Privacy Policy
This page explains what information Podcast and Book (podcastandbook.com) collects when you visit, and what we do with it. The short version: we collect very little, and we don’t sell it.
What we collect
Newsletter. If you subscribe, we keep your email address so we can send the newsletter. Every email has an unsubscribe link.
Contact form. If you send a message, we receive the name, email address and anything else you type into the form, and use it only to reply.
Comments. If comments are open and you leave one, we store your name, email address, comment, IP address and browser details. We use an anti-spam plugin that checks comments on our own server.
Analytics. We may use Google Analytics to see which pages people read and how they found the site. It uses cookies and collects information such as your approximate location, device and browser. We don’t use it to identify you personally. You can opt out with Google’s browser add-on.
Server logs and security. Our host and security tools record basic technical data, such as IP addresses, to keep the site running and block attacks.
Affiliate links and cookies
When you click an affiliate link, the retailer (Amazon, for example) may set its own cookie so it can tell that the sale came from us. What the retailer collects is covered by its own privacy policy. See our Affiliate Disclosure for more.
Embedded content
Posts may include embedded podcast players or videos from services such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts or YouTube. Those embeds behave as if you’d visited the other site, and they may collect data about you under their own policies.
Who we share data with
We don’t sell or rent your personal information. We only share it with the services that run the site, such as our web host, email newsletter provider and analytics, or when the law requires it.
How long we keep it
Newsletter emails stay on file until you unsubscribe. Contact messages are kept as long as we need them to reply and follow up. Comments and their details are kept as long as the comment is on the site.
Your choices
You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time, block or delete cookies in your browser, or ask us to show, correct or delete the personal data we hold about you. Depending on where you live, you may have extra rights under laws such as GDPR or California’s CCPA.
Children
This site isn’t aimed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their information.
Changes and contact
If we change this policy, we’ll update this page. For any privacy question or request, use our contact page.