Acceptable Use Policy

geoPlugin's geolocation web services are a free webmaster resource for geolocation and geocoding of web programs.

You may use these services for free within the realms of 'normal use'.
Normal Use is defined based on lookups arising from normal internet activity arising from real people visiting your pages.

You may not flood our servers with requests (spamming), nor harvest data from automated lookups (bots).

Lookups are IP limited and verified every minute to prevent spamming and bots.
If your server is found to be spamming or harvesting data from our services, your IP will be blacklisted for 1 hour.
For users of the javascript webservice that bypass server identification, blacklisting means we reserve the right to change the output of the javascript to offset our costs, or refuse service completely, at our descretion. Users of this javascript service to geotarget advert-networks are particularly invited to contact us, since ad-network distribution put large stress on the servers due to the shear volume of hits they receive.
If your server continues to spam or harvest data, you will be blacklisted indefinitely.

Under normal use, your server activity will not activate these anti-spam filters if you have on average 100k page views or less per day.
If you think you are going to be performing more than this number of queries, please contact us.

The geoPlugin webservices are for your own use. You may not under any circumstances 'resell' the data obtained, whether by offering a similar service (free or commercial), or by saving the data obtained from lookups. Incorporation of geoPlugin's services into a commercial package requires prior authorisation from geoPlugin, whereby costs may be incurred. Incorporation of geoPlugin into non-commercial packages is permitted although you should let us know prior to product release.