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 Creators account on this site. This involves providing your name and email address. Users can only send contributions to creators who have signed up with Brave Creators and meet all eligibility criteria to count as a “Verified Creator”. Learn more about being a Verified Creator. Brave does not know which users made contributions to which creators.
If you are a creator who has user-generated content platform accounts (including but not limited to YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, Twitter/X, etc.) or owns a website, Brave has a function that allows you to register your account or website with Brave Creators in order to receive contributions of BAT from Brave itself and/or from your visitors. To do so, it is necessary to demonstrate that you are the owner of the site(s) or channel(s) for which you receive BAT. For websites, this is done by providing information from your web server or DNS provider. For user-generated content platform accounts, we will verify your ownership using services provided by the platform that hosts your channel.
For example, in order to register a YouTube channel with your Brave Creators account, Brave will use YouTube’s Application Programming Interface (API) to authenticate your account and check your ownership of the channel. We do this check once and will save the following information: the channel’s title and description; a thumbnail picture of the channel; the current subscriber count; your YouTube User ID and User Name; your YouTube email address.
Please note that linking your YouTube account with Brave Creators is subject to YouTube’s Terms of Service and Google’s Privacy Policy (http://www.google.com/policies/privacy), which you would have already agreed to when creating a YouTube account. During the process of linking your YouTube channel, you will be guided to sign in to your Google account and provided with notice about what data is shared with Brave. You can also check what API’s have access to your data and revoke any of concern by visiting https://myaccount.google.com/security.
You have the ability to connect an account from one of our custodial account provider partners (e.g., Uphold, Gemini, bitFlyer, etc.) to your Brave Creators account. If you choose to do so, your selected account provider will tell us whether your account is in good standing, has completed certain requirements (such as ID verification or KYC requirements), the list of currencies you have configured, and the country associated with your account. Note that our custodial account provider partners are third-party services, and in using them, you are bound by their respective Privacy Policies, Terms, and other notices.
Security
We record IP addresses when requests are made to identify & prevent fraud and to protect the integrity of the service. We also monitor how the account is used, for anti fraud and to maintain the reliability and performance of the service.
We will also check the email address you provide against https://haveibeenpwned.com/ to determine if it has been compromised to help protect against fraud. We rely on legitimate interests to conduct this check.
If you ask us to keep in touch with you by email, we will use SendGrid or MailChimp based in the United States to help us contact you. The processing of personal data on our behalf is subject to a range of measures to help safeguard your personal data including the use of EU standard contractual clauses. Every email we send this way will also include an unsubscribe link.
Publishers and content creators
| Purpose of processing | Categories of personal data processed | Legal basis of processing | Duration of storage |
| To communicate with publishers and creators that have signed up as Brave business partners. | Name, e-mail address, frequency of access to these emails, links clicked, and phone number (if provided). | Necessary for the performance of the contract agreed between both the creator and Brave (and necessary for us to provide the requested service). | The duration of the creator’s account with Brave. |
| To maintain accounts, statistics, and billing with publishers and creators that have signed up as Brave business partners. | Name, e-mail address, Uphold wallet ID, phone number, names and URIs1 of websites, Youtube, Twitch etc., including their favicons or avatars, an internal publisher ID, and transaction details. | Necessary for the performance of the contract agreed between both the creator and Brave (and necessary for us to provide the requested service). | The duration of the creator’s account with Brave. |
| To enable all publishers and creators to accumulate contributions of BAT from Brave, and from Brave users. | Names and URIs1 of websites, Youtube, Twitch etc., and publicly available contacts, and transaction details. | Our interest in providing publishers and content creators with BAT as soon as they start to work with Brave. The data are used in a way that does not negatively affect your rights or interests. | Indefinite. |
| To comply with tax obligations. | Uphold wallet ID (plus Brave revenue from transactions, which are not personal data), and transaction details. | Necessary for compliance with a legal obligation. | 4 years after end of creator’s account. |
| Internal communications. | Name, e-mail address, and internal publisher ID at the time of communication. | Necessary for the performance of the contract agreed between both the creator and Brave (and necessary for us to provide the requested service). | Indefinite. |
| To detect fraudulent claims of “referral rewards”, ads and “user growth pool” BAT grants. | Name, e-mail, phone number, IP address, names and addresses of channels (websites, Youtube, Twitch URI1 etc.) including their favicons or avatars, an internal publisher ID, internal identifiers. Where PayPal is used, the PayPal user’s country, verification status, and PayPal account ID. | Necessary for the performance of the contract agreed between both the creator and Brave (and necessary for us to provide the requested service). | Necessary for the performance of the contract agreed between both the creator and Brave (and necessary for us to provide the requested service). The duration of the creator’s account with Brave. (Data may be stored indefinitely in the case of detected fraudsters). |
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.
We are represented in Europe by Brave Software Europe Ltd (based in the UK). You can contact our data protection officer and the rest of our privacy team at privacy@brave.com. However, from the 1st January 2021, given the UK’s exit from the EU, Brave has appointed an EU nominated representative and which you may contact if you would prefer not to contact Brave directly:
Brave EU Nominated Representative
Care of Castlebridge
Unit 7, 12 Mountjoy Square,
Dublin 1
Ireland
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.
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For an explanation of what a URI is see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier. If some of the names of these websites and channels that Brave has recorded to facilitate BAT gifts from Brave and donations from users happen to contain people’s names, then we treat these URLs as personal data. ↩︎
