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DuckDuckGo AI Chat

DuckDuckGo · Chat assistant · US · duckduckgo.com

Last verified 2026-09-16
Entry services/duckduckgo-ai-chat.yaml
Training on your data (default tier)
Prompts are anonymised before reaching model providers, who are contractually barred from using prompts and outputs to develop or improve their models
Retention
Chats saved locally by default; optional encrypted Sync and Backup deleted after 18 months without access; providers delete within 30 days
Data residency
Not stated; requests are relayed anonymously to US model providers, and optional backups sit on DuckDuckGo's cloud providers

Vendor data-handling terms

Training on your data (default tier)
Prompts are anonymised before reaching model providers, who are contractually barred from using prompts and outputs to develop or improve their models
“All metadata that contains personal information (for example, your IP address) is removed before sending Prompts to underlying model providers (for example, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, together.ai). / In addition, we have agreements in place with all model providers that further limit how they can use data from these anonymous requests, including not using Prompts and Outputs to develop or improve their models, as well as deleting all information received once it is no longer necessary to provide Outputs (at most within 30 days, with limited exceptions for safety and legal compliance).”
checked 2026-09-16
Duck.ai Privacy Policy and Terms
Retention
Chats saved locally by default; optional encrypted Sync and Backup deleted after 18 months without access; providers delete within 30 days
“Your recent chats are saved locally on your device, unless you opt out of saving recent chats altogether. / Sync & Backup chats are automatically deleted if not accessed for a period of 18 months.”
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Duck.ai Privacy Policy and Terms
Data residency
Not stated; requests are relayed anonymously to US model providers, and optional backups sit on DuckDuckGo's cloud providers

No hosting region is named.

“You can optionally change your Duck.ai storage settings so that chats are instead saved on a longer-term basis in encrypted form on our servers hosted on our cloud providers (“Sync & Backup”).”
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Duck.ai Privacy Policy and Terms

Domains and endpoints

observed means seen in Unseen deployments; vendor-documented means listed by the vendor. Vendors do not publish complete lists.

HostRoleSource
duck.aiappobserved
duckduckgo.comappobserved

Assessment

Web and browser app: low

Reasoning: An anonymising front end to third-party models. IP and metadata are stripped, providers cannot train on or keep prompts beyond 30 days, and chats stay on the device unless the user opts into encrypted backup. The prompt text itself still leaves the company, so it is low rather than approved for confidential content.

Flags: Prompt text still reaches third-party model providers · Region not stated · Assessed 2026-09-16. The assessment is Unseen's; the terms above are the vendor's.

Changelog

  • 2026-09-16Documented. Anonymisation, provider and retention terms verified against the Duck.ai privacy terms.
  • 2026-09-15Listed from the Unseen catalogue with observed domains.

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