Sources of Personal Information We Collect

We collect the categories of personal information listed above from various sources. This section lists and describes those sources.

Directly from you. We collect personal information directly from you when you provide it to us, for example, when you sign up for our newsletter, purchase merchandise, or contact us via email.

Indirectly from you. We may automatically collect personal information from you when you visit the Services through the use of tracking technologies or by other passive means. This “passively collected” information helps us to improve our offerings and allows us to ensure our Services work as designed and in a way that meets your expectations. Some examples include: 

• Log Information. Through the use of analytics tools, we may automatically record information that your browser or mobile device sends when you access our Site. This may include your device type, browser language, your computer operating system, your mobile device and mobile operating system, the name of your internet service provider or your mobile carrier, the date and time of your request, etc.

• Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies. When you visit or access our Site, we may utilize cookies (small text files containing a string of characters sent to your computer) or similar tracking technologies that uniquely identify your browser to track your activity and hold certain information. These tracking technologies may be categorized as follows: 

• Necessary: These tracking technologies help you access the Site and facilitate features on the Site. For example, these cookies may be used to assist with Site navigation.

• Functional: These tracking technologies support additional functionalities on our Site to provide an even smoother customer experience. 

• Performance: These tracking technologies help us to understand the behavior of our visitors. This enables us to keep improving our Site.

• Advertising/Targeting: These tracking technologies may be used to facilitate the presentation of relevant advertisements on other sites or applications.  

Most web browsers accept cookies automatically but can be configured not to do so or to notify the user when a cookie is being sent. If you wish to disable cookies, refer to your browser help menu to learn how to disable cookies. Please note that disabling all cookies could impact the performance of our Site and Services. Web Beacons and Pixels. Portions of our Services may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that we may use to help us analyze and improve our Services. We also work with service providers and advertising partners that use tracking pixels and similar tools to collect information about your visits to our Site and your behavior while on the Services. This information may be used by those third parties to deliver targeted advertisements to you across the internet based, at least in part, on your usage of our Services. From third parties. We may collect personal information about you from third parties, either at a user’s request or for our business purposes. These third-party sources vary, but could include the following:Technical Service Partners. We work with a variety of third-party service providers to enhance and provide our Services. In working with our service providers, we may exchange personal information to improve our Services. 

How We Use Personal InformationWe process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

• To provide our Services to you.

• To provide you information about our Services, including our podcast content and newsletters. 

• To ensure internal quality control and safety.

• To respond to your requests and inquiries.

• To communicate with you, such as to fulfill a request by you. 

We do not share your personal information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to provide information to you or as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy.We may create anonymous data records from personal information by excluding information (such as your name) that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We use this anonymous data to perform statistical analyses of users’ aggregate behavior so that we may enhance the content of our Services and improve Site navigation. We reserve the right to disclose anonymous data to third parties in our discretion. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage.

How We Disclose Personal InformationWe may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents (“third parties”) who perform services on our behalf or at our request. These third parties require access to such information to do that work. The categories of third parties we may share personal information with for this purpose include, but are not limited to, providers of:

• Data Analytics Services

• Payment Processors

• Hosting Services

We may also disclose or share the information we collect in connection with our Services with the following recipients and/or under the following circumstances: 

• Government and Legal Authorities. We may disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by governmental and other legal authorities, including requests from national security agencies, consumer protection agencies, courts, and similar authorities.

• Law Enforcement. Under appropriate circumstances, we may disclose personal information to law enforcement personnel and certain third parties for use in connection with and in support of law enforcement activities. 

• Business Transfers/Transactions. In the event of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other sale of all or a portion of our assets, any user information owned or controlled by us may be one of the assets transferred to third parties. We reserve the right, as part of this type of transaction, to transfer or assign your information and other information we have collected from users of the Service to third parties. Other than to the extent ordered by a bankruptcy or other court, the use and disclosure of all transferred user information will be subject to this Policy. However, any information you submit or that is collected after this type of transfer may be subject to a new privacy policy adopted by the successor entity.

