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Privacy Policy for BriefOutline

Last Updated: July 20, 2025

Your privacy is critically important to us. At BriefOutline, we have a few fundamental principles:

We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services.
We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use our website, BriefOutline.com.

1. Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so – for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better. We collect this information from three sources: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources.

Information You Provide to Us

It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us. The amount and type of information depends on the context and how we use the information.

Basic Account Information: We ask for basic information from you in order to set up your account. For example, we require a username and email address for users who sign up for a BriefOutline account.
Transaction and Billing Information: If you buy something from us, you’ll provide additional personal and payment information that is required to process the transaction and your payment, such as your name, credit card information, and contact information.
Content Information: You might provide us with information about yourself in your content, such as if you write a blog post or comment.
Communications with Us: You may provide us with information when you respond to surveys, communicate with our support team, or post questions in our public forums.

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect some information automatically:

Log Information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.
Usage Information: We collect information about your usage of our Services. For example, we collect information about what happens when you use our Services (e.g., page views, searches, interactions with features).
Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions.
Information from Cookies & Other Technologies: A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails. BriefOutline uses cookies and other technologies to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services, as well as to track and understand email campaign effectiveness.

Information We Collect from Other Sources

We may also get information about you from other sources. For example, if you connect your site to a service like Google Analytics, we may receive information from that service.

2. Advertising, Affiliate Programs, and Third-Party Data

We utilize various advertising services, including Google AdSense, and participate in affiliate marketing programs, such as those facilitated by Impact, to display advertisements and promote products/services on our website. As a consequence of your use of these services and programs, certain data collection, sharing, and usage practices take place.

Google’s Use of Data: Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on BriefOutline.com. Google’s use of the advertising cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Affiliate Programs: We engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links from affiliate programs into our content. If you click on an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may receive a commission at no additional cost to you. These programs may also use cookies and other tracking technologies to monitor clicks and sales.
Third-Party Cookies and Identifiers: Third parties, including Google and our affiliate partners (like Impact), may be placing and reading cookies on your users’ browsers, or using web beacons, IP addresses, and other identifiers to collect information as a result of ad serving and affiliate tracking on this website. This data helps to personalize ads, track affiliate sales, and analyze performance.
Opting Out: Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ad Settings. Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for interest-based advertising by visiting aboutads.info.
How Google Uses Data: For more information on how Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

By continuing to use BriefOutline.com, you acknowledge and agree to these practices.

3. How We Use Information

We use information about you as mentioned above and for the purposes listed below:

To provide our Services — for example, to set up and maintain your account, or to process payments.
To ensure quality, maintain safety, and improve our Services — for example, by analyzing how our users interact with our Services.
To measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition.
To monitor and analyze trends and better understand how users interact with our Services, which helps us improve our Services and make them easier to use.
To communicate with you, for example, by sending you emails about our Services or asking for your feedback.
To monitor and prevent any problems with our Services, protect the security of our Services, detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, and protect the rights and property of BriefOutline and others.

4. Sharing Information

We do not sell our users’ private personal information. We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:

Subsidiaries and Employees: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries and employees who need to know the information in order to help us provide our Services or to process information on our behalf.
Third-Party Vendors: We may share information about you with third-party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us, or to provide their services through our Services. This group includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like payment providers that process your credit and debit card information, fraud prevention services that allow us to analyze fraudulent payment transactions, cloud storage services, and email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you).
Legal Requests: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
To Protect Rights, Property, and Others: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of BriefOutline, third parties, or the public at large.
Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party.
With Your Consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction.
Aggregated or De-Identified Information: We may share information that has been aggregated or de-identified, so that it can no longer reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregated statistics about the usage of our Services.

5. How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when it’s no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it – described in the “How We Use Information” section above – and we’re not legally required to keep it.

6. Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so.

7. Your Rights

You have certain rights regarding your personal information, subject to local law. These include the right to:

Access your personal information.
Correct or update your personal information.
Request deletion of your personal information.
Object to the processing of your personal information.
Request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
Request portability of your personal information.
Withdraw your consent (where consent is the legal basis for processing).
Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at briefonline@gmail.com.

8. Third-Party Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

9. Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

By email: briefonline@gmail.com