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Last Revised: April 17, 2026
Porkbun respects your privacy. This Porkbun Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is designed to help you understand the types of personal data we at Porkbun LLC (“Porkbun”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) collect, how we use it, how and when it may be shared, and the rights and choices you may have with respect to your personal data. It also explains how we communicate with you and how you can make requests or submit inquiries about your personal data.
By accessing, visiting, or using our Services, you acknowledge this Privacy Policy, and agree to our Domain Name Registration Agreement, the Product Terms of Service, and the Marketplace Agreement (collectively, the “Terms”). If you are not comfortable with any part of this Privacy Policy or do not agree with the Terms, please immediately discontinue access and use of our Services.
We may provide additional "just-in-time" disclosures or additional information about our personal data collection, use and sharing practices. These notices may supplement this Privacy Policy, clarify our privacy practices in the circumstances described, or provide you with additional choices about how we process your personal data. Also, we may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time, and will update the Last Revised date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy when we make changes. If we make changes to this Policy that we believe are material, we will notify you of such material changes as required by applicable law.
If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact our privacy department by emailing us at privacy@porkbun.com. Below is a Table of Contents which allows you to easily access any sections of the Privacy Policy of interest by clicking on the section title.
3. How We Use Your Personal Data
4. How We Disclose Your Personal Data
5. Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies
6. Retention of Your Personal Data
7. How We Protect Your Personal Data
11. Notice to Individuals in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland
12. California Notice at Collection
This Privacy Policy applies to all personal data that we collect during any written, electronic, or oral communications, whether online or offline, when you: interact with our website located at https://porkbun.com, and any other websites, pages, features, or content we own or operate (collectively, the "Site(s)") that link to this Privacy Policy; attend or interact with us at one of our forums, chat channels, or events; or interact with other products or services that direct you to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the "Service(s)").
We collect certain personal data about you and your use of our Services. Personal data is any information that relates to you, identifies you personally, or could be used to identify you. The definition of personal data (used interchangeably with “personal information”) depends on the applicable law based on your physical location. Only the definition that applies to your physical location will apply to you under this Privacy Policy.
The personal data that we collect generally falls into three primary categories: (1) information you voluntarily provide to us; (2) information we collect from you automatically; and (3) information we collect from third parties. We may collect the following categories of personal data:
Information You Voluntarily Provide to Us. We, or service providers that assist us in providing, maintaining, and operating our Services, may collect the following types of personal data from you:
Information We Automatically Collect. To the extent permitted under the applicable law, we may collect certain types of information automatically, such as whenever you interact with the Sites or use the Services. We may collect the following types of information automatically from you:
Information We Collect from Third Parties. From time to time, we may obtain information about you from public or third-party sources as required or permitted by law. These sources may include:
Porkbun uses your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy for business and commercial purposes, or as disclosed to you prior to such processing taking place, such as to provide, improve, and optimize our products and services, to fulfill contracts, record-keeping, or regulatory obligations, or as required by a law enforcement agency, lawful order, or as required or permitted for other lawful purposes. Below we describe why we collect your personal data:
We share your personal data as needed to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and as permitted by applicable law. We may disclose your personal data as described below.
We and our service providers may automatically collect information from you when you use our Services using “cookies” and other tracking technologies to help us customize your experience and better manage content on our Services, including to: (a) analyze our web traffic using an analytics package; (b) identify whether you already visited any of our affiliated websites; (c) store information about your preferences (e.g., cookie consent); and (d) to recognize when you return to our Services.
Cookies are small amounts of data that are stored within your computer’s Internet browser and that are accessed and recorded by the websites that you visit so that they can recognize the same browser navigating online at a later time. Information that may be collected by cookies when you use the Sites may include, without limitation: the pages you visit within the Sites; the date and time of your visit to the Sites; the amount of time you spend using the Sites; the IP address used to connect your computer to the Internet; and/or your computer and connection information such as your browser type and version, operating system and platform.
