Scope and publisher
ProxyIndex, publishing publicly as "Proxy Index" ("Proxy Index," "we," "us," or "our"), operates proxyindex.org as a public proxy-benchmark publication. This Privacy Policy explains the limited personal information processed when you visit the site, download a public export, or communicate through a future approved contact channel.
This policy covers the public Proxy Index site and publication operations. A third-party provider or source linked from a report controls its own services and privacy practices.
Information processed
When you request a page or file, the infrastructure serving Proxy Index processes standard request and diagnostic information. ProxyIndex does not use that information to build advertising profiles.
Do not send proxy credentials, endpoint addresses, customer data, payment information, or other secrets in a communication.
- Request and diagnostic data: IP address, approximate location derived from it, browser and device information, requested URL, referring page if supplied by the browser, timestamps, response status, and error information.
- Communications: if you contact ProxyIndex through an approved channel, the name or pseudonym, email address, organization or role, message, affected URL, and evidence you choose to provide.
- Public-export requests: the same standard request and diagnostic data processed when any page or file is delivered.
Local preferences and current non-collection
Proxy Index stores your theme choice and scoring-lens settings in your browser's local storage. Those values remain on your device; the public-site code does not transmit them to ProxyIndex. You can remove them through your browser settings.
The public-site code does not intentionally set visitor cookies. Functional browser storage is used only to remember the choices above.
Benchmark evidence
Operating the publication requires ProxyIndex to process public provider and product information and private technical benchmark evidence. This evidence describes proxy networks and test operations; it is not collected to profile site visitors.
- Private technical evidence can include proxy endpoint metadata, observed network addresses, timestamps, ASN data, and coarse geographic results.
- Credentials, raw endpoint details, raw attempt errors, and other restricted evidence are not included in public reports.
- Public reports and exports use aggregate or redacted fields and preserve publication history where needed for corrections and integrity.
How information is used
- Deliver, secure, and diagnose the public site and exports.
- Preserve the theme and scoring choices you make on your device.
- Operate, validate, improve, and document the benchmark system.
- Investigate questions, provider challenges, errors, abuse, and security events.
- Maintain editorial, correction, dispute, and security records.
- Comply with legal obligations and protect rights, safety, and system integrity.
Retention
ProxyIndex retains information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes in this policy. Browser preferences remain until you change them or clear browser storage. Hosting and security logs follow the applicable provider configuration unless a record must be preserved for security, dispute, or legal reasons.
Contact and correction records may be retained while a request is handled and afterward as reasonably necessary for editorial accountability, dispute resolution, and legal compliance. Benchmark evidence may be retained with publication history for reproducibility and integrity. Public correction records may be retained indefinitely but do not disclose a reporter's private contact details.
A fixed deletion schedule has not yet been approved. ProxyIndex will not promise a shorter period than its systems can enforce.
Privacy choices and requests
Depending on where you live, applicable law may give you rights to request access to, correction of, deletion of, restriction of, or an objection to certain processing of personal information. ProxyIndex may need to verify a request and may retain information where required for legal, security, fraud-prevention, or editorial-integrity purposes. ProxyIndex will not discriminate against you for making a privacy request.
A monitored privacy inbox or form is not yet public. ProxyIndex will publish the verified route, owner, response target, retention rule, and delivery controls before collecting requests through the site.
Security and international processing
ProxyIndex uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the information it handles. No online system or transmission method is completely secure.
Infrastructure providers may process information in countries other than your own. The transfer rules and safeguards that apply depend on ProxyIndex's legal jurisdiction, the visitor's location, and provider terms; that review remains an open Milestone 2 legal gate.
Children's privacy
Proxy Index is a business and research publication and is not directed to children under 13. ProxyIndex does not knowingly collect personal information from children through visitor accounts, forms, or mailing lists because those features do not currently exist. If that posture changes, this policy will be updated.
Third-party links
Reports and articles link to provider sites, source material, and other third-party services. ProxyIndex does not control their content, security, terms, or privacy practices. Review those services' policies before giving them information.
Changes and contact
ProxyIndex may update this policy when the product, service providers, or legal obligations change. A material revision will receive a new effective date on this page. Historical policy versions should be retained once a revision is published.
This policy was first published on July 30, 2026.