We may collect and process the following data about you:

• Personal data including, for example, your name, e-mail address, password, and in certain instances, telephone number, data about your usage of the Products, data you provide in connection with your usage of the Products, and data collected by tracking technologies as further described in section 9 below that may identify you as an individual or allow online contact with you as an individual.
• Pause Here does not collect or process credit or debit card (“Payment Card”) data. Apple and Google collect Payment Card data with respect to in-app purchases made through the Apps. Such payment processors generally provide us with some limited data related to you, such as a unique, anonymous token that enables you to make additional purchases using the data they’ve stored, and your card’s type, expiration date, billing address, and the last four digits of your card number.
• For individuals using the Services in connection with a corporate client account as described in section 6, business data such as your company name, and company email address to the extent that you or your company provides such data.
• Device information such as the hardware model, operating system and version, device identifiers set by your device operating system, and mobile network information (like your connection type, carrier and region).
• Standard log files when you use our Services, which include the type of web browser you use, app version, access times and dates, pages viewed, your IP address, and the page you visited before navigating to our websites.
• Data collected via tracking technologies, as fully described in section 9.
• We may obtain information about you from publicly available sources, marketing and advertising partners, consumer research platforms, and/or business contact databases.
• All the information you need to fill in the open text fields during account registration is mandatory. Any failure to complete that information or any response Pause Here considers abnormal may result in Pause Here refusing (or being unable) to process your request. You agree that the personal data you provide about yourself to Pause Here will be current, accurate, complete and unequivocal.

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, maintain and improve our Services, including debugging to identify and repair errors, and developing new products and services. 
• Ensure that content provided by our Services is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or other device.
• Answer your questions or requests for information or handle your complaints.
• Provide you with promotional communications, such as email, to the extent that you have provided consent and/or consistent with notice and any opt-out rights to receive such communications under applicable law.
• Notify you about updates or changes to Service features and content.
• Monitor and analyse trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services. 
• Understand your broad, non-specific geographic location to help us identify groups of users by general geographic market (such as zip code, state or country).
• Inform Partners about your registration and use of the Services as described under Corporate Sharing in section 6.
• Personalise your online experience and the advertisements you see on other platforms, such as Facebook or Google, based on your preferences, interests, and browsing behaviour. 
• Detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect the rights and property of Pause Here and others, including enforcing our agreements and policies. If you feel your transaction was declined in error, please contact us for assistance at contact@pausehere.fm. 

The security of your personal data is important to us. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal data submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received. 

We share information about you as follows and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection:

• With companies and contractors that perform services for us, including email service providers, payment processors, fraud prevention vendors and other service providers. 
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation such as to comply with a subpoena, bankruptcy proceedings, or similar legal process, or in order to enforce or apply our agreements with you; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Pause Here, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging data with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• If we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, if we believe you have violated the law, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of Pause Here or others. 
• In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company. 
• Between and among Pause Here and our current and future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership. 
• With your consent or at your direction. For instance, you may choose to share actions you take on our Services with third-party social media services via the integrated tools we provide via our Services.
• With third parties, such as Facebook, in order to serve Pause Here advertisements on such third-party platforms, to the extent that you have consented to or have been provided with notice of, and an opportunity to opt-out of, such practices under applicable law.
• With your company, if your subscription is a Corporate Subscription, as described under section 6.
• If our service providers (e.g., hosting, IT maintenance, market analytics, and payment service providers) require this data to provide services to Pause Here. We require all of our service providers to agree to maintain the confidentiality and security of your personal data.
• Your personal information is accessible to only a limited number of Pause Here personnel who need access to the information to perform their duties. Please note, however, that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

If you sign up to receive promotional materials from us via email and/or push notifications we will use the data you give us to provide the communications you have requested. If you inform us that you wish to cancel email promotional materials by selecting “unsubscribe” at the bottom of such communication or by emailing us at contact@pausehere.fm, we will remove you from our mailing list. Please be advised that if you opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations that are required to provide you with our Services. 

With your consent, we send promotional and other push notifications to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.

