What can be stored locally
The extension stores eligible observed queries, platform, source kind, capture time, language, adapter version and generated estimates. Local history is automatically limited to 30 days and 2,000 events and can be deleted at any time.
What can be donated
Query contribution starts off. If it is enabled during onboarding or later in Settings, safe observed queries can be sent with a random pseudonymous installation tag. For Google Search, the typed search query is included as the clearly disclosed exception. Contribution can be stopped and deleted at any time.
What is never part of the contract
- Chat messages or prompts on ChatGPT and Claude.
- Conversation titles, chat URLs or conversation identifiers.
- Account names, email addresses or provider cookies.
- Browser history outside supported pages.
- Estimated fan-outs represented as observed demand.
Filtering, processors and retention
Queries matching common email, phone, payment-card, access-token, private-key or high-entropy secret patterns are blocked from donation. Requested fan-out generation sends the selected safe query to the corresponding model provider for provider-native estimation. Open Queries never sends one provider's candidates to a universal GPT ranker.
Raw donation events expire after 13 months. Anonymous daily aggregates require five distinct donors. Cloudflare provides hosting, queueing and D1 storage; OpenAI, Anthropic and Google process fan-out requests for their respective roles.
Your controls
Settings provides separate controls to clear local history, stop future donation and delete server-side events linked to the current installation. Server deletion rotates the installation's pseudonymous donor identifier. Aggregates that have already passed the anonymity threshold cannot be traced back to one installation.
Contact and changes
Open Queries Contributors operates this first public release. Privacy questions and deletion failures can be sent to privacy@openqueries.org. Material policy changes will receive a new effective date and a release note.