Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy:
The Iowa Public Radio, Inc. (“IPR”) Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes the information IPR collects or allows other entities to collect from you and your computer or device when you use https://www.iowapublicradio.org, https://www.studioone.org, or other IPR websites, IPR’s mobile applications (“app” or “apps”), the IPR Shop, email newsletters, or other interactive services provided by IPR that link to or refer to this Privacy Policy (collectively, “IPR Services” or “Services”).

This Privacy Policy also explains how personal information may be used and shared and the choices you have to limit certain uses or sharing of that information.

As part of its content production and distribution, IPR publishes to or makes available content on other sites or platforms, which may include certain social media sites, podcasting aggregators, smart devices, assorted streaming devices, and other public media websites or applications (collectively, “IPR Digitally Distributed Content” or “Digitally Distributed Content”). This Privacy Policy applies only to the IPR Services and does not govern the separate websites or devices where IPR Digitally Distributed Content may be hosted or linked. When you consume Digitally Distributed Content on separately hosted sites, you agree to the Privacy Policies and Terms & Conditions of those separately hosted sites, even though IPR may receive data about you from those sites.

Additionally, this Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected through any other means, including in person, by phone, by mail you send to IPR, or data acquired from third parties that is not a result of your interaction with our services. Most of the information we collect is voluntary, and you can always decide whether to provide certain personal information.

By using, registering for, or otherwise accessing our Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy and give your express “opt-in” consent to the collection, use, storage, sharing, transfer, and processing of information about you and your interactions with our Services, as explained in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use the IPR Services or provide us with your contact or other information.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at digitalservices@iowapublicradio.org.

Purpose of Data Gathering:
Iowa Public Radio is a nonprofit entity. The work we do and content we produce is completed in fulfillment of our mission, which is to “… connect you to news, music, information and ideas that shape your world every day.” We use your data to make our Services more valuable to you. We may also use your information for fundraising purposes in support of the fulfillment of our mission.

Children’s Privacy:
While we hope that you – as a parent or caregiver – will share your passion for IPR with children, we do not knowingly collect personal information about children. IPR cares about protecting the privacy of children.

If you are a parent or guardian, we encourage you to become involved in your children’s online experience, and to share your digital knowledge and experience with your children.

Our Services are not intended for use by children under 18 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal information through the Services from a child under 18 without the consent of the child's parent or guardian as required by law, we will delete it.

Information You Provide:
Iowa Public Radio collects two types of information: information that can identify you individually (“personal information”), and aggregate or non-identifying information that does not identify you personally (“non-personal information”).

We and our service providers, which only use your data on our behalf, may collect any information that you choose to provide directly through our Services, when you engage with our Services to:

Register for an IPR tour, event, or any contest we sponsor.
Contact us by email with a message.
Participate in a survey.
Make a purchase from the IPR Shop.
Express interest in or make a financial contribution or donation.
Email, text or otherwise share a story from any of the IPR Services.
Post, upload, or otherwise submit to IPR a comment, story idea, essay, photo, or other content or user-generated material ("User Materials").
Apply for a job, internship or fellowship at IPR.
Otherwise volunteer information to us or respond to a request for information through any of our Services.
We also may ask you to provide other information about yourself for various other purposes that we specify or make apparent at the time of collection.

When you engage with our Services, you may provide the following types of personal information:

