Privacy and Security Policy

Why we collect information

When you register for Podfitness and other Podfitness services, we ask you for your name, contact information, preferences, and certain demographic information. This information helps us to provide personalized services and communicate separately with you. We also use aggregated information about the use of our services to evaluate our users' preferences, improve our programming, and facilitate third-party reporting of internet usage.

Like most websites, we use small bits of data called cookies stored on users' computers to simulate a continuous connection. Cookies let us "remember" information about your preferences and passwords and allow you to move within our Service without reintroducing yourself. Recent versions of most Internet browsers let you easily see and control cookies. Podfitness and its advertisers may also use cookies to determine which advertisements users have seen and how users responded to them, but we don't use such cookies to collect personally identifiable information unless you give us permission to do so. Similarly, Podfitness and its advertisers may use small pieces of code called "web beacons" or "clear gifs" to collect anonymous advertising metrics and to deliver cookies related to such advertisements.

Podfitness and its advertisers may also use ad network providers to help present advertisements on Podfitness.com and other Web sites. These ad network providers use cookies, Web beacons, or similar technologies on your computer to help present, better target, and measure the effectiveness of their advertisements, using data gathered over time and across their networks of Web pages to determine or predict the characteristics and preferences of their audience. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by ad network providers is subject to their own privacy policies, and you can find out more about ad network providers and the choices you have about these technologies in the "Your Choices about your Podfitness Information" section.

Information Collection and Use

Your Podfitness account consists of personally identifiable information collected or received about you when you log in to Podfitness as a registered user and interact with Podfitness features or use offerings and content from Podfitness affiliated providers. Depending on how you use Podfitness, your information may include registration-related information (such as name, home or work addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, birth date or gender, fitness profile, favorites, and playlist information); transaction-related information (such as credit card or other preferred means of payment, or a history of products purchased through Podfitness); information about your visits to Podfitness affiliated providers' Web sites and pages, and your responses to the offerings and advertisements presented on these sites and pages; information about the features or offerings from Podfitness and its affiliated providers that you use, and how frequently you use them; information about how long you have used Podfitness features prior to subscription; your billing and shipping information if you make purchases to be shipped to you; customer service information about you as a Podfitness subscriber; and other information specifically related to your use of a particular Podfitness feature or offering. Your Podfitness information may be supplemented with additional information from other companies.

Your Podfitness information may also include certain technical information gathered by Podfitness when you use features, offerings or content from Podfitness and its affiliated providers. Some of the technical information that may be collected or received includes: the type of browser you are using (e.g., Firefox, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS), CPU type (e.g. Pentium), your manner of connecting to the Internet (e.g., connection speed through narrowband or broadband access); Internet protocol address; information about the version of any Podfitness feature that you used prior to registering with Podfitness; other information about your geographic location; and the domain name of your Internet service provider.

When you register with Podfitness and use features, offerings or content from Podfitness and its affiliated providers, your Podfitness information may be collected and stored in the United States by Podfitness, Inc. as the operator of Podfitness website. Additionally, Podfitness will use the Login Name and password, or other similar technologies, to authenticate you on the Podfitness website, help store your registration and transaction-related information, and enable you to take advantage of offerings from Podfitness and its affiliated providers.

How Your Podfitness Information Is Used

Your Podfitness information is used to operate and improve the features, offerings and content presented to you by Podfitness and its affiliated providers; to personalize the content and advertisements provided to you; to fulfill your requests for products, programs, and services; to communicate with you and respond to your inquiries; to conduct research about your use of the features, offerings and content from Podfitness and its affiliated providers; and to help offer you other products, programs, or services that may be of interest to you.

Your Podfitness information may be shared with affiliated providers. You have choices about how your Podfitness information is used, and whether affiliated providers receive personally identifiable information about you as a Podfitness user. Affiliated providers that receive your Podfitness information may use this information according to their applicable privacy policies, with which you should be familiar.

Your Podfitness information will not be shared with third parties unless it is necessary to fulfill a transaction you have requested, or in other circumstances in which you have consented to the sharing of your Podfitness information. Podfitness may use your Podfitness information to present offers to you on behalf of business partners and advertisers. These business partners and advertisers receive aggregate data about groups of Podfitness users, but do not receive information that personally identifies you.

Podfitness does not read your private online communications when you use any of the communication tools offered as Podfitness features (for example, Private Messaging in our User Forums). If, however, you use these tools to disclose information about yourself publicly, other online users may obtain access to any information you provide.

Your Podfitness information, including the contents of your online communications, may be accessed and disclosed in response to legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena), or in other circumstances in which Podfitness has a good faith belief that Podfitness or its affiliated providers are being used for unlawful purposes. Podfitness may also access or disclose your Podfitness information when necessary to protect the rights or property of the Podfitness and its affiliated providers, or in special cases such as a threat to your safety or that of others.

