At Pipit & Finch we recognize the importance of privacy to visitors to our web site Saysyouradio.com – including any features, applications, and services of this site; collectively referred to as Saysyouradio.com Services herein.
This privacy policy explains what type of information is collected from you when you visit Saysyouradio.com and how that information may be used. Please note this Privacy Policy is separate and distinct from the privacy policies governing the web sites, applications and services of National Public Radio (NPR) and its member stations, and the web sites, applications and services that may link to or from the Saysyouradio.com Services.
Gathering of Information
Many of the features and services on our site do not require visitors to register. Saysyouradio.com asks visitors to provide certain personal information when submitting content, questions, or comments to “Got A Good One”, “Listener Feedback”, “Contact Us”, responding to a contest, or sending us email; all known as User Material.
Saysyouradio.com collects personally identifying information such as your name, email address, and local radio station. For purchases made through Saysyouradio.com additional information including your address, telephone number, and credit card information may be required.
Any information you submit on or through Saysyouradio.com or other social networking features, as part of listener contributions, questions, or listener comments may become public, including the full name and nickname you provide.
Cookies and Other Technologies
At present Saysyouradio.com does not use ‘cookies’ to collect and analyze information. A cookie is a string of characters that can be written to a file on the user’s hard drive when the user visits a web site, application or service. Only the web site, application or service that writes the cookie can read it, and it can only be used as a record-keeping device to store user IDs and information that the site already has. It cannot be used to read other information from the user’s hard drive.
If you wish to prevent certain or all cookies or web beacons from being created on your hard drive or device or to clear existing cookies or web beacons from your browser’s or device’s cache, you may be able to disable them in your browser’s preferences, although your browser might then be unable to accommodate certain future functionalities on Saysyouradio.com.
Use of Information
Personally identifying information collected by Saysyouradio.com is not provided to outside parties except for limited purposes including, NPR and NPR-member stations, Saysyouradio.com service vendors (such as the order fulfillment service(s), the Saysyouradio.com email list manager, and the provider of the tool that allows users to sign in using information from their account with a third party service). In these circumstances, the information is provided for the sole purpose of and only to the extent necessary for—processing merchandise orders, delivering the requested goods to the user, delivering communications from Saysyouradio.com, Pipit & Finch or NPR to users who have ‘opted in’ to the receipt of these communications, providing services for and on behalf of Saysyouradio.com, or serving other internal Pipit & Finch or NPR purposes.
The use of personally identifying information is limited to the following: managing and administering the Saysyouradio.com Services; responding to user messages; listing name and location (city, state, and/or country) of a listener and the radio station most often listened to by a listener; fulfillment of commerce orders from our shop(s); contest management; editorial purposes such as contacting users for an online survey; sending email newsletters and other communications, including marketing and promotion communications from Saysyouradio.com, Pipit & Finch, or NPR member stations to users who have opted in to the receipt of such communications. Saysyouradio.com and Pipit & Finch may contact users regarding their submissions in certain circumstances.
Any information you disclose when using the features and services of Saysyouradio.com (including creating a profile or submitting content or a question or responding to a contest or conversation), such as your full name and any nickname, is likely to become public. This information may be posted on Saysyouradio.com. In addition, Saysyouradio.com and Pipit & Finch may use, copy, sublicense, modify, transmit, publicly perform, display, create derivative works of, host, index, cache, tag, encode, and/or adapt any User Materials, and any information contained therein, in any and all media formats or channels, whether now known or hereafter devised, including, but not limited to, the Saysyouradio.com Services, NPR and NPR-member-station web sites and services, other third party web sites and services, over the air (on radio or television), and on mobile platforms.
In addition, if you send User Materials to Says You! through Saysyouradio.com, we (Pipit & Finch) may print the User Materials, or an excerpt from the User Materials, on Saysyouradio.com, read them on air, or otherwise publish them in any other medium, together with your name and location (city, state and/or country) if you provide that information to us.
Saysyouradio.com, with the assistance of its third party service vendors, from time to time may use non-identifying aggregate information to analyze use of and better design the Saysyouradio.com Web site and to share with third parties in aggregate form only as appropriate. For example, we may tell a third party that a certain number of users accessed a particular audio stream on our Web site. However, we will not disclose any information that could be used to identify those users.
Saysyouradio.com also may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if it believes that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law or with legal process, (b) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Saysyouradio.com Services, or (c) protect the personal safety or property of users of the Saysyouradio.com site, Pipit & Finch and its employees, and the general public. If you do not want your personally identifying information to be collected or used for any of these purposes, please do not provide it (although if you do not provide it, you may not be able to use or participate in certain features of Saysyouradio.com). You can also ‘opt out’ according to the process described below.
Security
Saysyouradio.com has in place what we believe to be appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Credit card information provided to the Saysyouradio.com Services is not collected or stored by Saysyouradio.com directly, it is collected by secured third party service vendors and commerce companies.
Children
You must be at least 13 years old in order to register for any of the Saysyouradio.com Services. If you are under 13 years of age, please do not send any information about yourself, including your name, address or e-mail address. If we discover that we have collected any personally identifying information from a child under the age of 13, we will remove that information from our database as soon as possible.
You must be at least 18 years old in order to submit any User Materials on or through the Saysou.net web site, create a profile, participate in any online contests, or place an order on the Saysyouradio.com shop(s). Visitors between the ages of 13 and 18 must obtain permission from their parents or guardians before registering for or participating in any features of Saysyouradio.com or otherwise sending any personally identifying information.
Corrections to Personal Data; Opting Out
Please contact us to (a) correct or update any personal information in the Saysyouradio.com database that you state is erroneous, (b) opt-out of future communications from Saysyouradio.com, or (c) request Saysyouradio.com to make reasonable efforts to remove your personal information from the Saysyouradio.com database. This will not necessarily remove previous public comments and other User Materials submitted for public display on Saysyouradio.com. The user understands that it may be impossible to delete personal information entirely because of backups and records of deletions.
Acceptance of Privacy Policy Terms
Saysyouradio.com reserves the right to change this policy. Any changes to this policy will be posted to this page as soon as is reasonably possible, so please check this page periodically. Use of the Saysyouradio.com services constitutes consent to any policy then in effect. Please make sure you read the Saysyouradio.com Terms of Service to understand additional terms and conditions that may apply to the use of the Saysyouradio.com Services.
Links to other Sites and Services
Please note Saysyouradio.com services may contain links to other sites, applications, and services maintained by third parties that may not follow the same privacy policies. For instance, clicking or tapping on a link, notice, or logo, may take you to an entirely different site, application or service. These sites, applications and services may use cookies, collect data, and use the data in ways that the Saysyouradio.com services would not. Saysyouradio.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or any information or materials on these other sites. Please visit these sites if you wish to review their privacy policies.
Handling Customer Complaints and Suggestions
You may direct any questions or inquiries with respect to our privacy policy or our practices through “Contact Us” on our Web site Saysyouradio.com or in writing to Saysyouradio.com Services c/o Pipit & Finch, PO Box 724, Weston, Massachusetts 02493. 781-891-7575.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on November 1, 2021.