Contact details and profile and account information, such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, password, age, country of residence, travel-related information, or your favorite Member stations.
Payment information, such as payment card details and billing information.
Communications and content preferences, including when you contact us with questions, feedback or otherwise in a message to IPR, in your engagement with our Services, or any IPR email newsletter.
Marketing data, such as your preferences for receiving our email newsletters and other communications, including marketing, fundraising, membership and other messages, and details about your engagement with them.
Job applicant data when you use the Careers section of the website, such as your employment history, and as otherwise described in the Job Applicants section below.
Donation information. If you choose to donate to IPR through the Services, or express interest in or request information about making donations, we may keep a record of these contacts that includes your name, contact information, information and other information about your donation or inquiry.
Event data, such as the information you provide to an event venue or us when you register for an event or an IPR tour. This information may include information collected to purchase or obtain a ticket or screen visitors for security purposes.
Survey data, such as the information you provide when you participate in a survey. This may include information such as date of birth, gender, information about your employment, education level, income level, geographic location, and demographic information such as race and ethnic origin and sexual orientation. Where required under applicable law, we will only process demographic information with your explicit consent.
Contest data that you provide to participate in a contest, giveaway or sweepstakes, as determined by the individual sweepstakes rules.
User Materials that you post, upload, or otherwise submit to IPR or its Services.
Other data not specifically listed here, which we will use as described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.
Information Automatically Collected Through Technology.

We, and service providers working on our behalf, automatically collect certain non-personal information about your computer or device and your interactions with our Services through access logs, cookies, pixel tags and other tracking technologies. Depending on which Services you use and how you access them, the information collected automatically may include:

Internet Protocol (“IP”) address of the computer or device you used to access our Services or play podcasts or other media content downloaded through our Services.
The domain name of your Internet Service Provider (“ISP”).
The website, application, platform or service you visited before and after visiting an IPR Service.
Search terms you enter using the Services or on a referring website.
Your approximate geographic location information.
The make, model, carrier and unique device identifier for your mobile device, the unique advertising identifier (for example, Google Advertising ID) that allows mobile applications running on your mobile device to gather data for purposes of serving targeted advertising or personalized or "interest-based" sponsorship credits, and other information about your computer or mobile device and its browser, operating system, settings, and software. If you have an iOS mobile device, we may collect the Apple IDFA (a unique advertising identifier) if you have given IPR consent to receive this information for an IPR mobile application on your device.
Automobile make (for certain connected car platforms).
The dates, times, duration, and frequency of your interactions with our Services.
Your navigation path through our Services, including any patterns in the paths you take.
A list of files you download, listen to, view, email, text or otherwise share and other content preferences.
The amount of time spent listening to or viewing media files or pages.
Listening data collected both when you download and listen to audio, including podcasts, or other media files. Listening data includes descriptions of the title, episodes, segments, time, and date stamps for download and playback events, session IDs and information about the device or platform used to download or play a particular file.
Information about your interactions with our email messages, such as links you click on and whether you open or forward a message, the date and time of these interactions, and information about the computer or device you use to read emails.
Any errors you encountered during your use of our Services.

We make use of third-party services, such as analytics, programmatic digital sponsorship platforms, cookie data collection (including cookie identifiers), and linking services (collectively, "Analytics & Sponsorship Services"). These Analytics & Sponsorship Services may include:

Google Analytics 4, Google Universal Analytics, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting, Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, and the services of our other vendors. These Analytics & Sponsorship Services may use cookies, pixel tags, hash values, and other tracking and storage technologies to collect, receive, or share information (this shared information does not include your unhashed name or email address you register with IPR) from our Services and elsewhere on the Internet and use that information to analyze and measure our audience and target and evaluate the effectiveness of sponsorship credits and marketing messages in our Services.
First-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the Remarketing with Google Analytics and DoubleClick cookies) that may be used together to inform, optimize, and serve sponsorship credits based on your past interactions with our Services and other websites or services.
In connection with an affiliate-marketing relationship with platforms such as Apple or online retailers, third-party analytics services working with us and such platforms or online retailers may also use cookies to uniquely identify the browsers of (i) users who click on marketing messages we display to promote our podcasts available through Apple Podcasts or iTunes, or (ii) users who click on links to an online retailer in IPR content mentioning books, music, or other related merchandise and then later purchase that merchandise on the online retailer's site.

