Cookie Policy of ahwayisland.com
This document informs Users about the technologies that help this Website to achieve the purposes described below. Such technologies allow the Owner to access and store information (for example by using a Cookie) or use resources (for example by running a script) on a User’s device as they interact with this Website.
For simplicity, all such technologies are defined as "Trackers" within this document – unless there is a reason to differentiate.
For example, while Cookies can be used on both web and mobile browsers, it would be inaccurate to talk about Cookies in the context of mobile apps as they are a browser-based Tracker. For this reason, within this document, the term Cookies is only used where it is specifically meant to indicate that particular type of Tracker.
Some of the purposes for which Trackers are used may also require the User's consent. Whenever consent is given, it can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.
This Website uses Trackers managed directly by the Owner (so-called “first-party” Trackers) and Trackers that enable services provided by a third-party (so-called “third-party” Trackers). Unless otherwise specified within this document, third-party providers may access the Trackers managed by them.
The validity and expiration periods of Cookies and other similar Trackers may vary depending on the lifetime set by the Owner or the relevant provider. Some of them expire upon termination of the User’s browsing session.
In addition to what’s specified in the descriptions within each of the categories below, Users may find more precise and updated information regarding lifetime specification as well as any other relevant information — such as the presence of other Trackers — in the linked privacy policies of the respective third-party providers or by contacting the Owner.
How this Website uses Trackers
Necessary
This Website uses so-called “technical” Cookies and other similar Trackers to carry out activities that are strictly necessary for the operation or delivery of the Service.
Trackers managed by third parties
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Mailchimp Landing Page (Intuit Inc.)
Mailchimp Landing Page is a landing page management service provided by Intuit Inc, that allows this Website to collect the email addresses of Users interested in its service.
Mailchimp Landing Page allows the Owner to track and analyze the User response concerning web traffic or behavior regarding changes to the structure, text or any other component of the created landing pages.
Personal Data processed: email address, first name, last name, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Trackers duration:
- mailchimp_landing_site: 28 days
Functionality
This Website uses Trackers to enable basic interactions and functionalities, allowing Users to access selected features of the Service and facilitating the User's communication with the Owner.
Trackers managed directly by the Owner
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Mailing list or newsletter (this Website)
By registering on the mailing list or for the newsletter, the User’s email address will be added to the contact list of those who may receive email messages containing information of commercial or promotional nature concerning this Website. Your email address might also be added to this list as a result of signing up to this Website or after making a purchase.
Personal Data processed: email address, first name, last name, Trackers and Usage Data.
Experience
This Website uses Trackers to improve the quality of the user experience and enable interactions with external content, networks and platforms.
Trackers managed by third parties
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Mailchimp widget (Intuit Inc.)
The Mailchimp widget is a service for interacting with the Mailchimp email address management and message sending service provided by Intuit Inc.
Personal Data processed: Cookies, email address, first name, last name and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Trackers duration:
- cookies.js: duration of the session
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Google Fonts (Google LLC)
Google Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Google LLC that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Measurement
This Website uses Trackers to measure traffic and analyze User behavior to improve the Service.
Trackers managed by third parties
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WordPress Stats (Automattic Inc.)
WordPress Stats is an analytics service provided by Automattic Inc.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Trackers duration:
- tk_tc: duration of the session
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Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) (Google LLC)
Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Trackers duration:
- AMP_TOKEN: 1 hour
- _ga: 2 years
- _gac*: 3 months
- _gat: 1 minute
- _gid: 1 day
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Blubrry Podcasting Services
Blubrry processes IP addresses and device information in order to determine podcast downloads/plays. This data is anonymized or pseudonymized prior to storing in Blubrry's database.
Blubrry does not store or report personally identifiable information.
Data is gathered within the United States. No data is transferred outside of the United States.
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Google Analytics Demographics and Interests reports (Google LLC)
Google Analytics Demographics and Interests reports is a Google Advertising Reporting feature that makes available demographic and interests Data inside Google Analytics for this Website (demographics means age and gender Data).
Users can opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example).
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Trackers duration:
- IDE: 2 years
- _gcl_*: 3 months
- test_cookie: 15 minutes
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Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC)
Google Analytics 4 is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
In Google Analytics 4, IP addresses are used at collection time and then discarded before Data is logged in any data center or server. Users can learn more by consulting Google’s official documentation.
