1. The short version
This Site sets no cookies. Not one. No first-party cookies, no third-party cookies, no session cookies, no advertising cookies. There is nothing to accept and nothing to reject.
We also run no analytics, no advertising or retargeting tags, no session recording and no fingerprinting. When you load a page on brainhours.com, your browser makes requests to brainhours.com and to nowhere else. Fonts, images, scripts and stylesheets are all served from our own domain, and the Site sends a Content-Security-Policy of default-src 'self', which tells your browser to refuse resources from anywhere else.
The only thing we store on your device is a single browser preference recording whether you chose the light or dark version of the Site. It is described in full in section 3.
You do not have to take our word for any of this. Open your browser's developer tools on this page, look under the storage or application panel at the cookie list for brainhours.com, and you will find it empty. Look at the network panel and reload the page: every request goes to brainhours.com. It is a claim you can check in about thirty seconds, which is why we are comfortable making it.
This policy covers the Site only. GetRaze is a separate product with its own agreement, its own login and its own technical setup. Nothing on this page describes it.
2. What cookies are
A cookie is a small piece of text a website asks your browser to store. The defining feature is that once it is stored, your browser sends it back automatically with every subsequent request to that domain. That is what makes cookies useful for keeping you logged in, and also what makes them the standard mechanism behind analytics and advertising: an identifier placed on your device, returned on every visit, and readable by whoever set it.
Cookies set by the site you are visiting are called first-party. Cookies set by another domain whose code the site has embedded, such as an ad network or an analytics provider, are called third-party. Third-party cookies are the ones that let a company recognise the same person across many unrelated websites. We use neither kind.
3. The one thing we do store
The Site can be displayed in a light or a dark theme. If you use the theme control, we need to remember your choice so the Site does not reset every time you open a new page. We do that with a single entry in your browser's localStorage:
- Key: bh-theme
- Value: dark or light. Those are the only two values it can hold.
- Purpose: to display the Site in the theme you picked.
- Set when: you change the theme yourself. Nothing is written before that.
- Lifetime: until you clear it, or until your browser clears site data.
localStorage is not a cookie. Unlike a cookie, it is never attached to network requests. Nothing sends it anywhere. It is readable only by brainhours.com, only in that browser, on that device, and it does not exist for us in any form. We cannot see it, we do not receive it, and it is not part of any log or record we hold.
It also contains nothing about you: no name, no email address, no visitor identifier, no session token, no page history, no timestamp. It is one word describing a colour scheme, and two visitors who both prefer dark mode store the exact same value, so it cannot tell anyone apart. If you never touch the theme control, nothing is stored at all.
4. Why there is no cookie banner
Under the ePrivacy Directive as implemented across the EU, and under the equivalent UK rules, consent is required before a site stores information on your device or reads information already stored there, unless that storage is strictly necessary to provide a service you explicitly asked for. The exemption is narrow on purpose, and most sites cannot rely on it because they load analytics or advertising code unrelated to delivering the page.
Our situation is simpler. The only storage on the Site is a preference you set yourself, by clicking a control whose entire visible purpose is to set it. It performs no measurement, is never transmitted, contains no personal data and serves no one but you. Guidance from EU and UK regulators has consistently treated user-interface preferences of this kind as covered by the strictly necessary exemption. Under Brazil's LGPD the question barely arises, because storing it processes no personal data.
So a consent banner here would be theatre. It would ask you to approve something that carries no privacy consequence, while training you to click through banners that sometimes do. We would rather explain the one thing we store, in plain language, on a page you can verify. If we ever add storage that genuinely requires consent, we will ask for it properly.
5. What we do not use
To be concrete, none of the following are present on the Site:
- Analytics or measurement tools of any kind, hosted or self-hosted.
- Advertising, conversion and retargeting pixels or tags.
- Social media plugins, embedded feeds, share widgets or like buttons.
- Session recording, heatmaps, scroll tracking or mouse-movement capture.
- Device or browser fingerprinting, and any form of cross-site identification.
- A/B testing, personalisation or tag-management containers.
- Third-party fonts. Our typefaces are self-hosted and served from brainhours.com, which means no font provider ever receives your IP address or learns that you visited this Site. Loading fonts from an external service is one of the most common ways a site quietly discloses its visitors, and we do not do it.
- Third-party requests of any other kind. There are none.
The Site does contain ordinary outbound links, including to getraze.co, and links that open your email client or phone dialler. Displaying a link sends nothing anywhere. If you follow one you leave the Site, and the destination's own cookie and privacy practices apply from that point.
6. How to remove the stored preference
You can delete the theme preference at any time, and you do not need to ask us:
- Clear site data for brainhours.com in your browser settings, usually under privacy, site settings or stored data. Clearing browsing data for all sites removes it too.
- Or open developer tools, find local storage for brainhours.com, and delete the bh-theme entry directly.
- Or browse in a private or incognito window, where it is discarded when you close the window.
Nothing breaks. With no stored preference, the Site follows your operating system's light or dark setting, which is what it does on a first visit. You can set the theme again whenever you want, and remove it again just as easily.
7. Server logs
The Site runs on third-party shared web hosting. Like essentially all web servers, our hosting provider keeps standard access logs: IP address, date and time, the URL requested, the referring page if your browser sends one, and the user agent string. These logs exist for security and diagnostics, such as identifying abuse or working out why a page failed to load.
This is not cookie-based tracking. No identifier is placed on your device, nothing is read back from it, and those records cannot follow you to another website. We do not use logs to profile visitors or to measure marketing. They are kept by the hosting provider under its standard configuration, typically for a few weeks, then overwritten.
Because an IP address can count as personal data under the GDPR and the LGPD, we cover this in our Privacy Policy, including the legal basis we rely on and the rights available to you.
8. If this changes
We may one day decide we need visitor measurement, or move the contact form to a hosted form handler. If we do, we will update this page before the change goes live, name what is being used, and collect consent through a proper mechanism wherever the law requires it. We will not switch on tracking first and document it later.
The date at the top of this page marks the current version. If you are checking whether anything has changed since you last read it, that is the thing to look at.
9. Contact
If you have a question about this policy, or you see something in your developer tools that does not match what we have written here, tell us. We would genuinely like to know.
- Email: contact@brainhours.com
- Phone: +1 (862) 356-5090
- Brain Hours Company, 1111B S Governors Ave, Suite 56762, Dover, DE 19904, USA
See also our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. If you would rather write to us through the Site, use the contact page.