Last Updated: September 6, 2026
At Truth or Hype, we respect your privacy and believe you should understand what information may be collected when you visit our website and how that information may be used.
This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, and shared when you visit thetruthorhype.com or communicate with us.
Information You Provide to Us
You may choose to provide information directly to us, such as when you:
- Send us an email
- Submit a question, correction, or story suggestion
- Contact us for support
- Participate in a survey, promotion, or other feature we may offer in the future
The information you provide may include your name, email address, and any other information you choose to include in your communication.
We use this information primarily to respond to you, review your feedback, investigate issues you bring to our attention, and operate and improve Truth or Hype.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit Truth or Hype, certain information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, analytics services, or other technologies we use.
This information may include:
- Your IP address
- Browser and device information
- General or approximate location information
- Pages you visit
- How you arrived at our website
- Time spent on pages and other interactions with the site
- Referring websites or links
- Date and time of your visit
We may use this information to understand how people use Truth or Hype, improve our content and website, maintain site security, diagnose technical problems, and measure the effectiveness of our content and marketing.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Truth or Hype may use cookies and similar technologies.
Cookies are small pieces of information stored by your browser that can help websites remember information about a visit and understand how visitors interact with a site.
We and third-party services we use may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as:
- Essential website functionality
- Security
- Remembering preferences
- Measuring website traffic and performance
- Analytics
- Affiliate tracking
- Advertising and marketing, where applicable
Depending on your location and the technologies in use, you may be presented with options to accept, reject, or manage certain cookies.
You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.
Analytics
Truth or Hype may use analytics services to better understand how visitors use our website. If we implement additional analytics technologies in the future, we may update this Privacy Policy to reflect those services.
Analytics services may collect information about visits and interactions with the site using cookies and similar technologies. This information can help us understand which pages are useful, how visitors find our content, and how we can improve the website.
Third-party analytics providers process information according to their own terms and privacy policies.
Advertising and Third-Party Services
Truth or Hype may use third-party services for website hosting, analytics, advertising, affiliate tracking, security, embedded content, email, and other functions necessary to operate the website.
These third parties may collect or process information according to their own privacy policies and terms.
We do not control the privacy practices of third-party websites or services.
When you leave Truth or Hype through a link to another website, the privacy practices of that website apply.
How We Use Information
We may use information collected through Truth or Hype to:
- Operate and maintain the website
- Improve our articles, comparisons, guides, and other content
- Understand how visitors use the site
- Respond to questions, corrections, and other communications
- Protect the website from fraud, abuse, and security threats
- Troubleshoot technical problems
- Measure website and marketing performance
- Administer affiliate relationships
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
How We Share Information
We do not sell your personal information simply because you contact Truth or Hype.
Information may be shared with service providers that help us operate the website or provide services on our behalf, such as hosting, analytics, security, email, advertising, and affiliate tracking providers.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, legal process, enforce our policies, protect our rights or the rights and safety of others, or investigate fraud, abuse, or security issues.
Your Privacy Choices
Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information under applicable privacy laws.
These rights may include the ability to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information, or to exercise choices regarding certain uses or disclosures of information.
You may also be able to manage certain cookies through our cookie controls or through your browser settings.
To make a privacy-related request, contact us at support@thetruthorhype.com.
We may need to verify your request before responding.
Data Security
We take reasonable measures intended to protect information associated with Truth or Hype.
However, no website, electronic transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by our website or service providers.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as Truth or Hype grows, our technology changes, or legal and regulatory requirements evolve.
When we make changes, we may update the Last Updated date at the top of this page.
We encourage readers to review this page periodically for the current version of our Privacy Policy.
Contact Us About Privacy
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or a privacy-related request, contact us at:
Truth or Hype
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