Privacy

Searchia is a privacy-friendly search engine. This page explains what we collect, what we do not, and how preferences work. For product background see About.

What we do not collect

• No accounts or sign-in.
• We do not sell personal data or build advertising profiles.
• Search queries are not stored or analyzed by Searchia for advertising.

How search works

Results are sourced from Brave Search and, when enabled, Kagi. Your browser talks to Searchia on Cloudflare Workers; we forward the query to those providers to fetch results. Brave does not store your queries in a way that identifies you to Searchia. When Kagi is enabled, Searchia uses operator-maintained session cookies solely to retrieve results — those cookies are not your cookies.

Voice search

When your browser supports it, the search box may offer a microphone control. Voice search only runs after you tap the mic and grant microphone permission. A listening overlay shows when the mic is active. Searchia does not upload recordings to our servers — recognition runs in your browser (and may use the browser vendor’s speech service depending on your browser and settings).

Cookies and local storage

Searching does not require cookies. Optional preferences (theme, accent, safe search, region, preferred engine, suggestion toggle, new-tab setting) may be saved in first-party cookies and/or localStorage so they persist between visits. You can change or clear them anytime on Settings.

• Cookies: country, safesearch, engine (when set).
• localStorage: theme, accent color, open-in-new-tab, suggestion preferences.

Logs and security

Cloudflare may process standard request metadata (such as IP and user agent) for delivery, abuse prevention, and rate limiting. We apply security headers and rate limits to protect the service and upstream providers.

Third parties

Instant answers and maps may call third-party services (for example Mapbox for maps, or public APIs for dictionaries, FX, and optional translation). Those requests leave Searchia only for the feature you triggered.

When enabled by the operator, optional error monitoring and the in-page Feedback widget send reports to Sentry (including any name, email, message, or screenshot you choose to submit). Searching itself does not require this.

Made and hosted in the EU.