An Analytics & Sponsorship Service's ability to use and share information is covered by that service's terms of use and privacy policy. To learn more about how Google uses data, visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Information We Obtain From Other Sources

Public media partners. We may obtain personal information from our public media partners, such as NPR, APMG, and other public radio or TV stations, to provide services on their behalf in accordance with their privacy policies or to provide our Services to you as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
Other third parties. We may obtain personal information from other third parties, such as sponsorship and marketing vendors, event venues, podcast producers, publicly-available sources and data providers.

How We Use the Personal Information We Collect:
We and service providers and vendors collect and use personal information to provide you with a customized interactive experience and to make our Services more valuable to you. We also may use this information for fundraising purposes to support our public media mission.

IPR and service providers and vendors also may use the information collected through our Services:

To perform contractual obligations under our Terms of Use, including:

To manage, administer and deliver the Services.
To publish, broadcast, attribute and otherwise use and license any User Materials you submit according to our Terms of Use.
To fulfill your IPR Shop orders and other requests.
To fulfill your thank you gift selection.
To offer you access to IPR tours and events.
To manage contests you enter.
It is in our legitimate business interests to use personal information:
- To respond to your questions or messages
- To improve the IPR services
- To process applications for jobs, internships, or/and fellowships at IPR
- To process applications for volunteers
- To contact you for an online survey, or for other editorial purposes
- To understand whether and when you read our email messages and click on links in those messages

We, our service providers, and our third-party sponsorship or marketing vendors may collect and use personal information for the following marketing, sponsorship, analytics, and operational purposes, on the basis of our legitimate business interests or consent where required by law:

To provide personalized, "interest-based" or "cross-contextual" digital sponsorship credits and marketing messages.
To recognize you as the same user when you access our Services, content, marketing messages and sponsorship credits using different computers, devices and browsers, and to deliver our Services, content, marketing messages and sponsorship credits to you on different computers, devices and browsers.
To control the sequence and frequency of sponsorship credits and marketing messages you hear and see, control the platform on which you hear and see sponsorship credits and marketing messages, and tailor the content of those messages to your perceived interests.
To conduct market or audience analysis and related reporting, including attribution, conversion, and other analysis to evaluate the performance of sponsorship credits and marketing messages.
To help us measure and analyze user traffic and usage patterns and improve the quality and effectiveness of content, features, sponsorship credits, marketing messages, and other communications.

Where we seek your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time.

We use personal information for compliance and protection purposes in our legitimate business interests, including:

To prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, comply with applicable laws, and enforce our Terms of Use or other legal rights.
To enforce our Terms of Use or other legal rights.
To protect our, yours’ or others' rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims).
To audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements and internal policies.

How We Disclose Information:
Iowa Public Radio is committed to maintaining your trust. We want you to understand when and with whom we may share information about you that is collected through our Services.

In each case when we disclose your information to third parties, your information will become subject to the information use and sharing practices of such third parties, and such third parties will not be restricted by this Privacy Policy with respect to their use and further sharing of your information.To opt-out of our sharing of your information with such third parties, see the Your Choices section.

User Materials:
Any User Materials you submit through our Contact Us page, social networking services or similar features can be seen, collected and used by us and anyone else who has access to the applicable service. Any User Materials you submit may also be freely used and shared by NPR and its Member stations and their respective licensees in accordance with our Terms of Use. You may also choose to share stories or other content with your friends and followers on social media services. In addition, we may share your information with other individuals at your direction. For example, if you use our Services to email or text a story to a friend, we would disclose your name to that friend together with the content you directed us to send.

Authorized Service Providers:
We may share any information we collect with service providers who provide us with specialized services or otherwise help us operate our Service including, without limitation, service providers that provide customer support, email deployment, account sign-in services, payment processing, order fulfillment, analytics, marketing, sponsorship, data enhancement, suppression list management, and data processing services.

