Aevornix Browser privacy notice
What the Aevornix Browser desktop application keeps, where it keeps it, and the few occasions on which it contacts a server. There is no Aevornix account, no telemetry, no analytics and no crash reporting.
What we collect
Nothing. We operate no server that receives your browsing data, and the application contains no telemetry, analytics or advertising of any kind. Crash reports, if any are made, stay on your computer. This notice covers Aevornix Browser 2.0.
What the application holds
Everything below is written to your own computer, in your Windows user profile folder, and is not transmitted anywhere.
- History, bookmarks and downloads
- The pages you visited, the pages you saved, and a record of the files you downloaded. History can be kept for 7, 30 or 90 days, and any of it can be cleared from Shield Center, Settings and History.
- Settings
- Your theme, search choices, privacy choices and the Spaces you have arranged.
- The Shield ledger
- A local record of what the browser blocked, so you can review it.
- Cookies and site storage
- Most cookies live only for the tab that created them and are cleared shortly after you leave a site. Cookies persist only for sites you mark with “Stay signed in here”. Private and Tor tabs keep nothing after they close.
- Site choices
- Permissions you chose to keep, the sites you asked to stay signed in to, the zoom you chose for a site and any notes you wrote for it. “Forget this site” removes all of them for one site.
- The vault
- Passwords, authenticator secrets and addresses you save, in a file of its own encrypted by Windows.
- Your Pages
- A private index of pages you read, only if you turn it on.
When the browser contacts a server
This list is exhaustive. The browser makes no other outbound connection on its own initiative.
- Websites you visit
- The browser connects to the sites you ask for, and fetches their icons from the site itself. Those sites publish their own privacy policies and we have no involvement in what they collect.
- Search
- Aevornix Strata, the default search engine, searches an index installed on your computer. It also asks public services for live results through the Tor network, so each sees a Tor exit address rather than yours: Wikipedia, Hacker News, Stack Overflow, Mastodon, Bluesky, Lemmy and GitHub, and Brave Search if you add your own key. This is on by default from ordinary tabs and can be set to ask each time or turned off in Settings. Those services receive the words you searched for.
- Other search engines and translation
- A search sent to another engine, a search keyword such as “w” for Wikipedia, and a page sent to a translation service open in a Tor tab, and that service’s own policy applies.
- Your Pages site reading
- If you turn on both Your Pages and site reading, the browser may fetch pages from sites you visit often, through Tor, identified as AevornixStrataBot, with no cookies and following each site’s robots.txt.
- OPS Radio
- Nothing is requested until you press play. Your device then requests the current playlist from a Google Firebase database operated by Oxford Private Studios, and the audio and artwork from Bunny CDN and Google Cloud Storage. Those providers process your address in order to deliver the response. No identifier is attached, no record is kept of which listener requested what, and no listening statistics are sent.
- Tor
- Nothing runs until you open a Tor tab or use a feature that goes through Tor. The bundled Tor client then connects to the Tor network. Traffic sent through Tor does not reach us.
- Features you turn on
- Filter list updates fetch EasyList, EasyPrivacy and the URLhaus dangerous host list through Tor. A breach check of saved passwords sends the first five characters of each password’s SHA-1 hash, never the password, to the Have I Been Pwned range service through Tor. DNS over HTTPS in secure mode sends the names of the sites you visit to the DNS provider you choose.
- Updates
- Updates are delivered by the Microsoft Store under its own terms. The browser contains no update client and does not check for updates itself.
Blocking and safety checks happen on your computer
Tracker and advertising blocking, the dangerous site check and the lookalike address check use lists shipped inside the application and run on your own computer. The browser does not send the addresses you visit to any service in order to check them.
What Tor Private Space is not
Traffic in a Tor tab is routed through Tor and the connection is verified before any page loads; if there is no circuit the tab refuses to load rather than falling back to a direct connection. Each Tor tab has its own circuit, Tor tabs present one shared identity and round their window size to a shared grid. It is still not Tor Browser: it shares the Aevornix Chromium build, so font metrics, graphics readback and media capabilities still differ between machines, and it should not be relied on for anonymity.
Your rights and who to ask
Aevornix is an operating division of Oxford Private Studios Ltd. Because the application keeps your data on your own computer and sends nothing to us, we hold no browsing data to disclose, correct or erase. UK and EU data-protection rights still apply to anything you send us directly, such as a support enquiry. Requests go to the data-protection address on the contact page, and the supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office.