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Brave Websites, Forums, and Email Privacy Notice

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LAST VERIFIED 2026-10-01

Attention points

11 TO CHECK

Pointers to disclosures this policy may not clearly make, checked against major privacy laws. This is a heuristic — not legal advice, and not a finding that anything is missing or unlawful.

GDPR / UK-GDPR

9/13 ADDRESSED
  • Who controls your data (identity & contact of the data controller)GDPR Art. 13(1)(a)
  • The right to withdraw consent (where consent is the basis)GDPR Art. 13(2)(c)
  • Whether providing your data is required, and what happens if you don'tGDPR Art. 13(2)(e)
  • Where your data was obtained, if not collected from you (source)GDPR Art. 14(2)(f)

CCPA / CPRA

3/10 ADDRESSED
  • The categories of sources the data comes fromCCPA §1798.110(c)
  • The business or commercial purposes for collecting/selling/sharingCCPA §1798.110(c)
  • Categories of third parties data is shared/sold toCCPA §1798.115
  • A 'Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information' option (if it sells/shares)CCPA §1798.135(a)
  • A 'Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information' option (CPRA)CPRA §1798.135(a)
  • A non-discrimination promise for exercising your rightsCCPA §1798.125
  • At least two ways to submit a request, plus a contactCCPA §1798.130

Current text

Read this document to understand how Brave Software ("us", "we", "Brave", etc.) use personal data to operate its websites, forums, communications and the Brave Merch Store. 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,…

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