Terms of Service

These terms cover everyone who uses Brief — whether through our website or our API. By using Brief, you agree to them.

1. What Brief is

Brief creates short research summaries about people from publicly available information, to help you prepare for meetings and calls. The summaries are generated by AI.

Brief researches the public open web. Our browser extension does not scrape or extract data from the pages you view — it uses only the name you choose (by highlighting it, right-clicking a profile link, or clicking the optional chip) to start that research.

2. What you can't use Brief for

This is the important part. You must not use Brief — or any summary from it — to make or help make decisions about:

• employment or recruitment (hiring, screening, or evaluating candidates),
• credit or lending,
• housing or tenancy,
• insurance, or
• background checks or any similar assessment of a person's eligibility.

Brief is for general preparation and research, not for decisions that have a legal or similarly significant effect on someone. Using it for the above is both against these terms and, in many places, against the law.

3. The information may be wrong

Brief is provided “as is.” The summaries are written automatically by AI from public sources and can be inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date. Don't treat a brief as verified fact, and don't rely on it as the sole basis for any decision. We make no warranties of accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, or availability.

4. Your responsibility for how you use briefs

Once you act on a brief for your own purposes, you're responsible for that use — including following any laws that apply to you. If you republish or build on a brief, the rules in these terms (especially Section 2) still apply to that use.

If you use our browser extension, you're also responsible for ensuring your use complies with the terms of any third-party website you use it on.

5. The API and AI agents

If you use our API (/api/brief) or otherwise consume briefs programmatically:

• Attribution is required. When you surface or republish a brief, link back to it using the attribution / canonical link we provide with every response.
• No resale. Don't sell, sublicense, or redistribute briefs as your own dataset.
• Section 2 applies to you. The prohibited uses above bind API consumers and anyone reusing the data, exactly as they bind website users.
• Rate limits and revocation. We rate-limit the API and may revoke or limit access at any time, including if it's misused.

6. Privacy and the people we feature

How we handle personal data — for users and for the people we research — is set out in our Privacy Policy. If you're featured in a brief and want it corrected or removed, use Remove or correct a profile →.

7. Payment

Some features are paid. If you buy a plan, the price and billing terms are shown at purchase. Payments are handled by our payment processor; we don't store your full card details.

8. Our liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Brief and its operator are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for decisions you or anyone else makes based on a brief. Where we are liable, our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the three months before the claim, or €100 if you haven't paid us anything. Nothing here limits liability that can't be limited by law.

9. Ending access

You can stop using Brief at any time. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms — particularly Section 2.

10. Changes

We may update these terms. If we do, we'll change the date above and post the new version here. Continuing to use Brief means you accept the update.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Spain, and the courts of Barcelona have jurisdiction, unless mandatory consumer-protection law where you live says otherwise.

Contact

Joseph, Barcelona, Spain — tech@briefthecall.com