We don’t keep your search history and we don’t create an advertising profile to target you. How does Qwant protect your privacy? When you use Qwant as a search engine, we do not set any advertising cookie on your browser, nor do we look at what you personally searched for previously. When you make a query, it is immediately pseudonymized using the methods set forth in this Privacy Policy. We also undertake to make every effort to guarantee the security and confidentiality of our users’ personal data and in particular to prevent such data from being altered, deleted or accessed by unauthorized third parties. The URL of Qwant begins with “HTTPS”, which indicates to users that they are communicating their data securely through the TLS protocol. Technically, the TLS guarantees visitors that their data cannot be intercepted while in transit over the network in a fraudulent or accidental manner. In addition, the padlock that appears in front of the Qwant URL on most browsers certifies that you are browsing a secure site. Qwant has a Privacy office dedicated to protecting your privacy. It also has a Data Protection Officer (DPO). Both work closely with eachother to ensure that the relevant regulation regarding personal data is applied as strongly as it should. The DPO keeps an updated register of all processing of personal data made by Qwant for his services. For instance, when you create an account on the site, you can choose to fill in your profile and this is a processing of personal data for which the register will say how data may be kept (and how long), and who can access it. The DPO makes this register available to anyone who asks : privacy@qwant.com We commit to do anything we can to ensure the security and confidentiality of our users personal data, including by preventing data damage, loss, or access by unauthorized third parties. Qwant’s URL has the HTTPS header that shows users they communicate with Qwant through a secure channel using the TLS protocol. Technically, TLS ensures users that their data can’t be intercepted by fraud. Moreover, the green lock that you see on most browsers when using Qwant certifies that you are browsing a secure website. We use your browser’s “local storage” technology to store your browser settings (language, enabling or disabling options) on your device. If you change these technical parameters, a cookie may be installed on your browser, exclusively for the purpose of preserving these parameters. You have the possibility to delete the “local storage” data or the cookie from your browser. However, the provision of a search engine requires some data processing. In such cases, we collect some personal data such as your name, firstname and email address when you register to our services, or when you use forms available on our website. What data is processed by Qwant when you make search queries? Qwant also collects connection data, not associated with your search queries, only to ensure the security of its information system and, if you create or modify Boards, to respect the obligation to identify content creators such as mandated by French law (article 6-II de la Loi pour la confiance en l’économie numérique).  Even when you are connected with an ID, we don’t use any cookie nor any other tracking device when you browse the site. The only technology that may be installed on your browser, called “local storage”, is used to locally save your settings (language, activation or deactivation of options…). In order to have knowledge of the existing contents on the Web and to offer you the most relevant results, Qwant automatically indexes Web pages on which personal data of any kind is likely to be present. Qwant retains this data until two years after the last indexing by our robots, based on our legitimate interest in having an index of publicly available content on the Web (article 6.1.f of the GDPR). A salted hash of the user’s IP address with the salt that changes ever three months at the latest (i.e. the result of a mathematical formula based on this IP address, not the IP address itself); Personal data that you transmit are never disclosed or sold by Qwant to third parties, except for job applications that may be shared with recruiting partners, unless you ask us not to. After this period, the keywords are no longer associated to an identifier and are retained for 12 months for aggregate statistical analysis (e.g. to know how many times a keyword is searched over a given period of time). This processing is necessary for the performance of Qwant’s Terms of Use, on the basis of article 6.1.b of the GDPR (processing necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us), and meets Qwant’s legitimate interest (article 6.1.f of the GDPR) to secure and make its services reliable. For Qwant and Qwant Junior accounts, your data is removed 7 days after you request that the account be deleted. If you use a EDU Qwant Junior account (edu.qwantjunior.com), your data is removed 3 months after the account deletion request. During this period, you can ask that your account be reactivated using your initial username and password. For data that may be collected when you exercize some rights (access, opposition, rectification, right to be forgotten…), the duration of retention depends on what the law prescribes for each of these rights. Please refer to the next section of this Privacy Policy for details. For connection data that the information system security