ShomerDNS Privacy Policy
At ShomerDNS, we value your privacy
At ShomerDNS, we collect as little data from our users as necessary to provide the DNS service. We place a high value on the faith and trust of our users, and we do not sell, rent, or trade any aspect of our user's data.
Types of data we collect
Your Personal Information
If the information does not disclose your identity or enable your identity to be ascertained, it will in most cases not be classified as “Personal Information” and will not be subject to this privacy policy.
Just like any website you visit, when you visit ShomerDNS.com, we collect the public IP address of the network you are using, browser details, and the time of your visit.
Web Contact Form
We have a "contact form" link that takes you to a form at https://shomerdns.com/contact. When users fill in the form and click "send," an email is sent to us with the user's message, name, and email address.
DNS Servers
If you are using our DNS servers on your systems or network, we receive DNS queries from your systems or network. A DNS query is simply the domain you are trying to visit, and our server responds with the IP address of that domain.
For example, if you set our DNS servers on your systems or network and opened news.com.au in your browser, our server receives a request that you are trying to visit news.com.au, and it replies with the IP address of news.com.au.
Along with the DNS query, we also receive the time of your query and your public IP address. Your public IP address is essentially an identifier for your systems or network on the internet. Our DNS servers need your public IP address to respond to your DNS queries.
We do not receive the complete web address (e.g., a specific page or path) or any other data from your systems or network. We would only know that you are visiting the domain news.com.au, but we would not know if you are visiting the sports section or any specific page of that domain.
Our DNS servers only receive domain names, the time of visit, and your public IP address. We do not track or collect any other personal data.
Blocking Inappropriate Content
The main goal of ShomerDNS is to block inappropriate or unwanted content. When our servers receive DNS queries from your systems or network, ShomerDNS determines whether the domain you're trying to visit should be blocked. If not, the query is resolved and the IP address is sent back to you.
Browser Extension
The ShomerDNS browser extension checks the domain of each page you navigate to against our filter list, so it can show a block page for domains that are already blocked at the DNS level. Doing this sends the domain (not the full page address, and not any content on the page) to our server, along with your public IP address, the same as any normal request to our website.
The extension does not require an account, a User ID, or an Access Token — it works anonymously. We do not log these requests to our web server's access logs, and we do not build any browsing history from them. We do store, very briefly, timestamps used to rate-limit excessive requests from a single network, the same protection described under "Rate Limitation and Security" below.
The extension's Hide images setting (on by default, and can be turned off from the extension's toolbar menu) replaces images and videos on the websites you visit with plain grey boxes. This needs permission to access all websites, but it happens entirely inside your browser: nothing about the pages you visit, their content, or their addresses is sent to us or anyone else because of it. The only thing the extension saves is whether Hide images is turned on (separately for normal and private windows), and that stays on your device.
Frum Phone Licence Keys
When you activate a Frum Phone, the App sends us the licence key, the App's version number, and a device identifier. The device identifier is a one-way hash of the phone's hardware serial number, worked out on the phone itself, so the serial number never leaves the phone. We then store only a further keyed hash of that value. We use it only to make sure each licence key is used on one phone, and to let the same phone activate again after a factory reset.
If you buy a licence key, our payment provider Ko-fi sends us your name, your email address, the amount paid, and a transaction reference. We use these to email your licence key, to resend it if needed, and to handle refunds. We never receive your card or payment account details. Ko-fi's own privacy policy covers the payment itself.
When you ask for a free licence key on our website, or activate a phone, we keep a short-lived, hashed record of your network's IP address to limit how many requests one network can make. We do not keep your raw IP address for this.
We keep licence records for as long as the licence key is in use, so that it keeps working on your phone.
Rate Limitation and Security
We store public IP addresses received in order to implement rate limiting and block excessive requests. This is crucial for protecting against DNS Amplification DDoS attacks.
Upstream Servers
We use upstream servers to process DNS queries. When we receive DNS queries from your systems or network, we process them ourselves first and then forward them. Your public IP address and data are not sent to upstream servers, it appears as though the DNS query is coming from ShomerDNS.com.
Your Data Protection
Our servers and software are regularly checked for security updates. As soon as a new security patch is released, we do our best to implement it as quickly as possible.
Our website is protected with HTTPS (Secure SSL), ensuring that your activity on the site is encrypted.
If you are using our DNS servers, the information about your DNS queries is only used internally for the purposes of providing our DNS service.
Sharing of Your Data
We do not share your data with any other organization unless required by law. If we receive a query from a law enforcement agency related to a legal matter, we will share the information as required by law.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy was last reviewed on 09/10/2026.
