Privacy Policy

For November8Studios.com, FrayedPodcast.com, and Company-controlled online services

Effective Date: July 18, 2026 | Last Updated: August 26, 2026

Public Website Notice + Internal Adoption Record

PART I - PUBLIC WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

This Website Privacy Policy ("Policy") explains how November 8 Studios, LLC, an Indiana limited liability company ("November 8 Studios," "Company," "we," "us," or "our"), collects, uses, discloses, retains, and protects personal information through the Services defined below.

1. Scope and Who Controls the Information

This Policy applies when you visit www.november8studios.com, www.frayedpodcast.com, the FRAYED podcast website, or another Company-controlled webpage, newsletter, form, download, or online service that links to this Policy (collectively, the "Services"); subscribe to Company communications; contact us; submit a correction, permissions request, rights complaint, or invited editorial communication; or otherwise interact directly with the Company.

The Company controls the personal information it collects directly through the Services. Wix and other vendors may process information for the Company under their own service terms and privacy documentation. Independent podcast platforms, social networks, embedded media providers, payment processors, advertisers, retailers, charities, and other linked third parties control information they collect for their own purposes. Their privacy policies govern those activities.

This Policy does not govern information collected solely through Bobbi Short's personal accounts or activities unrelated to Company business.

2. Information We Collect

Category

Examples

Typical Source

Contact and subscription information

Name, email address, mailing address, subscription status, and communication preferences.

You; website or email provider.

Communications and submissions

Messages, contact-form entries, correction requests, permissions inquiries, rights complaints, and invited tips or source communications.

You; a person acting for you.

Device and usage information

IP address, browser, device type, operating system, pages viewed, referring page, timestamps, approximate location, and interactions.

Server logs, cookies, pixels, analytics, and embedded services.

Marketing information

Newsletter signup, consent record, campaign delivery, opens, clicks, and preference information where enabled.

You; email service provider.

Transaction information

Product or service requested, payment status, billing or fulfillment details, tax and accounting records. Full payment-card data is ordinarily collected directly by the payment processor, not the Company.

You; payment processor; fulfillment provider.

Rights, contracts, and production records

Guest, contractor, licensing, release, attribution, copyright, trademark, takedown, and ownership information.

You; counterparties; public records.

Public and editorial-source information

Information contained in public records, court files, government records, news reports, books, documentaries, interviews, social posts, licensed databases, and other published or lawfully obtained sources used for journalism, commentary, research, fact-checking, corrections, and rights management.

Public, licensed, archival, and direct sources.

Security and compliance information

Fraud indicators, access logs, consent records, request-verification data, complaint history, and records needed to protect rights or comply with law.

Automated systems; vendors; you; authorities.

3. Information We Ask You Not to Submit

Do not send Social Security numbers, passwords, full payment-card numbers, bank credentials, medical records, protected health information, psychotherapy records, privileged communications, sealed records, unlawfully obtained material, graphic illegal content, or identifying information about a minor through an ordinary contact form or email unless the Company has specifically requested the information and provided an appropriate secure method. Receipt of information does not create a therapist-client, attorney-client, investigator-client, confidential-source, or other professional relationship.

4. How We Use Information

Provide, operate, secure, troubleshoot, maintain, and improve the Services.
Respond to messages, support requests, permissions inquiries, corrections, rights complaints, and invited editorial communications.
Send newsletters or marketing communications that you requested or lawfully consented to receive.
Authenticate requests, preserve consent and transaction records, prevent fraud, and protect users, sources, the Company, and others.
Process purchases or other transactions if offered, coordinate fulfillment, maintain accounting and tax records, and manage business relationships.
Measure website, newsletter, podcast, and campaign performance when the relevant tools are enabled.
Conduct journalism, commentary, research, fact-checking, source evaluation, editorial review, corrections, archiving, and rights-clearance activities.
Enforce agreements; investigate misuse; establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; respond to lawful process; and comply with law.
Complete a merger, financing, reorganization, asset transfer, or sale subject to appropriate legal protections.

5. Legal Bases for Processing Where Required

Where a law requires the Company to identify a legal basis, processing may rely on your request or a contract with you; your consent; the Company's legitimate interests in operating, securing, improving, and protecting the Services and conducting lawful editorial activities; compliance with legal obligations; protection of vital interests or safety; or another basis permitted by law. You may withdraw consent prospectively where consent is the basis, but withdrawal does not invalidate earlier lawful processing or require deletion where another lawful basis or exception applies.

6. How We Disclose Information

We may disclose personal information only as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including to:

Vendors that provide website hosting, content delivery, analytics, email delivery, forms, customer support, payment processing, fulfillment, storage, security, professional, insurance, accounting, and similar services.
Podcast, social, video, or other platforms when you direct us to interact with them or when their content is embedded in the Services.
Lawyers, accountants, insurers, investigators, consultants, and other professional advisers subject to appropriate duties.
Authorities, courts, counterparties, or affected persons when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect safety or rights, investigate fraud or misuse, or establish, exercise, or defend claims.
A buyer, investor, lender, successor, or transaction adviser in connection with a proposed or completed merger, financing, reorganization, asset transfer, insolvency, or sale, subject to reasonable safeguards.
Other persons with your direction or consent.

