<h4 id="weprotectandlimituseofyourdatawhenyoucommunicatedirectlywithduckduckgo">We protect and limit use of your data when you communicate directly with DuckDuckGo.</h4> <p>If you voluntarily provide personal information to us directly, we protect and limit its use. We will limit its use by only keeping it for as long necessary for the stated purpose, and we will protect it by keeping it secure and deleting it when it is no longer required, unless a longer period is required by law.