Our company would like to make sure you are fully aware of all your data protection rights. Every user has, if applicable, the right to:

• Update certain account information you provide to us (such as your password, name and email address) by logging into your account or contacting us at contact@pausehere.fm. You have the right to request copies of your personal data or for our company to transfer the data we have collected to another organization or directly to you under certain conditions. If you wish to disable your account, please contact us at contact@pausehere.fm, but note that we retain certain information when required or permitted by law. We also retain cached or archived copies of information about you for a certain period of time.
• Request that our company restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions. You also have the right to object to our company’s processing of personal data under certain conditions. 
• Subject to certain limits and conditions provided under law, we honour the exercise of the right of access or deletion for all of our users, regardless of their location. Any Pause Here user may exercise this right by contacting us at contact@pausehere.fm.

Pause Here is also offered through partnerships with organisations. Sometimes corporations, governments, hospitals, universities and other organisations and groups (“Partner(s)”) wish to make Pause Here available to their members, employees and their families, patients, customers, residents or others. For example, employers may offer their employees and their families access to Pause Here and brands that promote wellness may wish to offer Pause Here through their loyalty programs. If you have registered to use our Services through a code, credential, or other means of registration furnished by a Partner, the Partner may have access to your name, email address, the date you registered to use the Services, and the date on which you last used the Services. 

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure encrypted server infrastructure based around the world, in countries including the UK, United States, Canada, Australia and countries located in the European Union. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of the Products, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone and suggest that you change your password frequently.

Unfortunately, the transmission of data via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Products; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your data, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

We retain personal data for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed unless applicable law requires storage for a longer period of time.

Our company’s website might contain links to and from our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these external websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these websites or their policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these external websites.

When you use the Pause Here podcast or visit our website, we may send cookies or other similar tracking technologies to your computer, smartphone or other devices when you access the internet. Pause Here uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to track users’ preferences, improve your experience and make our app function effectively.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies are used for user identification and proper assignment of historical user data collected during previous visits. For further information visit allaboutcookies.org

At Pause Here, we use a few flavours of cookies to understand and save user’s preferences for: 

• Strictly necessary cookies: these types of cookies enable you to access and browse websites and use their features. Without these cookies, services like billing or shopping baskets cannot work properly.
• Performance cookies: these cookies collect information and data about how you use our websites and/or applications. The data collected can be used to optimise our websites and/or applications. These cookies are used to know where our visitors and users are coming from. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you personally.
• Functionality cookies: these cookies allow our website or application to remember your choices. They can be used to memorise your location or your preferences such as language settings or font size.

Users may delete or remove cookies for the browser at any time or block cookies from being installed on their devices. However, this may affect the operation of our services or even result in its blocking.

As described above, we use your personal information and data to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:

• We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use our website and application. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
• We use a Facebook pixel on our website. Using the pixel, Facebook collects information about the users and use of our website. The information is used to personalise Facebook advertisements and to analyse the use of our website. To find out more about the Facebook pixel and about Facebook's use of personal data generally, see the Facebook cookie policy at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ and the Facebook privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy. The Facebook cookie policy includes information about controlling Facebook's use of cookies to show you advertisements. If you are a registered Facebook user, you can adjust how advertisements are targeted by following the instructions at https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217.

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising through the following links:

• FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
  
• GOOGLE - https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
  

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/.

How to manage cookies?

You have the right to accept or reject cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the app. 

Here are some of the main explanations on how to delete cookies on your browser:

• Chrome
  
• Firefox
  
• Opera
  
• Internet Explorer
  
• Edge
  
• Safari
  

For mobile devices, if you don’t want to receive targeted advertising based on your centre of interest coming from a mobile application, please check the parameters of the operating system of your mobile device and follow these instructions:

• iOS Users - enable “Limited Ad Tracking” following the instructions given by Apple.
• Android Users - enable the option “deactivate ad personalisation”, and follow the instructions given by Google on Google Play.
• You might want to download the DAA mobile AppChoices application to control behavioural advertising online.

If you do not think we are handling your personal information adequately, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority in your country. Please see this directory for contact details: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en. If you are in Switzerland, please visit this FDPIC site for contact details: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/the-fdpic/contact.html. If you are in the United Kingdom, please see this site for contact details: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/.

If you have any questions or requests about our privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please email us at: contact@pausehere.fm

Pause Here will revise or update this policy from time to time, if we make significant changes to how we handle personal information we will post changes to the policy on our site and change the date at the end.

Updated on: 24 September 2023