Privacy Policy

Effective Date: June 12 2026
Website: https://unshaken-media.com/
Organization / Website Owner: Unshaken Media
Contact Email: info[at]unshaken-series.com

  1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how Unshaken Media collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects personal information when you visit our website, subscribe to our email list, contact us, interact with our podcast-related content, or otherwise use the website.

This website promotes and shares information about our podcast, including episodes, updates, announcements, news, resources, and related content.

By using this website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

  1. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information.

Information you provide directly

When you use our website, you may choose to provide personal information such as:

  • Your name;
  • Your email address;
  • Information submitted through email subscription forms, contact forms, or other website forms;
  • Communication preferences, such as whether you wish to receive podcast updates, newsletters, or announcements;
  • Any other information you choose to provide when communicating with us.

Information collected automatically

When you visit the website, certain technical and usage information may be collected automatically, including:

  • IP address;
  • Browser type and version;
  • Device type;
  • Operating system;
  • Pages visited;
  • Links clicked;
  • Date and time of visit;
  • Referring website, campaign, advertisement, email, or source;
  • Approximate geographic location based on IP address;
  • Session activity and interaction data;
  • Security logs and server logs;
  • Cookie identifiers and similar tracking identifiers.

This information may be collected through WordPress, website hosting logs, security tools, analytics tools, tag management tools, cookies, pixels, scripts, and similar technologies.

  1. How We Use Your Information

We may use personal information and website usage information for the following purposes:

  • To send podcast updates, newsletters, announcements, or other email communications you have requested;
  • To respond to inquiries or messages submitted through the website;
  • To operate, maintain, and improve the website;
  • To understand how visitors find and use the website;
  • To measure website traffic, page performance, user engagement, and marketing effectiveness;
  • To improve podcast promotion, website content, user experience, and communication strategies;
  • To monitor website performance, errors, and technical issues;
  • To help protect the website from spam, fraud, abuse, malware, unauthorized access, and other security risks;
  • To send transactional or administrative emails;
  • To manage website backups and hosting operations;
  • To comply with legal, regulatory, security, or technical obligations.

We do not sell personal information.

  1. Email Subscriptions and Marketing Communications

If you subscribe to our email list, we may use your name and email address to send podcast-related updates, announcements, newsletters, event information, episode releases, promotional messages, or other communications.

Our email subscription system may currently use a website form and may later be connected to a specialized email marketing platform such as Mailchimp, Constant Contact, or a similar provider.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in our emails or by contacting us at info[at]unshaken-series.com

We aim to comply with applicable anti-spam laws, including requirements related to consent, sender identification, and unsubscribe options.

  1. Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Tracking Technologies

We may use Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and similar analytics, tag management, advertising, or tracking platforms to understand how visitors use the website and to improve our content, marketing, and user experience.

These tools may collect or process information such as:

  • Pages visited;
  • Time spent on pages;
  • Links clicked;
  • Referral sources;
  • Browser and device information;
  • Approximate location;
  • IP address or derived location information;
  • Cookie identifiers;
  • Session information;
  • Interaction events, such as form views, button clicks, downloads, video or podcast player interactions, and subscription actions.

Google Analytics may use cookies and similar technologies to help analyze website traffic and usage patterns. Google Tag Manager may be used to manage and deploy analytics tags, marketing tags, pixels, scripts, or other tracking technologies on the website.

We may also use other tracking platforms in the future, including advertising pixels, conversion tracking tools, retargeting tools, social media pixels, podcast analytics tools, or similar technologies.

These tools may help us:

  • Understand how visitors arrive at the website;
  • Measure which pages or podcast-related content are most popular;
  • Track newsletter signups or other conversion events;
  • Improve website content and design;
  • Measure the effectiveness of advertising, social media, email campaigns, or other promotional efforts;
  • Show or measure relevant ads, where applicable.

Depending on the tracking tools used, information may be processed by third parties such as Google, social media platforms, advertising networks, analytics providers, or marketing technology providers.

We do not intentionally send sensitive personal information through Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, or advertising pixels. We also aim to avoid sending personally identifiable information, such as names, email addresses, or contact form message content, to analytics or advertising platforms unless clearly disclosed and permitted by applicable law and platform rules.

  1. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, and similar technologies.

Cookies are small files placed on your device when you visit a website. Some cookies are necessary for the website to function, while others help us understand website usage, improve performance, remember preferences, measure marketing campaigns, or support advertising and retargeting.

We may use the following categories of cookies or similar technologies:

Necessary cookies

These cookies are required for the website to function properly, support security features, manage forms, prevent spam, or maintain basic website operations.

Analytics and performance cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors use the website, which pages are visited, how users navigate the site, and how the website performs.

These may include Google Analytics or similar tools.

Marketing and tracking cookies

These cookies or pixels may help measure marketing campaigns, track conversions, understand referral sources, or support advertising and retargeting.

These may include Google Tag Manager, Google advertising tools, social media pixels, podcast promotion tracking, or similar platforms.

Embedded content cookies

If the website includes embedded podcast players, videos, social media posts, maps, or other third-party content, those third parties may set their own cookies or collect data when you interact with the embedded content.

You can control cookies through your browser settings. You may be able to block, delete, or restrict cookies. However, some parts of the website may not function properly if cookies are disabled.

Where required by applicable law, we may provide a cookie notice, cookie banner, consent tool, or preference mechanism that allows visitors to manage certain non-essential cookies or tracking technologies.

  1. Managing Tracking Preferences

You may be able to manage tracking and cookie preferences in several ways:

  • Adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies;
  • Use privacy settings available on your browser or device;
  • Use available opt-out tools provided by analytics or advertising platforms;

Please note that blocking or disabling some tracking technologies may affect website functionality, analytics accuracy, embedded content, or user experience.

