Privacy policy
We ("us", "we", or "our") operate https://WorldPodcast.Network (the "Site"). This page informs you of our
policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the
Site.
As of this policy, we do not collection personal information except that which is necessary to display your
podcast information or user information necessary only for use by the World Podcast Network, LLC.
Use of Cookies
We do not collection cookies except for 1. the cookie to store your acceptance of the GDPR
cookie and 2. your login information into the My Podcast portal to
manage podcasts and/or information for podcast subscribers. No other cookies are stored!
Collection of Personal Information
"Personal Information" is information that identifies you as an individual. In addition to Personal Information,
Other Information (as defined below) may be collected in connection with the Services; the collection, use and
disclosure of Other Information is addressed separately below, under the heading "OTHER INFORMATION".
We do collect the following information:
- Podcast name.
- E-mail address.
- First and last name.
- Company name (if applicable)
- Gender
- Age group
- Country of podcast
- Continent of podcast
We do NOT collect the following information:
- Postal address
- Telephone number
- identification such as SSN
- credit card information
We do not request, solicit or intend to collect any other personally identifiable information, and you should
not disclose any such information in connection with the Services. IF YOU SUBMIT ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION OF OR
RELATING TO THIRD PARTIES TO US OR OUR THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES, YOU
REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DO SO.
Use of Your Personal Information
We and our third-party service providers may use Personal Information:
- To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send newsletters to you, complete your
commercial transactions and operate the Services.
- To send to you administrative information, including information regarding the Services and changes to our
terms, conditions and policies.
- To send to you marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you, unless you opt-out in
accordance with the "CHOICES AND ACCESS" section below.
- For our business purposes, such as quality assessment, data analysis, audits, developing new products,
improving the Services, identifying usage trends and determining the effectiveness of our promotional
campaigns.
- As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your
country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public or government
authorities, including public or government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce
our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect
our rights, privacy, safety or property, or that of our affiliates, service providers, you or others,
including through credit-fraud protection and risk reduction; (g) at our discretion under emergency
circumstances, to notify emergency services or your family members, personal representative or other
individuals involved in your care of your location and condition; or (h) to allow us to pursue available
remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
How Personal Information May Be Disclosed
Your Personal Information may be disclosed:
- To our third-party service providers that may provide services such as hosting of the Services, data
analysis, IT services and infrastructure, customer service, e-mail delivery, auditing, payment processing
and other similar services. Please note that we may use cloud service providers in connection with the
hosting of the Services and the storage of Personal Information, and we may have limited or no opportunity
or ability to impose contractual restrictions on these and other service providers.
- By you, through messages (including files, video and audio calls and text messages), chats, message
boards, forums, public profile pages, user directories and blogs and other functionality with which you are
able to share or post information and materials. Please note that any information and materials that you
post or disclose using such functionality will become public information, and may be available for other
users of the Services and the general public to record, access, use, alter, manipulate or disclose to other
individuals or social networking sites such as Facebook or YouTube. We are not responsible for such
recording, access, use, alteration, manipulation or disclosure. We urge you to be very careful when deciding
to disclose your Personal Information, or any other information, in connection with the Services.
- To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or
other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any
bankruptcy or similar proceeding).
- As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your
country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public or government
authorities, including public or government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce
our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect
our rights, privacy, safety or property, or that of our affiliates, service providers, you or others,
including through credit-fraud protection and risk reduction; (g) at our discretion under emergency
circumstances, to notify emergency services or your family members, personal representative or other
individuals involved in your care of your location and condition; or (h) to allow us to pursue available
remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
How We May Collect Other Information
We and our third-party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:
- Through your device: Certain information is collected automatically through your device, such as your
operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, and the name and version of the
software application you are using. We may also generate a unique device identifier for use by World Podcast
Episodes to operate the Services.
