What this page is
The changes below take effect on November 10, 2026. Until then the Privacy Policy as posted applies. They come with ads on the public Outages pages, which start on the same date.
Sentences that change
- I. Information we collect. Now: “We do not run advertising trackers.” From November 10, 2026: this sentence is removed.
- Cookies and tracking. Now: “The rest are measurement.” From November 10, 2026: “The rest are measurement and advertising.”
- Cookies and tracking. Now: “We use no advertising, marketing, or cross-site tracking cookies.” From November 10, 2026: “Advertising cookies are used on the Outages pages, as described under "Advertising on the Outages pages" below.”
- Service providers. Now: “We do not sell personal information for money, and we do not share it for advertising.” From November 10, 2026: “We do not sell personal information for money.”
New section: Advertising on the Outages pages
The public Outages pages show ads served by Google. Ads are not shown to visitors in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, or where we cannot tell where you are.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve these ads. We ask Google for non-personalized ads. They are chosen from the content of the page you are viewing and your general location, such as your city, and are not based on your past visits to this site or other sites. Google still uses cookies with these ads to limit how often you see an ad, to report on ads in aggregate, and to detect invalid traffic.
When an Outages page shows an ad, your browser sends Google your IP address, details of your browser and device, the address of the page, and Google's cookie identifiers. Google and its advertising partners may collect information about your activity on this site and on other sites over time. How Google uses that information is described in “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services”. Google's advertising partners are listed in Google's published list of ad technology providers.
You can opt out of personalized advertising from Google in Google's Ads Settings, and from other vendors at www.aboutads.info. You can block or delete advertising cookies in your browser settings. You can turn ads off for this browser with the "Advertising" choice below.
How we respond to Do Not Track signals. Our site does not change what it does when a browser sends a "Do Not Track" signal. When a browser sends the Global Privacy Control signal, we do not load ads for that browser.
New entries in the cookie list
- A preference cookie, named ru_ads_optout, that remembers that you turned ads off for this browser, for one year, set when you turn them off.
- Advertising cookies, on the Outages pages, where ads are shown. Google's ad code may set these on realuptime.io: __gads (13 months), __gpi (13 months), __gpi_optout (13 months), __eoi (6 months), __gsas (3 months), FPAU (90 days), GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY (until you close the browser) and TESTCOOKIESENABLED (60 seconds). They hold identifiers Google uses to limit how often an ad is shown, to report on ads and to detect invalid traffic. When it serves an ad, Google may also set or read cookies on its own domains, such as IDE (24 months), NID (6 months), DSID (2 weeks) and test_cookie (15 minutes) on google.com and doubleclick.net.
New sentence under US state privacy rights
If you live in Nevada, you can ask us not to sell your personal information by emailing support@realuptime.io.
VI. Changes to our privacy policy
Now: “The Company reserves the right to change this policy and our Terms of Service at any time. We will notify you of significant changes to our Privacy Policy by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account or by placing a prominent notice on our site. Significant changes will go into effect 30 days following such notification. Non-material changes or clarifications will take effect immediately. You should periodically check the Site and this privacy page for updates.”
From November 10, 2026: “The Company reserves the right to change this policy and our Terms of Service at any time. We post the new version of this policy on this page with its effective date. For significant changes, we will also notify you by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account or by placing a prominent notice on our site. Changes take effect when the new version is posted, unless the notice gives a later date. You should periodically check the Site and this privacy page for updates.”
The paragraph about model training that follows it in the policy is not changed. This change is announced under the section as it stands now and takes effect on November 10, 2026, with the rest.