Draft, last updated 2026-09-23.
This is an engineering draft, not legal advice. It describes what the product actually does as of today, written for accuracy rather than by a lawyer. It needs professional legal review before this product is available to the public.
We don’t require an account to search. A guest is identified by a signed, anonymous cookie, not by anything that identifies a real person. Questions you ask are sent to third-party AI providers to answer (see “Third parties” below) — that’s inherent to how the product works. We don’t sell data, we don’t run advertising, and we don’t use tracking cookies. We don't use analytics.
“Often explored next” suggestions are learned from real people’s search sequences, but only in aggregate: a suggestion is shown only once at least 5 different people produced the same path, and the underlying data carries no user identifiers, only a topic-to-topic count. This is on by default. If you have an account, you can turn it off at any time in Settings — this stops your own searches from being counted toward that aggregate; it doesn’t affect the suggestions you see.
Answering a question means sending it to:
These providers see the text of your question. We don’t send your account email, IP address, or guest cookie to them. We don’t control their own data retention; check their policies directly if that matters to you. Account data (email, authentication) and all stored content (cached answers, community submissions, trails) are hosted with our database provider. Our hosting and network providers necessarily see your IP address when you connect, as with any website.
The guest cookie (above) and, if you sign in, a session cookie from our authentication provider. Both are needed for the site to work. We don’t use advertising, analytics, or third-party tracking cookies.
We may keep some information longer where we need it to comply with the law, resolve disputes, or enforce our terms, and backups may take a short time to catch up with a deletion.
Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS), passwords are handled by our authentication provider and never stored in plain text, stored data is protected by row-level access rules so each account only reaches its own private data, and only a small number of administrators can access the database directly. No system is perfectly secure; if we learn of a breach affecting your data, we’ll notify you as the law requires.
The service isn’t intended for anyone under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has given us personal information, contact [email protected] and we’ll delete it.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of your personal information, and to object to how we use it. To make any of these requests, including deleting your account (a self-service option isn’t built yet), email [email protected]. We may need to verify it’s you first. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
Beyond the providers above, we disclose personal information only if required by law or valid legal process, or to protect the rights, safety, or security of our users, the public, or the service. If TruthSeekers is ever part of a merger, acquisition, or sale, information may transfer to the new owner, still bound by this policy.
We and our providers operate primarily in the United States, so your information may be processed there or in other countries with different data protection laws than yours. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards for those transfers.
This product is under active development and this page will change as features do. We’ll update the date at the top when it does, and for material changes to how we use your information we’ll give notice on the site before they take effect.
Privacy questions or requests: [email protected].