What we do with your data.

1. Who we are

This site, loadabrain.com, is run by Load a Brain, a brand of Mint Company SRL, a small independent studio in Belgium. We decide what happens with your data (in GDPR terms, we are the "controller").

Mint Company SRL · Val des Seigneurs 1, 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium · company and VAT number BE 0744.886.754

Contact for anything about your data: hello@loadabrain.com.

2. What we collect and why

When you join the waitlist we collect:

• Your email address, to send you the free Starter brain and one or more emails about the launch of the brains. You confirm it by clicking the link in the first email (double opt-in).
• Whether you ticked the news box. If you did, we also send you news about Load a Brain: new brains, updates and the founding offer. If you did not, you get no news emails.
• A record of your sign-up: the date and time, the form you used, and the IP address at sign-up and at confirmation. We keep it to prove that you asked for the emails.
• What happens to our emails: our email service records whether an email was delivered and opened and which links were clicked. We only use this to check that our emails arrive and work.

Legal basis: your consent (GDPR, Article 6(1)(a)). You give it when you sign up and confirm, and for news, when you tick the box. You can take it back at any time with the unsubscribe link in every email, or by writing to us. The sign-up record is kept on the basis of our legitimate interest in being able to prove consent (Article 6(1)(f)).

We do not sell your data, we do not use it for ads, and we do not mix it with data from other sources.

3. When you visit the site

• Hosting. The site is hosted by Cloudflare. To deliver the pages and protect the site from attacks, Cloudflare processes technical data such as your IP address, browser type and the pages you ask for. Cloudflare may set a small security cookie that is strictly needed to block bots; it does not track you across sites.
• No analytics, no tracking cookies. We do not use Google Analytics, ad pixels or tracking cookies. If we ever add visitor statistics, they will be cookie-free and we will update this page first.
• Fonts are on our own server. We do not load Google Fonts, so your visit is not sent to Google for that.
• Light or dark theme. If you switch the theme, your browser remembers it in its local storage. It stays on your device and we never see it.
• The sign-up form is loaded from MailerLite, our email service. MailerLite counts how often the form is shown.
• The Starter download is the same public file for everyone. We do not link a download to your email address.

4. The anti-spam check (reCAPTCHA)

The sign-up form uses Google reCAPTCHA to stop bots from filling in fake addresses. When the page with the form loads, reCAPTCHA is loaded from Google. Google receives your IP address and information about your browser and device, may set cookies, and checks if you behave like a person. This is done on the basis of our legitimate interest in keeping the waitlist free of spam (Article 6(1)(f)).

For people in the EU, the service is provided by Google Ireland Limited. Data may be transferred to Google LLC in the United States, which is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. Google's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply to reCAPTCHA.

5. Who else handles your data

We use these services. They work for us under a data processing agreement and may only use your data to provide their service to us.

If you email us at hello@loadabrain.com, your message is forwarded to our inbox at Google (Gmail).

6. How long we keep it

• On the waitlist: as long as you stay subscribed.
• If you never confirm your address: we delete it after 30 days.
• If you unsubscribe: we stop emailing you at once. We keep your address only on a "do not email" list, so you are never added again by mistake, unless you ask us to delete it completely.
• Emails you send us: as long as needed to answer you, and no longer than 2 years.

7. Your rights

You can ask us at any time to:

• see the data we have about you, and get a copy;
• correct it;
• delete it;
• limit what we do with it, or object to it;
• take back your consent (this does not undo what we did before).

Write to hello@loadabrain.com. We answer within one month. It is free.

If you think we handle your data wrongly, you can complain to the Belgian Data Protection Authority (Autorité de protection des données / Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit), Rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels, dataprotectionauthority.be, or to the authority in the EU country where you live. We would like to hear from you first, so we can fix it.

8. Changes

When we change how we use your data, we update this page and the date at the top. For a big change, we tell you by email first. When the brains go on sale, this page will also cover purchases.