Podfitness may use agents and contractors in order to help operate Podfitness. If such agents and contractors have access to personally identifiable information, they are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for Podfitness.

In the event that ownership of Podfitness was to change as a result of a merger or acquisition by another company, your Podfitness information may be transferred. Podfitness will provide you notice prior to any such transfer of your Podfitness information. If such a transfer results in a material change in the use of your Podfitness information, Podfitness will also provide you notice about the choices you have to decline to permit such a transfer.

Your Choices About Your Podfitness Information

Podfitness provides you with access to your registration, billing and shipping information; the ability to edit this information at the My Account area; and the ability to deactivate your registration with Podfitness.

You can make choices about how your Podfitness information may be used by the Podfitness to provide marketing offers to you. In order to do so, please visit the My Account area and review your Podfitness marketing preferences. These preferences do not apply to communications that are directly related to your registration with Podfitness or to the fulfillment of a specific transaction you have requested (for example, a service advisory from Podfitness, or an acknowledgment of a purchase order).

You may also choose whether Podfitness affiliated providers receive personally identifiable information about you. This choice does not apply to the sharing of Podfitness information necessary to provide you the basic functionality of the Service (for example, recognizing you as an authenticated user on affiliated providers' Web sites). Additionally, Podfitness may share personally identifiable information about you as a Podfitness user with one or more of its affiliated providers when that information is necessary to carry out a specific transaction or request you make for an offering from Podfitness or its affiliated providers, or as otherwise specified at the time you take advantage of that particular Podfitness offering.

Because the choices you make in connection with your Podfitness information may not take effect immediately, it is possible you may receive a communication during the period in which your request is being processed.

Cookies

Podfitness may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to enhance and personalize your experience on Podfitness and its affiliated providers, including to operate and improve offerings through Podfitness; to help authenticate your identity when you visit and transact with Podfitness and its affiliated providers; to remember your preferences and registration information; enable a shopping cart; to present and help measure and research the effectiveness of Podfitness offerings, advertisements, and e-mail communications (by determining which Podfitness e-mails you open and act upon); and to customize the content and advertisements provide to you by Podfitness and its affiliated providers.

Podfitness and its advertisers may also use ad network providers to help present advertisements online in connection with the features, offerings or content from Podfitness, its affiliated providers, and other Web sites. These ad network providers use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies on your computer to help present, better target, and measure the effectiveness of their advertisements, using data gathered over time and across their networks of Web pages to determine or predict the characteristics and preferences of their audience. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by ad network providers is subject to their own privacy policies, not that of Podfitness, and you should be familiar with these.

Personal Financial Information

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was passed by Congress to help protect the privacy of your personal financial information. The following notice explains Podfitness's practices with respect to personal financial information that Podfitness users provide while using any Podfitness features that collect personal financial information subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ("Podfitness financial features"). By using Podfitness financial features, you agree to receive future notices required under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act through the continuous posting of this Privacy Policy online.

If you subscribe to the Podfitness service, you provide Podfitness with information including your name, credit card, and billing and/or shipping addresses. To give you updated information when you use these features, Podfitness servers automatically collect and store the financial information that you provide.

Podfitness does not disclose financial information to third parties that are not affiliated with the Network, except in the limited circumstances permitted by law (for example, in response to legal process), or when you request the disclosure of the information (for example, when you request that Podfitness share this information in order to facilitate a purchase on a third party web site). Any sharing of financial information with Podfitness affiliated providers is also subject to your choices.

Access to financial information is restricted to Podfitness employees and contractors who need to know this information in order to provide the Service to you.

Our Commitment to Security

Podfitness has established safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of your Podfitness information, but cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy (for example, in the event of unauthorized acts by third parties that violate applicable law or the policies of Podfitness and its affiliated providers). To protect your privacy and security, Podfitness uses passwords to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to any of your Podfitness information.

Special Note for Parents

Podfitness is intended for a general audience, and children under the age of eighteen are not permitted to register with Podfitness. If any Podfitness affiliated providers offer a site directed toward children, or knowingly collects information from children, that affiliated provider will provide you information about its practices for the handling of children's online data through its privacy policy.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Podfitness Privacy Policy or its implementation, you may contact us by visiting our Contact Us page.

Changes to this Privacy Policy and Additional Information

Podfitness may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, and so you should review this Policy periodically. If there are significant changes to Podfitness information practices, you will be provided with appropriate online notice.

Podfitness may in the future offer other special features and services, and if these features and services are not described in this Policy, you will be provided with additional privacy-related information.