LAST UPDATED: OCTOBER 2026
What we collect
- + Your email address, only if you subscribe to The Brief, plus which page you subscribed from.
- + What you send through our forms: your name, email and message (and, for partnership inquiries, your company and website), so Carlos Gil can read and reply. We also keep a one-way, keyed hash of your IP address, never the address itself, to limit spam. Form submissions never add you to a mailing list.
- + Usage analytics: which pages and tools are viewed and which outbound links are clicked. We measure this with our own first-party logs and with Google Analytics 4. We don't run ad networks on this site.
Why we collect it
To reply to your enquiry and to understand which reviews are useful. That's it. We do not sell or rent your data, and we do not share it with our partners.
Cookies and local storage
We use your browser's local storage for two things you control: your light/dark preference and your saved tool shortlist. Both stay on your device. Google Analytics sets its own first-party cookies (named _ga and _ga_ plus an ID) to count visits; you can block them in your browser settings or with Google's analytics opt-out browser add-on. Affiliate partners you click through to may set their own cookies — their policies apply once you leave this site.
Your choices
You can ask us to delete your enquiry or any data we hold about you at any time through our contact form — we action removals within 30 days.
Processors
Site hosting, our database and the email alerts that forward form messages to our inbox are provided by our infrastructure vendors, who process this data on our instructions only. Google Analytics (Google LLC) processes usage data for site analytics. If we add another vendor that handles your data, we will list it here.
Contact
Use our contact form.