At The Pod Factory, accessible from www.thepodfactory.ie, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by The Pod Factory and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in The Pod Factory. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website. Our Privacy Policy was created with the help of the Free Privacy Policy Generator.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information we collect
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
Log Files
The Pod Factory follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analysing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, The Pod Factory uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information. Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user’s experience more efficient.
The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission.
This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.
For more general information on cookies, please read the Cookies article on Generate Privacy Policy website.
Cookies used on the website are as follows:
| PHPSESSID | thepodfactory.ie | / | Firstparty | Session | Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. |
| PHPSESSID cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie | |||||
| __cf_bm | .hubspot.com | / | Third -party | 30 minutes | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
| __cf_bm cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie | |||||
| __hssc | .thepodfactory.ie | / | First-party | 30 minutes | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. |
| __hssc cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie | |||||
| _gat | .thepodfactory.ie | / | First-party | 1 minute | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
| _gat cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie | |||||
| _gid | .thepodfactory.ie | / | First-party | 1 day | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. |
| _gid cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie | |||||
| __hssrc | .thepodfactory.ie | / | First-party | Session | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. |
| __hssrc cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie | |||||
| _ga | .thepodfactory.ie | / | First-party | 2 years | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
| _ga cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie | |||||
| __hstc | .thepodfactory.ie | / | First-party | 6 months | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. |
| __hstc cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie | |||||
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | / | Third-party | 1 year | This cookie is set by Doubleclick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| IDE cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie | |||||
| test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | / | Third-party | 15 minutes | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor’s browser supports cookies. |
| test_cookie cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie | |||||
| _fbp | .thepodfactory.ie | / | First-party | 3 months | Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
| _fbp cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie | |||||
| _gcl_au | .thepodfactory.ie | / | First-party | 3 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services |
| _gcl_au cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie | |||||
| hubspotutk | .thepodfactory.ie | / | First-party | 6 months | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. HubSpot report that its purpose is user authentication. As a persistent rather than a session cookie it cannot be classified as Strictly Necessary. |
| hubspotutk cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie | |||||
| __smToken | thepodfactory.ie | / | First-party | 1 year | This cookie is set by Sumo to verify whether the end user is logged in or not. |
| __smToken cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie | |||||
| __smVID | thepodfactory.ie | / | First-party | 1 month | |
| __smVID cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie | |||||
| _ga_F95CGN9K6F | .thepodfactory.ie | / | First-party | 2 years | |
| _ga_F95CGN9K6F
cookie was first detected on: https://www.thepodfactory.ie |
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of The Pod Factory.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on The Pod Factory, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that The Pod Factory has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
The Pod Factory’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
The Pod Factory does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.