- Through server log files: Your "IP Address" is a number that is automatically assigned to the device that
you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). An IP Address is identified and logged automatically
in our server log files whenever a user uses the Services, along with the time of the use and the pages or
areas visited within the Services. Collecting IP Addresses is standard practice on the Internet and is done
automatically by many websites. We and our third-party service providers use IP Addresses for purposes such
as helping to calculate usage levels of the Services diagnose server problems and administer the Services.
- Using pixel tags and other similar technologies: Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) and
other similar technologies may be used in connection with some pages and areas of the Services and
HTML-formatted e-mail messages to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services and e-mail
recipients, measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about usage and response
rates of the Services.
- Physical Location: We may collect the physical location of your device by, for example, using satellite,
cell phone tower or Wi-Fi signals. We may use your device's physical location to provide you with
personalized location-based services and content. We may also share your device's physical location,
combined with information about what advertisements you viewed and other information we collect, with our
marketing partners to enable them to provide you with more personalized content and to study the
effectiveness of advertising campaigns. In some instances, you may be permitted to allow or deny such uses
and/or sharing of your device's location, but if you choose to deny such uses and/or sharing, we and/or our
marketing partners may not be able to provide you with the applicable personalized services and content.
- From you: We may collect demographic information such as your location, as well as other information, such
as your preferred means of communication, when you voluntarily provide such information to us. Unless
combined with Personal Information, this information does not personally identify you or any other user of
the Services.
- By aggregating information: Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of the
Services. For example, we may aggregate Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who
have a particular telephone area code.
How We May Use and Disclose Other Information
Because Other Information does not personally identify you, we may use and disclose Other Information for any
purpose. In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information (such as combining your
zip code with your name). If we combine any Other Information with Personal Information, the combined
information will be treated by us as Personal Information as long as it is so combined.
Third-Party Advertisers
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Services. Please note that these
companies may use information about your use of the Services to provide advertisements about goods and services
that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to the Services, these companies may
place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.
Security
We take reasonable security measures to protect the information that you submit and view through our website.
Please note that no website is 100% secure, and you should implement certain measures (e.g., password
protection) to assist in the protection of the personal information you upload and store on your device,
including entry of your Social Security number, credit card information, identification cards, or other
information you choose to store in the wallet feature.
Choices and Access
Your choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes:
We give you many choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes.
You may opt-out from:
Receiving marketing-related e-mails from us based upon your Personal Information: If you no longer want to
receive marketing-related e-mails from us on a going-forward basis based upon Personal Information collected
pursuant to this Privacy Policy, you may opt-out of receiving such marketing-related e-mails by accessing the
"E-mail Subscriptions" page on the Site, or by clicking the "unsubscribe" link that is included at the end of
such marketing-related e-mails.
We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt-out as
described above, we will not be able to remove your Personal Information from the databases of third parties
with which we have already shared such information (i.e., to which we have already provided such information as
of the date that we implement your opt-out request). Please also note that if you do opt-out of receiving
marketing-related e-mails from us, we may still send administrative messages to you; you cannot opt-out from
receiving administrative messages.
How you can access your Personal Information
If you would like to review or update your Personal Information that has been previously provided to us, you may
do so by logging into your account within the Services, or, for certain Personal Information that is not
reviewable through the Services, you may contact us in accordance with the "CONTACTING US" section below.
We will try to comply with your request to update your Personal Information as soon as reasonably practicable.
We are not responsible for changing information from the databases of third parties with whom we have already
shared your Personal Information.
Minors.
We do not provide services or sell products to children. If you are below the age of 18, you may use our website
only with the permission and active involvement of a parent or legal guardian. If you are a minor, please do not
provide us or other website visitors with any personal information.
Retention Period
We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this
Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.
Changes
We may update this Policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we
will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on our
Platforms prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the
latest information on our privacy practices.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by sending an e-mail to
info@hotwebideas.net. Please note that information you submit through e-mail may not be secure; so please do not
include credit card information or other sensitive information in your messages to us.