Sponsorship and Marketing Vendors:
Subject to applicable law and your opt-out choices described below and in our Cookie Policy, and as we deem appropriate, we may share your information with sponsorship and marketing vendors, including those who provide digital sponsorship credits and marketing messages for us, or allow them to directly collect information about your devices and your use of our Services. We will not share your name or contact information in unhashed form with these vendors. These vendors may use such information pursuant to their own respective privacy policies, which we do not control.

If you participate in text communications as part of your communications with us, we do not sell or share your mobile information with third parties/affiliates for their own marketing or promotional purposes. Your consent to participate in text communications with us is not passed on to third parties.

Zoom text communications:
If you participate in Zoom text communications as part of your communications with us, no mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All other categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

Other Nonprofit Entities:
From time to time, IPR exchanges mailing lists with other nonprofit groups to help us acquire new Members. We do not share phone numbers, email addresses, or donation information. IPR will not sell, rent, lease, lend, trade, give, donate, transfer, or otherwise exchange or make available IPR’s membership or donor lists to/with, or acquire such lists from, any candidate for public office, political parties, or committees or organizations that solicit funds for use in political campaigns.

Payment processors:
If you wish to make a payment or receive a refund through our Services, your information will be collected and controlled by the payment processor and not by us and will be subject to that payment service provider's privacy policy and practices.

Please see Stripe's Privacy Center here, PayPal's Privacy Statement here, and Venmo's Privacy Statement here.

Professional advisors:
We may share your information with professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers and insurers, where necessary, in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

Authorized third-party applications:
We may share with authorized third-party applications information that you provide directly through our Services and information collected automatically through technology for the purpose of providing certain Services to you on the applications. Please be aware that your use of the third-party application is otherwise subject to the third-party application's privacy policy, which we do not control and which may differ significantly from ours. IPR is not responsible for the privacy practices of any third-party application, and we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the privacy policies of any third-party sites, applications, platforms, and services that you visit or access.

Business Transfers:
We may share any collected information in connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of an IPR Service or division, a merger, a consolidation, an asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to interfere with our ability to transfer all or part of our business, equity interests, or assets (including the Services or our customer information on a standalone basis) to an affiliate or non-affiliated third party at any time, for any purpose, without any limitation, and without notice or any compensation to you, whatsoever.

Legal Requirements:
We may disclose any collected information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, and other law enforcement measures, and to comply with legal or regulatory obligations.

Protect Our Services And Users:
We and service providers may disclose any collected information to enforce our Terms of Use and to protect and defend the legal rights, interests, and safety of IPR, its employees, agents, contractors, sponsors, listeners and users, members of the general public, or others.

Wireless Carriers And Automobile Manufacturers:
Wireless carriers and automobile manufacturers may also collect contact and other information and precise location data from our mobile services users through processes we do not control. You should check the privacy policies of your wireless carriers and automobile manufacturers for additional information.

Bitly:
Iowa Public Radio uses a service called Bitly to create shortened uniform resource locators (“URLs” – the “addresses” of individual web pages) for our content so that it can be shared easily, particularly through social media and email communications. Bitly collects information as our shortened URLs are shared and clicked on, including IP addresses, general location information, the time and day each shortened URL is accessed, and the social media or other channels through which our content is shared. To share our content without using Bitly, copy the full URL of the story you want to share from your browser and paste it into your email, text or social media message.

Aggregated and Anonymous Information:
Subject to applicable law and your opt out choices described below, and as we deem appropriate, we may share with third parties or allow them to collect directly, any aggregated or other information that does not directly identify you as an individual. Such information may be used and combined with other information collected by the receiving parties pursuant to their own respective privacy policies, which we do not control. For example, we may share or authorize the collection of such information by service providers that help us analyze and improve our Services, provide us with ratings and ranking data, help us to create personalized content, or tailor sponsorship credits to your interests. We may also share or authorize the collection of such information by sponsors or their agencies to help them measure the impact of their sponsorship campaigns.

