Privacy Policy

The short version

Brief creates short research summaries about people from publicly available information to help someone prepare for a meeting or call. We publish those summaries — on our website and through an open API that AI assistants can use — always with a link back to the source.

We don't sell your data. We don't share it with advertisers or data brokers. We don't track people around the web. Brief is a paid tool — you pay for the research, not with your information.

If there's a summary about you and you'd like it corrected or removed, you can do that here: Remove or correct a profile → — no account needed.

The rest of this page is the detail behind that. We've kept it in plain English on purpose.

Who we are

Brief is operated by Joseph, based in Barcelona, Spain. For anything privacy-related — questions, requests, or complaints — email tech@briefthecall.com.

We are the “data controller” for the information described here. Because we're based in the EU, we follow the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Spanish data-protection law for everyone, wherever you are.

Part 1 — If you use Brief (our users)

This covers people who sign in and use the product.

What we collect and why

• Account info (your name, email and profile from Google, via our sign-in provider Clerk) — to sign you in and keep your account.
• Your “seller lens” (the details you give us about what you sell) — to tailor the hook and talk-track in your briefs. You can edit or clear this at any time.
• Technical data (IP address, basic request logs) — to keep the service secure and stop abuse and over-use.
• Analytics (privacy-respecting usage stats via Vercel Analytics) — to understand what's working. Only loaded if you accept analytics cookies.
• Billing data — if you buy a paid plan, our payment processor (Stripe) handles your payment details. We never see or store your full card number; we keep a record of what you bought.

If you use the browser extension

The extension only acts when you ask it to — by highlighting a name and choosing “Research with Brief,” right-clicking a profile link, or clicking the optional chip. Nothing is scanned or researched in the background.

Importantly, Brief does not read, scrape, or store the content of the page you're viewing. It takes only the name you point it at (plus minimal public context, such as a visible job title or company, to tell two people apart) and sends that to Brief's API. The research itself is done separately against the public open web — Brief does not harvest or extract data from the sites you visit. It does not read your message bodies, your browsing history, or anything you type into forms.

Your Google sign-in is used only to authenticate you and apply your per-user daily limit. We don't sell this data and don't use it for anything beyond producing the brief you asked for. We also collect minimal, privacy-respecting product analytics — which feature you use and whether a brief was produced — to improve Brief; this never includes the content of the pages you view or the people you research. Our use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Who we work with (processors)

We use a small number of trusted service providers to run Brief: AI and web-research providers (to research and write the briefs), a sign-in provider, our hosting and analytics provider, and our database provider. They act only on our instructions and only to provide their service to us — they're not allowed to use your data for their own purposes. Some are based in the US; where data leaves the EU, it's covered by standard data-protection safeguards (Standard Contractual Clauses).

Your rights

You can ask us to show you your data, correct it, delete it, or stop using it, and you can object to processing or ask for a copy to take elsewhere. Email tech@briefthecall.com and we'll handle it. You can also complain to the Spanish data-protection authority (AEPD, aepd.es).

How long we keep it

We keep account and lens data while your account is active, and remove it on request or a reasonable time after you stop using Brief.

Part 2 — If Brief features you (people we research)

This is the important part, and it applies even if you've never used Brief. We want to be straight about it.

What we do

We build short summaries about people — usually professionals, founders, investors, executives — from information that is already public on the open web (company pages, news, public profiles, and similar). A summary may include things like someone's role, company, public activity, and professional interests. We then make these summaries available: on indexed pages on our site, and through an open API that AI assistants and tools can query.

Where the information comes from

Public sources on the internet. We don't buy private datasets, and we don't access anything behind a login or paywall.

Our legal basis

We rely on legitimate interest (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)): there's a genuine, everyday need for professionals to research who they're about to meet, using information that's already public. We've weighed that against the privacy of the people featured, and we limit what we do accordingly (see the next two points).

What we deliberately leave out

We instruct our system not to state or guess “special category” information — things like someone's political views, religion or beliefs, health, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origin, or trade-union membership. The “interests / point of view” in a brief is meant to reflect professional and market views only.

These summaries are AI-generated and may be wrong

Briefs are written automatically by AI from public sources. They can be inaccurate or out of date. Every brief says so. If something about you is wrong, please tell us and we'll fix or remove it.

Telling you we hold your information

Ideally we'd notify every person we feature. With information gathered from public sources at this scale, contacting each person individually isn't possible, so — as GDPR allows in that situation (Article 14(5)(b)) — we publish this notice instead and make removal easy.

Your rights — and the easy button

You can object to being featured, ask us to correct a summary, or ask us to remove it entirely. The fastest way is Remove or correct a profile → (no account needed). We act on removal requests promptly and take the profile down from both our website and the API while we review.

Cookies

We use a couple of small functional cookies to make Brief work (for example, to remember your search count and your lens). Analytics cookies are optional — we only load them if you accept. You can change your choice at any time.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle data, we'll update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

Joseph, Barcelona, Spain — tech@briefthecall.com