Brief has no accounts, no login, and no newsletter sign-up yet — so there is nothing for us to hold about you. We do not ask for your name, email, or any personal detail to read the brief.
For traffic we use Cloudflare Web Analytics and PostHog (hosted in the EU), both configured privacy-first: no cookies, nothing stored on your device by the website, no profile of you, no tracking across other sites, and no session recording. They report only aggregate, anonymous figures — how many people viewed a page, roughly where in the world, on what kind of device. None of it identifies you.
We run no ads and embed no third-party trackers. Our servers keep standard, short-lived request logs (as any website does) to operate the service and stop abuse.
The Brief iOS app uses the same posture with one honest difference: it stores a single random install identifier on your device (an anonymous UUID the app makes up — not your Apple ID, not an advertising ID, not anything about you) so its EU-hosted analytics can count usage without knowing who you are. The app sends only anonymous product events — which topics and countries get read, never your identity or location — collects no personal data, shows no ads, does no cross-app tracking, and records no screens. Deleting the app deletes the identifier.
Stories link out to other news sites; once you follow a link, that site's own privacy practices apply. If we ever add a newsletter or accounts, we will update this page first and only collect what that feature needs.
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