Can You Open This?

Privacy Policy

We understand and respect your concern about privacy at Can You Open This?

Personal Information

As of now, Can You Open This? does not collect any personal information from you, other than the links you provide for checking.

Security

Can You Open This? maintains confidentiality of information provided by you and information contained within this website. However, Can You Open This? can not and does not warrant that its site is impenetrable or invulnerable to hackers.

Cookies

At present, Can You Open This? does not set or retrieve cookies on your computer or internet access device.

Third Party Services

Can You Open This? integrates services from other sites, which may have their own privacy policies different from this one. If you are concerned about privacy, please take time to read the privacy policy of Thumbalizr and Google. Neither Can You Open This? nor Aalaap Ghag can be held responsible for violation of privacy outside of http://canyouopenthis.com.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

Can You Open This? and Aalaap Ghag reserve the right to change the privacy policy of this website/service at any time. The change will be highlighted and the user(s) will be informed appropriately when that happens.

If you have any other questions or concerns about your privacy, please email me at aalaap at gmail dot com.

Terms of Service

Use of Can You Open This? indicates your agreement with the following terms of service:

Disclaimer

Can You Open This? is a free service that allows you to check the online status of a site by entering its URL. Each link is user-submitted. Can You Open This? or Aalaap Ghag is neither affiliated with the authors of the pages displayed or linked herein by the users nor responsible for their content.

API

Can You Open This? offers an ultra-simple API to check whether a site is online or not. Simply make an HTTP GET request like this:

http://canyouopenthis.com/?mode=api&site=http://thesiteyouwanttocheck.com

The response is a simple 'yes' or 'no'. That's it! :)

Contact Us

Email me at aalaap at gmail dot com.

What is this?

Can You Open This? is a remote ping tool. It is a tool to check if sites are online are not. When you enter a site URL, we simply try to connect to it from our servers and check for a response. Usually, that's a good indicator of the site's online status.

Why do I need this?

Sometimes a link you're trying to visit won't open for you. If you're like me, you'll end up asking a friend online, "Hey, can you open this site?" That's where Can You Open This? gets its name from. Depending on what Can You Open This? says, you'll know if the site itself is down or if it is a problem with your connection or ISP. It will help when you call your ISP and tell them that a particular site isn't working.

How reliable is this?

Since Can You Open This? is on a pretty popular, high-bandwith host (Dreamhost), a site that is reported down is almost 99% down. However, it is possible that some sites arent accessible from this side of the world or is blocking us, in which case a false down status may be reported.

That's it?

No! If we can open the site, we use the awesome Thumbalizr to show you a screenshot of the site, so you may still be able to see the content without being able to open the site. Also, Can You Open This? will give you a link to Google's cached copy.