Protecting your data and ensuring your privacy isn’t just a feature of Brio—it’s a core principle embedded into everything we do. From the moment you start using Brio, our system is designed to safeguard your information, give you full control over your data, and ensure you always know what’s happening behind the scenes. This section walks you through the specific measures Brio takes to handle your data securely and responsibly.

We’ll cover two key areas:

• Security Measures: How Brio protects your data in motion and at rest, prevents unauthorized access, and maintains a secure environment across all layers of the system.
• Data Storage and Management Practices: How your data is stored, retained, and managed within Brio, and the privacy principles we follow to ensure your data stays in your hands.

Let’s dive in.

Security Measures

Brio integrates multiple layers of security designed to protect your data from unauthorized access, breaches, and misuse—while maintaining seamless functionality and performance. Our security framework combines encryption, access management, secure API handling, and real-time monitoring to provide a comprehensive shield for your information.

1. Encryption Standards

All data transferred between your device, Brio servers (when applicable), and external AI APIs is encrypted using TLS (Transport Layer Security). This ensures that any information—whether it’s a CTA click, an engagement profile configuration, or AI-generated content—is protected from interception or tampering during transmission.

In addition to in-transit encryption, sensitive data like API keys, authentication tokens, and configuration preferences are encrypted at rest. Brio uses modern cryptographic standards and relies on the encrypted storage APIs provided by the Chrome browser itself to maintain local data integrity. That means even if someone gains physical access to your machine, they still cannot extract meaningful data from Brio’s storage.

2. Role-Based Access Controls

Brio limits access to sensitive operations through role-based access control (RBAC). Whether it’s internal support tools or access between components of the extension, access is granted strictly on a “need to know” basis. This minimizes the surface area for potential internal misuse or unauthorized access.

For example, no external party—Brio team included—can view your engagement profile contents, AI prompt history, or conversation metrics unless you explicitly export or share them.

3. API Key Management

Brio allows users to connect with third-party AI providers like OpenAI, Grok, DeepSeek, and Gemini. These integrations are handled via API keys, which are sensitive credentials that must be handled with care.

To protect your API keys:

• Brio stores them using Chrome’s native encrypted storage mechanisms, ensuring that keys are never stored in plain text.
• API keys are sandboxed and tied only to your local device unless you choose to export or back them up yourself.
• The extension never transmits or syncs your API keys to remote servers. They stay within your device’s local storage unless you export them deliberately.

This approach dramatically reduces the risk of API key exposure, which could otherwise lead to misuse or billing fraud on your external AI accounts.

4. Secure Third-Party Integrations

Any external AI model Brio communicates with undergoes strict evaluation for data security and compliance. These integrations are read-only from Brio’s side and are limited to the specific prompts and data you choose to send for response generation.

Brio only interacts with third-party models that meet or exceed industry-standard data handling policies. Furthermore, data sent to external APIs (such as message history for response generation) is strictly limited to what’s required to generate a useful output—nothing more.

Brio does not store or log your messages, prompts, or personal data on its own servers as part of this communication.

5. Continuous Monitoring

Although Brio doesn’t operate a centralized infrastructure for storing user data, it still monitors the extension’s performance and behavior for suspicious activity patterns. These include:

• Unexpected usage spikes or repeated failed operations
• Suspicious API key usage (such as being used across multiple IPs in a short time)
• Behavior indicating potential tampering with local storage or execution logic

These signals help Brio detect potential security incidents early and, where necessary, warn users or block affected processes to prevent damage.

All monitoring is anonymized and never includes content from user messages, profiles, or LinkedIn activity. The focus is on behavior patterns—not content.

Data Storage and Management Practices

Security is only one side of the coin. Equally important is how Brio handles, stores, and manages your data over time. Our philosophy is simple: store only what we must, keep everything local when possible, and give you complete control over your data.

