Privacy Policy

WHO WE ARE?

Talk Cosmos is the personal web site of Sue Rose Minahan. Our website address is: https://www.talkcosmos.com

WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT

Platforms

While using our Platforms, you may review content, register, or listen to our live streams, sign up to receive announcements, possibly enter contests, or link to our Facebook, twitter or Instagram pages by liking or following us, along with a variety of other functions. Depending on how you use our Platforms, we may collect, name, email, and other information you may voluntarily provide to us such as birth data. We also collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit our website, such as the type of browser you use (Chrome, Safari etc.), and the type of operating system such as either Mac or Windows.

Collection of information by Third Party Sites

Some of our Platforms contain links to other sites whose information practice may well be different from ours. Please be encouraged to contact the sites to inquire of their privacy policies because we have not any control over information submitted or collected by these third parties.

Google Analytics

When visiting https://talkcosmos.com we use a third-party service Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. This is to learn the number of visitors to the parts of the site so to understand how the material relates to the population. This information gets processed so it will not identify anyone. We do not make or allow Google to make attempts to find out the identities of the individuals visiting our website.

General Mailing Lists

As part of our registration process for the weekly e-announcements, your first name, last name and email are collected.  Our landing page gives the option for the birthdate, but this is not required. We use this information for a few reasons: to advise you about the upcoming scheduled panel event, to contact you if we might need to obtain or provide additional information, and to check if our records continue to be right and to check occasionally that you’re happy and content. We will never rent or trade email lists with any other business or organization.

We use a third -party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using the industry standard technologies provided through MailChimp to help monitor and improve the future announcements to better serve you. You can unsubscribe to the general mailings at your choice at any time day or night, just by clicking unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of the MailChimp emails. Or just email to request support through info@talkcosmos.com.

Third Parties

If you are a guest on the podcast and YouTube your photo, name, bio, website, and social media are made public on our public guest profile on our website.  Your contact information is not made available to the public; however, it is made available to the sound board engineer operating the station’s program during the hour of the event, as well as to the other panel guests participating during the same program event.

If you want your contact information removed or edited, please email the updated information to info@talkcosmos.com.

Access to your personal information

You are welcomed at any time to view, amend and/or delete the personal and business information on the site. Email to info@talkcosmos.com.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (and called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service only to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After their approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public only in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you need to avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. It serves for your convenience allowing so will not have to fill in your details again if you choose to leave another comment.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Please realize that embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, and use cookies, to embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, which includes tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA TO?

We do not and will not share your data with any 3rd parties. We promise to maintain a policy to never sell your data to anyone.

HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata will be retained indefinitely. It is in order so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA

If you have left comments, you may request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

WHERE WE SEND YOUR DATA

Visitor comments may be checked through a standard automated spam detection service.

YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION

We store only the contact information you submit through our website. Your contact information is only used for your purposes navigating our website and when we set up our store, then using our store online platform.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA

Our website is fully encrypted.