Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how BenchTruth ("we", "us") handles information when you use benchtruth.com (the "Service").

BenchTruth is a free, public benchmark-data site. We collect very little: no user accounts, no payments, no newsletter, no user-submitted content. The datasets we publish contain measurements of automation platforms — never personal data. If you have questions, contact us at @benchtruth on X.

1. Information We Collect

Collected automatically

• Analytics data. We use PostHog to collect anonymized usage data: page views, referrer URLs, country-level location, device and browser type, and clicks on outbound links (we specifically measure which pages send readers to which automation platforms — that is part of our published research on AI-referred traffic). Session recordings are disabled. PostHog may store a random anonymous identifier in your browser's local storage or a first-party cookie so repeat visits are not double-counted; it identifies a browser, not a person.
• Server access logs. Our hosting provider (Vercel) automatically records request metadata (timestamp, path, response status, approximate IP) for operational and security purposes. We do not profile, aggregate or sell this data.

Information we do NOT collect

• No names, emails or passwords (there are no accounts and currently no newsletter)
• No payment data (the Service is free)
• No user-uploaded content
• No advertising IDs or cross-site tracking pixels

2. How We Use Information

• Site improvement: aggregated analytics tell us which datasets are read and where readers come from (including AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity — measuring that referral channel is a stated goal of this project).
• Attribution research: outbound-click counts feed our published funnel analysis (AI citation → visit → outbound click). Only aggregate counts are ever published.
• Operational integrity: hosting logs help detect abuse and diagnose outages.

3. Third-Party Services

• Vercel (hosting): privacy policy
• PostHog (analytics, US cloud): privacy policy
• Cloudflare (DNS): privacy policy

Our measurement backend (Supabase Postgres) stores benchmark run data only — webhook timestamps and run IDs we generate ourselves. It holds no visitor data.

4. AI Crawler Disclosure

BenchTruth is a public data site and we explicitly welcome AI crawlers (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and others). Content and data you read here may be used by AI search engines to answer questions elsewhere, with or without citation — that is the intended outcome. Your individual reading activity is not exposed to crawlers; they fetch the same public pages anyone can fetch.

5. Cookies

No advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. The only browser storage in use is PostHog's first-party anonymous identifier described in section 1.

6. Data Retention and Your Rights

Analytics data is retained under PostHog's standard retention and never enriched into personal profiles. Depending on your jurisdiction (e.g. GDPR, Australian Privacy Act), you may have rights to access or erase personal data; since we hold essentially none beyond anonymized analytics, the practical remedy is blocking analytics in your browser, which the site fully supports — every page works with analytics blocked.

7. Changes

We may update this policy as the Service evolves (for example, if a newsletter launches). Material changes will be reflected in the "Last updated" date above.