Briefin Privacy Policy
1. Who We Are
2. Information We Collect & Use
- Information You Provide: Includes your name, company name, email, billing address, and payment details. This data is essential for account creation, authentication, billing, and support.
- How We Use It: To deliver the service, improve functionality, communicate updates, and ensure compliance with legal obligations. We do not sell your information.
- Automatically Collected Data: Includes IP addresses, usage patterns, device/browser data, cookies, and session information to optimize performance and user experience.
3. Cookies and Integrations
- Cookies: Briefin uses necessary cookies (no persistent cookies) to manage sessions and secure account access.
- Third-party integrations: When you opt into integrations (e.g., Asana, Jira, Wrike, Trello, Monday.com, n8n or other integrations), these services may process your data per their own GDPR-compliant policies.
4. Data Storage & Disclosure
- Storage: Hosted on secure third-party infrastructure. Magnetic retains ownership of the application and your data remains your property.
- Disclosure: In cases of legal requests, fraud, or mergers/acquisitions (e.g., involving Silversoft or Magnetic), Briefin may transfer data, with prior notification where applicable.
5. GDPR & POPIA Compliance
5.1 GDPR (EU General Data Protection Regulation)
- Customer Data Ownership: You retain complete ownership of all data you input into Briefin. Your responsibility includes data accuracy, legality, and necessary permissions.
- Roles & Responsibility: Magnetic acts as both a data controller and a data processor under GDPR. Briefin enables you to serve as a data controller, with obligations to ensure GDPR compliance. Even if you're outside the EU, GDPR applies if you process data related to EU citizens.
5.2 POPIA (Protection of Personal Information Act, South Africa)
- Customer Responsibility: Similarly, you own all data and must ensure its integrity, legal basis, and accuracy.
- Definition of "Data Protection Laws": Includes South African POPIA (Act No. 4 of 2013), the EU GDPR, and any other applicable data protection legislation in jurisdictions relevant to Magnetic’s operations.
6. Your Rights & Our Commitments
- Access & Portability: You may request data access or a copy for portability.
- Correction & Deletion: We will correct or erase your data upon request, subject to verification.
- Breach Notifications: In the unlikely event of a data breach, we commit to notifying affected clients within 72 hours and conducting a transparent investigation.
- Compliance Actions: We have enforced internal policies, restricted access, and comprehensive logging to meet GDPR and POPIA requirements.
7. International Data Transfers
Your data may be processed or stored outside your country. In such cases, Briefin ensures appropriate safeguards such as standard contractual clauses or adequacy mechanisms to guarantee legal data transfer compliance.
8. Children’s Privacy
Briefin is not intended for use by individuals under 16. We do not knowingly collect data from minors. If you believe we have done so, please contact us to request deletion.
9. Third-Party Links
The service may connect to third-party sites or services. We are not responsible for their privacy policies. Please review them directly.
10. Policy Updates
We may modify this policy as necessary. Significant changes will be communicated via email and/or through notices on the platform. Continued use of Briefin constitutes acceptance of those changes.
11. Contact Information
For privacy concerns or to exercise your rights, please contact us through support.
