Two forms. Anonymous counts. No cookies.

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. The opening animation on the home page remembers, in that browser tab only, that it has already played or been skipped, so it does not repeat; a visit from a campaign link skips it.

Anonymous counts. Byline counts five things, in total: pages opened, the first use of the sample brief each time a page is opened, recommendations opened, source excerpts opened, and first-brief requests sent. 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. Netlify stores the counts, and totals older than thirteen months are deleted automatically.

If you request a first brief. Byline receives what you type into the form: your organization or website, work email, the issue you want covered and, if you add one, a deadline. The form also sends a few facts about your visit: any campaign link that brought you here, the website you came from, the page you arrived on, and whether you explored the sample brief, opened its evidence or started your request from it. Those facts leave the page only inside your request, and never go into the anonymous counts.

How your request is used. Byline uses what you send to review your request, reply to you and see which campaigns bring requests. A request never signs you up for recurring briefs. Byline does not add your details to a mailing list, share them or use them for automated marketing.

If you ask to be told when Watch opens. The form on the pricing page takes one thing: the work email address you type into it. Byline writes to that address once, when Watch opens, and to say so. It starts no recurring delivery, it is not added to a mailing list, it is not shared, and it is used for nothing else. It reaches Byline the same way a first-brief request does, through the host described above, and is kept until Watch opens or twelve months, whichever comes first. To have it removed sooner, send the request form with “please delete my Watch address” in the issue field, from the same address.

Who hosts the site. Netlify, a US company, hosts bylineintelligence.com. 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. Byline reads submissions in Netlify’s dashboard and receives each one by email.

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 request form with what you want in the issue field — “please delete my earlier request” is enough — and 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.