# Does Mautic store the contact's IP when user clicks on a link in an email?

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/does-mautic-store-the-contacts-ip-when-user-clicks-on-a-link-in-an-email/26331>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [December 6, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/does-mautic-store-the-contacts-ip-when-user-clicks-on-a-link-in-an-email/26331 "2022-12-06T21:09:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![sdoering](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/sdoering/32/8909_2.png) [@sdoering](https://forum.mautic.org/u/sdoering)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/does-mautic-store-the-contacts-ip-when-user-clicks-on-a-link-in-an-email/26331/1 "2022-12-06T21:09:55Z")

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**Your software**  
My Mautic version is: 4.4-ish (?)  
My PHP version is: 8.0.26  
My Database type and version is:10.3.22-MariaDB

**Your problem**  
My problem is: I would like to know if Mautic stores the IP address when a user clicks a link in an email and a campaign has a decision based on this click.

A client wants to store the IP together with the email address and the timestamp of such a consent link click and I would like to know if this is possible. I tested it and while the IP is visible in the audit log when the contact submits a form, it is not, when the contact clicks the link. At least not in every test case.

I build a test campaign form, used it as a starting point for a campaign, the first campaign action sends a mail, the second campaign step (a condition) checks if the link was clicked and assigns a tag to the user in case the condition evaluated as true.

So in this case (the user gave some form of consent with this click (think double opt in) I would like to ensure the IP the user had when clicking the link in the mail was at least stored in the database.

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**Author:** ![joeyk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/joeyk/32/11164_2.png) [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 5:24am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/does-mautic-store-the-contacts-ip-when-user-clicks-on-a-link-in-an-email/26331/2 "2022-12-07T05:24:19Z")

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Hi, the clicks are stored together with IP addresses in the DB:  
These link clicks go under the concept of ‘URL as redirect’ and there is a table for it. Includes IP.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/1X/43c63600fe51440378769136903f1fa2a9a34102.png) [@system](https://forum.mautic.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/does-mautic-store-the-contacts-ip-when-user-clicks-on-a-link-in-an-email/26331/3 "2022-12-08T17:25:17Z")

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