Below is a summary of the types of cookies we may use.
Analytics. We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our online, web-based, and mobile-based Services, such as Google Analytics. Google Analytics is an analytics service offered by Google LLC (“Google”) that tracks and reports website traffic. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. To opt out of Google Analytics or to prevent your data from being collected and used by Google Analytics, please visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Managing Cookies via Browser Controls. You may set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Websites although your access to some functionality and areas may be restricted. If you want to understand your browser’s cookie default setting, or learn to modify your browser’s cookie settings, please use the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” menu in your browser or review the instructions provided by the following browsers:
Interest Based Advertising - Website Browser. Many third-party advertising companies that collect information for interest-based advertising are members that collect information for interest-based advertising are members of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) or the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), both of which maintain websites where people can opt out of interest-based advertising from their members. To opt out of website interest-based advertising provided by each organization’s respective participating companies, visit the DAA’s opt-out portal available at http://optout.aboutads.info.
You may also access industry-provided opt-out tools, although they are not tailored to our mobile applications. For instance, to opt-out of data collection by the Digital Advertising Alliance’s participating member companies for interest-based advertising across mobile applications, download the DAA’s App Choices mobile application opt-out offering at https://youradchoices.com/appchoices.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active, as needed to provide you services or for other purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. We will cease to retain your personal data or remove the means by which the personal data can be associated with you as soon as it is reasonable to assume that such retention no longer serves the purpose for which the personal data was collected and is no longer necessary for legal or business purposes. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services, please contact us at support@porkbun.com. Please note that we may still retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Porkbun utilizes industry-standard practices for safeguarding your personal data, both during transmission and once it is received. Our website is updated on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our website safely. We utilize physical, technical, and administrative procedures to protect against the loss, unauthorized access, destruction, misuse, modification and improper disclosure of your personal data. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases or the databases of the third parties with which we may share such information, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the internet. If you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised, you should contact us immediately at support@porkbun.com.
We offer you certain choices about how we communicate with you and what information we collect from you.
Our Services are not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from, children under the age of 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal data, we will terminate the user’s access to our Service and take steps to delete such information from our file systems, unless we have a legal obligation to keep it.
Depending on applicable law where you reside or are located, you may be able to assert certain rights identified below with respect to your personal data. If you are a resident of California, please see Section 12 instead.
If any of the rights listed below are not provided to you under the law that governs the processing of your personal data, we have absolute discretion in providing you with those rights. Please refer to the “What Rights Apply” section below to determine the rights you have in the jurisdiction you reside. Your rights in relation to your personal data are not absolute. Depending upon the applicable law, access to your rights under the applicable law may be denied: (i) when denial of the request is required or authorized by law; (ii) when granting the request would have a negative impact on another’s privacy; (iii) to protect our rights and properties; (iv) where the request is frivolous or vexatious, or for other reasons.
What Rights Apply
To determine which rights you have, please refer to the table below that references the rights as described above. States not listed either do not have a law providing such rights or it does not apply to our operations.
| State of Residence | Applicable Rights |
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Nebraska, Texas |
(a)-(i) |
Submitting a Request to Exercise Your Privacy Rights. If you are a resident in a jurisdiction that provides the rights noted above, you can assert your privacy rights by emailing support@porkbun.com and indicate which rights you would like to exercise.
Depending on your state of residence, applicable law may limit how many times per year you may submit a Right to Know/Access. We may charge a reasonable fee for multiple requests in the same 12-month period, as permitted by law.
To protect your privacy, we must be able to verify your identity to confirm that the rights request came from you. We may contact you by phone or e-mail to verify your request before we can process your request to exercise certain privacy rights. Depending on your request, we will ask for information such as your name, address, an e-mail address or a phone number you have used with us. For certain requests, we may also ask you to provide details about your most recent purchases.
