Privacy
This page is short because the site does little. There is one form, one cookie, and nothing here that measures what you read. If what you want to know is where your email address ends up, the answer is below and it takes two minutes.
Who is collecting this
Brief is a project, not a company. It is built and run by one person — Abou Diack-Rasselio — and Sequila is the name it goes by. There is no legal entity behind it, no registration number and no registered office to give you, because none of that exists. I decide why and how the information described on this page is used, which is what the GDPR calls the controller.
The address for anything on this page is rasselio.diack@gmail.com.
What the waitlist form asks for
The form at the bottom of the home page is the only place this site asks you for anything. When you send it, I receive:
- your name
- your email address
- which of the four options you picked for what takes you the most time
- the optional line you can add, if you wrote one
- the day, and the time if you gave one, that would suit you for a 20-minute call
- the timezone your browser reports — only when you give a time, so that 14:00 means the same thing to both of us
- whether the box about product updates was ticked when you pressed the button
- the date and time you pressed it, in UTC
That is the whole message. There are no hidden fields. The form does not ask for your company, your phone number, or anything at all about the candidates you work with.
Why I ask, and on what basis
To answer you
I read what you wrote, write back, and arrange the call if you asked for one. The lawful basis is Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR: steps taken at your own request before a contract. You asked for early access, and replying is what that means.
To tell you when something ships
Only if you ticked the box about product updates before sending the form. It starts unticked, and leaving it that way is a complete answer. The lawful basis for those emails is your consent, Article 6(1)(a). You can withdraw it whenever you like — reply to any email I send you, or write to me — and withdrawing it does not undo what was already sent.
That is all I do with it. I do not advertise to you, I do not build a profile of you, nothing on this site makes an automated decision about you, and I do not sell your details or pass them to anyone for their own purposes.
Where it goes
The form is sent from your browser straight to EmailJS (emailjs.com), which turns it into an email and delivers it to me. It does not pass through this website's own servers, and this site keeps no copy of it. EmailJS sees the contents of the message because delivering it is the job it does.
It lands in a personal Gmail inbox — the address at the top of this page — so from that point Google holds a copy of it too.
Then I read it. There is no CRM, no mailing-list tool and no sales database to copy it into, because I do not have any of those.
Both of those steps sit outside the European Economic Area. EmailJS is a Singapore company running on servers in the United States, and it says it covers that transfer with the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. Google is an American company, and the safeguards it applies to European data are set out in its own privacy policy.
How long it is kept
The email in my inbox is the only record of your request. It stays there while the beta conversation is open — while there is still a chance we speak — and I delete it once there is not. There is no retention schedule behind that, because there is no system: it is one mailbox, cleared by hand.
Asking me to delete it ends that sooner. There is one email to find, so this is quick.
Cookies and local storage
This site sets one cookie:
brief-locale— remembers whether you are reading in English or in French, so a return visit lands in the language you chose. It holds the value en or fr and nothing else, and it lasts a year.
And it writes one entry into your browser's local storage, which is not a cookie and is never sent to me or to anyone else:
nuxt-color-mode— put there by the interface toolkit the site is built on, to remember a light or dark preference. These pages do not use it, and it holds a single word such as system.
Both are strictly functional: they do the one thing that choosing a language or a theme means. There is no advertising cookie, no tracking pixel and nothing here that needs your permission, which is why this site has no cookie banner. Asking you to accept a language preference would be theatre.
Nothing else is written into your browser unless you sign in to the product.
There is no analytics
No Google Analytics, no tag manager, no session recorder, no heatmaps, no advertising pixel, no A/B testing tool. Nothing on these pages watches what you read, how far you scroll, or where you arrived from.
No third party sees you arrive either. The typefaces are served from this site's own address rather than from Google Fonts, so loading a page here does not make your browser call on anyone else.
The web server that serves these pages keeps the ordinary access log — IP address, time, the page requested, the browser's user agent — which is what lets me notice an outage or an attack. The basis for that is legitimate interest, Article 6(1)(f): keeping the site up and safe. The site has no permanent host yet, so there is no provider to name here and no log retention period I could state honestly; that changes when it is deployed, and this paragraph changes with it.
If you sign in to Brief
This page covers the public site. Brief itself is a product recruiters sign in to, and it holds candidate data on their behalf — CVs, interview recordings, transcripts, scores. In that relationship the recruiter's own organisation decides what happens to that data and Brief acts on its instructions. Different roles, and a different document.
That document does not exist yet, so there is nothing to link you to. When Brief opens to recruiters it will come with its own privacy notice and a processing agreement naming the providers behind it — the model, transcription and search services it relies on.
Joining the waitlist creates no account and gives you access to none of that. The waitlist form and the product share nothing: what you write in that form never reaches Brief, and Brief never reaches back into it.
Your rights
Because you are in Europe, you can ask me to:
- tell you what I hold about you, and give you a copy
- correct it, if any of it is wrong
- delete it
- hand it back to you in a form you can take elsewhere
- stop using it, where I am relying on legitimate interest
- put it on hold while a disagreement is sorted out
- stop the update emails, at any time, without giving a reason
Write to rasselio.diack@gmail.com and say which one you want. I will answer within a month. I may ask you to write from the address you signed up with: an email address is close to all I hold, and it is the only way I can tell that it is you asking.
If you think I handled it badly, you can complain to the data protection authority of the country where you live or work. In France that is the CNIL.
If this changes
This page changes when the site does, and the date at the top moves with it. I will not quietly widen what I do with your email address. If I ever wanted to use it for something not described here, I would ask you first.
Reaching a human
There is no ticket system and no form behind that address. The message arrives in the same inbox as the waitlist, and I answer it myself.