Privacy policy
Last updated 28 September 2026
WikiDrift is built to need as little about you as possible. There are no accounts, no advertising and no tracking cookies. This page explains what does pass through our hands when you use the site, and why.
In short
- Your explorations are stored in your own browser, not on our servers.
- The questions you ask are sent to our server, then to Anthropic to write the answer. Finished answers are kept and shared with anyone who asks the same question.
- Your IP address is used briefly to limit how many new answers one visitor can request.
- Page views are counted with a cookieless analytics service that does not identify you.
- We do not sell, rent or share personal data for marketing.
1. Who we are
WikiDrift is operated as an independent project and is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation or Wikipedia. For anything in this policy, write to info@wikidrift.com.
2. What stays in your browser
Every question you follow, the answers you received and the route between them are saved in your browser’s local storage under the name wikidrift.v1. This data never leaves your device through us. You can delete it at any time from the explorations page, or by clearing your browser’s site data. Clearing it removes your history for good, since we hold no copy.
We do not set cookies and we do not show advertising. Page views are counted with a cookieless analytics service, described in section 4.
3. What reaches our server
Your questions. When you ask a question, its text (and, for follow-ups, the question it follows from) is sent to our server so an answer can be written. Please don’t include personal details in a question; there is no need to, and the question may be stored as described below.
Answers we keep. A finished answer is saved on our server together with the question that produced it, so the next person asking the same thing gets it at once without a new request to Anthropic. These saved answers are not linked to you, your browser or your IP address.
Your IP address. Writing a new answer costs money, so we count how many new answers each visitor starts. For that we keep your IP address (or, for IPv6, its network prefix) in the server’s memory for up to 24 hours, together with the times you asked. It is not written to a database and is not combined with your questions.
Server logs. Like most websites, our hosting setup keeps standard technical logs (such as IP address, the page requested, time and browser type) for security and troubleshooting. When an answer fails or a visitor hits a limit, our application log records the question or the IP address involved so we can fix problems. Logs are kept for a limited period and then deleted.
4. Services we rely on
Anthropic. Answers are written by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic. Your question, and the Wikipedia text the model reads, are sent from our server to Anthropic’s API. Anthropic receives the question text but not your IP address or any identifier about you. Anthropic processes this data under its commercial API terms; see Anthropic’s privacy policy.
Wikipedia. Our server searches and reads English Wikipedia through the Wikimedia API. Those requests come from our server, not from your browser, so Wikipedia does not see you. When you open a source link, you leave WikiDrift and the Wikimedia privacy policy applies.
Ahrefs Analytics. To know which pages are read and where visitors come from, each page loads a small script from Ahrefs Analytics. It counts page views without cookies and without building a profile of you: it records the page, the referring site, the browser type and a coarse location derived from your IP address, which is not stored. See Ahrefs’ privacy policy. Fonts and every other resource are served from our own server; no other third party is contacted when you read a page.
5. Email
If you write to us, we keep your message and address for as long as needed to reply and to handle any follow-up. We don’t add you to any list.
6. Legal basis and your rights
We process the data above because it is necessary to provide the service you asked for (writing an answer) and because we have a legitimate interest in keeping the site secure, affordable and working. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or another place with similar law, you have the right to ask what personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to its processing, and to complain to your local data protection authority. Because we hold almost nothing that can identify you, most of these requests will have a short answer, but we will always respond. Email info@wikidrift.com.
7. Children
WikiDrift is a general reference tool and does not knowingly collect personal data from children. Since there are no accounts and no profiles, there is nothing for a child to sign up for.
8. Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published here with a new date at the top. Substantial changes will be noted on the front page for a while.