department may access, the duration of retention is 6 months. For Qwant Boards, French law makes it mandatory to keep some connection data (e.g. user ID used, URL or position, nature of the operation, time…) for one year. In order to provide you with relevant results from around the world when we do not have the answers to your queries by ourselves, we have partnered with Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited to provide a portion of our search results and provide contextual advertising based on the keywords entered and your geographic region. For this purpose, as well as for the security and reliability of our partner’s services (detection of spam, automated activity, fraudulent clicks on ads…), Qwant may transfer to this partner the following pseudonymous data related to your query: – The searched keywords; – The type and version of the browser used (User Agent); – The first three bytes of your IP address; – The approximate geographical area at the origin of the search, at the scale of a region or a city; – A salted hash generated from: your IP address, your User Agent and a salt that changes at least every 3 months. This data is transferred to this partner within the European Union, and may be retained in accordance with Bing’s Privacy Policy for a maximum duration of 18 months. This processing is necessary for the performance of Qwant’s Terms of Use, on the basis of article 6.1.b of the GDPR (processing necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us), and responds to the legitimate interest of Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited (article 6.1.f) to make its services secure and reliable. Qwant also keeps other data related to your use of the services (associated for 7 days with a hash calculated from your IP address and the User Agent of your browser) including : – The source of the user’s visit to the site (the HTTP referrer and the search field used to trigger the request); Qwant does not require you to register to use the search engine. However, you may wish to register to log in and personalize services. You are free to manage your account information (modify, correct, update and delete information). In order to manage its users’ accounts and to send our newsletter (if you have chosen to subscribe), Qwant collects the following data: When you use Qwant, no personal information whatsoever is neither captured or transmitted to advertisers. In details: – No third party cookies – No trackers – No behavioral targeting – No campaigns mixing legit and promotional content (native advertising) the right to object to processing under the conditions provided for by the regulations (article 21 of the GDPR); – the right to limit the processing of such data under the conditions provided for by the regulations (article 18 of the GDPR); right to data portability (Article 20 of the GDPR); Right to erasure and “right to be forgotten”. This right gives you the possibility to have your data deleted as soon as possible by Qwant. Concretely, you have the possibility to delete your account by following instructions detailed here. As of the request to close the account, the data you have provided will then be deleted after 7 days, subject to our legal and regulatory obligations. Similarly, you may request deletion of your job application if you no longer wish it to be processed by Qwant. Upon receipt of your request to close your application file, all data you have provided will then be deleted as soon as possible and within 15 days of your request at the latest. When videos are embedded within search results, you can watch them without leaving Qwant. We don’t retain data related to your use of the videos. However, the videos are loaded by your browser from the servers of their hosting service, which may collect some of your personal data. The playing of videos obtained from the YouTube API Services is then subject to YouTube’s Terms of Service and to Google’s Privacy Policy. Videos obtained from the Dailymotion API are subject to Dailymotion’s Terms of Use, and to Dailymotion’s Privacy Policy. 

Summary:
This service does not track you. The user is informed about security practices. your personal data is used for limited purposes. info given about security practices. Blocking first party cookies may limit your ability to use the service. info given about what personal data they collect. The service provides details about what kinds of personal information they collect. only necessary logs are kept. The service's data retention period is kept to the minimum necessary for fulfilling its purposes. IP addresses of website visitors are not tracked. personal data is not sold. Your personal data is aggregated into statistics. you can request access and deletion of personal data. The service uses your personal data to employ targeted third-party advertising. This service can share your personal information to third parties . Third parties may be involved in operating the service. This service tracks which web page referred you to it. No need to register. You can request access and deletion of personal data. You can opt out of promotional communications. only temporary session cookies. You can limit how your information is used by third-parties and the service. This service allows you to retrieve an archive of your data. You can delete your content from this service. The service informs users that its privacy policy does not apply to third party websites.