Privacy Policy
Draft for legal review. Operated by Brown Media LLC.
What we collect
- Viewers: account email, username, password hash, favorites/follows/comments, and standard server logs (IP address, browser, pages requested) kept for a short period for security. We do not require or collect government ID from viewers; in regions that require it, the site is unavailable instead.
- Uploaders: the same as viewers, plus a log of your acceptance of the Uploader Agreement and of the attestation you make with each upload (date, time, IP address, browser, agreement version), and any stage names you choose to list for a video. We do not collect government ID, legal names or dates of birth from anyone. You are the producer and custodian of the 18 U.S.C. §2257 records for your own content; they stay with you.
- Messages: the text of direct messages you send and receive, who they were exchanged with and when, whether they've been opened, your messaging privacy setting, and the members you've blocked. See Direct messages below.
- Notifications: a record of things that happened which concern you — a new video from someone you follow, a comment, favorite or new follower on your uploads, friend requests, and decisions about your uploads or account — so we can show them to you. Favorites and follows are shown to the creator as a count only; we don't tell them who. Notifications are deleted after 90 days, or sooner if you clear them.
- Approximate location: your IP address is checked against a geolocation database to apply regional restrictions. The result is stored in your session only.
Upload logs
Agreement-acceptance and upload-attestation logs are never displayed publicly and never used for marketing. They exist to evidence that the uploader accepted producer responsibility for a given video, and are disclosed only as described under Sharing — for example, to forward a lawful records request to the uploader concerned. We keep them for as long as the related content is published plus any period the law requires.
Direct messages
Messages are plain text only and are stored on our servers. They are not end-to-end encrypted. We don't read them as a matter of course. A message — together with the conversation leading up to it — is shown to our moderators only when a participant reports it, or where the law requires us to look at or disclose it. Deleting a message removes it from your view only; it is permanently deleted once both people have deleted it, unless it has been reported, in which case we keep it while we review it and for as long as we need to enforce our rules or meet a legal obligation. Blocking someone stops them contacting you and records only the fact of the block. Messages can't carry images, video or files.
Cookies
One session cookie to keep you logged in and remember your 18+ confirmation. We use Google Analytics to understand overall traffic (pages viewed, approximate location, device/browser type); it sets its own cookies and receives the URL of the pages you visit — which can include tag, category and search-term text, but not the page's on-screen title, so a video's title is never sent to Google (video web addresses use a random id, not the title). We've turned off Google Signals and ads-personalisation in our Analytics configuration, so this data isn't used to build advertising or remarketing profiles. You can opt out with a browser extension such as the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, or by blocking cookies from google-analytics.com and googletagmanager.com. If we carry advertising, the ad network may set its own cookies too — see their policies.
Sharing
We share data only: with service providers that host or process it for us; when required by law, including mandatory reports to the NCMEC CyberTipline; to protect the safety of others; or with your direction.
Your rights
You can edit your profile, delete your videos, and request account deletion by emailing contact@brownvids.com. Upload-attestation logs for content you published are retained for the period described above even after account deletion. Removal requests from people depicted in content — whether or not they have an account — go through Report content.