In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
Personal Data processed: browser information, city, device information, latitude (of city), longitude (of city), number of Users, session statistics, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Trackers duration:
- _ga: 2 years
- _ga_*: 2 years
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Podsights (Owned by Spotify USA Inc.)
Subject to applicable law, we may share with third parties, such as service providers, to allow them to collect directly aggregated or other information that is not reasonably linkable to you personally. We may also share or authorize the collection of such information by sponsors or their agencies to help them measure the impact of their sponsorship campaigns.
Data Privacy Practices
Podsights is a podcast attribution vendor that helps advertisers assess the effectiveness of a podcast campaign. By integrating podcast download data with a pixel placed on a sponsor’s website, Podsights is able to match both site visits and conversion metrics with a podcast download. The data is then relayed to a real-time dashboard to create a comprehensive picture of campaign performance, allowing podcasters line of sight into performance by generating for the equivalent of a click-through rate for podcast placements.
Podsights is both GDPR and CCPA compliant.
Podsights is a data processor under GDPR and a service provider under CCPA.
Podsights only provides data in an aggregated, anonymized format. It works at a household level, not a user level. No demographic information from listeners is collected other than approximate location at time of impression. Podsights is not able, and does not intend to, identify or track any individuals from the data that they collect.
Brand-side Data Collected by Podsights
— IP Address
— User Agent
— Timestamp
— Page Views / Page View Events
Publisher-side Data Collected by Podsights
— IP Address
— User Agent
— Timestamp
— Episode Information
Data Collection Details
All data is stored and processed on Podsights servers hosted by Google Cloud Platform in their US data centers. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit.
When a campaign is run with Podsights, Podsights will process data collected from:
— Audio downloads containing the campaign’s advertisement;
— Website interactions where the Podsights pixel has been installed;
— Mobile interactions where a mobile attribution partner’s integration has been enabled.
Collected data includes full IP addresses. Podsights does not collect any other personal information.
The Podsights javascript SDK sets a lightweight first-party cookie named “__pdst” to assist with deduplication and matching of events.
Podsights complies with opt-outs and data access requirements per its policy: https://www.podsights.com/optout.
Data Retention
— Brand data is retained for 13 months.
— Publisher data is retained for 25 months.
— After the retention period, data is deleted. Data can also be deleted or access on request by contacting privacy@podsights.com.
Third Party Providers
— Podsights uses a third party, Tapad, to improve the quality of attribution matching. Tapad receives only unique IP addresses - no other information is shared. Tapad does not use this information to improve any of their products.
— Podsights uses third parties, Nielsen and Experian, to enhance understanding of the IP addresses being measured. These third parties receive only unique IP addresses or an ID derived from IP addresses – no other information is shared. These third parties do not use this information to improve any of their products.
— For clarity, across all Podsight's third party relationships, no publisher or brand is identified in the data shared.
Marketing
This Website uses Trackers to deliver personalized ads or marketing content, and to measure their performance.
Trackers managed by third parties
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Mailchimp (Intuit Inc.)
Mailchimp is an email address management and message sending service provided by Intuit Inc.
Personal Data processed: Cookies, email address, first name, last name and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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Google Ad Manager (Google LLC)
Google Ad Manager is an advertising service provided by Google LLC that allows the Owner to run advertising campaigns in conjunction with external advertising networks that the Owner, unless otherwise specified in this document, has no direct relationship with.
In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
This service uses the “DoubleClick” Cookie, which tracks use of this Website and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.
