terms of service

the agreement

These terms cover brief.computer, the Chrome extension, share links, and everything we run alongside them (together, “the service”). By creating an account, by clicking accept, or by installing the extension, you agree to these terms and to our privacy policy. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

If you are using brief.computer for a company, you are telling us you are allowed to agree to this on that company's behalf.

In these terms, “we”, “us” and “our” mean the operator of brief.computer.

what the service is

brief.computer lets a signed-in person save, catalogue, read, and optionally share advertising creatives they pick — mainly from public ad transparency surfaces, starting with Meta's Ad Library.

It is not:

• a scrape farm, a bulk downloader, or an unattended crawler;
• a Facebook or Meta login product, and it never handles your cookies;
• legal advice, media-buying advice, or any promise that an ad will perform;
• a licence from an ad's owner to reuse their creative in your own campaigns.

The reads we produce — frames, transcripts, on-screen text, tags, a design read, a score — are assistance. They can be incomplete, biased, or simply wrong, and they are not a condition of saving an ad.

your account

You need an account to save anything. Give us accurate information, keep your sign-in to yourself, and you are responsible for what happens under your account. One person per account: teams exist as seats under an agency umbrella, not as a shared login. We can refuse signups that are throwaway or abusive.

Your handle is a routing name, not property. It is 3–15 characters, and we can take one back if it is impersonating someone, infringing, or being abused.

You must be 18 or older. No accounts for children. If we find one, we delete it.

your library, and what is ours

What you write is yours. Collection names, comments, and anything else you type stay yours. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, copy, process and show them — only as far as we need to run the service, including backups, security and abuse review. Nothing wider.

Other people's ads are theirs. Creatives and media you save from public libraries belong to the advertiser, the platform and whoever holds the rights. We do not claim to own them, and we do not give you a licence to them. Saving an ad does not give you the right to republish, edit, or run that creative.

Collections and tags are overlays. Filing, renaming, or deleting a collection only changes how you organise things. It never deletes the ad, its media, or our reading of it. Deleting a collection takes a warning and typing DELETE, because it is easy to do by accident.

Sharing is what you make it. An ad is private until you make a share link, and a share link is exactly as public as its URL. Putting something on a share link is your decision and your responsibility. We can pull a link that breaks the rules below.

Agency seats. If you signed up with a verified agency domain and we told you your account sits under an agency, then what you file on that seat is the agency customer's work product. You cannot take it with you if you leave — unless an administrator grants it. We tell you which kind of account you have when you join, not later.

the catalogue, and training

Every ad saved goes into the catalogue, and every ad saved is subject to being used to train and improve our models. It is on by default, and it is disclosed here, at signup, and on each ad you save.

Catalog data means the creative and its media, our analysis of it, ranking and quality signals, tag ids, and aggregate save signals. It does not mean the things you type or the collections you make. We do not train on your words.

You can turn the training consent off for an ad when you save it. Turning it off stops new inclusion; it cannot undo a model that has already trained. We do not sell, license or publish a dataset, and this consent is not permission to — that would be a separate decision, made openly, and it has not been made.

An ad in the catalogue can also show up on the advertiser's page for other signed-in members, because that is what a shared catalogue is. That is not the same as a share link, and it is not training consent.

credits and what things cost

A new account starts with a free grant — 30 credits, or 250 if you joined on a beta invite — once, with no clock. One distinct creative costs one credit. Saving something you already saved costs nothing.

Paid plans, per seat, per month, in US dollars:

• Plus — $10. 30 credits a month. Nothing carries over.
• Pro — $30. 100 credits a month, and up to 50 unused credits carry into the next month.
• Enterprise — $50. 500 credits a month. Nothing carries over.

Running out mid-month is not a dead end: you can buy a top-up pack — $10 for 20 credits, $20 for 50, or $50 for 150. Top-up credits never expire and never count against a plan's carry-over.

Credits are a usage meter, not money. They are not cash, not a stored balance you own, not transferable, and they do not convert back into money. A monthly credit grant is spent before bought credits.

Prices are per seat, per month, and tax is extra. The price that applies is the one shown at checkout when you subscribe — if we ever charge a different figure than this page shows, the checkout is what you agreed to.

changing your plan, cancelling, refunds

Upgrades take effect immediately. You get the bigger plan at once and we charge the prorated difference — the unused part of what you already paid, taken off the new price — in the same moment. If that charge doesn't go through, nothing changes: you stay on the plan you already pay for, with the access you already have.

