Introduction
This Privacy Policy describes how Briefer (“Briefer”, “we”, “us”) handles personal information that we collect through our digital properties that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Service”). Briefer provides a messaging based service to summarize news articles and send daily briefs to users to keep them up to date.
Personal Information We Collect
We collect the following personal information:
- Contact Data: Your phone number.
- Articles: The URLs of articles you send for summarization.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We use your information to:
- Create and manage your user account.
- Summarize articles you send and store these summaries.
- Send you daily briefs and confirmation messages.
Third Parties and Service Providers
We do not sell or share your personal information with third parties for their own marketing purposes. However, we do use third-party service providers. These are third parties that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Service or our business (such as hosting, information technology, customer support, email delivery, marketing, consumer research and website analytics). Currently, we use the following service providers:
- Supabase: For storing user accounts and article summaries.
- Twilio: For processing and sending SMS messages.
- WhatsApp: For processing and sending WhatsApp messages.
These third parties are only given access to the information necessary to perform their specific services and are obligated to protect your information, in accordance with their respective privacy policies.
Data Storage and Security
We store your data on secure servers and employ technical, organizational, and physical safeguards to protect it.
Your Choices
You have the following choices regarding your personal information:
- Access and Update: You can request access to or update your personal information.
- Opt-Out: You can opt-out of receiving messages by replying STOP to any message.
- Delete: You can request for your data to be deleted at any time by contacting us.
Other Sites and Services
Our service may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these websites.
Security
We use a number of technical, organizational and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.
Children
The Service is not intended for use by anyone under 16 years of age. If you are a parent or guardian of a child from whom you believe we have collected personal information in a manner prohibited by law, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal information through the Service from a child without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will comply with applicable legal requirements to delete the information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this policy. We will notify you of any changes by updating the effective date at the top of this policy.
How to Contact Us
For questions or concerns about this policy, contact us at:
- Email: hello@getbriefer.com