Privacy Rights and Choices:
You have the following choices to update, correct and limit the collection and use of information gathered through our Services:

Do Not Volunteer Information:
If you do not consent to the collection, use or sharing of your contact and other information as described in this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Services or provide information to us. By using the Services or providing information to us through the Services, you are “opting in” to the collection, use and sharing of that information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Donation Information:
If you are a donor to IPR and do not want us to share your name, contact information or other information, you can opt out of such sharing by contacting us at any time.

Opting Out:
Most of the personal information IPR collects is voluntary. For example, if you do not want us to collect your email address, you may communicate with us via phone instead. You may also opt out of various communications and information practices by doing the following:

To opt out of receiving automated emails from IPR, you can follow the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of each email.
To opt out of membership mailings or phone calls, you may contact our Membership team at 1-800-861-8000.
To opt out of IPR sharing your mailing address with other nonprofit organizations, you may contact our Membership team at 1-800-861-8000.
California residents have additional opt out rights, as described below.

Cookie Settings:
You have the option to set your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, notify you when a cookie is set, or delete cookies. Each browser is different, so select the “Help” menu in your browser for instructions on how to use the relevant tools and settings. Note that if you disable or delete cookies, you may lose access to certain features of the Services.

Google Analytics:
To prevent data from being collected by Google Analytics, use the opt out browser add-on developed by Google for this purpose available here.

Interest-Based Messages:
To opt out of receiving personalized or “interest-based” online sponsorship credits from our service providers and other participating companies, visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices. For information about controlling the collection of cross-app data from your mobile device for personalized or “interest-based” advertising or sponsorship credit purposes, visit http://youradchoices.com/appchoices.

Depending on where you reside, such as if you reside in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, you may have the right to complain to a data protection regulator where you live or work, or where you feel a violation has occurred.

For iOS mobile devices, go to “Settings” from your device’s home screen, scroll down to “Privacy & Security,” select “Tracking,” and turn off “Allow Apps to Request to Track.” For Android mobile devices, go to “Google Settings” on your device, select “Ads,” and check the box labeled “Opt Out of Interest-Based Ads” or “Opt Out of Ads Personalization.” (These device settings options may change in the future or otherwise may differ for certain devices; consult your device manufacturer’s support literature for the most current information).

NOTE: If you opt out, you may still receive the same number of sponsorship credits as before, but they may not be as relevant to your interests. Opting out of third-party interest-based sponsorship credits is a cookie-based process and will only affect the specific computer, device, and browser on which your opt out choice is applied. If you subsequently delete your browser cookies, you will need to opt out again. For more information about opting out of interest-based messages, visit www.aboutads.info/choices.

Precise Location Information:
If you consent to our collection of your precise device location through the IPR app, you can withdraw your consent at any time and prevent the further collection of your precise location by accessing the privacy settings of your mobile device and/or the settings of the IPR app.

Do Not Track:
Your Internet browser and mobile device may allow you to adjust your browser settings so that “do not track” requests are sent to the websites you visit. Websites that are configured to respond to “do not track” requests may disable certain behavioral advertising technologies when a user enables “do not track” features on various web browsers. However, IPR does not respond to “do not track” signals at this time.

Security:
We employ physical, electronic, and managerial safeguards in an effort to secure the information we collect. These safeguards vary based on the sensitivity of the information. We meet PCI requirements required around the storage of personal information, and this information is encrypted when sent to our payment processor.

Because no security system is impenetrable, we cannot guarantee the security of our databases or that information you supply will never be intercepted, accessed, or disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. Because most email and mobile transmissions are not encrypted, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email, text messages, or other mobile transmissions.

ANY TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR CIRCUMVENTION OF ANY PRIVACY SETTINGS OR SECURITY MEASURES CONTAINED ON THE SERVICES.

Retention of Personal Information
Where required under applicable laws, we retain personal information for as long as is necessary to perform the processing described in this Privacy Policy, in accordance with our retention policies, and with applicable laws and regulatory obligations, or until you withdraw your consent (where applicable).

