Privacy

• The company

  Brefcase is a service of Plain Instruments Inc. (Instruments Plain inc.), a Quebec company based in Montreal.

• Person in charge of protecting personal information

  Alexandre Godard, president. Write to privacy@plaininstruments.com.

• A brief on your own company

  When you ask for a brief on a company, its name, its website and your email (if you give one) are stored with the finished brief. Your email is never shown on the brief: it is used to tell you when the brief is ready and to let you sign back in. If you answer the questions about your team on a brief, your answers are stored with it and shown to everyone who can read it. If you ask for browser notifications, your browser’s push address is kept until the brief is done, then deleted.

• A brief on an opportunity

  When you ask for a brief on an opportunity, what you typed (the company or person, your own name, profile link and note, and where to reach you) is stored with the finished brief. Where to reach you becomes the button that ends the brief; your note and your email are never shown on it.

• The research

  A research agent on a computer we run reads public sources about the company, including LinkedIn and Glassdoor through Alexandre Godard’s own accounts. A brief can name the company’s leaders and team members, with public details about their roles. For a brief on an opportunity, the agent also reads your own professional record from the pages you gave: your LinkedIn profile, public code, writing and talks. It never looks for a home address, a personal phone number or email, family, health, age, religion or politics.

• Who can read a brief

  Briefs are private. The person who asked for one, the people they invite by email (who sign in with a one-time code) and Alexandre Godard, who runs the service, can read it. A brief on an opportunity also has a link its requester can send: anyone holding it can read the brief, until the requester turns the link off.

• Where it is kept

  Briefs and the details above are stored and processed by our providers: Vercel for hosting, Convex for the database and Resend for email. They may keep them outside Quebec. Vercel also keeps standard, short-lived request logs (path, status, coarse location).

• The consultancy

  Alexandre Godard also runs an AI consultancy, and a brief on your own company ends with where he would start. We don’t use your details to contact you about it: getting in touch is up to you.

• Seeing, correcting or deleting a brief

  Write to privacy@plaininstruments.com to see, correct or delete a brief, including one that names you.

The site sets one cookie of its own, lang, and only when you use the language switch: it remembers whether you chose English or French, for a year. Your browser also keeps, in its own storage, the keys that open the briefs you asked for or signed in to.

Write to privacy@plaininstruments.com with anything privacy-related.