Sam Harris Media, LLC. Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 11, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how Sam Harris Media, LLC (“Sam Harris Media” or the “Company”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects your personal information in connection with purchases of services, subscriptions, content, licenses to any of them, or of anything else (the “Services”) provided by our affiliates, Waking Up, LLC and Four Elephants Media, Inc., made available on their respective websites and/or within third-party app stores. This Privacy Policy does not cover the Four Elephants Media, Inc. or Waking Up apps, websites (“Sites”), podcasts, or related offerings, or anything else governed by the Waking Up Privacy Policy or the Four Elephants Media, Inc. Privacy Policy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Information We Collect
  2. Use of Information
  3. Disclosure of Information
  4. Your Rights and Choices
  5. International Data Transfer
  6. Data Retention
  7. Protection of Information
  8. Children Under 13
  9. Updates and Changes to This Policy
  10. Contacting Us

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

a. Information You Provide:

You may provide the following types of information during your purchase or subscription:

  • Identifiers, such as name and contact details;
  • Payment information, such as credit card number, for your purchase (which is stored and processed by our third-party payment processor);
  • Commercial information, such as details about your purchases and other business interactions with us; and
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information, as described in the Cookies and Other Technology section below;

b. Cookies and Other Technology

We and third parties may collect information from your computer or other device by automated means such as cookies, web beacons, local storage, JavaScript, mobile-device functionality and other computer code. This information may include unique browser identifiers, IP address, browser and operating system information, device identifiers (such as advertising identifiers), other device information, Internet connection information, as well as details about your interactions with the relevant website, email or other online property (for example, the URL of the third-party website from which you came, the pages on the Sites that you visit, and the links you click on in a website). In some cases (such as cookies), the tools described here involve storing unique identifiers or other information on your device for later use.

c. Information From Third Parties

We may also receive personal information from third parties, including our service providers, affiliates, and payment processor.

We may combine the information we collect about you from these various sources. If a combination of information that we collect identifies you as an individual, we will treat the combined information as personal information.

2. USE OF INFORMATION

We and our service providers use the information described above for the following purposes:

  1. Process your purchase and verify your information;
  2. Send you confirmations, updates, and administrative messages;
  3. Conduct business operations such as auditing, security, fraud prevention, invoicing and accounting, analytics, and research and development;
  4. Protect against, identify, investigate, and respond to misuse or other unlawful behavior;
  5. Address legal requirements;
  6. Establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights; and;
  7. Create aggregated or de-identified information;

In some cases (A, B, and some situations described by C, and E in the list above), our processing of personal information is necessary for us to comply with a contract with you or to take steps in anticipation of entering into a contract with you. In other cases (some situations described under C and D in the list above), we process personal information because we are required to do so by laws in jurisdictions such as the United Kingdom and countries in the European Economic Area. In certain cases, we process personal information based on your consent, such as certain situations covered by B or C in the list above, though those situations do not always require consent. When we process personal information on the basis of consent, it may be express consent or implied consent, depending on the situation and on which laws apply. In the remaining situations in the list above, we process personal information because we believe it is necessary for purposes of our legitimate interests (primarily growing and protecting our business) or the legitimate interests of our affiliates or others. And in some countries outside the UK and European Economic Area, we process personal information on additional or other grounds.

3. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

We may disclose your information as follows:

  • To vendors and service providers: We disclose information to companies that provide services to us, such as providers that analyze data or provide customer service, data storage, marketing, analytics, security, or fraud prevention. We may engage a third party to host or operate any aspect of our own business, including any mechanism through which we send or receive communications, such as our email systems.
  • To affiliates: We may disclose information to current or future parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and other companies under common control or ownership with Sam Harris Media.
  • In connection with legal matters: We may disclose information when we believe disclosure is appropriate due to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order, or other request from a law enforcement or government agency; or as otherwise required by law.
  • For the protection of Sam Harris Media and others: We may disclose information when we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our employees, our customers, or others; and to enforce our contracts.
  • In connection with corporate transactions: We may disclose your information as part of, or to take steps in anticipation of, a sale of all or a portion of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, asset sale, bankruptcy, or other significant corporate event.
  • In other situations: We may also disclose your information in other situations where legally permitted.

