Privacy

What is stored on your device

Two things, both in your browser’s local storage, both readable only by this site:

• Your categories. The list you choose when you first open the feed, so it does not ask again.
• Your theme. Whether you last used dark or light.

Neither leaves your device. Clearing your browser data removes both, and the feed will simply ask you to choose categories again.

What is not collected

No account, no email address, no name. No advertising or cross-site tracking scripts. Brief does not build a profile of you and does not sell anything about you, because it does not hold anything about you to sell.

What the server sees

When the feed loads, your browser asks our server for stories in your chosen categories, and the server fetches them from the news source. Ordinary web request information - an IP address, a browser user-agent, a timestamp - passes through the hosting provider as it does for any website. It is not tied to a person and is not used to build a profile.

Third parties

News articles are retrieved through the Currents API. Card text is produced by a language model provider that receives the article being processed, not anything about you. Fonts are served by Google Fonts. Each of these has its own privacy terms.

Changes and questions

If this policy changes in a way that matters, the change will be noted here. For anything you want to ask, use the contact page.