1. Local-First Architecture

Brio operates almost entirely through your local device. Engagement profiles, configuration settings, CTA definitions, AI preferences, and conversation analyses are all stored in your browser’s local encrypted storage. That means:

• No sensitive conversation content, message history, or personal data is uploaded to Brio servers.
• You retain full control and visibility over what Brio knows about you and how it uses that information.
• If you uninstall the extension or clear your browser storage, all Brio-related data is wiped instantly from your system—no lingering backups, no cloud syncing.

This design ensures privacy by default. Your data never leaves your device unless you choose to export it for backup or collaboration.

2. Minimal Retention

Brio only keeps the data necessary to function effectively. For example, it retains:

• Engagement profiles you explicitly create
• AI model settings and preferences
• CTA definitions and related URLs
• Context analyses of your uploaded business content
• Local message metrics (such as reply rates or CTA effectiveness)

It does not retain:

• Raw LinkedIn messages
• Recipient profiles from LinkedIn unless explicitly saved by you
• AI prompt histories or generated message drafts (beyond your current session)

Temporary data is purged on a rolling basis. Brio’s local data cleanup routines regularly check for outdated or unused records and remove them unless you’ve marked them for retention. This helps keep storage usage low and ensures that only relevant, up-to-date data persists.

3. Full User Control

Every aspect of Brio’s stored data is visible and manageable via the extension’s user interface.

Through the Brio Settings panel, you can:

• View and edit stored engagement profiles
• Change or delete CTA buttons and associated links
• Modify your preferred AI provider, model, and instructions
• Export all your settings for backup
• Delete individual components—or everything—at any time

There are no hidden records or inaccessible storage. What you see in the UI is what Brio knows about you.

If you ever want to wipe your data completely, one click is enough. You can do this via the Data Management tab in Brio Settings, which provides an immediate “Delete All” or selective data export/import options.

4. GDPR and Data Sovereignty Compliance

Brio’s data handling practices are designed to comply fully with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and similar international privacy standards. Specifically, Brio adheres to the following GDPR principles:

• Data Minimization: Brio collects and retains only the minimum data required for its functionality. There is no unnecessary profiling or background data gathering.
• Right to Access and Portability: All stored data is user-accessible and exportable. Users can download their engagement profiles and configuration at any time in a portable format.
• Right to Erasure: Users can permanently delete their data at will, with no waiting period or support ticket required.
• Purpose Limitation: Data is only used for the purpose you provide it—such as generating responses or analyzing content. It is never reused for unrelated activities.
• Transparency: Brio clearly documents what data is stored and how it is used, both in its interface and within this documentation.

Additionally, because Brio does not store your data on centralized servers, there are no cross-border data transfer risks. All computation and storage remain under your jurisdiction, on your device.

5. User-Initiated Export and Import

Brio gives you the tools to back up or transfer your settings if you choose. Under the Data Management section, you can:

• Export all your data, including API integrations, engagement profiles, and CTA definitions
• Save your data locally as a single file
• Re-import this data into another browser or machine with a few clicks

This makes it easy to work across devices, share configurations with colleagues, or simply maintain a safe copy of your setup.

Note that this export contains only settings and metadata—not your LinkedIn messages, AI conversations, or any personal user information outside of Brio’s defined scope.

Summary: Our Commitment to Your Data

Brio was built with the belief that privacy should be the default—not a feature you have to enable.

Our goal is to deliver a powerful messaging assistant that works on your terms. We don’t store what we don’t need, and we don’t access what we don’t have to. Everything is local, transparent, and under your control. No fine print, no surprises.

To recap:

• Your data stays local unless you export it
• Your messages and conversations are never stored by Brio
• API keys and sensitive credentials are encrypted and secured using Chrome’s native storage mechanisms
• You can view, edit, or delete everything at any time through the Brio interface
• We comply with GDPR and related data protection regulations, respecting your rights and jurisdiction

If at any point you have concerns or questions about your data, we encourage you to explore the Data Management section of the extension or reach out to our team.

Your trust is what drives us—and we intend to keep it.