PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE (“TERMS”) CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR SERVICES, WHICH ARE OWNED AND OPERATED BY SURFBOARD HOLDING BV, A PRIVATE LIMITED COMPANY ORGANIZED IN THE NETHERLANDS (“STARTPAGE”, “WE”, “US”, OR “OUR”). THESE TERMS SET FORTH THE LEGALLY BINDING TERMS AND CONDITIONS REGARDING YOUR USE OF THE STARTPAGE WEBSITES (INCLUDING WWW.STARTPAGE.COM AND AI.STARTPAGE.COM), PRIVATE SEARCH ENGINE, STARTPAGE PRIVATEAI, MOBILE APPS, AND ALL RELATED SERVICES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL WEBSITES, SEARCH RESULTS, OUTPUTS, MOBILE APPS, SOFTWARE, FEATURES, FUNCTIONALITY, CONTENT, PRODUCTS, OR OTHER SERVICES OFFERED FROM TIME TO TIME BY STARTPAGE IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES (COLLECTIVELY, “SERVICES”). BY USING OUR SERVICES IN ANY MANNER, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS.
We offer our Services to you subject to your acceptance of these Terms without modification and all other guidelines, policies or procedures that we may publish or distribute from time to time related to our Services. In addition, some of the features and functionality that we offer through our Services may be subject to additional terms and conditions that we publish or distribute from time to time; your use of those features and functionality will be subject to those additional terms and conditions, which are incorporated into these Terms by this reference.
We may refuse to offer our Services to any person or entity and change our eligibility criteria at any time. This provision is void where prohibited by law, and your corresponding right to access and use our Services is deemed revoked in those jurisdictions.
We reserve the right to modify these Terms, or change, suspend, or discontinue our Services (including the availability of any feature, functionality, or content) at any time by updating these Terms and publishing or distributing these Terms through the Services. We may also impose limits on certain features, functionality and services, or restrict your access to parts or all of our Services, without further notice or liability. It is your responsibility to check these Terms periodically for changes or updates from time to time. Your continued use of our Services following the posting of any changes to these Terms constitutes your acceptance of those changes.
For information about how we process data and personal information, please review our Privacy Policy at https://www.startpage.com/en/privacy-policy.
As a condition of your use, you promise not to use our Services for any purpose that is prohibited or otherwise restricted by these Terms or any applicable law, regulation, statute, directive, or rule (collectively, “Laws”). For the purposes of these Terms, the term “Content” includes, without limitation, any information, data, search results, text, photographs, videos, software, scripts, graphics, and interactive features generated, provided, or otherwise made accessible on or through our Services. For example, you will not (and will not permit any third party to) take any action (including by contributing any Content) that (i) constitutes a violation of any applicable Law; (ii) infringes any intellectual property or other right of any other person or entity; (iii) impersonates any person or entity; (iv) is threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another’s privacy, tortious, obscene, offensive, or profane; (v) constitutes unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, junk or bulk e-mail; or (vi) contains software viruses or any other similar malicious or nefarious computer codes, files, or programs.
In addition, you will not (directly or indirectly) (i) take any action that imposes or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our (or our third-party providers’) infrastructure; (ii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of any of our Services or any activities conducted on our Services; (iii) bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to all or any part of our Services; or (iv) use any robot, spider, search/retrieval application, or other automated device, process or means to access, retrieve, copy, scrape, or index any portion of our Services or Content.
All logos, marks and designations displayed on our Services are the trademarks or registered trademarks of us or our licensors. All other trademarks mentioned in our Services are the property of their respective owners. The trademarks and logos displayed in our Services may not be used without prior written consent from us or their respective owners. You may not remove or alter any trademark or logo, copyright or other proprietary notice in the Mobile Apps (and any related Services). Portions, features and/or functionality of our Services may be protected under patent applications or patents.
Our Services may contain links to other websites or third-party providers (“Third-party Providers”), or include search results, photographs, graphics, pictures, text, information, videos, audio, applications, software, advertisements, and other content or items belonging to or originating from third parties (“Third-party Content”). We have no control over and bear no responsibility for Third-party Providers or Third-party Content. Linking to any Third-party Providers or inclusion of any Third-party Content does not imply our approval or endorsement.
We may terminate your access to all or any part of our Services at any time if you do not comply with these Terms. Further, we may terminate our Services for any reason and at any time without notice. Upon any termination, all rights and licenses granted to you in these Terms will immediately terminate, but all provisions which by their nature should survive termination will survive such termination, including, without limitation, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.
