Privacy Policy

When you subscribe to the brief, you give us your email address. Your browser may also send your time zone so we can send the brief at a sensible hour. We do not ask for a name, a phone number, or a payment method. The brief is free.

When you use the site, we collect information about how the pages are used so we can understand what readers find useful and make the product better. This includes:

• Pages viewed, links clicked, and reading engagement such as how far through a story you read.
• Basic technical details sent by your browser, such as device and browser type, and an approximate location based on your network address.
• The page that referred you to us.
• An anonymous identifier that lets us recognize a returning browser and connect your reading history over time. It is not your name or email.
• Recordings of general interactions, such as clicks and scrolling, used to spot confusing layouts and fix them.
• Error and diagnostic information when something breaks. We take care not to attach your email or other personal details to these reports.

When you submit the signup form, we run an automated check to tell real people apart from bots. This helps us keep the list clean and prevent abuse.

We use cookies and your browser's local storage to keep the site working and to remember your preferences. These include:

• Your light or dark theme choice.
• The stories you have saved or already read, which are stored in your own browser.
• The anonymous identifier described above.
• Measurement cookies that help us count visits and understand usage.
• Advertising cookies set by Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, so it can tell whether an ad it showed you led to a signup. In the UK and Europe these are only set if you say yes on the cookie banner.

You can clear or block cookies through your browser settings. If you do, some features, such as your saved stories, may not work as expected. You can also turn off advertising measurement and site analytics, wherever you live, on Your Privacy Choices.

• To send you the daily brief and any related emails you asked for.
• To understand what readers engage with, so we can improve the writing and the site.
• To keep the service secure and to prevent spam and abuse.

When you sign up after clicking one of our ads, we tell Meta that a signup happened, so we can see which ads are worth paying for and so Meta can find more readers like you. Your email address is turned into a scrambled code, called a hash, before it is sent. It is never sent in a form anyone can read, and it cannot be turned back into your address.

Some privacy laws treat what we do here as a sale or a sharing of personal information. We do not take money for your data, but we do send that scrambled form of your email address to Meta, and Meta uses it for its own purposes as well as ours. You can turn this off at any time, wherever you live, on Your Privacy Choices. In the UK and Europe none of it happens at all unless you first say yes on the cookie banner.

We rely on a small number of trusted providers to run the service on our behalf. They help us deliver emails, measure and improve the site, monitor for errors, prevent abuse, and host the service. Most of these providers may only use your information to do these jobs for us, under agreements that require them to protect it. Meta is different. When we tell Meta that a signup happened, Meta also uses that information for its own purposes, and we and Meta are each responsible for it. We say this separately so it is clear which relationship is which.

We keep your email address for as long as you are subscribed. If you unsubscribe, we remove you from the sending list. We keep usage and engagement information only for as long as it is useful for understanding and improving the product, and then remove or anonymize it.

• You can turn advertising measurement and site analytics off, or back on, at any time on Your Privacy Choices. That page works for every reader, wherever you live.
• You can unsubscribe at any time using the link at the bottom of every email.
• You can limit or clear cookies and local storage through your browser or device settings.
• You can ask us for a copy of the information we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete it.

We will not treat you any differently for using any of these rights. The brief is free either way.

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights over your information.

Several US states give residents the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information and of targeted advertising. As we say above, some privacy laws treat what we do with Meta as exactly that. You do not have to live in one of those states to act on it: Your Privacy Choicesis open to everyone. Turning advertising measurement off there stops us sending anything to Meta, stops Meta's pixel loading on this site, and removes the cookies it left in the browser you are using.

Some browsers and extensions send a Global Privacy Control signal. We read it, and for a reader who has not set an answer of their own we treat it as a refusal of the advertising click id we would otherwise store. Your Privacy Choices is the control that switches off everything described on this page, and an answer you set there wins over the signal, in both directions, so you can still turn measurement back on if you want to.

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16.

The brief is written for working professionals and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect information from children.

We and our providers may process your information in countries other than your own. Where we do, we take steps to make sure it stays protected to the standard described in this policy.

We may update this policy as the product changes or as the law requires. When we make a meaningful change, we will update the date at the top of this page.

To ask a question about this policy, or to exercise any of the rights above, use the unsubscribe or reply option in any email we send you. We are finalizing a dedicated privacy contact address and will publish it here.