Opting-out of Cookie-based Sales and Targeted Advertising. You can exercise your right to opt-out of sales and targeted advertising by clicking the "Your Privacy Choices" link in the website footer and following the directions in the Your Privacy Choices pop-up screen regarding how to opt-out of sales and targeted advertising. If you previously opted-out and wish to opt-in, you can use the options identified above to change your preferences.
If you are a resident of Texas, you may also opt-out of sales and targeted advertising via cookies by using an opt-out preference signal. The Global Privacy Control signal is currently the only opt-out preference signal we can recognize. You can visit the Global Privacy Control official site at https://globalprivacycontrol.org/#about to learn how to configure your device to send such signals. We will honor and process the opt-out preference signal accordingly.
Please note that your opt-out choice will only apply to your use of our Sites through the current browser or device you are using and only so long as that browser’s cookies are not erased. You will need to submit a separate opt-out of targeted advertising request on each device and browser you use to visit our Sites to completely opt-out using this method. Please note that you may still receive generalized ads after opting out.
Authorized Agents. In certain states you may designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf to access or delete your personal information. To do so, you must: (1) provide that authorized agent written and signed permission to submit such request; and (2) verify your own identity directly with us. Please note, we may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf.
This section only applies to individuals using or accessing our Service while located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland (collectively, the “European Countries”) at the time of data collection. Pursuant to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (collectively, the “GDPR”), for the sake of clarity, references to personal data in this Privacy Policy concerns personal data in the sense of the GDPR.
We may ask you to identify which country you are located in when you use or access some of the Services, or we may rely on your IP address to identify which country you are located in. When we rely on your IP address, we cannot apply the terms of this section to any individual that masks or otherwise hides their location information from us so as not to appear located in European Countries. If any terms in this section conflict with other terms contained in this Privacy Policy, the terms in this section shall apply to individuals in a European Country.
Our Relationship to You. Your personal data is collected and processed by Porkbun, LLC in the United States, which is operating the Site and the Services, and is the Controller of the personal data.
Legal Bases for Processing Your Personal Data
| Section & Purpose of Processing | Legal Bases for Processing |
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Section 3(h) To Comply with Our Legal and Regulatory Requirements Section 3(e) To Detect and Prevent Fraud and Security Risks Section 4(d) With Professional Advisors Section 4(f) For Legal Compliance & Safety Section 4(g) With Public Registries and Data Escrow Providers via Registration Data |
Based on our legal obligations. Article 6(1) lit.(c) GDPR. |
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Section 3(a) To Provide Our Services Section 3(b) To Provide You with Service-Related Communications Section 3(c) To Provide Customer Support or Respond to You Section 3(i) To Enforce Compliance with Our Terms, Agreements and Policies Section 4(a) With Our Service Providers Section 4(b) Within Our Corporate Organization Section 4(c) With Business Partners, Sponsors, and Other Third Parties |
Based on our contract with you or to take steps at your request prior to entering a contract. Article 6(1) lit.(b) GDPR. |
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Section 3(g) For Research and Develop Our Services Section 3(d) To Personalize Your Experience Section 3(j) To Facilitate Corporate Acquisitions, Mergers and Transactions Section 4(e) During Business Transaction or Other Asset Transfers |
Based on our legitimate interest to operate our business and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedom. Article 6(1) lit.(f) GDPR. |
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Section 3(f) To Provide Marketing Communication Section 3(k) With Your Consent Section 4(g) With Public Registries and Data Escrow Providers via Registration Data Section 4(h) With Your Consent |
Based on your consent. Article 6(1) lit.(a) GDPR. |
Individual Rights. We provide you with the rights described below when we process your personal data. We may limit your individual rights: (a) where denial of access is required or authorized by law; (b) when granting access would have a negative impact on another data subject’s privacy; (c) to protect our rights and properties; or (d) where the request is frivolous or unrealistic.
