Last Updated: April 11, 2023
The Lunar Company, Inc. (“us,” “we,” or “our”) is committed to ensuring your privacy when using our services. This Privacy Policy outlines our practices for collecting, using, and disclosing your information when using our website and mobile app. By using our service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
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DEFINITIONS
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
• “Business” refers to The Lunar Company, Inc., as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which collects consumers’ personal information and determines the purposes and means of processing that information. The Company operates in the state of California.
• “Company” (also referred to as “The Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) refers to The Lunar Company, Inc., located at 1905 Wilcox Ave #421, Los Angeles, CA 90068. For the purpose of the GDPR, the Company is the Data Controller.
• “Consumer,” as defined by the CCPA, means a natural person who is a California resident.
• “Cookies” are small files placed on your device by a website, containing details of your browsing history on that website.
• “Data Controller” refers to the Company as the legal person that alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of processing personal data, for the purposes of the GDPR.
• “Device” refers to any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, cellphone, or digital tablet.
• “Do Not Track” (DNT) is a concept promoted by US regulatory authorities for the internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.
• “Personal Data” is any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.
• “Sale,” for the purpose of the CCPA, means disclosing or otherwise communicating a consumer’s personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.
• “Service” refers to the website and the associated services, including the Apollo Podcasts app.
• “Service Provider” means any person who processes data on behalf of the Company, including third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service or assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used. For the purpose of the GDPR, Service Providers are considered Data Processors.
• “Third-Party Social Media Service” refers to any website or social network website through which a user can log in or create an account to use the Service.
• “Usage Data” refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (e.g., duration of a page visit).
• “Website” refers to https://www.apollopods.com.
• “You” means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable. Under the GDPR, you can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User.
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TYPES OF DATA COLLECTED
PERSONAL DATA
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We may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you when using our Service. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Address, state, province, ZIP/postal code, city
• Usage data
USAGE DATA
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Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. Usage Data may include information such as your device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
When you access the Service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browser you use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a mobile device.
INFORMATION FROM THIRD-PARTY SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICES
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You may have the option of sharing information with the Company through your third-party social media service’s account. If you choose to provide such information and personal data during registration or otherwise, you are giving the Company permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND COOKIES
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We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies that may be used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. The technologies we use may include:
• Cookies or browser cookies. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our Service may use cookies.
• Flash cookies. Certain features of our Service may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences or your activity on our Service. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as those used for browser cookies. For more information on how you can delete Flash cookies, please read “Where can I change the settings for disabling, or deleting local shared objects?” available at https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html#main_Where_can_I_change_the_settings_for_disabling__or_deleting_local_shared_objects_
• Web beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
We may use cookies for the purposes set out below:
• To track information about traffic to the website and how users use the website. The information gathered via these cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the website. We may also use these cookies to test new pages, features, or new functionality of the website to see how our users react to them.
USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
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The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
• To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
• For the performance of a contract: The development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services you have purchased or of any other contract with us through the Service.
• To contact you: To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including the security updates when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
• To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or inquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage your requests: To attend and manage your requests to us.
• For business transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
• For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing, and your experience.
We may share your Personal Information in the following situations:
• With Service Providers: We may share your Personal Information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, for payment processing, to contact you.
• For business transfers: We may share or transfer your Personal Information 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.
• With affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
• With business partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
• With other users: When you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If you interact with other users or register through a third-party social media service, your contacts on the third-party social media service may see your name, profile, pictures, and description of your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with you, and view your profile.
• With your consent: We may disclose your Personal Information for any other purpose with your consent.
RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
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The Company will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data 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.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
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Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. This means that this information 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 in your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by your submission of such information, represents your agreement to that transfer. The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of your data and other personal information.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
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BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS
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If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
LAW ENFORCEMENT
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Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
OTHER LEGAL REQUIREMENTS
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We may need to share your personal data in certain situations, but we’ll only do so if we believe it’s necessary and in good faith. These situations include:
• Complying with legal obligations
• Protecting and defending our company’s rights or property
• Investigating potential wrongdoing related to our service
• Ensuring the safety of our users or the public
• Protecting against legal liability
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
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We know that keeping your personal data secure is important, but it’s essential to remember that no online method of transmission or electronic storage is completely foolproof. We do our best to use reliable and widely accepted methods to protect your data, but we can’t guarantee absolute security.
Details on How Your Personal Data is Processed
We work with various service providers who may need access to your personal data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about your activity on our website and mobile app in line with their own privacy policies.
ANALYTICS
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We may work with third-party service providers to help us monitor and analyze how our website and mobile app are used. One such provider is:
• Google Analytics: A web analytics service by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our service, and may share this data with other Google services. They may also use the data to personalize the ads on their own advertising network.
