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Ixquick privacy policy gets even better.



[font='Times New Roman', Times, serif]Thursday, July 5th, 2012

[font='Times New Roman', Times, serif]Ixquick Stops Recording Browser and Platform Information Entirely.

[font='Times New Roman', Times, serif]Great news! As of this week, Ixquick will no longer record browser type and platform information (also known as the user agent) of our users. This change has gone live on both Ixquick and our sister search engine Startpage (www.Startpage.com), and translation of the text into non-English languages is underway.

[font='Times New Roman', Times, serif]The Data Collection section of our Privacy Policy has been revised to reflect this change. Our privacy policy now reads as follows:

[font='Times New Roman', Times, serif]Data Collection
  • [font='Times New Roman', Times, serif]We don't collect any personal information on our visitors. Nada. Zilch. Zero.
  • [font='Times New Roman', Times, serif]When you use Ixquick, we do not record your IP address, we do not record which browser you are using (Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, etc.), we do not record your computer platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.), and we do not record your search words or phrases. In fact, the only information we do record is an aggregate total of how many searches are performed on our website each day (a measure of overall traffic), and those overall traffic numbers broken down by language.
  • [font='Times New Roman', Times, serif]Our zero data collection policy protects your privacy, since your IP address, browser, and platform information can be combined with other data to uniquely identify your computer, your location, or you. It is also important not to record search terms, since they can convey personal information as well. (Think of someone entering their own name and/or social security number.)



https://ixquick.com/eng/press/ixquick-privacy-gets-better.html
 

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