Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how The Hollywood Godfather Podcast collects, uses, protects, and shares information when you visit our website, submit forms, subscribe, listen, watch, or interact with embedded content.

Website: hollywoodgodfatherpodcast.com

Last updated: October 18, 2026

Who We Are

Our website address is https://hollywoodgodfatherpodcast.com. This website represents The Hollywood Godfather Podcast, including podcast episodes, video content, listener submissions, membership information, press updates, schedule information, reviews, and related promotional materials.

For privacy-related questions, please contact us through the website contact form.

What Personal Data We Collect And Why

La Familia Membership Accounts And Store Discounts

When you register for La Familia, we store your account email, profile information, and billing reference identifiers to operate your membership. Stripe processes membership payments and provides subscription and payment status to this website; payment card details are entered on Stripe-hosted pages.

When you choose to link your GianniRusso.com account, the sites use a signed account connection to verify your active membership, tier, discount percentage, and eligibility period. This supports merchandise discounts at checkout. Stripe billing credentials and payment card details are not shared with the store through this connection.

Contact Forms

When visitors submit a contact form, question form, co-host application, guest inquiry, press inquiry, or similar form on this website, we may collect the information provided in the form. This may include your name, email address, phone number, message, application details, links, social media handles, uploaded files, and any other information you choose to submit.

We use this information to respond to inquiries, review submissions, evaluate applications, manage podcast communications, consider listener questions for future episodes, and maintain website records.

This website uses WPForms for form submissions. Form data may be stored in the WordPress database and/or sent by email to the website administrators.

Comments

Comments may be disabled on some or all areas of this website. If comments are enabled and visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address, also called a hash, may be provided to the Gravatar service to see whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available from Automattic. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media Uploads

If you upload images or files to the website through a form or other submission feature, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data, including EXIF GPS data. Visitors or administrators may be able to download and extract location data from uploaded images if that data is included in the file.

Uploaded files may be reviewed by website administrators and used only for the purpose for which they were submitted, unless otherwise agreed.

Newsletter, Email Marketing, And Opt-In Forms

This website may use Mailchimp for WordPress and OptinMonster to collect email newsletter signups, promotional opt-ins, popup form submissions, and related marketing preferences.

If you subscribe or opt in, we may collect your name, email address, IP address, signup source, consent status, and related interaction data. We use this information to send podcast updates, announcements, membership information, episode notices, promotional messages, and related communications.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the email or by contacting us through the website.

Analytics

This website may use Google Analytics through MonsterInsights to understand how visitors find and use the website. Analytics tools may collect information such as pages visited, referral sources, device type, browser type, approximate location, time on site, click behavior, and other usage data.

This information helps us improve the website, understand listener interest, evaluate traffic sources, and improve the podcast’s online presence.

Podcast Players, Video Embeds, And Third-Party Content

This website may include embedded podcast players, video players, social media content, or platform links from third-party services including RedCircle, Podbean, YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and other podcast or media platforms.

Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor visited the third-party website directly. These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, especially if you are logged in to that third-party service.

We do not control the privacy practices of these third-party services. Please review their privacy policies directly for more information.

Security, Spam Protection, And Site Operations

This website may use security, spam prevention, caching, link monitoring, and email delivery tools, including Sucuri Security, Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO, WP Fastest Cache, Easy WP SMTP, and related WordPress services.

These tools may process technical information such as IP address, browser user agent, request logs, URLs visited, error logs, form submission metadata, and email delivery records. This information is used to protect the website, detect suspicious activity, improve performance, monitor broken links, and support reliable email delivery.

Cookies

This website may use cookies and similar technologies to improve website functionality, remember preferences, support analytics, manage forms, display popups, protect against spam or security threats, and support embedded media players.

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 you do not have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment. These cookies may last for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this site, WordPress may set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, WordPress may set cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies generally last for two days, and screen options cookies may last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login may persist for two weeks. If you log out, login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, WordPress may save an additional cookie in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one day.

Third-party services such as analytics tools, podcast players, video players, email marketing platforms, and social media embeds may also set cookies or use tracking technologies according to their own policies.

How We Use And Share Information

How We Use Your Data

We may use collected information to respond to messages, process applications, manage listener questions, send newsletters, improve the website, understand traffic, maintain security, troubleshoot issues, promote the podcast, and operate podcast-related services.

Who We Share Data With

We may share information with trusted service providers that help operate the website, deliver email, manage forms, provide analytics, host embedded media, protect the site, or support marketing. We may also disclose information when required by law or necessary to protect our rights, users, website, or business operations.