We do not authorize service providers to use Company-controlled personal information for their independent advertising or generative-AI model training unless the practice is separately disclosed and lawfully permitted.

7. Sale, Targeted Advertising, and Automated Decisions

Current practice: The Company does not sell personal data for money and does not knowingly process personal data for targeted advertising as those terms are defined by applicable comprehensive state privacy laws. The Company does not use solely automated profiling to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning an individual.

Ordinary website analytics, embedded media, contextual promotion, sponsorship measurement, or sharing with a service provider is not necessarily a statutory "sale" or "targeted advertising," but definitions vary by law. Before enabling advertising pixels, cross-context behavioral advertising, data-broker transfers, or materially different monetization, the Company will reassess this statement, update the Policy, and implement any required opt-out mechanism.

Browser "Do Not Track" signals are not governed by a uniform standard. Where legally required and technically supported, the Company will recognize applicable opt-out preference signals, including Global Privacy Control, for the processing covered by those signals.

8. Cookies, Analytics, and Embedded Technology

The Services and their providers may use cookies, local storage, pixels, server logs, software development kits, and similar technology. Categories may include:

Essential technology needed for security, fraud prevention, network management, accessibility, form delivery, and core website functions.
Functional technology that remembers choices or supports optional features.
Analytics technology that measures traffic, page use, campaign performance, and technical reliability.
Embedded third-party technology used by podcast players, video players, social content, maps, or other integrations.
Advertising technology only if the Company later affirmatively enables it and updates the disclosures and controls.

Where consent is legally required, nonessential technology should remain inactive until the visitor makes the applicable choice. Visitors may use the site's cookie banner or privacy-settings control, when displayed, to accept, reject, or later change optional-cookie preferences. Browser settings may also block cookies, but blocking essential technology may impair the Services. The exact cookie inventory may change when Wix, installed applications, or embedded providers update their technology; the Company will maintain a current Cookie and Analytics Disclosure or equivalent settings information.

9. Data Retention

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose collected and for legitimate legal, tax, accounting, security, insurance, contractual, editorial, archival, source-protection, rights-management, dispute, and recordkeeping needs. Retention varies by category and context. Typical considerations include the duration of a subscription or business relationship; legal limitation periods; tax and insurance requirements; consent and opt-out documentation; security logs; pending disputes; and whether a record is needed to verify sourcing, accuracy, publication history, ownership, permissions, corrections, or public-interest reporting.

We may retain deidentified or aggregated information that cannot reasonably be linked to an individual. Deletion requests do not require deletion of information that the Company must or may lawfully retain, including public records, published material, editorial archives, evidence, legal claims, security records, or information subject to another exception.

10. Security and Incident Response

The Company uses administrative, technical, and physical safeguards reasonably appropriate to the nature of the information and the size and activities of the business. Measures may include access controls, account security, vendor management, backups, software updates, limited collection, and secure disposal. No transmission or storage system is completely secure, and the Company cannot guarantee absolute security. If a legally reportable breach occurs, the Company will provide notices required by applicable law.

11. Your Choices and Privacy Requests

Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to confirm processing; access or obtain a copy of certain information; correct inaccuracies; delete certain information; obtain portable data; opt out of a sale, targeted advertising, or certain profiling; withdraw consent; or appeal a denied request. These rights are subject to statutory scope, thresholds, verification, exceptions, and limitations.

To submit a privacy request, email november8studios@hotmail.com with the subject line "Privacy Request." Describe the request and the Services involved. Do not send identity documents unless requested through a secure method. We may take reasonable steps to verify identity and authority, request clarification, deny or limit a request under a lawful exception, and preserve a minimal record of the request and response. Authorized agents must provide proof of authority, and we may verify the request directly with the consumer where permitted. We will not unlawfully discriminate against a person for exercising applicable privacy rights.

To appeal a denied request where applicable law provides an appeal right, reply to the decision within thirty (30) days with the subject line "Privacy Appeal" and explain the basis for the appeal. We will review and respond within the period required by applicable law and provide information about any available complaint process.

12. Indiana and Other U.S. State Privacy Laws

The Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act and other comprehensive state privacy laws apply only when their statutory applicability tests are met and may contain exemptions relevant to small businesses, journalism, public records, legal claims, and particular types of information. The Company does not represent that every statutory right applies to every visitor or every record. Where a law applies, the Company will provide the rights, notices, opt-outs, and appeal process required by that law. The Company may voluntarily honor a reasonable request even when a statute does not require it, but voluntary assistance does not concede legal coverage or waive an exception.