To opt-out of sharing your activity on our website or mobile app with Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. This add-on prevents Google Analytics JavaScript from sharing information about your visit activity. For more information about Google’s privacy practices, visit their Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
EMAIL MARKETING
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We may use your personal data to send you newsletters, marketing materials, promotional materials, or other information that may interest you. You can opt-out of receiving any or all of these communications by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in our emails or by contacting us.
We may use email marketing service providers to manage and send emails to you:
• Mailchimp: Their privacy policy can be viewed at https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/
• AWS Pinpoint: Their privacy policy can be viewed at https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
PAYMENTS
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If we offer paid products and/or services within our website or mobile app, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g., payment processors).
We won’t store or collect your payment card details. This information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors, whose use of your personal information is governed by their privacy policies. These payment processors comply with PCI-DSS standards set by the PCI Security Standards Council, which includes brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
• Stripe: Their privacy policy can be viewed at https://stripe.com/us/privacy
• PayPal: Their privacy policy can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
• Shopify: Their privacy policy can be viewed at https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy
GDPR Privacy
LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA UNDER GDPR
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We may process your personal data under the following conditions:
1. Consent: You have given consent for processing personal data for one or more specific purposes.
2. Performance of a Contract: Providing personal data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
3. Legal Obligations: Processing personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the company is subject.
4. Vital Interests: Processing personal data is necessary to protect your vital interests or those of another natural person.
5. Public Interests: Processing personal data is related to a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the company.
6. Legitimate Interests: Processing personal data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the company.
In any case, we will gladly help clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing and, in particular, whether providing personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE GDPR
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We are committed to respecting the confidentiality of your personal data and guaranteeing that you can exercise your rights. If you are within the EU, you have the right under this Privacy Policy and by law to:
1. Request access to your personal data: You have the right to access, update, or delete the information we have about you.
2. Request correction of your personal data: You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
3. Object to processing of your personal data: This right exists where we are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for our processing, and there is something about your particular situation that makes you want to object to our processing of your personal data on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
4. Request erasure of your personal data: You have the right to ask us to delete or remove personal data when there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.
5. Request the transfer of your personal data: We will provide you, or a third party you have chosen, with your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information for which you initially provided consent or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
6. Withdraw your consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent for using your personal data. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with access to certain specific functionalities of the service.
EXERCISING OF YOUR GDPR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS
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You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation, and opposition by contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If you make a request, we will do our best to respond as soon as possible.
You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal data. For more information, if you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact your local data protection authority in the EEA.
CCPA Privacy Rights
Subject to certain limitations, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides California consumers the right to request to know more details about the categories or specific pieces of personal information we collect, to delete their personal information, to opt-out of any sales that may be occurring, and to not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
We do not sell personal information we collect to third parties for money or any other consideration.
EXERCISING YOUR CCPA DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS
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In order to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, and if you are a California resident, you can contact us through the following methods:
1. By email: [email protected]
2. By visiting this page on our website: https://www.apollopods.com/contact
3. By phone number: +1-323-689-5174
4. By mail: 1905 Wilcox Ave #421, Los Angeles, CA 90068
Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable request related to your personal information.
Your request to us must:
1. Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
2. 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 the required information if we cannot:
1. Verify your identity or authority to make the request.
2. Confirm that the personal information relates to you.
We will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable request’s receipt.
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.
WEBSITE
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You can opt out of receiving personalized ads served by our service providers by following our instructions presented on the service:
1. The NAI’s Opt-Out Platform: https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
2. The EDAA’s Opt-Out Platform: https://www.youronlinechoices.com/
3. The DAA’s Opt-Out Platform: https://aboutads.info/choices
Opting out will place a cookie on your computer that is unique to the browser you use to opt out. If you change browsers or delete the cookies saved by your browser, you will need to opt out again.
MOBILE DEVICES
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Your mobile device may give you the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps you use in order to serve you ads that are targeted to your interests:
• “Opt out of interest-based ads” or “Opt out of ads personalization” on Android devices
• “Limit ad tracking” on iOS devices
You can also stop the collection of location information from your mobile device by changing the preferences on your mobile device.
“Do Not Track” Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
Our service does not respond to Do Not Track signals. However, some third-party websites do keep track of your browsing activities. If you are visiting such websites, you can set your preferences in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of your web browser.
Children’s Privacy
Our service is not intended for use by children. If you are under the age of 18, you should not use our website and should not submit any information to us.
Your California Privacy Rights (California’s Shine the Light law)
Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California’s Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their personal data with third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.
If you’d like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if you are a California resident, you can contact us using the contact information provided below.
California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581)
California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 allows California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services, or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted.
To request the removal of such data, and if you are a California resident, you can contact us using the contact information provided below. Be aware that your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online, and the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.
Links to Other Websites
Our service 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.
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.
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.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you can contact us:
1. By email: [email protected]
2. By visiting this page on our website: https://www.apollopods.com/contact
3. By phone number: 323-689-5174
4. By mail: 1905 Wilcox Ave #421, Los Angeles, CA 90068