# Your Data

You will be able to choose **if and where** your data is stored.

If you want complete privacy we won't store your query data.

If you want the benefits that come with having your queries saved, you'll be able to choose the storage provider you want to host your data.

* Only on your local machine
* On our servers (no charge)
* On a third party storage service (Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox)
* On a self-hosted solution (perhaps a [SOLID Pod](https://solid.inrupt.com/), [Blockstack's Gaia](https://github.com/blockstack/gaia), [Filecoin](https://filecoin.io/) or your own personal NAS).

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If you are interested in the technical side of things check out [unhosted web apps](https://unhosted.org/) and [remoteStorage](https://remotestorage.io/).
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If you want your data it will be readily available for export. We will make sure the exported data is in a format easily consumable by human and machine readers (e.g. JSON) so that other services can easily consume this data (if you want them to) to improve their services to you.

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Our hope is that search engines (in particular) will agree on a shared format for user data so that a user can easily export their data from one search engine and move it to another.
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## Encryption

We aspire to fulfill the Web 3.0 Technology Stack L2 Data Encryption standard promulgated by the [web3 foundation](https://web3.foundation/about/) which requires data to be encrypted both at rest (e.g. your local computer) and in transit (e.g. being sent to/from the data storage provider).


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://nextsearch.gitbook.io/next-proposal/your-ownership-and-privacy/your-data.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.