Where Data May Be Sent

Visitor comments, forms, analytics, email signups, security logs, and embedded content interactions may be processed by third-party services. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

No Sale Of Personal Information

We do not sell personal information directly. Some third-party analytics, advertising, social, or embedded media services may collect information according to their own privacy practices when you interact with their tools or content.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Form submissions may be retained as long as needed to respond to inquiries, review applications, manage podcast communications, maintain business records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or protect the website.

Newsletter and marketing subscription data may be retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion, subject to our need to maintain suppression lists or compliance records.

For users that register on our website, if any, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. 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.

Your Privacy Rights

If you have an account on this site, have left comments, submitted a form, or subscribed to communications, you may request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including data you have provided to us.

You may also request that we erase personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are required or permitted to keep for administrative, legal, security, fraud prevention, backup, or operational purposes.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link in the email or by contacting us through the website.

Depending on your location, you may have additional privacy rights under applicable laws. To make a privacy request, please contact us through the website contact form.

Additional Information

How We Protect Your Data

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to help protect information submitted through the website. This may include WordPress security tools, malware scanning, spam protection, secure hosting practices, SSL encryption, access controls, software updates, and monitoring for suspicious activity.

No website or online transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security, but we work to protect the information we collect and maintain.

Data Breach Procedures

If we become aware of a data breach affecting personal information, we will review the incident, take steps to limit further exposure, investigate the cause, and provide notices when required by applicable law.

Third Parties We Receive Data From

We may receive limited information from third-party services connected to the website, such as analytics providers, podcast platforms, email marketing platforms, embedded media services, form tools, security tools, and social platforms.

Automated Decision Making Or Profiling

We do not use website-submitted personal information for automated decision making that produces legal or similarly significant effects. Analytics, marketing, security, and spam protection tools may use automated systems to categorize traffic, detect suspicious behavior, measure engagement, or manage communications.

Children’s Privacy

This website is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal information through the website, please contact us so we can review and delete the information if appropriate.

Industry Regulatory Disclosure Requirements

The Hollywood Godfather Podcast is an entertainment and media website. We are not a financial institution, healthcare provider, or legal services provider. We do not intentionally collect highly sensitive regulated information through this website.

Questions About This Privacy Policy?

Contact us through the website if you have questions about this policy, your information, or how the site uses data.

This page is provided as a website privacy policy template and should be reviewed by legal counsel to confirm it matches your actual practices and applicable privacy requirements.

Promotions and campaign measurement

We display first-party promotional cards for the podcast, Gianni’s businesses, the foundation and selected partners. Cards are selected by page, campaign schedule and placement settings, without personalized advertising profiles. When you consent to analytics, we record aggregate campaign impressions and clicks and may send promotion events to Google Analytics. Impressions require at least half the card to be visible for one second. Our campaign reports contain daily totals by campaign and placement, not visitor profiles, email addresses, IP addresses or browsing histories. Aggregate totals are retained for up to 400 days. Campaign links may open a partner website, whose privacy practices apply there. You can change analytics consent through Cookie preferences.

La Familia member community

We store member questions and story or guest suggestions, review statuses, production notes, team replies, attribution choices and poll votes, along with chat messages, room identifiers, posting times, moderation reports, chosen display names, meetup RSVPs and reminder preferences to operate the paid member community. Eligible members and moderators can read messages in their permitted rooms. Questions and suggestions are visible only to their submitting member and the production team. Internal production notes are staff-only. Poll results display aggregate counts, not voter names. If you permit it, the show may credit your chosen display name when discussing your submission on air; otherwise contributions are anonymous to the audience. Chat does not display your account email. Do not post private contact information or sensitive personal information in community rooms.

Membership eligibility is verified with the existing Stripe billing connection. Premiere Zoom details are shown in the protected member area. If you opt into meetup reminders, we use your account email to send session reminders; turn them off in member preferences. Joining a Zoom meeting uses Zoom’s service and privacy controls. Contact the show to request access to or removal of your community data.

Podcast audience and membership reports

With analytics consent, we measure on-site playback starts, elapsed playback seconds, engaged plays, completion milestones and platform link clicks. These reports store daily totals by episode and source, without visitor identities, IP addresses, account emails or cross-site browsing histories. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control are respected. Aggregate audience totals are retained for up to 400 days. Previously downloaded files and off-site playback may not be measurable.

Separate administrative reports use your existing membership account and Stripe subscription status to operate memberships. Accepted newsletter signup requests are counted separately from confirmed opt-ins. Authorized administrators can search and export reports. External platform figures are labelled by their source and may use different measurement definitions.