In short  Startpage.com doesn’t log or share your personal information.    We don’t track you. We don’t profile you.  Period.  The longer version We believe privacy is a fundamental human right.&nbsp;   With Startpage you can search and browse the internet privately.&nbsp; Not because you have something to hide, but because you have a lot to protect!  Protecting your privacy is all about having control over your data. At Startpage.com, we help you control and protect what’s yours:&nbsp;  It’s Your Data. Not Big Data We don’t record your IP address The only exception is for automated search requests (robots) that rapidly submit more queries to our servers than any normal human would. When our software detects potential abuse, we register and block the offending IP address in order to keep our service safe and free strong>We don’t serve any tracking or identifying cookies Bad" cookies have unique elements that can track all kinds of personal information. We don’t serve any of those. Startpage uses just one "good" cookie called "preferences" in order to remember the search preferences you choose. It’s completely anonymous and expires after not visiting Startpage for 90 days We don’t record your search queries When you search, your query is automatically stripped of unnecessary metadata including your IP address and other identifying information. We send the anonymized search query to Google and return the search results to you. We don’t log your searches.  To prevent abuse such as robotic high-volume querying, we anonymously determine the frequency of popular search keywords as a part of our anti-abuse measures, while protecting your privacy How we have implemented truly anonymous analytics   We only count aggregate numbers We do measure overall traffic numbers and some other – strictly anonymous – statistics. Those links are retrieved from platforms such as Google Adwords. In order to enable the prevention of click fraud, some non-identifying system information is shared, but because we never share personal information or information that could uniquely identify you, the ads we display are not connected to any individual user. Startpage.com serves strictly non-personalized ads When you contact us via email or through our support center, we’ll use your contact information to respond to you. We won’t sell or share this info with anyone else. You’ll have the option to subscribe to our newsletter, from which you can unsubscribe at any time. Any request will have to come from Dutch judicial authorities. We will never comply with any voluntary surveillance program   Big Brother would like some help?  Hell no! Fortunately, we are based in the EU, where we have strong laws that protect your right to privacy. European governments can’t legally force service providers like Startpage to implement a blanket spying program  Citizens in the EU have the right to request the deletion of search results that disclose their personal data when those results are inaccurate or no longer relevant. In accordance&nbsp;with EU privacy laws and regulations, you have the right to lodge a complaint&nbsp;with the national supervisory authority responsible for the&nbsp;protection of&nbsp;personal data if you think we have unlawfully processed your personal data. For&nbsp;the Netherlands, this supervisory authority is the&nbsp;Dutch Data Protection Authority, which you can&nbsp;contact here 

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The terms for this service are easy to read. The service provides information about its attitude towards ethical, social or political problems or controversies. IP addresses of website visitors are not tracked. The cookies used by this service do not contain information that would personally identify you. The cookies used by this service do not contain information that would personally identify you. When you click on a ad link, a google redirect tracking link is used.. This service does not track you. Only aggregate data is given to third parties. This service does not track you. You can limit how your information is used by third-parties and the service. This service does not track you. This service does not sell your personal data. You can opt out of promotional communications. The court of law governing the terms is in location X. The service will resist legal requests for user information where reasonably possible. You can request access and deletion of personal data. The service provides a complaint mechanism for the handling of personal data.