Last updated: March 31, 2026
Who We Are
Synthetic Truth is a blog about AI, work, and money. Our website address is: https://thesynthetictruth.com.
What Personal Data We Collect and Why
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience.
We also use cookies related to our advertising partners (see Advertising section below).
Analytics
We may use analytics services to understand how visitors use our site. This data is aggregated and does not personally identify individual visitors.
Newsletter
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address for the sole purpose of sending you our content. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in every email.
Advertising
This site uses Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google AdSense may use cookies and web beacons to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings (https://www.google.com/settings/ads). Alternatively, you can opt out of third-party vendor cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
Third-Party Advertisers
Third-party ad servers or ad networks may use cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons in their advertisements and links that appear on Synthetic Truth. These are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.
Synthetic Truth has no access to or control over cookies used by third-party advertisers.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically.
For newsletter subscribers, we retain your email address until you unsubscribe.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have left comments on this site or subscribed to our newsletter, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Advertising data is shared with Google AdSense as described above.
Contact Information
For any privacy-related questions or requests, please contact us at: hello@thesynthetictruth.com
Changes to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the “last updated” date.