Three forms. Anonymous counts. No cookies.

v0.16 · October 14, 2026

Davis Taylor Advisory LLC, operating as Byline Intelligence (“Byline”), is the controller for this site. This policy covers bylineintelligence.com, Byline’s public website. The Byline application is separate: access is by invitation and covered by its own agreements.

Visiting the site

The site sets no cookies and loads nothing from other companies.

Anonymous counts

Byline counts five things, in total: pages opened, the first use of the illustrative example each time a page is opened, a call revealed on an item in the illustrative example, example documents opened, and requests sent (a first-brief request or a one-brief request). Each count is a daily total for one event on one page, and nothing else is kept with it. No name, email address, organization, issue text, campaign link, cookie or device identifier is kept with a count, and neither is an IP address. Byline reports them as totals of events, never as numbers of people. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, to the page or with the request, nothing is counted. Totals older than thirteen months are deleted automatically.

If you request a first brief

Byline receives what you type into the request form on the Byline Desk page: your full name, your organization, your work email and the one issue or question you send. The form also records whether you checked the optional box asking to hear about a paid continuation, and the page you sent it from.

If you request one brief

Byline receives your work email, your role, what you follow (free text), the page you sent it from and, if you check it, whether a paid continuation would interest you. Byline will use these details to respond to your request and prepare your brief. Sending this request does not start an ongoing service.

If you write to Byline

Byline receives what you type into the contact form, on the Contact page or the Partner page: your name, email and message, the topic (the one you choose on the Contact page; Partnership on the Partner page), and which of the two pages you sent it from. Byline uses it only to read and answer your message.

How your request is used

Byline uses what you send to consider your request, reply to you and prepare your brief, and, only if you asked to hear about it, to follow up about a paid continuation. A request never starts recurring briefs, and asking to hear about a continuation does not either. Byline does not add your details to a general mailing list, sell or share them, or use them for other marketing.

Who processes data for Byline

Netlify, a US company, hosts bylineintelligence.com and processes its forms. It receives form submissions, stores the IP address, browser details and referring page sent with each one, and uses them to filter spam. Like any web host, it also keeps server logs of every request, including count requests, with the IP address and browser details they arrive with; those are not part of Byline’s counts. It stores the anonymous counts. Byline reads submissions in the host’s dashboard and receives each one by email.

The language model

Anthropic, a US company, provides the language model the Byline application uses, and the application sends it two kinds of request. Both carry a document’s title and the text Byline read from it: the source’s own feed text, up to 8,000 characters, or the document’s own page, up to 60,000, read in memory for that request and not stored; where neither can be read, the short excerpt Byline keeps. Where the publisher keeps its own record of the document (its type, action and dates) or names the body that issued it, that is sent too. To extract a claim, the application also sends the name of the organization, person or product the document concerns. To draft an item, it sends that claim, the source’s name, the publication date, the state of the evidence check, the stage the act has reached, the agency’s own document on the same action where there is one, earlier claims on the same story and related developments on linked stories, each with its source and publication date, the name of the party it concerns, the reader role the program names, the name and description of the program priority it matched with the terms they share, and the stakeholder it matched. The model returns draft wording and proposals: whether the item fits the program, a next step, the event that would call for action, and any deadline the source states. Fixed rules use those proposals only to lower an item or set it aside. No score, call or confidence figure is sent. Both requests are made under Anthropic’s commercial terms, which do not permit that data to be used to train its models.

Keeping and deleting requests

Byline keeps a request while it is under review and for up to twelve months afterward. To see what Byline holds about you, to correct it, or to have it deleted, send the contact form with the topic Privacy or security and what you want in the message: “please delete my earlier request” is enough. Give the email address you used. Byline replies to the address you give in the form, and to no other.

Changes

This is an early version. It will change as the product does, and the version and date above will change with it.