Bare is built to disappear. No accounts, no behavioral tracking, no profiling cookies. We don't know who you are, and we'd like to keep it that way.
No accounts. You don't sign in to use Bare. We store no names, no emails, and no user profiles.
No history. Your searches are never saved, not on your device and not in any user record. Close the tab and there is nothing left behind.
No location tracking by us. Bare sends no location data with your search, and asks for un-localized results. Because your query goes through our server, the search index sees our server's network, not yours, so it can't tie results to where you are. (As with any website, our server necessarily receives the network request to respond to it, but we don't use it to build a profile.)
No user tracking. We use no fingerprinting, no tracking cookies, no advertising identifiers, and nothing that follows you around the web. The hosting platform Bare runs on (Base44) counts anonymous page views (which pages were loaded, and how many times) so we can see whether the service is being used. That counter uses a random technical identifier to group views within a single visit; Bare wipes it on every page load, before the app even starts, so it can never persist or connect one visit to the next. While a tab is open, the platform may also send a periodic "still open" ping carrying that same throwaway identifier and a timestamp, nothing more. These counts are not tied to your identity, your searches, or a profile of any kind, we couldn't single you out from them if we tried. Your search queries are never part of any analytics.
Bare's own code: zero telemetry. No analytics calls, no session IDs, no fingerprinting, no query logging, and no identifiers sent anywhere by anything we wrote.
The hosting platform (Base44): counts anonymous page views (which pages loaded, how many times) using a random technical ID that Bare wipes on every load, plus a periodic "still open" ping while a tab is open. None of it touches your identity, your queries, or a profile, and it can never connect one visit to the next. We disclose it openly precisely so a network-tab inspection can't surprise you.
No leaks to the sites in your results. Bare doesn't fetch site icons from the websites listed in your results, so those sites aren't pinged just because they appear on your screen. We send no referrer information when you click through, and we strip common tracking tags (like utm and click-id parameters) from result links before you follow them.
Nothing cached on your device or in between. Search responses are marked do-not-store, so they aren't held by your browser or any network in between. Individual searches also replace each other in your browser's back button rather than piling up as a trail. To be precise about the one place results do sit briefly: our server keeps a short-lived shared cache of results, keyed by the query text alone, so repeat searches are fast and upstream sources aren't hammered. It holds no IP, no identifier, and no record of who searched. it expires on its own within minutes and is the same for everyone.
Your query in the address bar. So a results page can be linked and reopened, your search words appear in the page's web address. That address stays on your own device, which means your browser may remember it in its address-bar suggestions. Bare keeps no copy of it. Use a private or incognito window if you'd rather your browser not remember.
No voice search, deliberately. Bare has no microphone button. Browser voice input sends your audio to the browser's developer to transcribe, outside any website's control, so we simply don't offer it. You type, nothing but text ever leaves your device.
How search works. Bare is not the search index itself; it's a private front door. When you search, your query travels to our server, which forwards it to the search index (primarily Brave Search, blended with Wikipedia and other open sources) to fetch results. Because the request comes from our server, that index sees our server's network, not yours, which shields your own IP address and any location it implies from the index. We don't tie queries to any identity, and we don't keep a record of them after results are returned. To keep the service fast, results for a query may be briefly held in temporary memory and then discarded; this is not linked to any person.
Quick answers. For some searches Bare shows a quick fact at the top, such as a currency conversion, the weather, or a simple calculation. These run through our server the same way a search does, so the source is queried by us rather than by you, and nothing is tied to your identity or kept afterward.
Third-party index. Web results are powered primarily by the Brave Search API, supplemented by Wikipedia and other open sources. Each operates under its own privacy practices, governed by its policy, not ours, but none of them ever sees your IP address or identity, because every request comes from our server.
Links you click. Visiting any website from your results is subject to that site's own privacy practices, which we don't control.
Why we don't proxy your visits. Some search engines offer an "anonymous view" that loads the page through their server so the site doesn't see your IP. We deliberately don't, because for you it mostly trades privacy away rather than adding it. A one-shot proxy hides a single page fetch from the destination site, but it does nothing about your internet provider, which can still see where you're going, and it makes Bare a party that relays what you read, which is exactly the position we designed the rest of the service to avoid. It also breaks the sites you actually want to use, since logged-in pages, payment, and interactive sites don't work through a relay, and it makes the rest of your browsing slower because every asset retrays through our server. The honest answer for genuine anonymous browsing is a tool built for it: a VPN or Tor protects your whole session, audited and maintained for exactly that, rather than a search engine bolting on a weaker copy. For those gaps that live outside any website's reach, see the habits above.
How Bare makes money. To keep the service free, Bare may show advertising, affiliate, or sponsored links, always clearly labeled. Any ads are contextual: they're chosen from the words in your current search or the content of the page, never from a profile of you or your past activity, and they load no outside ad scripts, cookies, or trackers. If you click an affiliate link and buy something, Bare may earn a small commission. We don't build a history or sell your data, and ignoring any of this changes nothing about your results.
What you can do to go further. Bare protects what's in its control, but a few habits help even more. A VPN or Tor hides your IP address from our server and your internet provider, so even the network request to reach Bare doesn't reveal where you are. A private or incognito window keeps your queries out of your browser's address-bar history on your own device. None of these are required (Bare works fully without them) but they close the gaps that live outside any website's reach.
Check everything yourself. Every claim on this page can be verified with your browser's developer tools. We keep a plain-language audit guide at /verify listing every network request Bare makes and why.
This policy may be updated from time to time. If we make a material change (anything that affects what data is handled or shared) we'll update the date below so you can see at a glance that something changed. We will never quietly weaken these promises.
Last updated: July 7, 2026