bragwatchANALYTICS

PUBLIC PRIVACY CENTRE

Privacy, cookies and consent

A plain-language explanation of how websites using BragWatch Analytics measure visits, protect personal data and respect your choices.

Effective and updated 11 September 2026
Privacy-focused measurement

BragWatch does not sell visitor data or build advertising profiles.

No raw IP storage

IP addresses may be processed briefly for security and approximate location but are not retained in analytics event records.

Browser choice matters

The tracker honours supported Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals.

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Who is responsible for your data

The website you visit decides why BragWatch is used and is normally the data controller or business responsible for its visitor data. BragWatch provides analytics processing for that website owner.

This shared notice may be linked from every participating website. A website may also publish site-specific terms identifying its legal entity, contact details, lawful basis and retention period. Those site-specific details apply to your relationship with that website.

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Information BragWatch may collect

Visits and pages

Page path and title, landing page, referrer, campaigns, session identifier, navigation, page views, scrolling and visit duration.

Device and browser

Device category, browser and operating system. Linux is not treated as a bot solely because it is Linux.

Approximate location

Country, region and city derived from network information when enabled. Precise GPS location is not collected.

Interactions

Clicks, downloads, forms, contact actions, cart and checkout stages, purchases and configured outcomes.

Reliability

Performance measurements, web vitals, 404 requests, broken links and redirect activity.

Security and bots

Automation, user-agent, trusted interaction and network-provider signals used to distinguish people, AI agents and bots.

Not intentionally collected by BragWatch: passwords, payment-card numbers, message contents, precise GPS coordinates, or raw IP addresses stored in analytics events.
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Why information is used

  • Measure visitors, sessions, page views, sources and performance.
  • Improve content, accessibility, navigation and conversions.
  • Detect errors, broken links, redirects, abuse and automated traffic.
  • Produce aggregated reports for the website owner.

The legal basis may be consent, legitimate interests in privacy-conscious measurement, performance of a requested service or legal obligations, depending on the website, configuration and visitor location.

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Cookies and browser storage

The standard visitor tracker does not require advertising cookies. It uses limited session storage for an anonymous session identifier and the initial acquisition source. This is normally removed when the browser session ends.

TechnologyPurposeDurationSession identifierCounts a visit consistently without a directly identifying profileBrowser sessionAcquisition sourcePreserves the original referral or campaignBrowser sessionDashboard access tokenKeeps authorised website owners signed inUntil expiry or sign-out

Participating websites may use other technologies outside BragWatch. Review the website’s own notice for the complete list.

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Service providers and transfers

Hosting, database, security and operational providers process limited data needed to deliver and protect BragWatch. BragWatch does not sell visitor information.

Approximate location and network classification: when enabled, the IP address is transmitted securely to ipwho.is to obtain country, region, city and network-provider information. BragWatch may store the returned approximate location, network organisation and data-centre risk label, but not the raw IP in analytics event records. The provider’s own privacy terms govern its processing.

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Retention and deletion

Each website owner configures its analytics retention and should limit it to what is necessary for reporting, security and legal obligations. Aggregated statistics may remain after underlying events are deleted where they no longer identify a visitor. Backup copies may remain temporarily until normal rotation completes.

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Security and privacy safeguards

  • Encrypted HTTPS transmission.
  • Authenticated dashboard operations and restricted administrative access.
  • Origin validation, exclusion rules and limited event payloads.
  • IP hashing for exclusion checks rather than raw-address storage.
  • Multi-signal bot filtering—not Linux, Direct traffic, desktop Chrome or geography alone.
  • Recognised AI crawlers separated from human audience totals.
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Your privacy rights

Depending on your location, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, objection, withdrawal of consent, processing information or supervisory review.

Contact the website you visited first and provide its address, approximate visit date, device/browser and request type. Because BragWatch uses pseudonymous identifiers, reasonable details may be needed to locate a record, and analytics data may not always be connectable to a named person.

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Children’s privacy

BragWatch is not designed to create behavioural profiles of children. Websites directed to children must apply appropriate age, consent and data-minimisation protections required by their jurisdiction.

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Questions, requests and changes

Use the privacy or contact channel published by the website you visited for visit-specific requests. For this shared notice, use the contact channel on analytics.viveknnair.com.

This notice is reviewed with every material BragWatch release that changes collected data, tracking purpose, consent behaviour, retention, security controls or service providers. Material policy changes will be reflected by the updated date above and communicated where required.