Last updated: March 16th, 2023
At The Sirius Report, we greatly value your privacy and the trust you place in us to maintain that privacy. We will in no way sell, rent or trade email lists or other personal data with third-parties for marketing purposes. In this Privacy Policy, we provide detailed information on the personal data we collect, when and why we collect it and how we use it.
WEBSITE COOKIES
We use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. We do this to improve browsing experience and to show personalized ads. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Google AdSense
We display personalized ads on our website using Google AdSense. AdSense uses cookies to improve advertising. Some common applications are to target advertising based on what’s relevant to you, to improve reporting on campaign performance, and to avoid showing ads you have already seen. For more information about how AdSense uses cookies, read their Privacy & Terms.
Other ways we use 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.
We also use other cookies on our website. For detailed information about the cookies we use, please visit our cookie policy. If you are a citizen or legal permanent resident of the European Economic Area or Switzerland, please visit our EU cookie policy.
CONTACT FORM
Our contact form uses the WPForms plugin. Entry data is handled completely on our site. WPForms provides 100% privacy for our entries, so no entry data is collected on their end.
When you submit a contact form entry, we may store your entry data on our site and in our mailbox. This data will only ever be used for customer service purposes.
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.
We use Akismet anti-spam service. Akismet collects information about visitors who comment on our website. The information it collects typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself)
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.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
When someone visits www.thesiriusreport.com we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. Click here to view Google’s privacy policy.
EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER SITES
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.
MAILING LISTS
As part of the registration process for our mailing list, we collect email addresses. We use those email addresses to send you emails when new posts are added to our website and any other updates and information that pertains to this website. Your email address will only be collected and added to our mailing list once you have signed up with your email address via the form on our website, or if you have contacted us and specifically asked to be added to our mailing list. We do not rent or trade email lists with third-parties.
We also collect email addresses for a separate mailing list, which is used only for Premium Content subscribers. These email addresses are collected upon registration for our Premium Content service. We use this mailing list only to send emails when new podcasts are available on our website and any updates or information regarding our Premium Content service. Again, we do not rent or trade email lists with third-parties.
We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our mailing services. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails or by emailing us via the contact form on our website.
MEMBERSHIP DATA
When you purchase a membership on our website, your email address and username will be stored in our system. If you have registered via Paypal, we will also see the name and email address that is associated with your Paypal account. If you have registered via Stripe (debit/credit card), we will see the last four digits of your debit/credit card, the type of card being used (Visa/Mastercard etc.) the card’s expiration date and the country of origin.
When a customer registers via Paypal, we will ask the customer to email us a preferred password so that we may set up their account for access to our Premium Content. Passwords can be changed by the customer at any time.
In some cases, customers may wish to make payments via bank transfer. In this case, we do not ask for any personal data. Once payment has been made into our bank account, we will only see the name that is associated with the customer’s bank account.
We do not sell, rent or trade this data with any third-parties.
WEBSITE TRAFFIC DATA
Upon visiting our website, your IP address, hostname and (approximate) location will be collected. We only use this information for security purposes and we do not sell, rent or trade it with any third-parties.
HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
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.
DATA COLLECTED TO MANAGE YOUR MEMBERSHIP
At checkout, we will collect your email address, username, and password. This information is used to setup your account for our site. If you are redirected to an offsite payment gateway to complete your payment, we may store this information in a temporary session variable to setup your account when you return to our site.
At checkout, we may also collect your billing address and phone number. This information is used to confirm your credit card. The billing address and phone number are saved by our site to prepopulate the checkout form for future purchases and so we can get in touch with you if needed to discuss your order.
At checkout, we may also collect your credit card number, expiration date, and security code. This information is passed to our payment gateway to process your purchase. The last 4 digits of your credit card number and the expiration date are saved by our site to use for reference and to send you an email if your credit card will expire before the next recurring payment.
When logged in, we use cookies to track some of your activity on our site including logins, visits, and page views.
When you sign up for a Standard (Monthy) or Standard (Yearly) membership, we will add your email address and/or username to a private subscribers list on Captivate.fm. This information is stored in our private account on Captivate’s website and is not publicly available. This is to generate a unique URL with which you can play our podcast in various podcast apps.
COOKIE CONSENT
This website uses the Privacy Suite for WordPress by Complianz to collect and record Browser and Device-based Consent. For this functionality, your IP address is anonymized and stored in our database. This service does not process any personally identifiable information and does not share any data with the service provider. For more information, see the Complianz Privacy Statement.
THIRD PARTIES
We use the following third-party service providers:
PayPal for payment processing (For their privacy policy, please click here)
Stripe for payment processing (For their privacy policy, please click here)
Wise for bank transfers (For their privacy policy, please click here)
Our website is hosted by SiteGround. Click here for their privacy policy.
We use WordPress as our content management system. Click here for their privacy policy.
For our mailing services, we use MailChimp. Click here for their privacy policy.
For podcast hosting, we use Captivate.fm
For video hosting, we use Vimeo
We use Paid Memberships Pro as our membership plugin
Elementor for content management
SiteOrigin for content management
Wordfence as our security plugin
ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold. You can go to “My Account” to view and amend data such as your email address, name and password or you can email your request to us via our contact form.
PRIVACY POLICY REVISIONS
We reserve the right to amend, revise, or modify this policy and any other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner. Any revisions, amendments, or modifications will be posted on this page.