Brave websites, forums, and email privacy policy

Read this document to understand how Brave Software (“us”, “we”, “Brave”, etc.) use data to operate its websites, forums, and communications. To learn how we use data for the Brave Browser, see the Brave Browser Privacy Policy. To learn how we use data for publishers and creators, see the Publisher Privacy Policy.

Infrastructure

Brave websites are hosted on infrastructure we operate, and on infrastructure operated on our behalf by Amazon, Heroku (a Salesforce company), and Fastly. Fastly’s infrastructure is designed to be as close to you as possible — probably in the same country as you, though this is not guaranteed. The rest of this infrastructure is located in the United States, which is where information is processed and stored. Amazon, Heroku, and Fastly are certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement, which provides safeguards intended to be equivalent to those provided in the EU. See data processing details.

Community forums

Community.brave.com and forum.batcommunity.org are forums on which you may post and publicly communicate with other Brave users and community-members. Brave runs these forums, and they are hosted on its behalf by Civilized Discourse Construction Kit. Their privacy policy describes how they use your data to host the forum for us. The IP address of all server requests are stored for no more than 30 days. We have access to the information that you make available on the forum, and can use this to administer the forum. Information about how Discourse keeps your data safe is available here. All of Discourse’s code is open source and subject to public inspection. If you are a user you can access or delete your account (and related data) in the “preferences” panel at community.brave.com. You can also contact us to request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. See data processing details.

Advertising Brave to people using Facebook, Google, and Twitter

Brave uses Facebook, Google, and Twitter ads to attract new users. Brave does not track people on Facebook, Google, or Twitter, or use any kind of in-app or Brave-server post-install tracking. See data processing detail. These ads link to pages on a separate website run by a company called Unbounce on Brave’s behalf, on servers based in the EU. See data processing details.

E-mail

If you ask us to keep in touch with you by email about policy issues, we will use MailChimp to do so. This is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement, which provides safeguards intended to be equivalent to those provided in the EU. Every email we send like this includes an unsubscribe link. See data processing details.

Children

Children under the age of 13¹ are not permitted to use the website, sign up for email updates, join the community forum, or send Brave any other information. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has interacted with the website, please contact privacy@brave.com. In that case, we will do our best to remove all related records.

Detail of personal data processing

Contacting Brave about your privacy

We are always interested in hearing and responding to questions and concerns at twitter.com/brave and at github.com/brave. More in-depth conversations can be had at community.brave.com.

You can contact our data protection officer, Dr Johnny Ryan, and the rest of our privacy team at privacy@brave.com. We are represented in Europe by Brave Software Europe Ltd.

You can ask to know what information we have about you, update incorrect information, delete it, object to our use of it, or get a copy of it. If you’re in the European Union, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority (though everyone should have this right).

We’ll update this policy whenever we make material changes to our practices, and we’ll announce it to let you know.