Privacy Policy

Who we are

Work Comp Brief (“we,” “us,” “our”) operates this website at workcompbrief.com. We are an analysis-first trade publication covering the U.S. workers’-compensation insurance market. You can reach us at editorial@workcompbrief.com (see Contact).

What we collect

We do not ask you to create an account, and we do not collect names, addresses, or payment details to read the site. The information involved in a normal visit falls into three buckets:

• Server and request data. Like virtually all websites, our hosting provider (Vercel) processes standard request information — such as your IP address, browser type, and the pages you request — to deliver pages and protect the service.
• Analytics. With your consent, we use privacy-friendly analytics to understand aggregate readership (which pages are read, roughly where traffic comes from).
• Advertising. When advertising is enabled in the future, ad partners may set cookies and process data to serve and measure ads (see below).

Cookies and consent

Essential cookies needed to operate and secure the site may be set without consent. Non-essential cookies — including analytics and advertising — are not loaded until you accept them via our cookie banner. You can decline, and you can clear your choice at any time by clearing this site’s data in your browser, which will make the banner appear again.

We are preparing to introduce display advertising through Google AdSense. Before any ad code goes live, we will deploy a Google-certified Consent Management Platform with Consent Mode v2 so that, for visitors in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland, advertising and analytics storage is governed by your explicit consent signal. The current banner is an interim measure and there are no advertising scripts on the site yet.

Google AdSense and DoubleClick

When display advertising is active, we use Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites, and to measure ad performance. This may involve processing your IP address and device/usage data.

• You can opt out of personalized advertising by Google at https://www.google.com/settings/ads.
• More about how Google uses data from sites that use its services, and the cookies it sets, is described at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
• You can opt out of personalized advertising from many other vendors at aboutads.info/choices and youronlinechoices.eu (EU).

Analytics (Vercel)

With your consent, we use Vercel Analytics to measure aggregate site usage. It is designed to be privacy-friendly and is used to understand readership trends, not to identify you individually. Analytics is only loaded after you accept non-essential cookies.

Your rights in the EEA and the UK (GDPR)

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to the processing of your personal data, and the right to data portability. Where we rely on consent (for non-essential cookies and advertising/analytics), you may withdraw that consent at any time without affecting prior processing. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority. To exercise any of these rights, contact us at editorial@workcompbrief.com.

Your California rights (CCPA / CPRA)

We do not sell your personal information for money. However, the use of advertising and analytics cookies may be considered “sharing” or a “sale” of personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the CPRA. California residents have the right to know what personal information is collected, to request deletion, to correct inaccurate information, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information and of targeted advertising. To exercise the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” right, decline non-essential cookies in our banner and use the Google ad-settings opt-out linked above; you may also email editorial@workcompbrief.com. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.

Data retention and security

We retain only what we need to operate the site and understand aggregate readership, and we rely on reputable providers (Vercel and, in future, Google) who maintain their own security and retention practices. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, but we take reasonable measures to protect information.

Children

Work Comp Brief is a business-to-business publication and is not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the site evolves — notably when advertising and a certified consent platform go live. Material changes will be reflected here with an updated date.