To assert your privacy rights, please email support@porkbun.com and indicate which rights you would like to exercise. To protect your privacy, we must be able to verify your identity to confirm that the request came from you before we can process your request to exercise any of the rights that you may be entitled. We may contact you to verify your request. Depending on your request, we will ask for information such as your username, an e-mail address, or a phone number you have used with us.
International Transfer of Your Personal Data. We may, subject to applicable law, transfer your personal data to service providers, vendors, registries, or partners outside the country where you are located and where information protection standards may differ (e.g., your information may be stored on servers located in other jurisdictions). We will utilize appropriate safeguards governing the transfer and usage of your personal data, for example, Standard Contractual Clauses. We may also rely on an adequacy decision of the relevant regulatory body confirming an adequate level of data protection in the jurisdiction of the party receiving the information, or derogations in specific situations.
If you are a California resident, then this Notice at Collection also applies to you in addition to the rest of this Privacy Policy. The California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively “CCPA”) requires us to disclose the following additional information related to our privacy practices.
We do not sell personal information or share (as the CCPA defines the term) personal information collected through cookies or similar tracking technologies on our Services for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes without your consent. With your consent, we and other third-party marketing and social media partners may use cookies, pixels, or other tracking technologies on our Sites to collect information about your interaction with our Sites to deliver advertising to you on third-party websites and apps. If you have consented to this, you can withdraw your consent at any time by clicking on “Your Privacy Choices” in the website footer and follow instructions in the pop-up window that appears. We do not sell or share (for cross-context behavioral advertising) the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age. To the extent we process any information about you that is considered sensitive personal information under the CCPA, we do not process it to infer characteristics about you.
Categories of Personal Information Collected, Disclosed and Categories of Recipients
Depending how you interact with our Services, the chart below describes the categories of personal information, collected the sources and purpose of such collection, and the parties to whom the information was disclosed for business purpose for the preceding 12 months.
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Personal Information Collected |
Purpose of Information Collection (see Section 3, above, for more information) |
Disclosure of Personal Information (see Section 4, above, for more information) |
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Identifiers, such as a name, address, email, phone number, your device’s IP address, identification numbers associated with your devices, account number, account login, or similar identifiers. AND Personal information under California Civil Code section 1798.80, including name, address, email, phone number, account number, account login, and credit/debit card number. |
-To Provide Our Services. -To Provide You with Service-Related Communications. -To Maintain Legal and Regulatory Compliance. -To Enforce Compliance with Our Terms, Agreements and Policies. -To Detect and Prevent Fraud and Security Risks -To Provide Customer Support or Respond to You. -To Provide Marketing Communications. -To Research and Develop Our Services. -To Personalize Your Experience. -To Facilitate Corporate Acquisitions, Mergers and Transactions. -With Your Consent. |
-Within Our Corporate Organization. -With Our Vendors and Service Providers. -With Business Partners, Sponsors, and Other Third Parties. -With Professional Advisors. -During Business Transaction or Other Asset Transfers. -For Legal Compliance & Safety. -With Public Registries and Data Escrow Providers via Registration Data. -With Your Consent. |
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Commercial information, such as records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered by you, transaction records, payment card information and billing address. |
-To Provide Our Services. -To Provide You with Service-Related Communications. -To Comply with Our Legal and Regulatory Requirements. -To Enforce Compliance with Our Terms, Agreements and Policies. -To Detect and Prevent Fraud and Security Risks -To Provide Customer Support or Respond to You. -To Provide Marketing Communications. -To Research and Develop Our Services. -To Facilitate Corporate Acquisitions, Mergers and Transactions. |
-Within Our Corporate Organization. -With Our Vendors and Service Providers. -With Business Partners, Sponsors, and Other Third Parties. -With Professional Advisors. -During Business Transaction or Other Asset Transfers. -For Legal Compliance & Safety. -With Your Consent. |
