SearchLock Launches Campaign to Clarify Its Extension

(Newswire.net — February 5, 2016) Honolulu, Hawaii — Since its launch, the innovative SearchLock browser extension from Honolulu, Hawaii-based Company BeeStripe, LLC has been met with no small amount of confusion and suspicion. Although the extension has been downloaded over half a million times and receives positive ratings from both users and from digital privacy monitoring firms, some people have accused the tool as being a type of malware. Because of this concern, the company recently announced that it is launching its own informational campaign to clarify the purpose and the function of the extension. “Our free tool and the infrastructure used to support it have never retained server logs or any personally-identifying information,” says Aaron Lovelace, CEO of the development company. “This tool does not and will not request, log, or share any personal information from users.” To learn more about this revolutionary privacy-enhancing free tool, visit https://www.searchlock.com/about.

Aaron says the campaign will include information on how the extension does not come bundled with other software products, especially malware. “Because no information is collected during the use of our tool, users can rest assured that they won’t be bombarded with pop-up ads,” he says. “Our extension doesn’t collect or store data at any time, eliminating fears about targeted ads or selling data to 3rd party partners.” Users are required to manually install and confirm settings during a multi-step installation process, helping to clarify what the extension does and how it works with detailed documentation available to each user. Furthermore, the extension has been certified by TRUSTe as a Trusted Download. The world’s leading data privacy management company’s certification means that SearchLock has met stringent requirements for user data protection.

The extension is free to download and use from the company’s website or from the Chrome Web Store. It works by using advanced encryption methods such as SSL and “perfect forward secrecy” to detect tracking attempts, rerouting searches to foil those attempts and delivering search results to an encrypted page that only the end user may view. This security technology protects user data from being collected or compromised, disconnecting search from personal email accounts and social media profiles, even if users remain logged in to those accounts while searching. “We take user privacy very seriously,” adds Aaron. “Our extension is easy to use and free from the harmful malware or data logging schemes that other so-called privacy tools often bring with them.” To learn more about the extension and the company behind it, visit https://www.searchlock.com/.

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