DuckDuckGo AI Chat Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

Update April 2024: Clarified the applicability of model provider usage policies, removed duplicative (export control) terms present in the DuckDuckGo Terms of Service, harmonized the procedures for updates to these terms with the DuckDuckGo Terms of Service, and made other non-material edits. No changes have been made to the AI Chat Privacy Policy.

When you interact with DuckDuckGo AI Chat (“AI Chat”), responses (“Outputs”) are generated based on the text you submit (“Prompts”).

Additionally, all metadata that contains personal information (for example, your IP address) is obfuscated from underlying model providers (for example, OpenAI, Anthropic).

If you submit personal information in your Prompts, it may be reproduced in the Outputs, but no one can tell whether it was you personally submitting the Prompts or someone else.

As noted above, we call model providers on your behalf so your personal information (for example, IP address) is not exposed to them. In addition, we have agreements in place with all model providers that further limit how they can use data from these anonymous requests that includes not using Prompts and Outputs to develop or improve their models as well as deleting all information received within 30 days.

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