Supplemental Privacy Policy for Circle Round
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Circle Round is an audio podcast produced by WBUR, a non-profit public media organization owned and operated by Boston University. WBUR's Circle Round podcast adapts folktales from around the world into sound- and music-rich radio plays for kids and grownups.
The Circle Round Club is a paid membership program that adults can choose to join. Associated benefits are outlined on the Circle Round Club webpage. In order to provide these club benefits to club members (the paying adult(s) and their children under 13), we will collect or ask for select information.
Adults may also choose to join The Lion’s Roar, a free Circle Round newsletter. In order to deliver this digital newsletter, we will collect or ask for select information.
There are two ways we will collect information: the payment page where an adult enters identifying information into named fields, and upon signup for the free Lion’s Roar newsletter. We do not collect any information directly from children.
Here is more information about what we are collecting, how, and for what purpose:
- Parent’s or guardian’s name via club payment page with the intent to address email communications to this individual.
- Parent’s or guardian’s email address via club payment page or upon signup for The Lion’s Roar digital newsletter with the intent to send email communications to this email address and will use email to provide written confirmation of a charitable donation.
- Parent's or guardian’s telephone number via club payment page with the intent to communicate some club benefits via phone and may reach out by phone should a payment method expire.
- Parent or guardian’s billing and mailing address via club payment page with the intent to process payment and verify payment information (billing address) and mail the welcome box to club members (mailing address).
- Child/children’s name(s) (only collected in connection with add-on donation(s)) via payment form when adult joins the club with the intent to receive a personalized birthday audio message from the host of the podcast.
- Child/children’s shirt size(s) via payment page when adult joins the club with the intent to include t-shirts(s) in the club welcome box.
Parental consent
The activities and benefits of the Circle Round Club are intended to be provided to children under the age of 13 only with the consent of a parent or guardian. All club communications and mailings will be sent to the household in the name of the adult who holds the membership.
Information storage and deletion
Circle Round Club memberships can be either monthly or annual. When a membership is canceled or expires, we will maintain the information relating to children under 13 for one year following that cancellation. This will allow us to more easily reinstate a lapsed member. Following that year, we will permanently delete the information from our records.
Questions and contact information
If you have any questions about the information we are collecting via the Circle Round Club, please contact:
WBUR Circle Round Club
890 Commonwealth Ave, 3rd floor
Boston, MA 02215
circleround@wbur.org
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