• Safety, Fraud and Government Requests. To the extent permitted by law and in addition to the disclosures discussed above, we may disclose your personal information to government authorities or third parties if: (a) we believe in our sole discretion that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect against fraud, to protect our property or other rights or those of other users of the Services, third parties or the public at large; or (b) we believe that you have abused the Services by using them to attack other systems or to gain unauthorized access to any other system, to engage in spamming, or otherwise to violate applicable laws or in violation of other terms published by Scuttlebutt Media. You should be aware that, following disclosure to any third party, your information may be accessible by others to the extent permitted or required by applicable law.

Additional Privacy Information for Certain Jurisdictions

If you are a resident of California, please review our California Notice at Collection provided in Subsection 1. Subsection 2 includes additional information about your privacy rights under California privacy law. If you are a resident of another jurisdiction that has enacted an applicable privacy law, please review Subsection 3 below for additional information about your privacy rights under those privacy laws.

1. California Notice at Collection

This notice is provided pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act, as modified by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (collectively the “CCPA”), and should be read in conjunction with this Policy. The information in this section applies solely to California residents.Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal InformationThe chart below describes how and why we collect, use, and disclose personal information and also describes how and why we have collected, used, and disclosed personal information within the past 12 months, to the extent we have done so. 

Selling and Sharing of Personal Information

Scuttlebutt Media does not “sell” personal information, nor do we have actual knowledge of any “sale” of personal information of minors under 16 years of age. That said, we may share information with third-party advertising partners for the purpose of promoting our Services as described above, such as for targeted advertising.We may share the following categories of data with advertising partners for this purpose: 

• Internet or other Electronic Network Activity. 

To the extent that such sharing is considered a “sale”, "sharing", or "targeted advertising" under applicable state law, you may limit our sale/sharing of your personal information by clicking www.lamaterial.com/datarequestform or following the instructions found below in the section titled “Exercising Your Rights.” Additionally, we recognize Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) signals and other universal opt-out preference signals as valid consumer requests to opt out.

Retention of Personal InformationWe maintain the categories of personal information described above for as long as is necessary for the purposes described in this Notice or as otherwise authorized by law. This generally means holding the information for as long as one of the following apply:

• Your personal information is reasonably necessary to manage our operations, to manage your relationship with us, or to satisfy another purpose for which we collected the information;

• Your personal information is reasonably necessary to carry out a disclosed purpose that is reasonably compatible with the context in which the personal information was collected;

• Your personal information is reasonably required to protect or defend our rights or property, which will generally relate to applicable laws that limit actions in a particular case; or

• We are otherwise required or permitted to keep your personal information by applicable laws or regulations.

Where personal information is used for more than one purpose, we will retain it until the purpose with the latest period expires. 

1. Additional Information for California ResidentsThe categories of and the sources from which we collect personal information vary based on our relationship or interaction with a specific California resident and the business purpose for which the personal information is collected. Please reference the “Personal Information We Collect” and “Sources of Personal Information We Collect” sections for more information about these practices. Details regarding how we may share your personal information is available in the “How We Disclose Personal Information” section above. 

California Consumer Rights Subject to certain exceptions, as a California resident, you have the following rights to your personal information:

• Right to Know and Access: Request access to your personal information that we have collected, used, disclosed, or sold about you, including:

  • The categories of personal information we have collected about you, including:

    • The categories of sources from which the personal information was collected; 

    • Our business or commercial purposes for collecting or disclosing personal information;

    • The categories of recipients to which we disclose personal information; and 

    • The categories of personal information that we disclosed for a business purpose, and for each category identified, the categories of recipients to which we disclosed that particular category of personal information; or

  • The specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.

• Right to Deletion: Request deletion of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain limitations. If you ask to delete your personal information, we will respect your request and delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such as but not limited to:

  • Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.

  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.

  • Exercise free speech to ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights or exercise another right provided for by law.

  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code 1546 seq.).

  • Comply with a legal obligation.

  • Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

• Right to Correction: You have the right to request that we correct personal information we maintain about you that you believe is inaccurate.

