Verum Signal is built to collect as little about you as it can. It doesn't sell personal information or use it for advertising.
When you view a page, we record the page, the page that linked you there, your browser type, screen width, time on page, and a random ID that lasts only while your browser tab is open. Your network (IP) address is stored only in a one-way scrambled form. We keep these records for 90 days. After that, only daily totals remain: how many views each page had and which sites sent visitors, with nothing that identifies you.
To protect the site from abuse, your network address is held for about 10 minutes. If you request article reports without signing in, we count them against your network address, kept only in scrambled form, until the end of the month, so the free allowance applies to everyone.
If you create an account, we keep your email address. When you sign up you accept our Terms of Service, and we keep a record of that acceptance: your email address, the version of the Terms, the time, and your network address in scrambled form. We keep it for as long as you have an account, because it is the record that you agreed. Sign-in links expire, and a cookie keeps you signed in. Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see your card number; we keep only the customer and subscription references Stripe gives us.
The extension sends only the website's name (for example, example.com) to look up that outlet's profile. These lookups aren't stored. If you click "Analyze this article", the extension sends that article's address so we can analyze it.
When you ask for a report on an article, we fetch the page ourselves, identifying our software to the publisher as VerumSignalBot, and analyze it. If a publisher blocks that request, we do not fetch the page another way. Reports are public and never show who requested them. If you're signed in, the request counts toward your plan's usage.
API keys are linked to the email address that requested them. Each API call is logged (endpoint, result, time, and your network address in scrambled form) for 90 days. Monthly call counts are kept for billing.
If you turn on notifications, we store a device identifier, a notification token and your device model, and use them only to send the notifications you chose.
We keep your email address and what you send us. Dispute submissions and contact details are never published, and a dispute is deleted two years after it has been reviewed.
If you ask us to email you when a debate goes live, we keep that request with your account and send you one email when the debate starts. We delete the request 30 days after the debate.
If you sign up for This week’s signals, our weekly email, we keep your email address, the page you signed up from, the site or campaign link that brought you to us (for example, a post on X), when you signed up and confirmed, and your network address in scrambled form to stop abuse of the sign-up form. Nothing is sent until you confirm with the link we email you. That link expires after 7 days, and a sign-up that is never confirmed is deleted 30 days after it was made.
If you sign up from the box at the end of a debate page, one email does both jobs: the link in it confirms your subscription and finishes creating your free account. If you are already signed in, one click subscribes the address on your account.
We use your address only to send the weekly email. Every issue has an unsubscribe link: when you use it, sending stops at once and we delete your address within 30 days.
We use Railway (hosting and database), Stripe (payments), Expo (app notifications), Anthropic (AI models that analyze article and debate text), Jina (reading an article page only when our own fetch fails for a reason other than a publisher's block), Deepgram and Rev AI (transcribing debate audio), an email delivery service (sign-in links, account notices and the weekly email), and a mail-forwarding service and mailbox provider (receiving the email you send to our addresses).
To say who is speaking in a live debate or press conference, we build voice prints of the candidates and officials on that event's roster from their public recordings. Those are records about public figures taking part in a public event, not about you. How they are created, used, kept and destroyed is set out in our Biometric Information Policy. We do not build voice prints of moderators, reporters, audience members or visitors to this site.
Where information is relevant to a dispute, a claim, a subpoena or other legal process, or one we reasonably expect, we keep it beyond the periods above until the matter is resolved, and then delete it on the usual schedule. Information under a hold is not used for any new purpose.
One cookie, only if you sign in. No advertising or third-party tracking cookies.
Email privacy@verumsignal.com to see, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you, or to close your account.
Verum Signal isn't directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information.
If we materially change this policy, we'll update the version and date above. Earlier versions are available on request.