Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 2, 2026

This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to all websites, portals, or pages owned or operated by Truthed.com (“Truthed,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), including those accessible through the domain web address (“website”). This Privacy Policy outlines our practices relating to the collection and use of Personal Information from people who visit the website or who interact with us using another site, platform, app, or service (“Services”). This Privacy Policy does not apply to personal information collected about employees or applicants for employment.

Information Collection and Use

“Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. “Personal Information” does not include: (i) publicly available information from government record, or (ii) de-identified or aggregate consumer information.

We will collect and use Personal Information about you to respond to your request for products and services offered through this website. We will also collect information in order to notify you about products, services, and other opportunities we think will be of interest to you. Although Personal Information we collect from you may be considered publicly available through government records or available through widely distributed media, we will treat all Personal Information submitted by you as nonpublic personal information.

Information Provided by You

We may collect Personal Information from you when you:

• Visit our website.
• Purchase a background check.
• Register to receive communications from us.
• Seek customer support.
• Communicate with any of our representatives.

The following types of Personal Information may be collected from you:

• Name
• Postal Address
• Email Address
• Telephone Number
• Credit Card Number

Information Automatically Collected

When you access the website or use the Services, we automatically collect certain Personal Information about you, including:

• Information regarding your interactions with the website.
• Information regarding your interactions with an advertisement.
• Records of purchasing history.
• Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity. We may collect information such as browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interactions with the website.
• Online Identifiers. We (or our service providers) may collect information such as cookies identifiers, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, advertising IDs, pixel tags, and account handles. Combined, these identifiers may be used to create profiles of individuals and identify them.
• Log Files. We periodically collect log files, including IP addresses, from our server. These files give us a general picture of who is visiting our website and which pages are being viewed the most often. This information is not specific to an individual viewer and is only collected to assist us in the maintenance and administration of our website. Log files are collected mainly for research purposes to see what pages are of most interest and use to current and potential clients.
• Session Variables. The website uses session variables to collect information from users. It also uses session variables that remember people and information logged into private sections of the website. Session variables expire after a pre-determined amount of time. Information is only collected for that specific time and is not stored for future use.
• Device Information. We (or our service providers) may collect information about the computer, tablet, phone, or other device you use to access the website, including the Internet Protocol address, hardware model, operating system and version, mobile network information, and other unique device identifiers (collectively referred to as “Device Identifiers”).
• Cookies and Other Web-based Tracking Technologies. We use "cookies" and other web- based tracking technologies to enhance your experience and present you with personalized offers. Likewise, we sometimes use third-party advertising companies to serve and track advertisements appearing on our website. These companies may employ cookies and action tags to measure advertising effectiveness. We may share your Personal Information with third parties who provide cookies and other web-based tracking technologies.
• Geo-location Data. Subject to your device permissions, we (or our service providers) may be able to collect information about the precise location of your device or may gather other general location data based on GPS data, mailing address, and/or billing address (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Geo-Location Data”).
• Social Media Information. If any of our services offer social media features, such as the Facebook Like button or similar social media interactive mini-programs, these features may collect your Internet Protocol address, which page you are visiting on our website, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly. Your interactions with these features may be governed by the privacy policies of the company providing it.

We may merge or co-mingle the Personal Information obtained from third parties with the Personal Information that we maintain about you.

Ways We Use Your Personal Information

Your Personal Information may be gathered, collected, recorded, held, or otherwise used for the following purposes:

• Outside Professionals. To use with, or otherwise distribute, share or disclose to any of our professional advisors such as attorneys or accountants (“Outside Professionals”) in order to facilitate the professional advice from those Outside Professionals.
• Government Agencies. To use with, or otherwise distribute, share, or disclose to any government agencies or third parties in order to comply with any subpoena, court order, or other governmental order, law, or regulation.
• Auditing. Audits, including privacy and cybersecurity audits, relating to your Personal Information or your interactions with the website.
• Security. Helping to ensure security and integrity of our data to the extent the use of your Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes.
• Debugging. Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of our Services.
• Transient Use. Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of a consumer’s current interaction with us provided that your Personal Information is not disclosed to a third party and is not used to build a profile about you or otherwise alter your experience outside the current interaction with us.
• Advertising. Providing advertising and marketing services to you. With your permission, we may send you emails about our services and other updates.
• Research. Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration.
• Quality and Safety. Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of our products and services and to improve, upgrade, or enhance or services.
• Commercial Interests. Advancing our commercial or economic interests, such as by inducing a person to buy, rent, lease, join, subscribe to, provide, or exchange products, goods, property, information, or services, or enabling or effecting, directly or indirectly, a commercial transaction.
• Mobile / SMS Communications. If you provide your mobile phone number, we may use it to send you SMS/text messages about DESCRIPTION. These communications may be sent by Truthed.com. Message frequency may vary. Standard message and data rates may apply. You may opt out at any time by replying STOP to any message you receive from us, or by contacting us at [email protected]. For more information, see our Mobile Messaging Terms, available at LINK.