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of personal information, the purposes for which we use personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Links to and from Other Sites and Services
Our Services contain links to other sites, applications, platforms and services operated by third parties whose privacy policies we don't control and may differ significantly from ours. For instance, clicking or tapping on a sponsorship credit or some third-party logos on the IPR Services will take you to an entirely different site or service that may collect, use and share information in ways that IPR would not. You also may access IPR content and the IPR Services from a third-party site or service that may collect, use and share information in ways that IPR would not. IPR is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of these third-party services and we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the privacy policies of any such sites or services you visit or access.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
IPR, our authorized service providers, and sponsorship and marketing vendors may use AI to support our Services and in their own operations. For example, our service providers and vendors may use non-personal information in AI training for prospect identification or data analytics purposes. Our service providers and vendors may also use data analytics on aggregated data that is not linkable to you or your device to improve AI models that support the service providers' and vendors' own products and services. When service providers and vendors use AI to process personal information that we share with them, these organizations continue to be bound by the instructions in their agreements with IPR regarding their processing of personal information.

Job Applicants
When you visit the Careers portion of the website, we collect the information that you provide to us in connection with your application for a job, internship, or fellowship at IPR. This includes but is not limited to business and personal contact information, professional credentials and skills, educational and work history and other information of the type that may be included in a resume. This may also include demographic information that you voluntarily provide. We use this information on the basis of our legitimate business interests to facilitate our recruitment activities and process employment applications, such as by evaluating a job candidate for an employment activity, to monitor recruitment statistics and to respond to surveys. We may also use this information to provide improved administration of the Services and as otherwise necessary (i) to comply with relevant laws such as government reporting or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us, (ii) to protect and defend our or others' rights or property, (iii) in connection with a legal investigation, and (iv) to investigate or assist in preventing any violation or potential violation of the law, this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use.

Changes to This Privacy Policy:
Iowa Public Radio reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be posted to this page. Your use of our Services constitutes consent to the Privacy Policy then in effect. Please read IPR’s Terms of Use to understand additional terms and conditions that apply to your use of our Services.

International Data Transfers:
Our Services are controlled and operated within the United States. Any information we collect may be transferred to, and processed, stored, and accessed by, us and our service providers in the U.S. and in other jurisdictions where we or our service providers operate. These jurisdictions may have data privacy laws that may not be as protective as those of your home jurisdiction, and courts and other authorities may, in certain circumstances, be entitled to access information about you subject to such data privacy laws.

When we engage in cross-border data transfers, we will ensure that relevant safeguards are in place to afford adequate protection for personal information and we will comply with applicable data protection laws, in particular by relying on an EU Commission or UK government adequacy decision or on contractual protections for the transfer of personal information. For more information about how we transfer personal information internationally, please contact us as set out in the How to Contact Us section.

For California Residents – Your California Privacy Rights:
If you are a California resident, beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 may entitle you to receive additional information from us regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes and your right to opt out of such disclosure. If you are a California resident and want such a list, please contact us. For all such requests, you must put the statement “Your California Privacy Rights” in the message field of your request, as well as your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. Please note that we will not accept these requests by telephone or fax, and we are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or that do not have complete information.

Cooperation and Compliance:
This Privacy Policy and any disputes related thereto shall be governed by the laws of the State of Iowa and you consent to the state and federal courts located in Iowa as the exclusive venues for resolving any conflicts related to this Privacy Policy, without regard to Iowa’s choice of law provisions. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree that any damages resulting from any breach of this Privacy Policy shall be limited to $100.

If you wish to access personally identifiable information that we have stored about you, or you have any questions about this Privacy Policy please contact us via mail at:

Iowa Public Radio
2111 Grand Avenue, Suite 100
Des Moines, IA 50312

LAST UPDATED AND POSTED 01/27/2026