Privacy Policy

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The podcast host for Stratford Mail is Buzzsprout, whose privacy policy follows: 

"Buzzsprout believes protecting online privacy is important and that extends to podcast listeners. When you listen to a podcast served directly from Buzzsprout's servers, you can be assured your privacy is being respected. Buzzsprout only collects the minimum data necessary to validate a download, understand the application that was used to initiate the download, and get a general sense of where in the world that download was delivered.

Buzzsprout does NOT use listener data to:

• Programmatically target advertisements
• Track and/or identify individuals
• Create interest-based profiles
• Combine data pools to associate audience demographics
• Sell listener data to anyone for any purpose

What data does Buzzsprout collect from listeners on third-party distribution channels?

When a podcast episode is downloaded through any third-party distribution channel, listener data is recorded for analysis.

• IP Address
• User Agent
• Referring URL (in some cases)

The data above is retrieved directly from server logs. Buzzsprout does not, by default, utilize any 3rd party tracking technologies on media downloads1.

Why is this listener data collected?

It's important for you to know not only what we collect, but why we collect it. Buzzsprout only collects listener data for the following three reasons.

1. To provide anonymized statistics to our customers
2. To discover and prevent fraudulent/illegal behavior
3. To comply with any legal obligation(s)"

Please consult the privacy policies of the platforms where you get your podcasts for additional information. Be safe out there.