Persons with Whom We Share or Disclose Personal Information

We do not share Personal Information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you have requested or under the following circumstances:

• Affiliates – We may share or disclose your Personal Information or obtain Personal Information from, one or more of our affiliates or subsidiaries for any of the purposes described herein (collectively, “Affiliates”). In addition, our Affiliates may share or disclose your Personal Information with, or may receive your Personal Information from, one or more of the other Affiliates. Our Affiliates may use your Personal Information in any way in which we may use your Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.
• Service Providers – We may share or disclose your Personal Information with our service providers or other third party vendors (“Service Providers”) that we retain in connection with our Services, including without limitation:
  • Email, internet, or other telecommunication service providers, including website hosting;
  • Cloud, other data storage, or other hosting service providers;
  • Third-party payment processors;
  • Analytics companies who assist us with various types of data analytics, web analytics, and app analytics;
  • Other types of third-party application providers or other third-party contractors we engage to assist us in providing our Services.
• Third-Party Application Providers – We may share or disclose your Personal Information with third-party application providers, including credit card processors, other third-party payment service providers, or intermediary services that assist in processing your payments.
• Third-Party Analytics Tools or Services – We may use analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, to collect and process certain analytics data (“Third-Party Analytics Tools or Services”). These Third-Party Analytics Tools or Services may also collect data about your use of other websites, apps, and online resources for purposes of providing targeted advertising. To learn more or to opt-out of Google Analytics, please visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
• Advertising/Marketing Partners - We share Personal Information with third-party advertising and marketing companies (collectively “Advertising Partners”) in order to provide you with advertisements, marketing, or other information that we think may interest you. These Advertising Partners may place cookies and other web-tracking technology on the website. These Advertising Partners may also collect or have access to data about you that they collected over time and across different online services. Information collected and used by Advertising Partners is not subject to this Privacy policy.
• Social Media – Our website may offer integrated social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button, which let you share actions that you take on our social media pages. You may control who views your social media activity by adjusting your settings on the social media platform.
• As Permitted by Law - We may be required to share your Personal Information with law enforcement or government agencies in response to subpoenas, court orders, federal/state audits or similar circumstances. We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Truthed’s Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
• Business Transfer - As with any other business, it is possible that Truthed in the future could merge with or be acquired by another company. If such an acquisition occurs, the successor company would have access to the information maintained by Truthed, including customer account information, but would continue to be bound by this privacy policy unless you consent otherwise.
• Consent – We may also share or disclose your Personal Information with your permission.

We do not sell your sensitive data. Sensitive data includes: (a) personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexuality, or citizenship or immigration status, (b) genetic or biometric data that is processed for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual, (c) personal data collected from a known child, or (d) precise geolocation.

We do not sell your biometric personal data. Biometric personal data is generated by automatic measures of an individual’s biological characteristics. The term includes a fingerprint, voiceprint, eye retina or iris, or other unique biological pattern or characteristic that is used to identify a specific individual. The term does not include a physical or digital photograph or data generated from a physical or digital photograph, a video or audio recording or data generated from a video or audio recording, or information collected, used, or stored for health care treatment, payment, or operations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. § 1320d et seq.)

Aggregated Data

We may make certain automatically-collected, aggregated, or otherwise de-identified Personal Information available to third parties for various purposes, including (i) compliance with various reporting obligations, (ii) for business or marketing purposes, or (iii) to assist such parties in understanding our users’ interests, habits, and usage patterns for certain programs, content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality available through our website.

Cookies

To serve you faster and with better quality, we use "cookies" technology. Cookies are small bits of code, usually stored on a user's computer hard drive, which enable a website to "personalize" itself for each user. We generally use cookies to reduce the time it takes for pages to load on your computer and to assist with customer tracking. Customer tracking (or "click-stream") data collected by us is used to optimize your experience by learning whether or not you successfully used Truthed.

Additionally, we may capture click-stream data on some of our partner's websites, limited to the activity involved with the completion of offers listed on our website. This information is used to monitor the performance of our partners.

Third Party Cookies

Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. This Privacy Policy does not govern the Personal Information collected by third parties that place cookies and other tracking technology on the website.

