Privacy and transparency are paramount to us. Epic's mission is to provide fast, private and unfiltered internet access to our users. We're writing this in plain english so it's very clear how Epic works. We have fought for years for true privacy and honesty and will continue to do so.
We do not collect nor store nor share any personal or browsing data from the core Epic Privacy Browser or usage of it. The only data that is transferred either to or from your system to our servers are updates of the Epic Privacy Browser. Updates never have any personally identifiable data, usage data, browsing data, or similar data.
We obtain indirect metrics for Epic usage through our search partner data and through a count of the number of downloads. When you visit epicbrowser.com, our server does log your visit with minimal data and when you download epic, a counter is increased.
We do not share any data with Yahoo or its related entities, but they do support Epic through a search partnership. (Side Note: we held out for true, free private search as long as we could. We simply couldn't continue to pay for development of Epic without this partnership and charging for the EpicSearch service at our scale. True, free private search is not possible today unfortunately, and we have written about that elsewhere.) As part of the contractual requirements of the search partnership, Yahoo search and other Yahoo sites are white-listed from Epic's AdBlock. Upon ad click in Yahoo Search, Epic's AdBlock is disabled for several seconds. No other sites are by default white-listed from AdBlock.
EpicSearch.in has no ads. It sends only your search query to our search API partner to retrieve search results and no other information. It neither stores nor shares user or search data. It is intuitively what one would expect from a private search engine.
Epic is built on Chromium for Windows, Mac and Android and does remove all Google tracking and Google services. Epic for desktop does include the Widevine plugin which was acquired by Google and is required for video playback for many sites such as Netflix and others. In order for Widevine to work, it does make a server call (to check for updates) often on open of the browser. This is unavoidable according to their design of Widevine. We never share any data with Google, are entirely independent, and have a minimal relationship with them due to Epic containing Widevine at this time.
The latest Agreement under which your privacy policy of the Epic Privacy Browser is bound will be available at www.epicbrowser.com/privacy-policy.
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Hidden Reflex and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and it may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of Hidden Reflex.