Privacy-friendly Internet search with Ixquick and Startpage reaffirmed

Netherlands based Surfboard Holding B.V. proved that their meta search engines Ixquick and Startpage still meet all relevant requirements of EU data protection law.


Surfboard Holding B.V. runs a meta search engine which is provided under two different names: Ixquick and Startpage.

Ixquick and Startpage especially focus on protecting the privacy of their users: Notably, they do not store users’ search terms, IP addresses and user agent information and offer a proxy to view search results anonymously.

Please find further information about privacy friendly web search with Ixquick and Startpage in our press release: Image Image

Surfboard Holding B.V. published a new on occasion of the seal award that is available here [external link].

More detailed information about the results of the 2015 recertification is available here.

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