What's recorded when you load a page

• The page you're on, and the page that sent you here
• Browser, operating system, screen size and preferred language
• Part of your IP address — enough for a country, not enough for a person

The IP address, specifically

It never arrives in one piece. Our web server removes the last part of your address before the counter ever sees it, so what gets stored points at a block of up to 256 addresses shared by many people rather than at your connection. That is enough to say which country a visit came from, and not enough to say who made it.

The counter is Tianji, self-hosted and open source. It would happily record the whole address — the truncation is ours, done before it gets there, because a page-view counter has no business knowing that much.

Your language

If your browser asks for a language this site speaks, you're sent to that version once, on arrival. Pick a different one from the menu and it stays picked — which means remembering it, so the next page doesn't overrule you. That's a single word, held in your browser's session storage for as long as the tab is open and gone the moment you close it. It's never sent to us, it isn't a cookie, and it identifies nobody. With JavaScript off none of this happens: you get English and the language menu.

How to switch it off

Any tracker blocker stops it, and so does Do Not Track in your browser. If you would rather do it by hand, open the browser console on this site and run:

localStorage.setItem('tianji.disabled', '1')

Unlike the language note above, that one sticks around after you close the tab — it has to, or it would forget every time. Those two are the only things this site ever puts in your browser's storage.

Downloads

Files are served by BunnyCDN, which keeps its own access logs including IP addresses, under its own privacy policy. Downloading a file is a request to them as well as to us.

It does use the network for three things, and each one means some server sees your IP address — that is unavoidable for anything that downloads.

1. Checking for its own updates

Once a day it asks this site for a small signed file describing the newest release. That request tells our CDN your IP address and the version you're running. Nothing else is sent, and nothing installs without you pressing the button.

2. Fetching the driver catalogue

The list of driver packs comes from Snappy Driver Installer Origin, via snappy-driver-installer.org, glenn.delahoy.com or sdi-tool.org. Those sites see your IP address in the same way any website does.

3. Downloading driver packs over BitTorrent

This is the one worth understanding properly. The driver library is around 70 GB and is distributed by volunteers sharing it, so DriverKit downloads packs over BitTorrent.

In BitTorrent, your IP address is visible to every other computer sharing the same file, and to the trackers that introduce you to them. This is how the protocol works, not a fault in this app, and it is true of every BitTorrent client. It is worth knowing before you use one.

Turning sharing off in Settings stops you uploading. It does not hide you: downloading still means connecting to peers, and those peers still see your address. DriverKit also fetches a list of public trackers from newtrackon.com and raw.githubusercontent.com at startup, which likewise see your IP.

If that is not acceptable for your situation, the wired and wireless editions already contain the network driver packs and can install them with the network switched off entirely.

What stays on your machine

• The list of your devices and their drivers — it is never transmitted
• Your settings, in a text file beside the app
• Downloaded packs and the record of what to undo

All of it lives in the app's own folder. Nothing goes to the registry or AppData, and deleting the folder deletes the lot.

Children

This is a utility for maintaining a computer. It is not aimed at children and collects nothing knowingly from them.

Your rights

If you are in the EU or UK, the GDPR gives you the right to ask what is held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, and to object to it being held at all. In practice we do not think we hold anything that identifies you: the visit log keeps a truncated address, a browser name and a page. If you believe otherwise, ask — we would rather look and tell you than assume.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that matters, the changelog will say so. It is dated below.

Asking

Anything on this page, or anything you think it gets wrong: info@driverkit.io.

Last updated 17 August 2026.