Users may decide to disable all the DoubleClick Cookies by going to: Google Ad Settings.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Trackers duration:
- Conversion: 3 months
- DSID: 14 days
- FCNEC: 1 year
- FLC: 10 seconds
- FPAU: 3 months
- FPGCLAW: 3 months
- FPGCLDC: 3 months
- FPGCLGB: 3 months
- GCL_AW_P: 3 months
- GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY: duration of the session
- IDE: 2 years
- NID: 6 months
- RUL: 1 year
- __gads: 2 years
- __gpi: 2 years
- __gpi_optout: 2 years
- __gsas: 2 years
- _gac_: 3 months
- _gac_gb_: 3 months
- _gcl_ag: 3 months
- _gcl_au: 3 months
- _gcl_aw: 3 months
- _gcl_dc: 3 months
- _gcl_gb: 3 months
- _gcl_gf: 3 months
- _gcl_gs: 3 months
- _gcl_ha: 3 months
- ar_debug: 3 months
- id: 2 years
- receive-cookie-deprecation: 6 months
- test_cookie: 15 minutes
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Google AdSense (Google LLC)
Google AdSense is an advertising service provided by Google LLC. This service uses the “DoubleClick” Cookie, which tracks use of this Website and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.
Users may decide to disable all the DoubleClick Cookies by going to: Google Ad Settings.
In order to understand Google's use of data, consult Google's partner policy.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Trackers duration:
- Conversion: 3 months
- DSID: 14 days
- FCNEC: 1 year
- FLC: 10 seconds
- FPAU: 3 months
- FPGCLAW: 3 months
- FPGCLDC: 3 months
- FPGCLGB: 3 months
- GCL_AW_P: 3 months
- GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY: duration of the session
- IDE: 2 years
- NID: 6 months
- RUL: 1 year
- __gads: 2 years
- __gpi: 2 years
- __gpi_optout: 2 years
- __gsas: 2 years
- _gac_: 3 months
- _gac_gb_: 3 months
- _gcl_ag: 3 months
- _gcl_au: 3 months
- _gcl_aw: 3 months
- _gcl_dc: 3 months
- _gcl_gb: 3 months
- _gcl_gf: 3 months
- _gcl_gs: 3 months
- _gcl_ha: 3 months
- ar_debug: 3 months
- id: 2 years
- receive-cookie-deprecation: 6 months
- test_cookie: 15 minutes
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Google Ads conversion tracking (Google LLC)
Google Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Google LLC that connects data from the Google Ads advertising network with actions performed on this Website.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Trackers duration:
- IDE: 2 years
- test_cookie: 15 minutes
How to manage preferences and provide or withdraw consent on this Website
Whenever the use of Trackers is based on consent, users can provide or withdraw such consent by setting or updating their preferences via the relevant privacy choices panel available on this Website.
With regard to any third-party Trackers, Users can manage their preferences via the related opt-out link (where provided), by using the means indicated in the third party's privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.
How to control or delete Cookies and similar technologies via your device settings
Users may use their own browser settings to:
- See what Cookies or other similar technologies have been set on the device;
- Block Cookies or similar technologies;
- Clear Cookies or similar technologies from the browser.
The browser settings, however, do not allow granular control of consent by category.
Users can, for example, find information about how to manage Cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses:
Users may also manage certain categories of Trackers used on mobile apps by opting out through relevant device settings such as the device advertising settings for mobile devices, or tracking settings in general (Users may open the device settings and look for the relevant setting).
How to opt out of interest-based advertising
Notwithstanding the above, Users may follow the instructions provided by YourOnlineChoices (EU and UK), the Network Advertising Initiative (US) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (US), DAAC (Canada), DDAI (Japan) or other similar services. Such initiatives allow Users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. The Owner thus recommends that Users make use of these resources in addition to the information provided in this document.
The Digital Advertising Alliance offers an application called AppChoices that helps Users to control interest-based advertising on mobile apps.
Consequences of denying the use of Trackers
Users are free to decide whether or not to allow the use of Trackers. However, please note that Trackers help this Website to provide a better experience and advanced functionalities to Users (in line with the purposes outlined in this document). Therefore, if the User chooses to block the use of Trackers, the Owner may be unable to provide related features.
Owner and Data Controller
SheepJam Productions
2515 Waukegan Road Suite 55
Bannockburn, IL 60015
Owner contact email: theteam@ahwayisland.com
Since the use of third-party Trackers through this Website cannot be fully controlled by the Owner, any specific references to third-party Trackers are to be considered indicative. In order to obtain complete information, Users are kindly requested to consult the privacy policies of the respective third-party services listed in this document.
Given the objective complexity surrounding tracking technologies, Users are encouraged to contact the Owner should they wish to receive any further information on the use of such technologies by this Website.