We may use and disclose appropriately aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose.

4. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

a. Cookies and Other Similar Technologies

You can make certain choices regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies. To do so with respect to a Site, we recommend doing so by clicking the “Cookie Preferences” link in the footer of the Site, adjusting your preferences, and clicking “Save Settings.” If you replace, change, upgrade or reset your browser or device, or delete your cookies, or if you use a browser that automatically clears your cookies, you may need to use this opt-out tool again.

You may be able to set your browser to refuse certain types of cookies, or to alert you when certain types of cookies are being used. Some browsers offer similar settings for HTML5 local storage and other technologies too. However, if you block or otherwise reject all cookies, local storage, JavaScript or other technologies, certain websites may not function as expected.

We do not respond to browser-based do-not-track signals.

c. Rights Regarding Your Information

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to make certain requests related to your personal information. For example, you may have the right to ask us to:

  • Provide you access to or a copy of certain personal information.
  • Correct or update personal information.
  • Delete certain personal information.
  • Restrict or opt you out of certain uses of your information (right to object).
  • Withdraw any consent that you previously provided (without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before the withdrawal takes effect);
  • Provide you with certain details regarding the processing of your information.

Please note that certain information may be exempt from such requests under applicable law. For example, we need certain information in order to administer the financial aspects of your subscription, so we can’t delete it while your subscription is active.

We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to certain requests, which may require verifying your name and email address. If we are unable to verify your identity, we may be unable to respond to your requests.

If you wish to exercise any privacy rights, or raise a complaint about our handling of your personal information, please contact us as described at the end of this Privacy Policy. You may be able to designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf. In order for an authorized agent to be verified, you must provide the authorized agent with signed, written permission to make such requests or a power of attorney. We may also follow up with you to verify your identity before processing the authorized agent’s request as permitted by applicable law.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority regarding our decision to deny your request.

5. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFER

We are headquartered in the United States, and recipients of the data disclosures described in this Privacy Policy are located in the United States and elsewhere in the world, including where privacy laws may not provide as much protection as the laws of your country where you live. For this reason, your personal information may be subject to disclosure to the governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies of any of the countries where we (or the recipients of disclosures mentioned in this Privacy Policy) operate, pursuant to the laws of such countries. However, this Privacy Policy applies to Sam Harris Media’s operations worldwide. To the extent that personal information is transferred from the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and the UK to any non-EEA members of our group or third-party processors who handle the information solely on our behalf, we will take appropriate measures to ensure such companies protect your information adequately in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These measures will include signing Standard Contractual Clauses in accordance with EEA and UK data protection laws to govern the transfers of such data. For more information about these transfer mechanisms, please contact us as set out below.

6. DATA RETENTION

We keep your information until after we determine it is no longer necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and we are not legally required to retain it for longer.

7. PROTECTION OF INFORMATION

To help protect personal information, we have put in place physical, technical, and administrative safeguards. However, we cannot assure you that data that we collect under this Privacy Policy will never be used or disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

8. CHILDREN UNDER 13

If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child under 13 (or a higher age threshold where applicable) has given us personal information, please contact us at support@samharrismedia.com so that we can delete it

9. UPDATES AND CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, such as to reflect changes in our practices or for legal reasons. We will post those changes here or on a similarly accessible page.

10. CONTACTING US

If you have any questions or comments regarding our privacy policy and practices, or to submit a request or complaint, please email our privacy team at support@samharrismedia.com or use the contact details below

Sam Harris Media, LLC.
16633 Ventura Blvd., Suite 815
Encino, CA 91436