Veritype

Veritype Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 1, 2026

Veritype is a Chrome extension and web service that analyzes text you choose to submit, to identify potential bias and generate counterarguments. This page explains what data Veritype collects, why, and how it's handled.

What we collect

• Account information. Creating an account requires an email address, and either a password or Google sign-in. We use Clerk to manage authentication and never see or store your password ourselves.
• Text you choose to analyze. When you select text or a page and request an analysis, that text is sent to our backend, then to our AI provider, to generate the result. It is not stored tied to your identity — analysis results are cached only by a hash of the content itself, with no link back to your account, so the same content isn't re-analyzed twice for different users.
• Optional profile information. You may optionally tell us your role (e.g. student, journalist) and general topic interests, to help tailor analysis tone. This is entirely opt-in, never required, never includes political opinions, religion, health information, or similar sensitive categories, and can be cleared at any time from the extension's settings.
• Usage counts. We track how many analyses your account has used in the current rolling 24-hour window, to enforce free-tier and paid-tier limits.
• Billing information. If you subscribe to the paid tier, payment is handled entirely by Stripe. We store only your subscription status and Stripe's customer/subscription IDs — we never see or store your card details.
• Contact form submissions. If you use the Contact page, we store the name, email, and message you provide so we can respond to you — and only to respond to you. These addresses are never used for updates or promotion of any kind.
• Waitlist signups. If you join the waitlist we store your email address so we can tell you when there is something to tell you.
• Why you left, if you tell us. When you uninstall the extension, Chrome opens a page that asks one optional question. The answer is stored with nothing attached to it — no name, no email, no account link. We cannot tell who answered, by design.

Email we send you

There are two kinds, and we treat them differently.

Email you need — a receipt, a note that your subscription is changing, a reply to something you asked us. These are part of having an account, and we send them when they apply.

Optional updates — occasional news about Veritype and what we ship next. We send these only if you asked for them by ticking the box when you joined. That box is never pre-ticked, joining the waitlist on its own does not opt you in, and every one of these emails carries an unsubscribe link that works without signing in. You can also ask us to stop and we will do it by hand.

We record whether you said yes, when, and where you were asked — so that if you ever wonder why you are receiving something, the answer exists.

Bring-your-own-key (BYOK) usage

If you provide your own Anthropic API key, it is stored only in your browser's local extension storage and is never sent to Veritype's servers. In BYOK mode, your analyzed text and API key go directly from your browser to Anthropic's API — Veritype's backend is not involved in that request at all.

Recent analyses kept on your device

So you can switch tabs without losing your place, the extension keeps your last five analyses in your browser's session storage. Each entry holds the analysis result, the page title, and the page address.

It does not keep the article text those analyses were run on, and none of it is sent to Veritype's servers — it stays on your device. Session storage is cleared when you close your browser, and Veritype clears this list immediately when you sign out.

That covers the recent-analyses list only. The extension keeps one other thing on your device, and it outlives closing the browser — it is described next.

Your reading tally, kept on your device

Not in the released extension yet. This section and the one after it describe how your reading will be handled when this feature ships. The version currently on the Chrome Web Store does not record a reading tally at all. It is written down in advance so the commitment exists before the feature does.

So the panel can show you what your own reading has looked like over time, the extension records one small row per completed analysis in your browser's local extension storage. Each row holds three things: the date in UTC, the political lean the analysis produced as a number, and the name of the outlet —only when the page's domain matches a list of publications bundled with the extension.

It never stores the page address, the page title, or the article text. When a domain is not on that bundled list, the row records no source at all rather than falling back to the domain — so the tally cannot be used to reconstruct where you have been.

By default, none of it is sent to Veritype's servers or anywhere else. There is nothing to opt into unless you turn on keeping it on your account, described next — until then it exists only in the browser it was recorded in. Unlike the recent-analyses list above, it is not cleared when you close your browser or sign out — that is the point of it. Rows older than 30 days are discarded automatically, and you can delete the whole thing at any time from the extension's Settings, withDelete my reading data.

Keeping your reading on your account

By default, the reading summary in the side panel is stored on your own computer and is never sent anywhere. If you turn on keeping your reading on your account — which is off unless you switch it on — those same rows are also stored on our servers, so they survive a reinstall and follow you between computers.

A row is three things: the day, how the piece leaned, and which outlet it came from, taken from our published list. It is never the page address, the headline, or the text of what you read. An outlet that is not on our list is recorded as unknown rather than as a web address, so this record cannot become a history of your browsing.

Free accounts keep the last 30 days. Pro accounts keep all of it. If a subscription lapses, everything is kept for a further 30 days before the 30-day limit applies, so a failed payment does not delete your history.

Deleting it deletes it. Use “Delete my reading data” in the side panel’s settings and every row is removed from this device and from your account. Nothing is kept — no copy, and no anonymous count.

What we don't do

• We don't sell your data to anyone.
• We don't email you marketing unless you asked for it, and we don't use contact-form or support addresses for it at all.
• We don't show ads or use your data for ad targeting.
• We don't collect your general browsing history — only the specific text you actively choose to submit for analysis.
• We don't require or collect political, religious, or health information.

Third-party services we use

Clerk (authentication), Stripe (billing), Neon (database hosting), Vercel (application hosting and AI request routing), and Anthropic (the AI model that performs analysis, and — for Pro subscribers using Similar Sources — real-time web searches to find matching news coverage). Each processes only the data necessary for its function, under its own privacy policy.

Data deletion

You can clear your optional profile information at any time from the extension's settings. To delete your account entirely, contact us using the details below.

Children's privacy

Veritype is not directed at, and is not knowingly used by, children under 13.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data can be sent through our Contact page.