Privacy policy

Children

If you are a parent or guardian, we encourage you to become involved in your children's online experience, and to share your knowledge and experience with your young ones. If you are under 13, please do not provide us with any contact or other information, including your name, address or email address. If you are between the ages of 13 and 18, you must obtain permission from your parent or guardian before registering for the Sound Science Podcast Services or otherwise sending any contact or other information to Sound Science Podcast.

 

Information You Provide Directly Through Our Services

We and our service providers collect a variety of contact and other information about you that you provide directly through our Services, including your name and email address, country of residence and communications.

If you do not consent to the collection, use or sharing of this type of information in the manner described in the Privacy Policy, please do not provide us with such information. By providing such information, you are "opting in" to the collection, use and sharing of this information in accordance with the Privacy Policy.

 

Information Collected Automatically Through Technology

As you navigate our Services, we and our service providers also automatically collect a variety of information about your interactions with our Services. Depending on which Sound Science Podcast Services you use and how you access them, the information collected automatically may include:

 

  • The Internet Protocol address (IP address) of the computer or device you used to access an Sound Science Podcast Service and information about your Internet Service Provider.
  • The website, application, platform or service you visited before and after visiting a Sound Science Podcast Service.
  • Information about your computer or mobile device, and its browser, operating system, settings and software.
  • Unique device identifiers on the mobile device you used to access a Sound Science Podcast Service, including, as applicable, the Apple IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) or Google Android Advertising ID.
  • Your approximate geographic location information (derived from request header information, such as your IP address) and/or more precise location if you have given Sound Science Podcast explicit consent to receive this information for an Sound Science Podcast mobile application on your mobile device.
  • The dates, times, duration and frequency of your interactions with our Services, any search terms you enter, the media files you listen to, download, view, email, text or otherwise share, favorites you select, and your navigation path through our Services.
  •  Listening data, including information about your interactions with Sound Science Podcast podcasts and other media files.
  • Information about your interactions with our email messages.
  • If you do not consent to the automatic collection, use or sharing of this type of information in the manner described in the Privacy Policy, please do not use the Sound Science Podcast Services. By using the Sound Science Podcast Services, you are "opting in" to the automatic collection, use and sharing of this information in accordance with the Privacy Policy.

 

Use of Information

We and our service providers may use the information collected from you (whether provided by you directly or automatically collected through technology) to:

  • Manage, administer, promote, analyze and improve our Services.
  • Respond to your questions or messages and fulfil your orders or requests for services.
  • Recognize you as the same user as you access our Services using different computers, devices and browsers.
  • Send you email newsletters and marketing, fundraising, membership and other communications from Sound Science Podcast.
  • Publish, broadcast or otherwise use stories or information you submit to us.
  • Comply with laws and enforce Sound Science Podcast's Terms of Use and other legal rights.
  • Generate aggregate or other information that does not directly identify you as an individual or the devices you use to access our Services, and use and share that information for Sound Science Podcast's purposes.

We also may use the information collected from you in other ways, and for other purposes, that are described to you at the point of collection or for which we otherwise have obtained your consent.

 

Disclosure of Information

Subject to the choices you have to control certain collection and uses of information as described in the "Your Choices" section of the Privacy Policy, we reserve the right to share with any third party, in accordance with applicable law, aggregated or other information that does not directly identify you as an individual.

 

We also may share your name, email address and other personal information:

  • With our authorized service providers for purposes of providing services on our behalf.
  • With our authorized third-party applications for purposes of providing certain Sound Science Podcast Services to you on the applications.
  • To protect or defend the rights of Sound Science Podcast, our users or others.
  • When required by law or public authorities.
  • With persons we contact on your behalf when you choose to email, text, or otherwise share a story or other content through our Services.
  • With other parties if we have disclosed such sharing to you at the time of collection of the information or if we otherwise have your consent.

 

Your Choices

  • If you do not consent to the collection, use or sharing of information as described in the Privacy Policy, please do not use the Sound Science Podcast Services or provide us with information. By using the Sound Science Podcast Services or providing us with information through the Sound Science Podcast Services, you are "opting in" to the collection, use and sharing of that information as described in the Privacy Policy.
  • You can stop the delivery of marketing emails or email newsletters from Sound Science Podcast by following the unsubscribe instructions in any such email you receive.
  • If you grant your consent to our collection of your precise mobile device location information, you can revoke your consent at any time via our Contact Us page.
  • You have choices to prevent or limit the collection of information through cookies, pixel tags and other technology, please contact us for further information.

 

Security and Other Information

At Sound Science Podcast, we recognize the importance of privacy to users of our Services.

We have adopted safeguards to help protect sensitive information we collect, but no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

 

Notice to Users Outside the U.S.

Our Services are controlled and operated within the United States. If you access our Services outside of the United States, we may transfer the information collected from you to data centers outside of your home country or jurisdiction. In particular, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States and other jurisdictions where we or our service providers operate, where data protection and other laws may not be equivalent to those in your jurisdiction. By using the Sound Science Podcast Services, you agree that your information can be transferred to and used in the United States and in other jurisdictions where we or our service providers operate, as set forth in the Privacy Policy.