TRUE SEARCH PRIVACY POLICY

App: True Search Publisher: Indusbridge Digital Effective date: May 18, 2026 Last updated: May 18, 2026 Contact: privacy@truesearch.site

The short version

We do not require an account, sign-in, or profile.

We do not collect, sell, share, or rent your personal data.

We do not run analytics on the searches you type.

We do not show ads, sponsored results, or affiliate links.

We do not use third-party tracking SDKs.

Your search history, saved results, and settings are stored only on your device. You can erase them at any time in Settings → Data.

The only network calls the app makes are to our own server (api.truesearch.site) to fetch search results and AI summaries, and to the websites you choose to open from the results list.

If you read nothing else, read that.

1. Who we are

True Search is a mobile search app published by Indusbridge Digital ("we", "us", "our"). This policy explains what happens to information when you use the app.

2. What stays on your device

The following are stored locally on your phone using the operating system's standard on-device storage (AsyncStorage). They never leave your device unless you choose to share them yourself:

Your search history (the queries you typed and when).

Your saved results (pages you bookmarked inside the app).

Your settings (theme, default tab, results per page, safe-search level, region, filters).

A one-time flag indicating whether we've already asked you for location permission.

You can delete any of these at any time:

Settings → Data → Clear search history

Settings → Data → Clear saved results

Settings → Data → Reset search & filters

Uninstalling the app also removes all of it.

3. What we send over the network

When you run a search, the app calls our server (api.truesearch.site) so we can talk to two upstream services on your behalf:

Brave Search API — to fetch web, image, video, and news results.

Groq API — to generate the AI Answer, AI Summary, per-result AI Preview, Authority score, and Location-relevancy score.

Jina Reader (r.jina.ai) — to fetch the text of a result page so the AI Preview can summarize it.

Google Trends RSS — to populate the "Trending now" chips on the home screen.

The reason we proxy these calls through our own server is so that the API keys for Brave and Groq never ship to your phone, and so that the upstream providers see our server's IP, not yours.

What we send upstream:

The text of your query.

Your selected region and safe-search level (so results are relevant).

For AI Summary / Preview: the titles, snippets, and URLs of the top results from Brave.

What we do not send:

Your name, email, phone, IMEI, IDFA, or any persistent device identifier.

Your search history. Each request is independent — our server does not keep a profile of you across requests.

4. What our server logs

Our server keeps short-lived operational logs strictly to keep the service running and to defend against abuse. These logs contain:

The time of the request.

The route that was called (e.g. /api/search).

The HTTP status of the response.

The rate-limit bucket for your IP address (the server has to know your IP to apply a 60-request-per-minute limit).

These logs are kept for no more than 14 days and are not used to build a profile, sold, or shared. We do not log the contents of your query, the AI output, or the URLs you open.

5. Caching

To keep the app fast and reduce upstream cost, the server briefly caches:

AI Previews of public web pages (up to 1 hour).

AI Answers / AI Summaries keyed by query + the top result links (up to 30 minutes).

Trending-now chips per region (up to 15 minutes).

These caches are content caches — they are not tied to your identity.

6. Location

If you grant location permission, the app uses your approximate coarse location for two things:

To auto-select a search region on first launch (so results are localized).

When you tap "Score by location" on a summary card, to ask the AI to re-rank results by relevance to where you are.

In both cases the coarse location is reverse-geocoded on-device when possible, and only the resulting place label (e.g. "Austin, TX, US") is sent to our server — never raw GPS coordinates. You can deny or revoke the permission at any time in your iOS Settings; the app continues to work normally without it.

7. The in-app browser

Tapping a result opens the page in iOS's standard in-app browser (SFSafariViewController). That session is isolated from True Search — we cannot see what you do inside the page. The destination website's own cookies, scripts, and trackers apply once you're on their page. We have no control over and accept no responsibility for the privacy practices of third-party websites you open from the results list.

8. Third-party services we rely on

Our server forwards the minimum information described above to:

Brave Search — see Brave's privacy policy at https://search.brave.com/help/privacy-policy

Groq — see Groq's privacy policy at https://groq.com/privacy-policy

Jina AI (Reader) — see https://jina.ai/legal

Apple App Store — handles purchase, subscription billing, and receipt validation. We do not see your payment information.

We do not integrate Google Analytics, Firebase Analytics, Mixpanel, Segment, Facebook SDK, AppsFlyer, Branch, Amplitude, Sentry, Crashlytics, or any similar tracking/analytics/attribution SDK.

9. Children

True Search is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us information, please contact us and we will delete it.

10. Your rights

Because we do not collect or store personal data tied to you, there is generally nothing to access, correct, or delete on our side. For the data on your device, you have complete control via Settings → Data.

If you are in the EU/EEA, UK, California, Brazil, or another jurisdiction with privacy rights (GDPR, UK-GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, LGPD, etc.) and you wish to confirm this, email privacy@truesearch.site with your request. We will respond within 30 days.

11. Security

All network traffic between the app and our server is encrypted with HTTPS (TLS 1.2+). Server access is limited to authorized maintainers. No system is perfectly secure, but because we deliberately collect almost nothing, there is very little to expose in the event of a breach.

12. International transfers

Our server and upstream providers may process requests in the United States and other countries. By using the app you understand that request data may transit these jurisdictions for the purpose of returning your search results.

13. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top and, for material changes, post a notice in the app's Settings → About screen before the change takes effect. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

14. Contact us

Questions, requests, or concerns:

Indusbridge Digital Attn: Privacy privacy@truesearch.site

True Search has one customer: you. Not advertisers. Not data brokers. Not "partners." Just you.