Cookie Notice

There are no advertising cookies anywhere on this site, and there never will be. The signed-in app uses a couple of essential cookies to keep you logged in. Browser analytics run on both the marketing site and the app, except for readers in Europe, where we switch them off entirely rather than ask a question we have not built a good way to answer. Separately from all of that, our servers keep a short operational record of each briefing; it never touches your device, so it is a Privacy Policy matter rather than a cookie one.

A cookie is a small file a site stores in your browser. Some are essential, and without them a site cannot remember you are logged in. Others are optional, used to understand how a product is used. We use the first kind and, in the app, a little of the second.

• Essential.Set by Clerk, our sign-in provider, to keep you securely logged into the app. These are required for the app to work and cannot be turned off while you are using it. Clerk also runs Cloudflare's Turnstile check on the sign-up form to keep bots out, which means Cloudflare sees your IP address at that one moment. It is a security control rather than an analytics one, and it does not follow you around the site.
• Analytics. Set by PostHog, on the marketing site and inside the signed-in app, to show us which features get used and where people get stuck. They record what was clicked, not who you are: we never attach your name or email to them.
• One cookie whose only job is switching the last one off. Called briefed-analytics, it holds a single character: a 1 if analytics may run where you are, a 0 if they may not. Our servers work that out from the country your request arrives from, and this is how the answer reaches your browser. It carries no identifier and we never read it back.
• Nothing at all, if you are reading from Europe. For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, or Switzerland, PostHog never loads in your browser and no analytics cookie is written. Most sites in this position show you a consent banner. We would rather not ask a question until we have built a proper way to honour the answer, so until then nothing is stored on your device.
• What that carve-out does not cover. Our own servers still record a handful of operational events when your briefing is built, such as whether it sent or failed. Those never touch your browser, so no cookie is involved and this page is not really about them. They are described in the Privacy Policy, because that is where they belong.

You can clear or block cookies in your browser settings at any time, though blocking the essential ones will sign you out of the app. Blocking the analytics cookie costs you nothing: every feature works the same either way.

One more thing worth mentioning, because it is storage on your device even though it is not a cookie. Your light or dark preference is saved in your browser under briefed-theme, so the site does not flash the wrong colour at you on the way in. It never leaves your browser. Signed-in readers also have that preference saved to their account, which is what keeps it consistent across devices.

In the same category: if you dismiss a banner in the app about a trial ending or a payment that did not go through, we remember that for the rest of the browsing session so it does not reappear on every page. Those two flags live under briefed:trial-banner-dismissed and briefed:past-due-banner-dismissed, and they are gone when you close the tab.

Questions about cookies, or anything in our Privacy Policy, go to hello@briefed.ink.