Who we are

Our website address is: https://blackbarrelmedia.com.

Privacy Policy for Black Barrel Media

It is Black Barrel Media’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://blackbarrelmedia.com. We are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Introduction

These Website Standard Terms and Conditions written on this webpage shall manage your use of our website, Black Barrel Media | Video & Podcast Creation accessible at https://blackbarrelmedia.com/.

These Terms will be applied fully and affect to your use of this Website. By using this Website, you agreed to accept all terms and conditions written in here. You must not use this Website if you disagree with any of these Website Standard Terms and Conditions. 

Minors or people below 18 years old are not allowed to use this Website.

Intellectual Property Rights

Other than the content you own, under these Terms, Black Barrel Media and/or its licensors own all the intellectual property rights and materials contained in this Website.

You are granted limited license only for purposes of viewing the material contained on this Website.

Restrictions

You are specifically restricted from all of the following:

  • publishing any Website material in any other media;
  • selling, sublicensing and/or otherwise commercializing any Website material;
  • publicly performing and/or showing any Website material;
  • using this Website in any way that is or may be damaging to this Website;
  • using this Website in any way that impacts user access to this Website;
  • using this Website contrary to applicable laws and regulations, or in any way may cause harm to the Website, or to any person or business entity;
  • engaging in any data mining, data harvesting, data extracting or any other similar activity in relation to this Website;
  • using this Website to engage in any advertising or marketing.

Certain areas of this Website are restricted from being access by you and Black Barrel Media may further restrict access by you to any areas of this Website, at any time, in absolute discretion. Any user ID and password you may have for this Website are confidential and you must maintain confidentiality as well.

Your Content

In these Website Standard Terms and Conditions, “Your Content” shall mean any audio, video text, images or other material you choose to display on this Website. By displaying Your Content, you grant Black Barrel Media a non-exclusive, worldwide irrevocable, sub licensable license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute it in any and all media.

Your Content must be your own and must not be invading any third-party’s rights. Black Barrel Media reserves the right to remove any of Your Content from this Website at any time without notice.

Your Privacy

Please read Privacy Policy.

No warranties

This Website is provided “as is,” with all faults, and Black Barrel Media express no representations or warranties, of any kind related to this Website or the materials contained on this Website. Also, nothing contained on this Website shall be interpreted as advising you.

Limitation of liability

In no event shall Black Barrel Media, nor any of its officers, directors and employees, shall be held liable for anything arising out of or in any way connected with your use of this Website whether such liability is under contract.  Black Barrel Media, including its officers, directors and employees shall not be held liable for any indirect, consequential or special liability arising out of or in any way related to your use of this Website.

Indemnification

You hereby indemnify to the fullest extent Black Barrel Media from and against any and/or all liabilities, costs, demands, causes of action, damages and expenses arising in any way related to your breach of any of the provisions of these Terms.

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid under any applicable law, such provisions shall be deleted without affecting the remaining provisions herein.

Variation of Terms

Black Barrel Media is permitted to revise these Terms at any time as it sees fit, and by using this Website you are expected to review these Terms on a regular basis.

Assignment

The Black Barrel Media is allowed to assign, transfer, and subcontract its rights and/or obligations under these Terms without any notification. However, you are not allowed to assign, transfer, or subcontract any of your rights and/or obligations under these Terms.

Entire Agreement

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between Black Barrel Media and you in relation to your use of this Website, and supersede all prior agreements and understandings.

Governing Law & Jurisdiction

These Terms will be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the United States, and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in United States for the resolution of any disputes.

 

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

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

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

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should 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.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). 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, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

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

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can 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 an automated spam detection service.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Black Barrel Media collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Black Barrel Media’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Black Barrel Media’s visitors use its website in order for us to improve how we provide services to our customers. From time to time, Black Barrel Media may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Black Barrel Media also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://blackbarrelmedia.com blog posts. Black Barrel Media only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Black Barrel Media’s websites choose to interact with Black Barrel Media in ways that require Black Barrel Media to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Black Barrel Media gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at https://blackbarrelmedia.supportingcast.fm/ to provide an email address and credit card.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by our advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about those who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Black Barrel Media and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.Links To External Sites

Our Service and Black Barrel Media website may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third- party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit, including https://www.supportingcast.fm at: https://slate.com/privacy who provides the Black Barrel+ membership service. The payment processing service for Black Barrel+, Stripe at: https://stripe.com/privacy

Paypal for donations at: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Teespring for merchandise at: https://teespring.com/policies/privacy

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites, products or services.

Protection of Certain Personally Identifying Information

Black Barrel Media discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Black Barrel Media’s behalf or to provide services available at Black Barrel Media’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Black Barrel Media’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Black Barrel Media will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Black Barrel Media discloses potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Black Barrel Media believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Black Barrel Media, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://blackbarrelmedia.supportingcast.fm/ or have signed up for our newsletter and have supplied your email address, Black Barrel Media may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Black Barrel Media and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Black Barrel Media takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

Black Barrel Media may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Black Barrel Media may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Black Barrel Media does not disclose your personally identifying information as part of these aggregated statistics.

Cookies

To enrich and improve your online experience, Black Barrel Media uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Black Barrel Media uses cookies to help Black Barrel Media identify and track visitors, their usage of https://blackbarrelmedia.supportingcast.fm/, and their website access preferences. Black Barrel Media visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Black Barrel Media’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Black Barrel Media’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies. By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Black Barrel Media’s use of cookies.

E-commerce

Those who engage in transactions with Black Barrel Media – by purchasing Black Barrel Media’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Black Barrel Media collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Black Barrel Media. Black Barrel Media does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described herein. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Business Transfers

If Black Barrel Media, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Black Barrel Media goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Black Barrel Media may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Black Barrel Media may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Black Barrel Media’s sole discretion. Black Barrel Media encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.