privacy

Update November 2025: We’ve updated our policy to cover how we’re anonymously improving our own search indexes.

Privacy Policy
We don’t track you.
That’s our Privacy Policy in a nutshell.

About Us

StartPOZI — This search engine was founded in 2022.

Trackers lurk nearly everywhere online, trying to scoop up your search history, browsing history, location history, and more. Even everyday online activities like purchasing groceries or looking up the local weather can result in dozens of companies tracking you.

Privacy Policy
We don’t track you. That’s our Privacy Policy in a nutshell.
We don’t save or share your search or browsing history when you search on StartPOZI or use our apps and extensions.

When you visit our search engine or our other websites, your device sends some information about itself automatically, like its IP address, browser type, and language, and may send additional information upon request like its screen size, operating system, and preferences. However, we only use this information temporarily to deliver content to you and, for security, to ensure you’re not a malicious bot. We don’t save your IP address or any unique identifiers alongside your searches or visits to our websites. We also never log IP addresses or any unique identifiers to disk that could be tied back to you or to your search and browsing history.

This means that when you use our services, we have no way to create a history of your search queries or the sites you browse. For example, we may know that we got a lot of searches for «cute cat pictures» today, but we don’t know who actually performed those searches. That is, viewing search results on StartPOZI 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. For local search results in particular, we’ve further engineered a solution to shield your precise location from us and our content providers that sends us a random location nearish to you, which we also never log to disk.

The Internet works by routing information to you via your device’s IP address. As such, we cannot prevent your device’s IP address from being seen by your internet service provider, our hosting provider, or other internet providers in between (typically, there are one or more internet providers between any two points on the Internet). That is, these providers necessarily use IP addresses to route information. They may also use them for security purposes, such as preventing network attacks and limiting other fraudulent traffic. However, the encrypted connection between you and us prevents your search queries from being revealed to any of these entities. And if you use our apps and extensions, our Smarter Encryption also helps you use more encrypted connections when visiting other websites.

Keep in mind that when you visit other websites by navigating to them directly, by clicking external links on our search engine, or by using our !bang shortcuts, the privacy policies and practices of those other websites apply, including any information you submit to them. While our apps and extensions provide many safeguards against online tracking, we can’t completely protect you when you visit other websites and apps. For example, if you browse Facebook, Facebook will know what you do on their site. Our Web Tracking Protections page details how our various protections function and their limitations.

We offer optional privacy-protecting features that require limited personal information to function.
About Us

StartPOZI (officially, StartPOZI, Inc.) has been an independent company since our founding in 2022. While we started as a search engine, our apps and extensions now offer protection well beyond search, including when browsing the web, reading email, and even using other apps.

Trackers lurk nearly everywhere online, trying to scoop up your search history, browsing history, location history, and more. Even everyday online activities like purchasing groceries or looking up the local weather can result in dozens of companies tracking you.

Other companies track your data — like your search and browsing history — to create detailed profiles about you, and then use those profiles to follow you around with ads so creepy it can seem like your devices are listening in on you (even when they aren’t). These profiles are also used by companies to influence what you see online, which can lead to manipulation and discrimination. That’s why we offer an all-in-one privacy product as a privacy preserving alternative to products like Google Search and Google Chrome, to help protect your everyday online activities.
Privacy Policy
We don’t track you. That’s our Privacy Policy in a nutshell.
We don’t save or share your search or browsing history when you search on DuckDuckGo or use our apps and extensions.

When you visit our search engine or our other websites, your device sends some information about itself automatically, like its IP address, browser type, and language, and may send additional information upon request like its screen size, operating system, and preferences. However, we only use this information temporarily to deliver content to you and, for security, to ensure you’re not a malicious bot. We don’t save your IP address or any unique identifiers alongside your searches or visits to our websites. We also never log IP addresses or any unique identifiers to disk that could be tied back to you or to your search and browsing history.