Privacy
GetYourBrief asks readers for no account and stores nothing about them itself; the tools below run on its pages. It does hold the names of people the news reports name, and this page says on what basis and how to object.
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What runs on the pages
- Umami (analytics, at analytics.opspixel.com): counts page views without cookies; it does not store IP addresses.
- Google Analytics 4 (analytics): measures visits with cookies. This site's settings keep event data for 2 months and user-level data for 14 months. Where advertising storage is off, ad data is redacted and an ad click's identifier is carried in the link instead of a cookie.
- Google AdSense (advertising): Google and its partners use cookies to serve ads based on your visits to this and other sites, unless you opt out.
- Google Funding Choices (consent): shows the consent banner where the law requires one and stores your choice in a cookie.
- Cloudflare (hosting and security): may set a security cookie to tell people from automated traffic.
Your theme choice (light or dark paper) is stored in your browser only.
Consent by region
In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, nothing but security storage is on until you choose in the consent banner, and Google Analytics does not load at all until you allow measurement. In the United States, advertising and analytics are on by default; Google's ad settings let you opt out, and a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser turns ad personalisation off. Everywhere else, analytics is on and advertising storage is off by default, so ads are not personalised.
Opting out of personalised ads
You can turn off personalised advertising from Google in Google's ad settings, and from many other ad networks at aboutads.info (United States) or youronlinechoices.eu (Europe). How Google uses data from sites that show its ads is described on Google's partner-sites page.
Your browser can also block or delete cookies; the site works without them, and only the consent choice and the theme setting are lost.
Children
GetYourBrief is a general news reference and is not directed at children under 16; it does not knowingly collect data about them.
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
GetYourBrief sells no data for money. Under California law the ad network's cookies can still count as "sharing" for cross-context advertising. To opt out, send a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser (honoured on every page, it turns ad personalisation off), use Google's ad settings, or write to privacy@getyourbrief.com.
People named in the news (GDPR Article 14)
Who answers for it. Kiznis Studio, a studio in Lithuania, publishes GetYourBrief and is the controller of the personal data below. Write to privacy@getyourbrief.com.
Where the data comes from. None of it was collected from you. It comes from news reports that outlets published, linked on every event: when a report names a person, the event's machine summary can name them as that report does.
What is published. Your name as the reports give it, the events that name you with their dates, desks and outlets, and counts computed from those (how many events, on which desks, who else was named). A person gets a page of their own only as a public figure named across many events (5 or more, on 3 or more days); anyone else is named only inside the events that mention them. Reporters who wrote the reports are not given pages.
Why, and on what basis. Reporting which outlets covered which public events. We rely on legitimate interests (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)): the public's in following the news across outlets, and ours in publishing that record and paying for it with advertising, together with the freedom of expression and information that GDPR Article 85 protects. We weighed them against yours: only what published reports state about public events, with every report linked, and you can object at any time.
Who sees it, and how long. The pages are public. The companies that work for the site receive the address of each page read, which can contain a name: Cloudflare (delivery and security), Umami and Google Analytics (visit counts) and Google AdSense (ads). Some are in the United States; those transfers rely on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. An event stays in the record as long as the archive is published; the record is reviewed every twelve months, and a name or event is removed earlier on a justified objection.
Your rights. Under GDPR Articles 15 to 18 and 21 you may see, correct or erase what we hold about you, have its use restricted, or object to it being published. Write to privacy@getyourbrief.com; we answer within one month. A summary that misstates a report about you is corrected (corrections). If you object, your name is removed from the summaries and its page, if any, is taken down, unless compelling legitimate grounds override your interests, rights and freedoms. You may also complain to a data-protection authority: in Lithuania, the State Data Protection Inspectorate (Valstybinė duomenų apsaugos inspekcija).
Your rights as a reader
Whether European data law (the EU and UK GDPR) or a U.S. state law such as California's CCPA covers you, you can learn what is recorded about your visit and get a copy, have it fixed or erased, object to it and refuse personalised ads. Google's and Cloudflare's own policies cover what they collect: Google, Cloudflare. Write to privacy@getyourbrief.com and you will have an answer within a month.