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Privacy policy
What this site collects, what it doesn't, and why there is no cookie banner.
Brainstorm is a local-first product, and this site follows the same posture: collect as little as possible, keep what is collected boring, and never trade your attention or your data. This page describes everything the site at https://getbrainstorm.online does with data. The Brainstorm app itself stores your data on your machine and has no account system; nothing on this page is about the app.
What we collect
Anonymous usage analytics
We use Amplitude to count visits and see which pages get read. It is configured to be cookieless: it sets no cookies, stores no identifier on your device, and does not record your IP address. Each visit is counted as a new, anonymous session, and data is processed on Amplitude's EU servers. Because nothing persistent is stored on your device, there is no cookie banner — there is nothing to consent to storing.
Your email address, if you give it to us
If you join the waitlist or subscribe to product updates, we store the email address you submit in a database (hosted by Turso) and use it for exactly one thing: sending you Brainstorm product updates. We do not share it, sell it, or enrich it. To have it removed, email founder@getbrainstorm.online and we will delete it.
A theme preference
If you switch between light and dark theme, the choice is stored in a
bs-theme cookie so the site and the docs open in the theme you picked. It
contains the word "light" or "dark" and nothing else. It is functional, not tracking.
Server logs
The site is hosted on Vercel, which keeps standard, short-lived request logs (IP address, user agent) for operations and abuse prevention, acting as our processor.
What loads from third parties
The product-tour video embeds from youtube-nocookie.com and only loads after
you press play; until then no request goes to YouTube. The footer shows badges from
launch directories we are listed on (VerifiedDR, Endors, KittyLaunch, ListBulb, Product
Watch, StartupBase) — loading those images sends the standard request data (IP address,
user agent) to those hosts, as with any image on the web. No third-party scripts run on
this site. Downloads are served from GitHub Releases.
Your rights
Under the GDPR and similar laws you can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, and object to processing. For the waitlist, deletion is the whole story — your email address is the only personal data we hold. Write to founder@getbrainstorm.online or open an issue on GitHub.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date above changes with it, and the history is public in the site's source repository.