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This privacy policy includes strong protections, such as commitments not to save or share search, chat, or browsing history, and not to store identifiable IP addresses or unique identifiers tied to your activity. It also states that search results are anonymous, no personal information is sold, and children under 13 are not knowingly marketed to or solicited for information.
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The policy states that the company does not save or share your search, chat, or browsing history when you use their services.
Why it helps: This commitment helps protect your privacy by ensuring that your online activities are not recorded or distributed by the company, maintaining anonymity.
We don’t save or share your search, chat, or browsing history when you search on DuckDuckGo, chat on Duck.ai, or use our apps and extensions.
The company states that it does not save IP addresses alongside your searches, chats, or website visits, and explicitly states it never logs IP addresses to disk that could be tied back to you.
Why it helps: This prevents your unique IP address from being linked to your activity, enhancing your anonymity and protecting your identity online.
We don’t save your IP address alongside your searches, Duck.ai chats, or visits to our websites, and we never log IP addresses to disk that could be tied back to you.
The policy confirms that the company does not save any unique identifiers alongside your searches, chats, or website visits, and asserts that no unique identifiers are logged to disk that could be tied back to you or your activity history.
Why it helps: This ensures that your individual browsing and search history cannot be linked back to you, preventing the creation of a personal profile based on your online actions.
We also don’t save any other unique identifiers alongside your searches, chats, or visits to our website, and never log unique identifiers to disk that could be tied back to you or to your search, chat, or browsing history.
The policy explains that viewing search results is anonymous and that they only save anonymous search queries, completely disconnected from unique identifiers, to improve search indexes by analyzing anonymous trends.
Why it helps: This practice ensures that your search behavior cannot be traced back to you, as queries are anonymized and used only for overall service improvement, not for profiling individuals.
This means that when you use our services, we have no way to create a history of your search queries, your chats, or the sites you browse. For example, we may know that we got a lot of searches for "[cute cat pictures](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cute+cat+pictures&iax=images&ia=images&atb=v334-1)" today, but we don’t know who actually performed those searches. That is, viewing search results on DuckDuckGo is anonymous. And we only save these anonymous search queries — completely disconnected from any unique identifiers like IP addresses — to improve our search indexes by analyzing anonymous search trends, so that we can better serve you.
The company explicitly states that they do not sell your personal information.
Why it helps: This commitment means your personal data will not be monetized through sales to third parties, enhancing your privacy and control over your information.
We do not sell your personal information.
The policy states that the apps and website are intended for a general audience and they do not knowingly market to or solicit information from children under 13.
Why it helps: This protects children's privacy by indicating that the service is not designed to engage with or collect data from minors, aligning with child protection regulations.
Our apps and website are intended for a general audience, and we do not knowingly market to or solicit information from children under 13.
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