Your privacy

No name, no account, no login, no email or phone number. No insurance ID or member number — only the name of your plan. No payment details; Pharos is free and sells nothing. We do not place advertising or tracking cookies, we do not build a profile of you, and we never sell or share data with advertisers or data brokers.

Pharos is a research project, and the searches themselves are what we study. When you run a search, we keep an anonymous record of the query: the procedure, the insurance plan, the zip code you entered, and how many facilities came back. We do not store your IP address or anything about your device alongside it.

This record describes a search, not a person. There is no identifier that ties one search to another, or to you. We use it to understand where price information is missing and how patients move through the moment of choosing care — the questions the project exists to answer.

Results from this research may be published, including in peer-reviewed work. Anything we share reports patterns across many searches in aggregate. Nothing we publish could identify an individual search or the person who made it.