Pocket Casts - Podcast App

"We may share information about you with third party vendors, consultants, and advisors who help us provide our Services or who otherwise perform services for us. This includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like payment providers that process your credit and debit card information, cloud storage services, and customer chat and email support services that help us communicate with you), those that assist us with our marketing efforts (like sending emails to our marketing list), those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers), those that make tools to help us run our operations."

Pocket Casts shares user data with a broad range of third parties including analytics providers, marketing vendors, and operational tools, with only a general requirement that vendors agree to 'privacy commitments.'

"Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to understand where our users are located so we can identify what features might be meaningful to them."

Pocket Casts collects approximate device location via IP address to inform feature decisions, which constitutes passive geolocation tracking.

"Pocket Casts may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. Pocket Casts encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. We will post any revised version of the Privacy Policy on this page, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice. Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy."

Pocket Casts can change the privacy policy at any time, and continued use of the service is treated as acceptance of the new terms. Additional notice is only provided 'in some cases.'

"We collect information about your device including the device make and model, your wireless carrier, a device ID, some basic device settings like font size and language, and how you use our Services. In addition, in the event our App(s) crash on your mobile device, we will receive additional information about your device and session."

Pocket Casts collects device identifiers, carrier info, device settings, and detailed usage data, some of which goes beyond what a podcast app strictly requires.

"SDKs are third party software integrated into an app that provide additional functionality. Automattic uses cookies and other technologies like SDKs to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services, as well as track and understand email campaign effectiveness."

Pocket Casts uses third-party SDKs and cookies to track users across their services and measure email campaign effectiveness, enabling cross-service visitor identification.

"We generally discard information about you when it's no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it — described in the section above on 'How We Use Information' — and we're not legally required to keep it. For example, we keep web server logs for a few months."

Retention timelines are vague ('a few months' for logs, no specific periods for other data), giving Pocket Casts broad discretion over how long they keep personal information.