Downgrades start at the end of the period you paid for. You keep the plan you bought until it runs out; the smaller one begins when the next cycle would have. We do not refund or convert the time you already paid for.

No plan change mints credits mid-cycle. A new plan's monthly credits arrive with the next billing cycle, in either direction.

Cancelling happens in the billing page (our payment processor's portal). Email is not cancellation. When you cancel, the subscription ends at the end of the period you already paid for — you keep what you bought and can change your mind up to that point.

Fees are not refundable except where the law says they must be, or where we ended the service on you. Unused free credits are never refunded, because you did not pay for them. A failed payment can pause saving until it is fixed.

what you must not do

You will not:

1. Scrape, crawl, or bulk-harvest the service or any ad library through it. That includes using the data export, a privacy request, an API, or any other path to pull media, our analysis, ranking, or ad copy out in bulk. There is no download-it-all, and trying to assemble one is the thing this rule exists for.
2. Give us Facebook cookies, passwords, or session tokens. We don't want them.
3. Save something you know is illegal to have, or use us to commit a crime.
4. Infringe someone's copyright, trademark, or publicity rights — which includes reselling a swipe file of other people's ads as your own product.
5. Reverse engineer us, resell us, or use us to build a competing index of ads.
6. Interfere with the service: malware, load tests without asking, credential stuffing, or anything else that breaks it for other people.
7. Impersonate someone, or create an account for someone who did not ask.
8. Upload or save child sexual abuse material, non-consensual intimate imagery, or anything we reasonably believe exploits a minor. We will report it and preserve it as the law requires.
9. Get around the credit meter, a share link's access, a playback grant, or a consent setting.

If you do any of that, we can remove what you saved, switch off a share link, refuse a save, or close your account.

our reading of an ad

We, and the third-party providers we use, produce frames, transcripts, on-screen text, tags, design reads and scores. Those outputs are our notes about an object — not the object itself, and not advice. They can be wrong, and you use them at your own risk.

The providers behind those passes (vision, speech, hosting) are third-party services. We are not responsible for their outages, and we do not promise that what they produce is free of anyone else's rights.

takedowns

If you hold the rights to something on brief.computer and want it gone, email help@brief.computer with your contact details, the work and where it appears, a good-faith statement that the use is not authorised, a statement that you are the owner or their agent, and your signature. We act on complete notices. Accounts that keep infringing lose their access.

if we end your access

You can delete your account whenever you like, from settings. Before you do, use the data export: it gives you your account details, the things you wrote, and the names of the ads you saved. It is information about you, not a copy of the catalogue — no media, no analysis, no ranking, no ad copy, and no bulk download.

We can suspend or close an account for breaking the rules above, for non-payment, for legal risk, or if we shut the service down. If we ever shut brief.computer down entirely, we will give you reasonable notice and the same export — not a bigger one.

Deleting your account removes your library and collections. It does not remove the ads themselves, our reading of them, or any share link you already made, because other people's libraries depend on the catalogue. Credits and fees already spent are not refunded, except where the law requires it.

the legal boilerplate, in short

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS.” TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT PROMISE THAT SAVES, ANALYSIS, OR UPTIME WILL BE ERROR-FREE.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR GOODWILL. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS IN ANY TWELVE MONTHS IS THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THAT PERIOD, OR $50 IF YOU PAID NOTHING.

Those limits do not cover our own fraud, or any liability that cannot be limited under the law that applies to us. If you cause a claim against us — by what you write, by what you save or share, by breaking these terms, or by misusing our reading of an ad — you cover that claim. You may not transfer this agreement to anyone else; we may transfer it if the service is sold or merged. If one clause here turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stand. Events outside anyone's reasonable control — a provider outage, say — excuse delays on both sides.

changes to these terms

We may update these terms at any time. We post the new version here with a new date, and continuing to use brief.computer after it is posted means you accept it.

If a change is material, we will email you about it as well — but the posting is what makes it effective, and the date at the top of this page is what it is effective from. If you do not accept a change, stop using the service and take your export before you go.