Anti-Spam Policy

You will not receive Truthed email communications unless you submit your email address to us and register to receive them. You may also receive emails that advertise Truthed's services from third party publishers. We have established firm ground rules for dealing with any third party email services to ensure that advertisements for Truthed are not sent out through a "spam" mailing -- ensuring that our offers are sent only to those individuals who have given their permission to the third party email service to receive email communications. If any third party email publisher refuses to abide by Truthed's anti-spam policy, we will not use that publisher's services. If you want to stop receiving emails from a third party, you should follow the opt-out instructions included in the third party email, so that you will not be included in any future mailings. An "unsubscribe" link should appear within or at the top or bottom of the email you received. If there is no unsubscribe link or the link does not work, please bring that to our attention by emailing Truthed Customer Care.

California’s Shine the Light Act

If you reside in California and have provided us with your Personal Information, you may request information about our disclosures of certain categories of Personal Information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. Such requests must include your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. Requests should be submitted to us by email at [email protected] with the subject “California Shine the Light Request” or by mail to:

Truthed.com

18047 Beach Blvd, Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Suite 1008

Within thirty (30) days of receiving such a request, we will provide a list of the categories of Personal Information disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses of those third parties.

This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. We reserve our right not to respond to requests submitted to addresses other than those specified in this paragraph.

Your Privacy Rights Under California Law and Other State Laws

Right to Access Information

Persons who reside in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia (“Residents”) have the right to request that Truthed disclose certain information about our collection and use of Personal Information. Once we receive a request and verify the Resident’s identity or the requestor’s authority to make the request, we will disclose to the Resident or their authorized representative:

• the categories of Personal Information we collected about the Resident,
• the sources of Personal Information we collected about the Resident,
• our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the Resident’s Personal Information,
• the categories of third parties with whom we shared the Resident’s Personal Information,
• the specific pieces of Personal Information collected about the Resident, and
• the categories of Personal Information that were sold or disclosed for a business purpose.

A Resident may only access their information twice within a 12-month period.

Right to Delete Information

If you are a Resident, you have the right to request that Truthed delete your Personal Information. Depending on where you live, certain exceptions may apply.

Once Truthed receives and verifies a Resident’s identity or the requestor’s authority to make the request, we will delete your Personal Information from our records. We will also direct our service providers to delete your Personal Information from their records.

If we are unable to honor your request, we will notify you and provide an explanation.

Right to Correct

Residents have the right to request that Truthed correct any inaccurate Personal Information that is has collected.

Right to Opt-Out of Selling or Sharing

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to opt-out of the selling or sharing of your Personal Information for targeted advertising purposes. To do so, please visit: Privacy Center. We also honor Global Privacy Control signals.

To help you determine whether to opt-out, we have provided the following charts summarizing what Personal Information was have sold, shared, or disclosed in the past 12 months.

Categories of Personal Information Collected, Sold or Shared for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising or Disclosed for a Business Purpose within the past 12 months.

Categories of “Sensitive” Personal Information Collected, Sold or Shared for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising or Disclosed for a Business Purpose within the past 12 months.

How to Exercise Your Privacy Rights

To exercise their rights under applicable state law, Residents or their authorized representative must submit a verifiable request to Truthed by: [email protected]

The request must:

• provide sufficient information to allow Truthed to verify that the person submitting the request is the person or the authorized representative of the person whose Personal Information is implicated by the request.
• describe the Resident’s request with sufficient detail to allow Truthed to properly understand, evaluate and respond to it.

Only a Resident, or a person authorized to act on a Resident’s behalf, may make a request to Truthed related to the Resident’s Personal Information. A Resident may also make a request on behalf of their minor child.

If Truthed cannot verify a Resident’s identity or a requestor’s authority to make a request on behalf of a Resident, Truthed cannot respond.

You do not have to create an account to submit a consumer request.

Truthed will only use Personal Information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

To exercise their rights under applicable state law, Residents or their authorized representative must submit a verifiable request to Truthed by emailed [email protected] or by submitting a request through our Privacy Center.

Response Timing and Format

If Truthed receives a verifiable consumer request, it will respond within the time frame provided by applicable law.

For data portability requests, we will provide the Resident’s Personal Information in a form that is readily useable and should allow the Resident to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to a Resident’s verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell the Resident or their authorized representative why and provide the Resident or their authorized representative with a cost estimate before completing the request.

Appeal

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to appeal our response. Within a reasonable time, not to exceed 60 days, after you have received a notice that we have declined to take action your request, you may appeal by sending your appeal to [email protected] with the subject “Privacy Appeal.” We will respond to you within 60 days of receipt of the appeal in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions.

