Privacy Policy

Truncated is built to be read, not to watch you read. There are no reader accounts, no tracking or advertising cookies and no tracking pixels, and we don't build reader profiles or follow you around the web. Here is the personal data we do handle, and why.

Who runs Truncated?

Truncated (truncated.ai) is published by Three Things Media, which is responsible for this data. Email: support@truncated.ai. The publisher's full name and postal address are in the Impressum.

What happens when you read the site?

Our hosting provider processes technical request data, such as your IP address, browser type, the page and the time, to deliver pages and protect the site against abuse. We use your IP address to limit excessive requests, for example to our public API. Our host also keeps technical logs of each request, including your IP address, browser type, the page, the referring page and your approximate location, for 7 days, so we can find and fix errors.

We count page views with our host's cookieless analytics. It reports the page, the referring page, your browser type and load times without identifying you, and we see only totals. When you click through to a publisher, your browser tells us which story you opened; we only add it to an anonymous daily count per publisher and story and store no IP address or other identifier with it.

We set no cookies for readers. Our host may set one strictly necessary security cookie (__cf_bm, up to 30 minutes) to check that a visitor is a person, so there is no cookie banner.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in a secure, working site and aggregate audience figures (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

What happens when you subscribe to emails?

We keep your email address, the lists you choose, and proof of your consent (the consent text and when you signed up and confirmed). Nothing is sent until you confirm; unconfirmed sign-ups are deleted after 30 days.

Every email has an unsubscribe link. Afterwards we keep your address on a suppression list so we don't email you again by mistake. You can ask us to delete your data; we keep only what we still need, such as that suppression entry or proof of consent.

Legal basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR); for proof of consent and suppression, our legal obligations and legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(c) and (f)).

What happens when you click sponsor links, contact us or book an ad?

Sponsor links pass through a short redirect on truncated.ai so we can count clicks for advertisers. We record the placement, the channel (web, RSS or email), the time and whether the click looked automated or repeated. Your IP address is used for one minute to spot repeats and is not stored with the click. Click counts are kept for three months.

Emails, the contact form and advertising inquiries: we use your name, company, email address and message to reply, and keep them only as long as needed. The contact form uses a bot check from our hosting provider, Cloudflare Turnstile, which processes your IP address and browser information to tell people from automated spam; it sets no cookies, but stores a value in your browser's local storage that the check uses.

Booking an ad online: we use your company and contact details, billing address, VAT ID, ad, placement and dates to review, run and invoice the booking. Three Things Media's billing service and its payment processor handle payment, VAT and invoices; you enter card details on the processor's page, so we never see them. An AI model checks your ad, company name and destination website against our ad policy (never your contact details), and we make every decision ourselves. Declined or expired requests are deleted after 30 days; booking and invoice records are kept for up to 10 years, as German tax law requires.

Legal basis: contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR), legal obligations (Art. 6(1)(c)) and our legitimate interest in answering you (Art. 6(1)(f)).

Who helps us operate the site?

• Hosting and infrastructure provider: delivers the site, stores our data, sends transactional email and counts page views.
• Newsletter delivery provider: stores the subscriber list and sends the newsletter.
• Email provider (Switzerland): our mailbox.
• Billing service and payment processor: card payments, VAT, invoices and refunds.
• AI model providers: summarise public articles and check submitted ads; they receive no reader or subscriber data.

They work on our behalf under data processing agreements. Transfers to the United States rely on Standard Contractual Clauses and, where applicable, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework; Switzerland has an EU adequacy decision. On request we'll name the specific providers and send you the safeguards. We never sell personal data.

What are your privacy rights?

You can ask to access, correct or delete your data, restrict or object to its processing, receive it in a portable format, and withdraw consent at any time: email support@truncated.ai. You can also complain to a data protection authority; ours is the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision (BayLDA), Promenade 18, 91522 Ansbach, Germany.

Everything is delivered over encrypted connections, and only the publisher can access the data we store. We'll post changes here with a new date, and tell subscribers by email if a change materially affects them.