Privacy Policy for Senior E-Biker Podcast

Effective Date: May 22, 2025

Welcome to the Senior E-Biker Podcast (referred to as "we," "us," or "our"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information with care and respect. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://senior-ebiker.transistor.fm (the "Site"), listen to our podcast, subscribe to our newsletter, or otherwise interact with us.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site or use our services.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the "Effective Date" of this Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, will be subject to, and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of the Site after the date such revised Privacy Policy is posted. This policy will be reviewed and updated at least annually to comply with applicable regulations.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect personal information from you in a variety of ways, including:

a. Information You Provide to Us Directly:

We collect information you voluntarily provide to us, such as:

Contact Information: Your name and email address when you subscribe to our newsletter, submit a contact form, or communicate with us via email.

Comments and Contributions: Any information you provide when you post comments on our Site, participate in surveys, or engage in other interactive features.

Correspondence: Records and copies of your correspondence if you contact us.

b. Information We Collect Automatically:

When you access our Site or listen to our podcast, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage, including:

Log and Usage Data: Your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, links clicked, time spent on pages, and other similar usage data.

Device Information: Information about the computer or mobile device you use to access our Site, such as the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.

Podcast Listening Data: We may receive aggregated and/or anonymized data from podcast hosting and distribution platforms (e.g., download numbers, listener location by region/country, listening platform). We typically do not receive personally identifiable information directly from these platforms unless you provide it (e.g., by commenting within an app).

Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to collect and use personal information about you, including to understand your usage of the Site and improve your experience. For more information, see our "Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies" section below.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

To operate and maintain our Site and podcast.
To send you newsletters, promotional materials (if you opt-in), and other information you request.
To respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and provide customer service.
To monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve our Site, podcast, and user experience.
To personalize your experience on our Site.
To protect the security and integrity of our Site and services.
To comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms and conditions.
For any other purpose with your consent.

3. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell your personal information. We may share your information in the following situations:

With Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work (e.g., website hosting, email delivery services, podcast hosting platforms, analytics providers). These service providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and are restricted from using your personal information in any way other than to provide services for us.
For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency), or if we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.
Business Transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company, your personal information may be transferred.
With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your explicit consent.
Aggregated or Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated or anonymized information that does not directly identify you with third parties for research, marketing, analytics, or other purposes.

4. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your browse activities over time and across different websites when you use our Site.

What are Cookies? Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Site and your experience, see which areas and features of our Site are popular, and count visits.

Types of Cookies We May Use:

Essential Cookies: Necessary for the Site to function and cannot be switched off in our systems.
Performance and Analytics Cookies: Allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our Site (e.g., Google Analytics).
Functionality Cookies: Enable the Site to provide enhanced functionality and personalization.

Your Choices: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Site.

Do Not Track Signals: Some web browsers offer a "Do Not Track" ("DNT") signal. Currently, there is no industry-standard consensus on how to respond to DNT signals. Therefore, like many websites, our Site does not currently alter its practices when it receives a DNT signal.

5. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.

a. General Rights:

You may have the right to:

Request access to your personal information.
Request correction of your personal information if it is inaccurate.
Request deletion of your personal information.
Object to or restrict the processing of your personal information.

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the details provided in the "Contact Us" section below.

b. Specific Rights for California Residents (CCPA/CPRA):

If you are a California resident, you have specific rights regarding your personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). These rights include:

Right to Know/Access: You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months (or longer, as permitted by law). This includes:

The categories of personal information we collected about you.
The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing that personal information.
The categories of third parties to whom we disclose that personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
If we sold or shared your personal information, two separate lists disclosing:
- sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
- disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions (such as if the information is necessary to complete a transaction, detect security incidents, comply with a legal obligation, or for other internal and lawful uses). We will also instruct our service providers to delete your information where applicable.

Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: We do not "sell" your personal information in the traditional sense (i.e., for monetary compensation). However, the CCPA/CPRA defines "sell" and "share" broadly. "Sharing" includes disclosing personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

As of the Effective Date of this policy, we do not believe we "sell" or "share" your personal information as defined by the CCPA/CPRA.

If our practices change, we will update this policy and provide you with a "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link or mechanism to opt-out.

Right to Correct Inaccurate Information: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.

Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information (SPI): You have the right to direct us to limit our use of your SPI to that use which is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer who requests such goods or services. We generally do not collect SPI. If we do, we will only use it for permitted purposes or provide you with the right to limit its use.

Examples of SPI include social security number, financial account information, precise geolocation data, racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, genetic data, biometric data, health information, or information about sex life or sexual orientation.

Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights. This means we will not deny you goods or services, charge you different prices or rates, provide a different level or quality of goods or services, or suggest that you may receive a different price or rate or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Exercising Your Rights: To exercise any of these rights, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by:

Emailing us at: seniorebikerpodcast@gmail.com

Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf (an "Authorized Agent"), may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. Your verifiable consumer request must:

Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format: We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt, or a longer period if requested and feasible. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily usable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded.

Shine the Light Law: California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Site that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to seniorebikerpodcast@gmail.com with "Request for California Privacy Information" on the subject line and in the body of your message. We will provide the requested information to you at your e-mail address in response. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the "Shine the Light" requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response. (Note: If you do not share information in this way, you can state that you do not disclose personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes).

6. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties.

7. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. Generally, this means we will keep your personal data for the duration of your relationship with us and for a reasonable period thereafter as necessary to meet our operational and legal requirements. We will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Site, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

8. Children's Privacy

Our Site and podcast are not directed to individuals under the age of 13 (or 16 in some jurisdictions like California for certain data practices), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or 16, as applicable). If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the relevant age without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information from our servers promptly. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under the relevant age, please contact us at seniorebikerpodcast@gmail.com.

9. Links to Other Websites

Our Site may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

10. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. For significant changes, we may also notify you through email or a prominent notice on our Site.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or your privacy rights, please contact us at:

Senior E-Biker Podcast
Email: seniorebikerpodcast@gmail.com