Privacy Policy for LearnItalianPod and ItalianChat

Welcome to LearnItalianPod and ItalianChat. This Privacy Policy applies to LearnItalianPod.com, app.learnitalianpod.com, and italianchat.app (collectively referred to as “our platforms”). Our top priority is protecting the privacy of our visitors and users. This document outlines the types of information we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding your personal data.

If you have any questions or need more information about our Privacy Policy, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

1. Information We Collect

1.1 Personal Information

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, which may include:

Name
Email address
Password (Note: your password is encrypted and not accessible to us)
Phone number
Billing address
Subscription status and history
Usage data related to your ItalianChat lessons and interactions

Please note that while we collect information about your subscription and payment status, we do not collect or store sensitive financial information such as credit card numbers. All payment processing is handled by our secure third-party payment processor, Stripe.

1.2 Payment Information

When you subscribe to ItalianChat or make a purchase, our payment processor collects payment information on our behalf. This may include:

Credit card number (stored securely by our payment processor, not by us)
Billing address
Payment history

We receive confirmation of successful payments and information about your subscription status, but we do not have access to your full payment details.

1.3 Non-Personal Information

We collect non-personal information such as:

Device details
Browser type
Internet Protocol (IP) addresses
Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Date and time stamp
Referring/exit pages
Number of clicks

1.4 Log Files

Our platforms follow a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they use our websites and app. The information collected by log files includes those listed under non-personal information. This information is used for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the platforms, and gathering demographic information.

1.5 Cookies and Web Beacons

Like many other websites and apps, we use “cookies” to store information including visitors’ preferences and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. This information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and other information.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for various purposes:

To provide and maintain our service
To enhance user experience
To communicate with you
To analyze usage patterns
To personalize content and advertising

3. Data Protection

We implement strict security measures to protect your personal information, including secure, password-protected databases and adherence to industry best practices. You can access, modify, or delete your personal information through your profile, or contact us for assistance.

4. Third-Party Services and Advertisers

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our platforms. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our platforms and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

4.2 Other Third-Party Ad Servers or Ad Networks

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our platforms. Each of our advertising partners has its own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their advertisements and links that appear on our platforms and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our platforms’ third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

LearnItalianPod and ItalianChat have no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices.

5. Affiliate Disclosures

5.1 General Affiliate Disclosure

Our platforms may include links to partner websites. When you click on and/or make a purchase through an affiliate link on our site, we might obtain a modest commission or another form of recompense at no extra expense to you. Our use of affiliate links does not impact the products, services, and websites we recommend to you.

5.2 Amazon Affiliate Disclosure

We participate in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate marketing program designed to allow us to generate commissions by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated websites. When you click and/or make a purchase via a link to an Amazon affiliate link on our platforms, we may earn a small commission without any additional cost to you.

6. Children’s Privacy

Protecting children while using the internet is another priority. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their children’s online activity.

LearnItalianPod and ItalianChat do not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that your child has provided this kind of information on our platforms, please contact us immediately, and we will do our best to remove such information from our records promptly.

7. Your Privacy Rights

7.1 CCPA Privacy Rights (California Residents)

Under the CCPA, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data collected about them.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that the business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data not sell that data.

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:

The right to be informed
The right of access
The right to rectification
The right to erasure
The right to restrict processing
The right to data portability
The right to object

If you make a request regarding your privacy rights, we have one month to respond. Please contact us if you would like to exercise any of these rights.

7.3 Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

8. 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. We will update the “effective date” at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

By email: learnitalianpod at gmail dot com
By visiting the contact page on our website
By mail: LearnItalianPod.com, MaxterMedia, 160 W. Camino Real Unit #765, Boca Raton, FL 33432, USA

Effective Date: August 4th, 2024