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As Data Controller As Third Party Data Provider

Privacy Policy as Data Controller

This Privacy Policy describes how data (including personal information) is collected, used, and shared when you use this Website (grep.fm). It also describes your choices regarding use and access of your personal information.

Summary

  • We do not and will not sell your information. We don't help companies advertise their products to you.
  • We offer a free service and hope you will upgrade to our paid versions. That's the only way we make money.
  • We use a small number of trusted third parties to help provide our products.
  • We use cookies to provide, protect, and promote our products.
  • We collect your email address and may share this information with third parties only for the purpose of processing payments and sending emails related to the Website.

Personal Information Collected

The personal data you provide directly is your email address. It is processed for the following purposes only:

  1. To identify you when you log in to our Website.
  2. To deliver transactional emails for your account (welcome email, payment receipts, etc.)
  3. To deliver non-transactional marketing emails from us (monthly product updates), opt-in consent where applicable.

The processing of data for the purpose above will be carried out via automated electronic means only.

Failure To Provide Consent

The provision of consent is optional. However, failure to provide consent for 1. and 2. above will render it impossible to use the Website as we require your email to allow you to log in to your account.

Service Provider Third Parties

Our sharing of your personal data is limited and a requirement for us to operate the website. All third parties are listed below.

Your email addresses will be processed by Amazon Simple Email Service.

If you sign up for payment with credit card and/or PayPal your personal details will be processed by Braintree/PayPal, see their privacy policy.

Finally, we may also share your personal information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights. We may also disclose your personal information if you violate our terms of use. We will never share your personal information for any reason other than those listed herein.

Indirect Collection And Processing Of Personal Data

Indirectly we will collect your IP address based on the system you use to access our website via our secure web servers logging system. We will use but not collect/store your geolocation, based on your IP address, for monitoring, debugging and to personalize your experience of using the Website.

We use cookies and similar technologies, including tracking pixels and web beacons, to collect usage and analytic data that helps us provide our Site, Software, and/or Services to you, as well as to help deliver ads for relevant Grep.FM products and services to you when you visit certain pages on the Site and then visit certain third-party sites.

Security Data Center Location

Our data center is located in United States.

Servers that process personal data are HSTS enabled, ensuring end-to-end encryption of your information.

Your Rights

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information at the bottom of the page.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to provide the Service, or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, to the United States.

Data Retention

When you create an account, we will maintain your Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

Changes

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected]

Privacy Policy as Third Party Data Provider

This privacy policy describes how grep.fm deals with personal information in line with our business practice as a third party data provider and our compliance with local regulations such as GDPR and PIPEDA.

Summary

We index podcast content from public RSS feeds via automated crawlers. All information we provide is already publicly available on the internet. We do not distribute or expose any private or unpublished podcast data.

Data Collected

We collect publicly available information from podcast RSS feeds and publicly accessible websites to power our podcast search and discovery tools. These include:

  1. Podcast titles, descriptions, episode metadata (e.g., duration, publish date), and show notes.
  2. Publicly available contact information (e.g., website URLs, email addresses from RSS feeds or websites).
  3. Social media profiles and other metadata directly linked from podcast feeds or websites.

The processing of data for the purpose above will be carried out via automated electronic means only.

Data Collection

We use servers and automated bots to scan publicly available RSS feeds and websites related to podcasts. We only collect data that is freely accessible and indexable by a search engine. If a podcast feed or related website explicitly restricts bots using robots.txt, we honor those restrictions. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of the sites or feeds we link to.

Data Retention

We periodically revisit podcast feeds to detect updates, removals, or modifications. If a podcast or episode is removed or altered, we may retain the older version of the data for up to 6 weeks before it is deleted or updated in our system.

Data Usage

See our terms of use for the data we provide.

Data Removal

If you are a podcast publisher and would like your podcast or contact information removed from our index, please contact us at the email address below. We will process your request promptly.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes in our data practices or legal obligations. Please review this page periodically to stay informed.

Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected]