The Hide My History extension expires your searches from your local browser history and encrypts your search terms between your computer and hidemyhistory.co. Searches are intercepted, encrypted locally, and redirected to our privacy-enhanced search engine.

1. Hide My History checks the URL of each website you visit (this data is not logged or stored anywhere)
2. For your privacy, Hide My History intercepts the requests if it's on our list of sites
3. Hide My History encrypts your search locally using industry standard AES-256 encryption
4. Your locally encrypted search term is securely transmitted to our servers
5. To provide you with the most relevant results possible, we then decrypt your search term and securely request results from our search & content partners
6. We aggregate the most relevant results and securely display them to you

For added security, your local browsing history for any search we protect expires and cannot be viewed after 30 minutes of inactivity.

What makes Hide My History a good private search engine?
- Hide My History doesn't track your search history in any user identifiable way.
- Hide My History does not retain server logs.
- Hide My History helps prevent your ISP from tracking your search terms.
- Hide My History helps hide your search history on your device.

What is Hide My History Used for?
Hide My History is a search engine, so it's used to find websites and information on the internet. It's a private search engine so people rely on Hide My History for sensitive searches that they don't want other people to know about. People also use Hide My History to avoid seeing ads everywhere they go for something they've searched for recently.