• Right to Opt-out of Sales and Sharing: You have the right to opt-out of your personal information being shared for purposes of targeted advertising. 

• Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal information: You have the right to instruct us to limit the use of your Sensitive Personal Information for purposes not specifically authorized by the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”). We currently do not use Sensitive Personal Information for any such purposes.  

• Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of Rights: You have the right to be free from unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights under the CCPA. We will not discriminate against you based upon your exercising your rights with respect to your personal information.

Exercising Your Rights

If you are a California resident and wish to exercise any of these rights, please use the webform available at www.lamaterial.com/datarequestform or email us at [email protected].When submitting your request, you must provide sufficient information that allows us to verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or their authorized agent. This information includes your first and last name, email address, and address (if applicable). When submitting your request, please provide sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate and respond to the request. We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. If we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for security or fraud prevention purposes. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm that the personal information relates to you. 

Authorized Agents

You have the right to designate an authorized agent to act on your behalf to exercise your rights under the CCPA. In order to do so, We must verify your identity, and your authorized agent must have written permission from you. We reserve the right to deny a request from an agent that does not submit proof that they are authorized to act on your behalf.

Response Timing

We will attempt to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and the necessary extension period in writing.

1. Additional Information for Residents of Other Covered Jurisdictions

Residents of certain U.S. states (other than California) may also have the right to receive disclosures regarding a business’ processing of “personal data”, as defined under Applicable Privacy Law. Residents of these jurisdictions may have unique rights with respect to our processing of such personal data. To the extent you are a resident of a jurisdiction with such a privacy law, and we collect, use or disclose personal data subject to your jurisdiction’s privacy law, this section of our Policy applies. For more information about the personal data we collect, use and disclose, please see “Personal Information We Collect,” “How We Use Personal Information,” and “How We Disclose Personal Information” sections in this Policy.

Consumer RightsUnder Applicable Privacy Law, you have the following rights: 

• Right to Access: You have the right to confirm whether or not we are processing your personal data and to access such personal data. 

• Right of Portability: You may have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data that you previously provided to us in a format of our choosing as long as it is accessible and machine readable. 

• Right to Delete: You have the right to ask us to delete certain personal data we have collected about you. 

• Right to Correction: You have the right to ask us to correct inaccuracies in the personal data we have collected. 

• Right to Opt-out of Sale: A “sale” includes disclosing or making available personal data to a third party in exchange for money. We do not “sell” personal data as defined under Applicable Privacy Laws; thus, this right is not available to consumers at this time. 

• Right to Opt-out of Targeted Advertising: You have the right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising. Applicable Privacy Laws may provide the right to opt out of the processing of personal data for decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you. 

You may register to receive email updates/newsletters from Scuttlebutt Media using the form provided on our Site. After registration, you may opt out of receiving such emails by: (i) clicking the “unsubscribe” link (included in the email footer), or (ii) sending an opt out request to [email protected]

Links to Third Party Sites

Our Site contains links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of other websites. If you submit personal information to any of those websites, your information is governed by their privacy statements. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Site and to read the privacy policies of other websites and online services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update or change our privacy practices and this policy from time to time. If we update the Policy, we will publish the revised policy on this page or as otherwise required by law. The date at the top of this Policy reflects the date of the most recent update. Your continued use of the Services after we make changes is deemed, to the extent allowed by law, to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.

Children’s Privacy

Our Services are not intended for persons under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect or retain personal information from persons under the age of 13. 

If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected or otherwise received personal information from a child under age 13 without parental consent, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible. If you believe that we have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us at [email protected].

Eligible Users

We make no claim that the Services are appropriate for all jurisdictions. Access to the Services may not be legal for certain persons or in certain jurisdictions. You are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction. Please be advised that if you are located in the European Union or another region of the world that restricts data transfers to the United States, your personal information will be processed in the United States and may not have the same protection as provided in your jurisdiction. 

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us using the information provided below: 

Email: [email protected]
Address: 611 Wilshire Blvd., Ste 900 PMB #945 Los Angeles CA 90017