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Brave Publishers and Creators Privacy Notice

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LAST VERIFIED 2026-10-01

Attention points

14 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

7/13 ADDRESSED
  • Who controls your data (identity & contact of the data controller)GDPR Art. 13(1)(a)
  • Who your data is shared with (recipients)GDPR Art. 13(1)(e)
  • How long your data is kept (retention)GDPR Art. 13(2)(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

2/10 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
  • Retention period (or criteria) per category of data (CPRA)CPRA §1798.100(a)(3)
  • At least two ways to submit a request, plus a contactCCPA §1798.130

Current text

Read this document to learn how we use data for publishers and content creators. In this policy "we", "us", etc. refers to Brave Software Inc. (To learn how we use data to operate this website and other Brave sites, forums, and communications, see the Website Privacy Policy. To learn how we use data for the Brave Browser, see the Brave Browser Privacy Policy). Basic Attention Token Contributions To collect Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) as a creator, you must create a Brave…

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