The short version
- Sharing searches is off until you turn it on, on the website or in the extension.
- We keep keywords, not people: no search history per person. Accounts are optional.
- If you pre-register, we keep your name and email only to send you one email at launch.
- We do not store IP addresses. A scrambled copy is used for rate limits and deleted within 48 hours.
- Sensitive searches are dropped on your device before anything is sent.
- You can delete your data at any time.
Pre-registration
If you pre-register on this site, we store the name and email address you enter, and the time you signed up. Nothing else is attached to it: no IP address and no search data.
- Why: to send you one email when the keyword tool opens on 20 November 2026.
- Where: in Cloudflare R2 storage, readable only by us.
- How long: we delete the list within 30 days after the launch email is sent.
- Your choice: you can ask us to delete your entry at any time by emailing us; we never sell or share it.
What we collect
When you use the keyword tool on the website
The keywords you look up are sent to our server to fetch their scores. To count your daily lookups, the website keeps a short-lived session token and a random install key in your browser's local storage. To stop automated abuse, the website uses Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks that a person is using the page.
If you agree to share your searches on the website, each keyword you look up waits 30 minutes in your browser, where you can remove it, before it is sent as a contribution.
When you turn on sharing in the extension
The extension reads only the search words of first-page searches on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, YouTube and Amazon. It does not read page content, does not see other websites and never runs in incognito windows. Before anything is saved, a cleaner on your device removes:
- URLs, email addresses, phone numbers and long runs of digits
- search operators such as
site: - sensitive topics: health, adult content, legal trouble, money trouble and searches for people
Each remaining search waits at least 30 minutes in the extension, where you can see and remove it, and is then sent in a batch at a random moment.
If you create an account
Accounts are optional, on the website and in the extension. You log in with a one-time code sent by email; there are no passwords. Login is handled by Supabase, with data stored in the EU, and login emails are sent through Resend.
- What we store: your email address, the date you joined and how many searches you shared.
- What we never store with it: which searches you shared or looked up. Those stay anonymous, exactly as described above.
- How long: until you delete your account, which you can do at any time on the website's Account page. That removes your email, join date and count.
- Your session: kept in your browser or in the extension until you log out.
Feedback and the uninstall survey
When you remove the extension, Chrome opens a short, optional survey on our website asking why. The extension's review card can also link to a feedback form. If you answer, we store only your answer (the reasons you picked and any comment you write), the day and the page language. For the uninstall survey we also keep the extension version, a rough install age (for example "7 to 29 days") and whether sharing was on. No IP address, account or install key is stored with an answer, and answers are deleted after one year. Please don't put personal details in the comment.
What we store, and how
| DATA | HOW IT IS STORED | HOW LONG |
|---|---|---|
| A shared keyword | With a one-way token that is different for every keyword, so keywords from the same person cannot be linked | As long as the dataset exists |
| Your install key | Only as a one-way hash, never the key itself | Until you delete your data |
| Contribution credit | A daily count per hashed install key, with no keywords attached | Until you delete your data |
| IP address | Only a hash made with a key that changes every day, used for rate limits | 48 hours at most |
| Lookup counts | Per hashed install key or session, per day | Reset daily |
| Feedback answers | The answer, the day and the language, with no IP, account or install key | One year |
A keyword becomes visible in the tool only after 5 different people have shared it. Raw search volumes from our data partners stay on our own server and are never published.
What we never collect
- Your name or email, unless you pre-register or create an account
- A list of the searches you made
- The pages you visit or what you click
- Anything from incognito windows
This website does not use analytics, advertising or tracking cookies, and it loads no third-party fonts or scripts.
Who processes data for us
The website, the keyword tool and its database run on Cloudflare. Shared keywords are processed on a server we run ourselves, reached through Cloudflare Tunnel. Optional accounts use Supabase (EU) for login and Resend for login emails. We do not sell or rent data, and we do not share it with advertisers.
Deleting your data
In the extension, open Settings and choose Delete my data. This removes your contribution credit from our server, clears the waiting searches and gives the extension a new random identity. On the website, clearing the site's data in your browser has the same effect for the website's install key.
Keywords already shared cannot be traced back to you, so they cannot be picked out and deleted per person. That is by design.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal data, and to object to processing. Because we do not store data that identifies you, most requests are answered by the deletion steps above. For anything else, email us.
Children
OpenKeyword is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.
Changes to this policy
When this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it. Material changes are announced on this site before they take effect.