To provide search engine results, we use SSL/TLS to send your search term and operators to the Startpage servers.

We don't collect any or share any personal data (based on the privacy laws and regulations of the EU, including the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR.)

As stated in our privacy policy (link below), we don't share your IP address, or any part of your IP address, with Google or with any provider of sponsored search results or ads. We don't serve any tracking or identifying cookies and we don't record your search queries. We measure non-personal extension installation success for all users, as well as overall traffic numbers and other strictly anonymous statistics such as the language.

Read the full privacy policy for this add-on here - https://www.startpage.com/en/search/privacy-policy.html