We Respect Your Privacy

In today’s digital world, too many apps (including browsers) are built to collect as much information about you as possible. From tracking how and what you browse, to creating detailed profiles based on your usage and interest, they love to snoop. This data is later sold to advertisers. How that data is then used depends on the purchaser’s goal, perhaps they want you to buy a certain type of toothpaste, or maybe they want to change your opinion on a political topic.

At Vivaldi, we’re different. We have no interest in tracking your activity or selling your data. What you do in your browser is your business, not ours. Your information is either stored locally on your device or encrypted, and we never see it.

We do need to know how many people use Vivaldi to keep improving the browser and sustain our business. But we’ve designed a system that counts users without tracking their personal activity.

How We Count Without Compromising Privacy

Like every company, we need to know how many users we have out there (yeah, we need that to stay in business). To understand how many users we have, Vivaldi generates an ID upon installation. This ID helps us ensure we don't count you more than once, even if you reinstall the browser or use multiple profiles on the same device. The ID is used solely for counting users and isn’t combined with any other data. It doesn’t track what you do, where you go, or how you use the browser.

We truncate the IPs we get from the counting request. This still tells us roughly where you are in the world – which helps us decide things like what countries and languages to focus on to make your experience better. But we couldn’t pinpoint a specific user even if we wanted to. For example: if you are at 455 Rue de Frisky Snail in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, we will only know that we have a user in France.

We also collect some technical information, like your CPU architecture, screen resolution, and operating system. This helps us optimize Vivaldi for the devices our users have, but it doesn’t tell us anything personal about you.

Our goal is to be as transparent as possible. We don't store data about your browsing behavior, and we don't sell any data to third parties. That's not how we operate.

Why We Built a Tracker Blocker

This feature is designed to stop strangers from tracking you like their prey as you roam the web and harvesting your personal data for their own purposes. Trackers are everywhere, billions of them, but our tracker blocker helps protect your privacy as you browse.

Of course, no blocker can catch every tracker out there, but we’re constantly improving. And if you come across one that gets through, let us know, and we’ll work to address it.

At Vivaldi, we’re committed to giving you control of your browsing experience, without any privacy-invading tracking. How many browsers can truly say that?