cancel
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
Announcements
Want to learn some quick and useful tips to make your day easier? Check out how Calvin uses Replay to get feedback from other teams at Dropbox here.

Discuss Dropbox Developer & API

cancel
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Does Dropbox track my users?

Does Dropbox track my users?

apatrck00
Explorer | Level 3
Go to solution

Hey,

i am using the python-dbx api for a year or something and i provided some friends a application where the can acsess my dropbox App [with the dbx-token] and some stuff.

Today my friends asked me if I track them. For sure I don't !!

But I wanted to know if dbx itself register the IP and other stuff from 'users' which acsess my dropbox through [with] my api-dbx-token [key {you know for sure}]. Does dropbox save the IP's where the requests come from or other unique information about the PC.

 

Sorry for my bad english (-;

1 Accepted Solution

Accepted Solutions

Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Go to solution

The Dropbox API operates by receiving API calls via HTTPS requests. So, by definition, the Dropbox servers do see the IP addresses of the clients making the HTTPS requests.

For information on what kind of data Dropbox collects, please refer to our privacy policy:

https://www.dropbox.com/terms#privacy

By the way, from your description, it sounds like you are using a single hard-coded access token in your app, and have distributed your app to multiple users. The API was designed with the intention that each user would link their own Dropbox account, in order to interact with their own files. It is technically possible to connect to just one account like you've described, but I should note that we don't recommend doing so, for various technical and security reasons.

View solution in original post

1 Reply 1

Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Go to solution

The Dropbox API operates by receiving API calls via HTTPS requests. So, by definition, the Dropbox servers do see the IP addresses of the clients making the HTTPS requests.

For information on what kind of data Dropbox collects, please refer to our privacy policy:

https://www.dropbox.com/terms#privacy

By the way, from your description, it sounds like you are using a single hard-coded access token in your app, and have distributed your app to multiple users. The API was designed with the intention that each user would link their own Dropbox account, in order to interact with their own files. It is technically possible to connect to just one account like you've described, but I should note that we don't recommend doing so, for various technical and security reasons.

Need more support?
Who's talking

Top contributors to this post

  • User avatar
    Greg-DB Dropbox Staff
What do Dropbox user levels mean?