Privacy and Cookie Policies

PRIVACY & COOKIE POLICY

Introduction

Goal Ability LLC is a New Jersey, US company established by Christopher Curran in October, 2008.

Goal Ability (including Chris Curran, Christopher Curran, Goal Ability LLC, “Goal Ability”, Podcast Engineering School, PES, PodcastEngineeringSchool.com and other related websites) want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information from and about you. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information collected through services such as websites, mobile sites, applications (“apps”) and widgets (collectively, the “Goal Ability Services”). By using Goal Ability Services, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

Goal Ability Services does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age.

This Privacy Policy applies to all users, including both those who use the Goal Ability Services without being registered with or subscribing to a Goal Ability Service and those who have registered with or subscribed to a Goal Ability Service. This Privacy Policy applies to Goal Ability’ collection and use of your personal information (i.e., information that identifies a specific person, such as full name or email address). It also describes generally Goal Ability’ practices for handling non-personal information (for example, interests, demographics and services usage).

Collection of information

Goal Ability LLC and our service providers collect the following information from and about you:

Registration Information​ is the information you submit to register for a Goal Ability Service, for example, to create an account, post comments, receive a newsletter, or enter a contest or sweepstakes. Registration Information may include, for example, name, email address, city, country.

Public Information and Posts​ consist of comments or content that you post to the Goal Ability Services and the information about you that accompanies those posts or content, which may include a name, user name, comments, likes, status, profile information and picture. Public Information and Posts are always public, which means they are available to everyone and may be displayed in search results on external search engines.

Information from Social Media.​ If you access or log-in to a Goal Ability Service through a social media service or connect a Goal Ability Service to a social media service, the information we collect may also include your user ID and/or user name associated with that social media service, any information or content you have permitted the social media service to share with us, such as your profile picture, email address or friends lists, and any information you have made public in connection with that social media service. When you access the Goal Ability Services through social media services or when you connect a Goal Ability Service to social media services, you are authorizing Goal Ability LLC to collect, store, and use such information and content in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Activity Information.​ When you access and interact with the Goal Ability Services, we may collect certain information about those visits. For example, in order to permit your connection to the Goal Ability Services, our servers receive and record information about your computer, device, and browser, including potentially your IP address, browser type, and other software or hardware information. If you access the Goal Ability Services from a mobile or other device, we may collect a unique device identifier assigned to that device, geolocation data, or other transactional information for that device. At this time we do not respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals, as we await the work of interested stakeholders and others to develop standards for how such signals should be interpreted.

Cookies and other tracking technologies (such as browser cookies, pixels, beacons, and Adobe Flash technology including cookies) are comprised of small bits of data that often include a de-identified or anonymous unique identifier. Websites, apps and other services send this data to your browser when you first request a web page and then store the data on your computer so the website can access information when you make subsequent requests for pages from that service. These technologies may also be used to collect and store information about your usage of the Goal Ability Services, such as pages you have visited, content you have viewed, search queries you have run and advertisements you have seen.

Third parties that support the Goal Ability Services by serving advertisements or providing services, such as allowing you to share content or tracking aggregate Goal Ability Services usage statistics, may also use these technologies to collect similar information. Goal Ability does not control these third-party technologies and their use is governed by the privacy policies of third parties using such technologies. For more information about third-party advertising networks and similar entities that use these technologies, see aboutads.info/consumers​, ​and to opt-out of such ad networks’ and services’ advertising practices, go to​ ​aboutads.info/choices​.

Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies, but you can change your settings to notify you when a cookie is being set or updated, or to block cookies altogether. Please consult the “Help” section of your browser for more information. Please note that by blocking any or all cookies you may not have access to certain features, content or personalization available through the Goal Ability Services.

Information from Other Sources.​ We may supplement the information we collect with information from other sources, such as publicly available information from social media services, commercially available sources and information from our Goal Ability Affiliates or business partners.

Use and Disclosure

We use the information we collect from and about you to provide the Goal Ability Services and features to you, including: to measure and improve those Goal Ability Services and features; to improve your experience with both online and off-line Goal Ability Services by delivering content you will find relevant and interesting, including advertising and marketing messages; to allow you to comment on content and to provide you with customer support and to respond to inquiries. When the information collected from or about you does not identify you as a specific person, we may use that information for any purpose or share it with third parties.

We use the information we collect from and about you for these additional purposes:

To allow service providers to assist us in providing and managing the Goal Ability Services. ​Goal Ability may make your information available to certain third party service providers, such as contractors, agents or sponsors, who help us manage or provide the Goal Ability Services.

To allow social sharing functionality.​ If you log in with or connect a social media service account with Goal Ability Services, we may share your user name, picture, and likes, as well as your activities and comments with other Goal Ability Services users and with your friends associated with your social media service. We may also share the same information with the social media service provider. By logging in with or connecting your Goal Ability Services account with a social media service, you are authorizing us to share information we collect from and about you with the social media service provider, other users and your friends and you understand that the social media service’s use of the shared information will be governed by the social media service’s privacy policy. If you do not want your personal information shared in this way, please do not connect your social media service account with your Goal Ability Services account and do not participate in social sharing on Goal Ability Services.

