Privacy

TruthRadar is run by TruthRadar Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (number 17247594), registered office 205 Regent Street, London W1B 4HB. For anything on this page, write to hello@truthradar.app.

Under UK data protection law we are the controller of the information described here.

The short version

We hold your email address so you can sign in, and the few preferences you have set. We keep a list of which sermons you have checked. If — and only if — you switch it on, we keep the words you search for against your account. When a search finds nothing at all, we note the words alone — never who typed them — so we know what to add. There is no advertising, no tracking, and nothing is sold or shared for marketing. You can delete every bit of it yourself, immediately, from inside Settings — or, without the app, at truthradar.app/delete-account.

What we hold, and why

• Your email address. It is how you sign in — we email you an eight-digit code instead of asking for a password. Without it there is no account.
• Your preferences. The traditions you asked to see more of, your language, and whether you have switched search history on. These shape what appears on your home screen and nothing else. They never change a score, and they never affect what anybody else sees.
• Which sermons you have checked. We keep a reference to the sermon and the date, so your own history is there when you come back.
• The words you search for — only if you turn it on. It is off unless you switch it on, it powers the Because you searched for… row, switching it off deletes what was kept, and only you ever see it. We keep only your last 20 searches.
• Searches that found nothing — the words only. When a search finds nothing at all, we write down the words that were typed, with no account, device or address attached, so we know which churches and preachers people are looking for. Each is deleted 90 days after anyone last typed it.
• A search you ask us to watch. After a search that found nothing, you can tap Tell me when it’s added. Only then is that search linked to your account. We email you once when it finds something and then delete it — or delete it after 90 days if it never does.
• Your requests. If you are a member and ask us to assess more sermons from a church or preacher, we keep which one you asked about and when, so we can choose the sermons, count your monthly requests and email you when they are ready. Kept while you have an account.
• The sermons you save, and any you mark. A saved sermon is a reference to it against your account; a mark is your reaction to it. Both are yours alone to see.
• The churches and preachers you follow. Kept so your home screen can show what they publish. Following a church or preacher also starts a Monday email about what they published — you can turn it off in Settings, or with the link at the foot of each email. Members can also switch on an email within the hour of a new score. We keep a record of each email we send, so the same news is never sent twice.
• Whether you have a subscription. We hold the date your access runs to, and nothing about how you paid — the store handles that (see below).
• If the app breaks. When a screen fails we record what went wrong: the error, the page it was on, and the technical description your browser or app sends with every request (its “user agent”: the app, its version and the device type). This is not tied to your account and holds nothing you typed.

What we deliberately do not hold

• No name, no address, no telephone number, no date of birth. We never ask for them.
• No password. There is nothing to leak or reuse.
• No analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixels, no third-party cookies. The only cookie we set is the one that keeps you signed in. While TruthRadar is being prepared for launch, the website also sets one cookie to remember that you have entered the preview password.
• No raw IP addresses. We limit how many fresh scores can be run in a day so the service cannot be run up into a large bill. To do that we replace the address with a code made using a secret key, and keep only the code. It cannot be read back into an address without that key, which only we hold. The same code limits sign-in attempts and groups error reports. Separately, the sign-in system we use (Supabase) keeps its own record of sign-in sessions, which includes the IP address.

Transcripts

Sermons we assess are transcribed and sent to our scoring provider to produce the score. We do not keep the transcripts. What we keep is the result — the score, the reasoning, and the findings.

Sermons a member asks us to assess are transcribed by AssemblyAI. It receives the church’s published recording and nothing about you, and we delete each transcript there as soon as the sermon has been assessed.

Findings quote the preacher. A finding that cannot show the words it objects to is not much of a finding, so short verbatim quotations are kept as part of the result. That is a deliberate difference from keeping the transcript, and we would rather say so plainly than let the shorter claim stand.

Who else is involved

We use a small number of suppliers to run the service. They process information on our instructions and for no purpose of their own.

• Supabase — the database and the sign-in system. Our data is held in London.
• Vercel — hosting.
• Resend — sending your sign-in code, the emails about the churches you follow, and the emails telling you a request or a watched search is ready. Their EU region.
• Anthropic — the scoring engine, which receives the sermon transcripts we assess.
• AssemblyAI — turns the recordings of sermons members ask us to assess into text, in its EU region. It receives the church’s published recording, never anything about you, and each transcript is deleted there once the sermon is assessed.
• RevenueCat — tells us whether a subscription is active. It sees your account's identifier — a random code, not your email address — and your purchase status, never your card details.
• The app store you subscribe through — takes payment for a subscription. We never see your card. The store’s own privacy terms cover the payment.

Some of these operate outside the UK. Where that happens, the transfer is covered by the safeguards UK data protection law requires.

How long we keep it

For as long as you have an account. Delete the account and it goes at once — see below. Sermon scores themselves stay, because they are about published sermons and not about you.

Deleting everything

One button, and it happens straight away. Settings, then Delete your account. There is nothing to email, nobody to ask, and no offer to pause instead. It removes every search we have remembered, your record of which sermons you have checked, the sermons you saved and marked, the churches and preachers you follow and the record of every email we sent you about them, your requests and the searches you asked us to watch, your preferences and consent settings, and your sign-in itself — so the email address is gone too.

Two things stay. The payment service we use (RevenueCat) keeps its record of your subscription status, filed under a random code rather than your email address — ask us at hello@truthradar.app and we will have it removed. And we keep a coded count of recent sign-in attempts, which holds no readable email address.

If you would rather keep the account and clear only your search history, Settings has a Delete all of it button beside the terms we have kept.

Your rights

You have the right to ask what we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, to receive a copy, and to object to how we use it. Write to hello@truthradar.app. In practice, deletion is faster done yourself in Settings than asked for by email.

If you think we have handled your information badly, tell us at hello@truthradar.app. We will acknowledge your complaint and tell you what we find. You can also complain to the UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office, at ico.org.uk, whether or not you have come to us first.

Children

TruthRadar is for adults, 18 and over, and we do not knowingly hold information about anyone under 18.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that matters, we will say so on it. The date below is when it was last changed.

Last changed 26 September 2026.