tools is handled is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

10. No Guarantees

Disclaimer

Pingvero is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. Pingvero does not guarantee that:

  • the website or its tools will be available at all times or free of interruption;
  • every result will be accurate, complete or up to date;
  • the tools will work correctly with every device, browser or network configuration; or
  • a diagnostic result will identify the underlying cause of a network problem.

You are responsible for how you use the information provided by Pingvero's tools.

11. Responsibility

Limitation of Liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, Pingvero and its operators shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from: your use of, or inability to use, the website; reliance on any test result or piece of information provided by Pingvero; interruptions or unavailability of the website or its tools; inaccurate, incomplete or outdated information; the performance or unavailability of any third-party service Pingvero relies on; or any technical failure affecting the website.

Nothing in these Terms is intended to exclude or limit liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

12. Staying Current

Availability and Changes

Pingvero may modify, update, suspend or discontinue any tool, feature or piece of content on the website at any time, for any reason, without prior notice. We may also update these Terms of Service from time to time to reflect changes to the website or to applicable requirements.

Changes take effect once published on this page, and the "Last updated" date at the top is revised accordingly. We encourage you to review this page periodically. Continuing to use Pingvero after an update to these Terms means you accept the updated version.

14. Your Data

Privacy

Your use of Pingvero is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains how information is handled when you use the website and its tools. Please review it alongside these Terms.

Read the Privacy Policy

15. Jurisdiction

Governing Law

These Terms, and your use of Pingvero, are governed by French law, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the website shall be submitted to the competent French courts, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer-protection rule of the country in which you reside.

Publisher identity, registration details and hosting information for Pingvero are listed on our Legal Notice page.

16. Get in Touch

Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms of Service, email us at contact@pingvero.com or visit our Contact page.

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