To deliver relevant advertisements.​ Goal Ability and our service providers may use the information we collect from and about you to deliver relevant ads to you when you use the Goal Ability Services or another service. As noted above, third-party advertising networks and advertisers may use cookies and similar technologies to collect and track information such as demographic information, inferred interests, aggregated information, and activity to assist them in delivering advertising that is more relevant to your interests. To find out more about third-party advertising networks and similar entities that use these technologies, see​ ​aboutads.info​, ​and to opt-out of such advertising networks’ and services’ advertising practices, go to aboutads.info/choices​. ​Goal Ability adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles.

To contact you.​ Goal Ability may periodically send promotional materials or notifications related to the Goal Ability Services. If you want to stop receiving promotional materials, you can follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email. There are certain service notification emails that you may not opt-out of, such as notifications of changes to the Goal Ability Services or policies. If you have installed a mobile app and you wish to stop receiving push notifications, you can change the settings either on your mobile device or through the app.

To share with our Goal Ability Affiliates.​ Goal Ability may share your information with Goal Ability Affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Users who visit Affiliated Companies’ services should still refer to their separate privacy policies, which may differ in some respects from this Privacy Policy.

To share with business partners.​ Goal Ability may share your information with business partners to permit them to send you marketing communications consistent with your choices.

To protect the rights of Goal Ability and others. There may be instances when Goal Ability may disclose your information, including situations where Goal Ability has a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary in order to: (i) protect, enforce, or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety, or property of Goal Ability, our Goal Ability Affiliates or their employees, agents and contractors; (ii) protect the safety, privacy, and security of users of the Goal Ability Services or members of the public; (iii) protect against fraud or for risk management purposes; (iv) comply with the law or legal process; or (v) respond to requests from public and government authorities.

To complete a merger or sale of assets. If Goal Ability sells all or part of its business or makes a sale or transfer of its assets or is otherwise involved in a merger or transfer of all or a material part of its business, Goal Ability may transfer your information to the party or parties involved in the transaction as part of that transaction.

Security

Goal Ability LLC uses commercially reasonable administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures to safeguard information in its possession against loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification.

User Access and Control

If you would like to access, review, correct, update, suppress, or otherwise limit our use of your personal information you have previously provided directly to us, you may contact us as outlined in Section 7. In your request, please include your email address, name, address, and telephone number and specify clearly what information you would like to access, change, update, or suppress. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

We give you many choices regarding our use and disclosure of your personal information for marketing purposes. You may opt-out from:

Receiving electronic communications from us:​ If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out of receiving these marketing-related emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in the email.

Cancelling your account.​ To cancel your account, write us via ​email​, subject, “Delete My Account” and include the email address that you registered your account with (if different from the email address you’re sending the email from). Remember that even after you cancel your account, copies of some information from your account may remain viewable in some circumstances – where, for example, you have shared information with a third-party application or web site. We may also retain backup information related to your account on our servers for some time after cancellation for fraud detection or to comply with applicable law or our internal security policies. Because of the nature of caching technology, your account may not be instantly inaccessible to others, and there may be a delay in the removal of the content from elsewhere on the Internet and from search engines.

Other Important Information

Updates to Privacy Policy. Goal Ability may modify this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was last revised on May 23, 2018. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Goal Ability Services.

Location of Data.​ The Goal Ability Services are hosted in and managed from the United States. If you are a user located outside the United States, you understand and consent to having any personal information processed in the United States. United States data protection and other relevant laws may not be the same as those in your jurisdiction. This includes the use of cookies and other tracking technologies as described above. As a result, please read this Privacy Policy with care.

Linked Services.​ The Goal Ability Services may also be linked to sites operated by unaffiliated companies, and may carry advertisements or offer content, functionality, games, newsletters, contests or sweepstakes, or applications developed and maintained by unaffiliated companies. Goal Ability LLC is not responsible for the privacy practices of unaffiliated companies, and once you leave the Goal Ability Services or click an advertisement you should check the applicable privacy policy of the other service.

Data Retention.​ We will retain your information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.

Remember that even after you cancel your account, copies of some information from your account may remain viewable in some circumstances where, for example, you have shared information with social media or other services. Because of the nature of caching technology, your account may not be instantly inaccessible to others. We may also retain backup information related to your account on our servers for some time after cancellation for fraud detection or to comply with applicable law or our internal security policies. It is not always possible to completely remove or delete all of your information due to technical constraints, contractual, financial or legal requirements.

Sensitive Information.​ We ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive personal information (such as social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Goal Ability Services or otherwise.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: Electronic mail, ​here​.
Postal Mail:

Goal Ability, LLC
18 Church Street, Suite 110
Newton, NJ 07860
USA
Attention: Legal Department