  1. Transactional Emails and SMTP Provider

Our website may use an SMTP plugin connected to SendGrid or a similar transactional email provider to send administrative or transactional emails, such as form confirmations, website notifications, password reset messages, or other operational emails.

When these emails are sent, limited personal information such as your email address, message content, technical email delivery data, and related metadata may be processed by the email delivery provider for the purpose of delivering and managing those emails.

  1. Website Hosting and cPanel

This website is hosted on a virtual hosting environment using cPanel or a similar hosting control panel.

Our hosting provider may process technical data required to operate the website, including server logs, IP addresses, files, databases, security records, error logs, and backup-related data.

Hosting data may be stored on servers located in Canada, the United States, or other jurisdictions depending on the hosting provider’s infrastructure.

  1. Security and Firewall Plugin

We use website security tools, including a firewall plugin, to help protect the website against spam, malware, brute-force attacks, unauthorized access, suspicious activity, and other security risks.

These tools may collect and process technical information such as:

  • IP address;
  • Login attempts;
  • Browser and device information;
  • Requested URLs;
  • Security event logs;
  • Blocked or suspicious activity;
  • Country or approximate location derived from IP address.

This information is used for security, fraud prevention, troubleshooting, website protection, and enforcement of website security rules.

  1. WordPress, Elementor, Plugins, and Website Tools

This website runs on WordPress and may use Elementor and other WordPress plugins to design, manage, secure, optimize, and operate the website.

These tools may process limited technical and usage information necessary for website functionality, form handling, page display, analytics, tracking, security, performance, or administration.

We aim to use reputable plugins and service providers and to keep the website, plugins, and related software updated where reasonably possible.

  1. Backups and Cloud Storage

We may use an automatic backup solutions to create backups of the website, including website files and databases.

Backups may be stored in secure cloud storage services such as Dropbox or similar providers. These backups may include website content, configuration data, form submissions, user-related data, email addresses, logs, analytics-related configuration, plugin settings, and other information stored on the website at the time the backup is created.

Backups are used for disaster recovery, troubleshooting, website restoration, and security purposes.

  1. Embedded Content and Third-Party Links

This website may include embedded content or links to third-party websites, platforms, podcast players, social media pages, video platforms, music platforms, analytics platforms, advertising platforms, or external services.

Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visited those websites directly. These third parties may collect data about you, use cookies, embed tracking, and monitor your interaction with their content.

Examples may include podcast players, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, social media platforms, Google services, or other third-party tools.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites or services. We encourage you to review their privacy policies.

  1. Third-Party Service Providers

We may share limited personal information or technical information with trusted service providers that help us operate, secure, analyze, promote, and improve the website. These may include:

  • Website hosting providers;
  • Email marketing platforms such as Mailchimp, Constant Contact, or similar providers;
  • Transactional email providers such as SendGrid;
  • Cloud backup providers such as Dropbox or similar services;
  • WordPress plugin providers;
  • Website security and firewall providers;
  • Google Analytics;
  • Google Tag Manager;
  • Advertising, analytics, tracking, retargeting, or conversion measurement platforms;
  • Podcast hosting or podcast analytics services;
  • Social media platforms;
  • Analytics or performance tools.

These providers may process information only as necessary to provide their services to us, subject to their own legal obligations, privacy policies, terms, and security practices.

  1. Advertising and Retargeting

We may use advertising, retargeting, or conversion tracking tools in the future to promote the podcast, measure campaign performance, or show relevant content or advertisements to people who have visited the website.

These tools may use cookies, pixels, device identifiers, browser information, and website activity to measure ad performance or help deliver relevant ads on other websites or platforms.

If we use these tools, the advertising or social media platforms may process information according to their own privacy policies and settings. You may be able to control some advertising preferences through your browser, device, platform account settings, or industry opt-out tools.

  1. International Processing and Storage

Some of our service providers may process or store information outside your province, state, or country, including in Canada, the United States, or other jurisdictions.

When information is processed in another jurisdiction, it may be subject to the laws of that jurisdiction, including lawful access requests by courts, law enforcement, or government authorities.

  1. Retention of Information

We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

For example:

  • Email subscription information may be kept until you unsubscribe or request deletion;
  • Contact form messages may be kept as long as needed to respond and maintain business records;
  • Security logs may be kept for a limited period for fraud prevention and website protection;
  • Analytics data may be retained according to the settings of the analytics platform used;
  • Marketing and tracking data may be retained according to the settings of the applicable advertising, analytics, or tracking platform;
  • Backups may retain information for a limited backup retention cycle before being overwritten or deleted.
  1. How We Protect Information

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

These safeguards may include:

  • Website firewall and security tools;
  • Secure hosting controls;
  • SSL/TLS encryption where available;
  • Access controls for website administrators;
  • Secure password practices;
  • Backup and recovery procedures;
  • Plugin and software maintenance;
  • Limiting access to website, analytics, email, and marketing tools to authorized users.

However, no website, hosting environment, email system, analytics tool, or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

  1. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to personal information we hold about you;
  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information;
  • Withdraw consent for certain uses of your information;
  • Unsubscribe from marketing emails;
  • Request deletion of certain personal information, subject to legal, technical, or legitimate business limitations;
  • Ask questions about cookies, analytics, or tracking technologies;
  • Make a privacy-related complaint.

To make a privacy request, contact us at:

Email: info[at]unshaken-series.com

We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

  1. Children’s Privacy

This website is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

If you believe a child has provided personal information through the website, please contact us and we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

  1. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, services, plugins, analytics tools, tracking platforms, third-party providers, legal requirements, or privacy practices.

The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.