Our Services, and the Content published on our Services could include inaccuracies, typographical errors or other errors. We make no commitment, however, to update what is contained on our Services. Furthermore, we reserve the right to temporarily, or permanently, modify, alter, discontinue or delete the same without prior notice.
You should not rely upon opinions expressed or information on our Services when making medical, business, financial, personal or other decisions. Furthermore, we do not endorse the opinions of third parties expressed on this Web site or on linked Web sites.
ALL USE OF OUR SERVICES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY CONTENT AVAILABLE OR ACCESSED THROUGH OUR SERVICES) IS UNDERTAKEN ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. OUR SERVICES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, MOBILE APPS, WEBSITES AND ANY CONTENT) ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, AND ARE WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND ANY WARRANTIES IMPLIED BY ANY COURSE OF PERFORMANCE OR USAGE OF TRADE, ALL OF WHICH ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED WARRANTY LASTS, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
You shall defend, indemnify, and hold harmless us, our affiliates and each of our, and our affiliates’ employees, contractors, agents, directors, officers, suppliers, partners, licensors and representatives from all liabilities, losses, claims, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, that arise from or relate to (i) your use or misuse of, or access to, our Services; or (ii) your violation of these Terms or any applicable Law, contract, policy, regulation or other obligation. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will assist and cooperate with us in connection therewith.
IN NO EVENT SHALL WE, OUR AFFILIATES, AND EACH OF OUR, AND OUR AFFILIATES’ EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, SUPPLIERS, PARTNERS, LICENSORS OR REPRESENTATIVES, BE LIABLE UNDER CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, NEGLIGENCE OR ANY OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY WITH RESPECT TO OUR SERVICES (I) FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, DATA LOSS, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, OR SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, OR SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; (II) FOR YOUR RELIANCE ON OUR SERVICES; OR (III) FOR ANY DIRECT DAMAGES IN EXCESS (IN THE AGGREGATE) OF THE FEES PAID BY YOU (IF ANY) FOR YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICES, OR, IF GREATER, $1 USD. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
We provide the executable code version of the Mobile Apps under the additional terms in this section. In addition, source code for parts of the Mobile Apps may be available for use under open-source licenses and accessible by GitHub. Nothing in these Terms will be construed to limit any rights granted under such open-source licenses with respect to any code covered by such licenses.
Subject to your acceptance of these Terms, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the executable code version of the Mobile Apps. We and our licensors retain all intellectual property rights in the Mobile Apps (and any related Services), except for the rights we expressly grant to you in these Terms. If you breach these Terms, the above license and your right to use the Mobile Apps (and any related Services) will terminate immediately and without further notice. Upon termination, you must destroy all copies of the Mobile Apps that you have installed or maintained on your devices in any format.
By using the Mobile Apps and related Services, you agree that we may communicate with you by email, notifications, or other electronic means to your mobile device for the purpose of providing and updating our Services.
You acknowledge and agree that the availability of the Mobile Apps is dependent on the third party from whom you received the Mobile Apps license, e.g., the Apple iOS or Android app stores (each, an “App Store” and collectively, “App Stores”). The following applies to any app accessed through or downloaded from an App Store (“App Store Sourced Application”):
These Terms are the entire agreement between you and us with respect to your use of our Services and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals (whether oral, written or electronic) between you and us with respect to your use of our Services. If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that these Terms will otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable. The failure of either party to exercise in any respect any right provided for herein shall not be deemed a waiver of any further rights hereunder. We will not be liable for any failure to perform our obligations hereunder due to any cause beyond our reasonable control. These Terms are personal to you and are not assignable or transferable by you except with our prior written consent. We may assign, transfer or delegate any of our rights and obligations hereunder without consent. No agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship is created as a result of these Terms, and neither party has any authority of any kind to bind the other in any respect. These Terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands without reference to its choice of law rules. You irrevocably consent to exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue in the courts located in the Netherlands regarding any actions, claims or proceedings arising out of these Terms and agree not to commence or prosecute any action, claim or proceeding other than in those courts.
You can contact us at:
Startpage
Surfboard Holding BV
Wilhelmina van Pruisenweg 104
2595 AN, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Email: legal@startpage.com
In addition, under California Civil Code Section 1789.3, residents of California who use our Services are entitled to know that they may file grievances and complaints with: the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs, in writing at 400 R Street, Suite 1080, Sacramento, California 95814, or by telephone at (916) 445-1254 or (800) 952-5210, or by email at dca@dca.ca.go.
These Terms were last updated on April 10, 2025