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Internet activity information, such as browsing history, search history, the webpage visited before you came to our Site, length of visit and number of page views, click-stream data, locale preferences, your mobile carrier, date and time stamps associated with transactions, and system configuration information. |
-To Provide Our Services. -To Provide You with Service-Related Communications. -To Maintain Legal and Regulatory Compliance. -To Enforce Compliance with Our Terms, Agreements and Policies. -To Detect and Prevent Fraud and Security Risks -To Provide Customer Support or Respond to You. -To Provide Marketing Communications. -To Research and Develop Our Services. -To Personalize Your Experience. -To Facilitate Corporate Acquisitions, Mergers and Transactions. |
-Within Our Corporate Organization. -With Our Vendors and Service Providers. -With Business Partners, Sponsors, and Other Third Parties. -With Professional Advisors. -During Business Transaction or Other Asset Transfers. -For Legal Compliance & Safety. |
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Geolocation data, to the extent you have configured your device to permit us to collect such information. |
-To Provide Our Services. -To Provide You with Service-Related Communications. -To Provide Marketing Communications. -To Personalize Your Experience. |
-Within Our Corporate Organization. -With Our Vendors and Service Providers. -With Business Partners, Sponsors, and Other Third Parties. -With Professional Advisors. -During Business Transaction or Other Asset Transfers. -For Legal Compliance & Safety. -With Your Consent. |
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Inferences drawn from any of the information listed above, such as your purchase preferences, characteristics, and behavior. |
-To Provide Marketing Communications. -To Research and Develop Our Services. -To Personalize Your Experience. |
-Within Our Corporate Organization. -With Our Vendors and Service Providers. -With Business Partners, Sponsors, and Other Third Parties. -With Professional Advisors. -During Business Transaction or Other Asset Transfers. -For Legal Compliance & Safety. |
Privacy Rights. You may be able to assert certain rights identified below with respect to your personal information. Please note that your rights in relation to your personal information are not absolute. Access to your rights under the applicable law may be denied: (a) when denial of access is required or authorized by law; (b) when granting access would have a negative impact on another's privacy; (c) to protect our rights and properties; or (d) where the request is frivolous or vexatious, or for other reasons.
If you are a California resident, you can assert your privacy rights by emailing us at support@porkbun.com and advising us which privacy rights you would like to exercise.
To protect your privacy, we must be able to verify your identity to confirm that the rights request came from you. We may contact you by phone or e-mail to verify your request before we can process your request to exercise certain privacy rights. Depending on your request, we will ask for information such as your name, address, an e-mail address or a phone number you have used with us. For certain requests, we may also ask you to provide details about your most recent registration.
You may designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf to access or delete your personal information. To do so, you must: (1) provide that authorized agent written and signed permission to submit such request; and (2) verify your own identity directly with us. Please note, we may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf.
Retention of Personal Information. We will retain your personal data for the time period required or permitted by law or for the time reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or any other notice provided at the time of collection.
Do Not Track Signals. We do not currently respond to browser Do Not Track signals that provide a method to opt out of the collection of information across the networks of websites and online services in which we participate. However, we do provide consumers with the ability to manage their cookie choices as described in the “Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies” section above.
Porkbun’s Sites or communications may provide links to other websites or services that not owned or controlled by us, including links to social media platforms. Links to other websites do not constitute or imply an endorsement of recommendation by use of the linked website and/or content. This Privacy Policy only applies to information collected by our Sites and Services. We are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of other websites or social media platforms or the information they may collect. You should refer to such third parties’ privacy policies on their website to determine their privacy practices.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us by email at privacy@porkbun.com, or by postal mail at Porkbun LLC, 21370 SW Langer Farms Parkway, Suite 142-429, Sherwood, OR 97140, USA.
If you are a resident of the European Union, European Economic Area, Switzerland and/or UK and believe we process your Personal Data within the scope of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in the EU/EEA the Federal Act on Data Protection in Switzerland and the Data Protection Act 2018 (as amended) in the UK, you may direct questions or complaints to our Data Protection Representative at privacy@porkbun.com.
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