This document outlines the terms with which you can use Clew and the ways in which we respect your privacy.
Copyright and Licenses
The codebase for Clew and Ariadne is open source under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. For a summary of this license, see Choose A License's guide.
The beautiful Clew logo by Joel Garcia is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA). You are welcome to share and adapt it for any purpose, even commercially, as long as you include proper attribution and distribute any changes or derivative works under the same license.
The copyright to the content of all search results which appear on this site is retained by their respective owners. Clew makes no claim of ownership of these results.
Disclaimer
The Clew service is provided free of charge and without any explicit or implied warranties and make no guarantees as to the accuracy of any material provided through it, and neither is Clew liable for any harm that comes to you through your decision to use this service.
Clew is not responsible for the practices of any sites linked to by this service.
Privacy
Clew does not collect or retain any personal information. At this time, information we collect includes:
- Anonymized server logs, kept for one week.
- A short-term cache of search results for the purpose of increasing the performance of repeated searches. If we were to do this, we would anonymize the cache as much as possible, including by hashing the search query itself.
- Information necessary to administer user accounts.
We use no third-party services on the site and do not log your search queries.
While Clew tries to warn you of possible privacy violations by sites appearing in our results, we make no guarantees and you should use your own judgement. Other sites are bound by their own respective privacy policies.