13. Children's Privacy

The Services are intended for a general adult audience and are not directed to children under thirteen (13). The Company does not knowingly collect personal information online from a child under 13 without legally required parental notice and verifiable consent. Do not submit a child's identifying, sensitive, medical, educational, or private information through a public form. If you believe a child under 13 submitted personal information, contact november8studios@hotmail.com with enough information for us to locate and evaluate the record. The Company may delete or restrict the information as required by law.

True-crime or child-safety subject matter does not make the Services child-directed. If the Company later offers a child-directed feature, it will implement a separate compliance process before collecting information.

14. Sensitive Information

The Company does not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about visitors or for targeted advertising. The Company asks visitors not to submit sensitive information through ordinary website forms. If sensitive information is voluntarily submitted in an editorial, legal, safety, or rights-related communication, the Company will use and disclose it only as reasonably necessary for the purpose submitted, protection of rights or safety, compliance with law, or another lawful purpose. Public-interest editorial information may be handled differently from ordinary consumer-account information where law permits.

15. Third-Party Links, Podcast Players, and Social Embeds

The Services may link to or embed content from podcast distributors, video services, social networks, retailers, advertisers, sponsors, charities, government resources, and other third parties. An embedded provider may receive an IP address, device information, page URL, or interaction data when its content loads or is used. The Company does not control the third party's independent collection or policies. Use privacy-enhanced or consent-gated embeds where reasonably available. Review the third party's privacy policy before providing information to it.

16. International Visitors

The Company is based in Indiana, United States. Information may be processed in the United States and in other countries where the Company's vendors operate. Privacy protections and government-access rules may differ from those in your location. The Company does not intentionally target or establish services in a foreign jurisdiction merely because a website can be viewed there. Where the Company's activities are subject to a foreign privacy law, it will use an applicable lawful basis and transfer mechanism and provide additional disclosures or rights required by that law.

17. Journalism, Public Records, and Editorial Material

The Company produces journalism, commentary, education, and entertainment concerning matters of public interest. Information used for editorial research, fact-checking, publication, correction, archiving, source protection, litigation, and rights management may come from public records, published sources, licensed services, interviews, and direct submissions. Consumer privacy rights may not apply to all such material, and applicable law may protect freedom of speech, press, public records, legal claims, and other public-interest activities. Nothing in this Policy promises removal of truthful public-interest reporting, lawfully obtained public records, or archived editorial material merely because a person requests deletion. The Company will evaluate substantiated correction, privacy, and safety concerns under applicable law and its editorial policies.

18. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy prospectively to reflect changes in law, technology, vendors, features, or practices. The "Last Updated" date identifies the current version. Material changes will receive reasonably conspicuous notice, and we will obtain renewed consent when required. A revised Policy does not retroactively authorize materially different use of information previously collected where law requires additional notice or consent.

19. Contact Information

November 8 Studios, LLC
Brookville, Indiana 47012
Email: november8studios@hotmail.com
Websites: www.november8studios.com and www.frayedpodcast.com

For privacy requests, use the subject line "Privacy Request." For factual corrections, identify the exact statement, URL or episode, and supporting reliable sources. For copyright, trademark, impersonation, or digital-replica complaints, identify the material, location, ownership or rights basis, and requested action.

20. No Waiver of Rights; Interpretation

This Policy is intended to provide transparent notice and document Company practices. It does not waive any defense, privilege, exemption, journalistic protection, source-protection interest, or right available under law. It does not create a private contractual right beyond rights that applicable law or a separate written agreement provides. If a provision conflicts with mandatory law, the mandatory law controls and the remainder of the Policy remains effective to the extent lawful.

PART II - COMPANY ADOPTION CERTIFICATE

This Part II is an internal Company record. It is not part of the public Privacy Policy and should not be posted online.

SOLE MEMBER ACTION

The undersigned, being the sole member of November 8 Studios, LLC, an Indiana limited liability company, adopts and approves the Website Privacy Policy contained in Part I effective July 18, 2026; authorizes its publication on www.november8studios.com, www.frayedpodcast.com, and other Company-controlled properties; and authorizes nonmaterial formatting, hyperlink, vendor-name, and contact-method updates that remain accurate and do not materially expand data use.

PRIVACY ADMINISTRATION AUTHORIZATION

The Sole Member is authorized to inventory website and vendor technology; configure cookie and privacy controls; receive, verify, answer, document, and appeal privacy requests; enter appropriate service-provider or data-processing terms; coordinate breach response; and revise the public Policy when law, technology, features, or practices materially change. Material revisions must be documented with a new effective or last-updated date and retained in Company records.

NO GOVERNMENT FILING

This Privacy Policy and Adoption Certificate are private Company records. They are not filed with the Indiana Secretary of State, INBiz, the Internal Revenue Service, or the U.S. Copyright Office. The signed original should be retained with the Company's legal and governance records, and Part I should be posted publicly.

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