If we deny your appeal, you may file a complaint with the appropriate authority:

Minnesota: https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Data-Privacy/Complaint/

Nebraska: https://ne.accessgov.com/ago/Forms/Page/ago/2efd1471-06a7-4cd1-9bd2-cc8fe4e37c02/eaa18f8a-30e7-48c7-b97b-eaabb1ab6ce8/1

Texas: https://consumerprotection.texasattorneygeneral.gov/consumercomplaintportal/s/

Non-Discrimination Notice

Truthed will not discriminate against any Resident for exercising their rights under applicable state law. Specifically, Truthed will not:

• deny the Resident goods or services,
• charge the Resident different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties,
• provide the Resident a different level or quality of goods or services, or
• suggest that the Resident may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Additional Notice to Nevada Residents

Under Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A (the “Nevada Privacy Act”), Nevada residents who have purchased goods or services from us may notify us not to sell their covered personal information. Covered personal information includes first and last name, address, email address, phone numbers, and identifiers that allow a specific person to be contacted. If you are a Nevada resident, you may submit a request to us not to sell your covered information by emailing [email protected].

Requests Received in the Previous Calendar Year

In the previous calendar year, Truthed received and processed the following requests.

Other Ways to Limit the Use of Personal Information

Unsubscribe

If you provide us with Personal Information and, thereafter, do not want to continue to receive further notices or information directly from us, such as email about our products or services, you may unsubscribe using the link at the bottom of our emails. Our email database is updated continually. However, you may continue to receive email communications from us up to ten business days from the time we receive your unsubscribe request.

Please note that Truthed can only control its own mailing list and policies. Third-party advertisers that maintain their own mailing lists may send communications that advertise our services, and you may need to contact these parties directly in order to stop receiving their email communications. Also, please note that if you enter into a transaction through our website, we may send you a thank you note, ask for a satisfaction rating, request a testimonial and give you periodic product reminders as part of your service.

Limit Use of Cookies and Other Web-Based Tracking Technologies

You can prevent certain cookies and technologies from being used by adjusting the settings on your browser. Be aware that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of the website and many other websites that you visit.

Limit Collection of Geo-Location Data

You may be able to prevent your device from sharing precise location information at any time through your device’s operating system settings.

Do Not Track

Some browsers have a “DO NOT TRACK” feature that lets website users inform websites or other applications that they do not want to have their online activities tracked. These “do not track” features may also give website users other choices regarding the collection of their Personal Information. However, these “do not track” features and “do not track” signals are not yet uniform. ACCORDINGLY, EACH USER OF THE WEBSITE IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE WEBSITE IS NOT CURRENTLY SET UP TO RESPOND TO “DO NOT TRACK” FEATURES OR “DO NOT TRACK” SIGNALS.

How Long Your Information Will Be Kept

We will only keep your Personal Information for as long as is reasonably necessary to conduct business with you or as required by law. Personal Information will not be kept longer than is reasonably necessary for the purpose it was collected.

Confidentiality and Security

The security of your Personal Information is very important at Truthed and we take a number of steps to safeguard it. For example:

• We limit access to Personal Information to those employees or agents who assist us in providing requested products and services to you. Employees are required to comply with our strict policies and procedures regarding the handling of your Personal Information. Employees who violate these policies are subject to our normal disciplinary process.
• We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard Personal Information about you.
• We use industry-standard data encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data on the Truthed website.
• If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored using AES-256 encryption. All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover.

Despite our best efforts, no internet transmission or cloud storage system is 100% secure. Truthed shall not be held liable if a third party illegally obtains your personal information that was submitted to or otherwise collected by us.

Third Party Links

This privacy policy applies to all information that you provide to Truthed. However, when you visit websites to which Truthed provides a link, keep in mind you will be interacting with a third party that operates under its own privacy and security policy. If you choose to obtain certain services through a third party site, the data collected by the third party is governed by that third party's privacy policy. A third party site will also have its own policy regarding the use of cookies and clear gifs. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any other service provider from whom you request services.

You acknowledge and agree that, by clicking a link to, or otherwise accessing a third-party site, your Personal Information may be read, collected, shared, distributed, or otherwise used by the third-party site. We are not responsible for any Personal Information that you submit, or otherwise make available to, third party sites.

If Truthed receives Personal Information from a third party that is not in conjunction with a service offered on our site, the use and disclosure of such information is governed by the agreement (if any) between Truthed and such third party.

A Special Note about Children's Privacy

The website is not directed to children under 13. We adhere to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and will not knowingly register or otherwise collect any Personal Information from any child under age 13. We ask that minors under the age of 13 not submit any Personal Information to us. If you have reason to believe a child under the age of 13 has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at [email protected] to request that such information be deleted from our records.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Truthed may update or modify this privacy policy from time to time. If there are material changes to this Privacy Policy or in how Truthed will use your Personal Information, we will post such changes here. You may be notified if any of the material changes affect the use of your Personal Information. If you do not agree with the changes to how your information will be used, please do not continue to use this website.

Truthed

Address: 18047 Beach Blvd Suite 1008, Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 1 (888) 387-5010