Lobbing Scorchers · lobbingscorchers.com Effective date: September 7, 2026 Last updated: September 7, 2026
The short version
- We publish newsletters, podcasts, and blog posts. We collect what we need to deliver them, understand what readers and listeners enjoy, and run a sustainable business.
- If you subscribe, we keep your email address, your name if you give it, and your general location, plus basic engagement data (opens, clicks).
- We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for targeted advertising. Advertisers only ever see aggregate audience numbers. Your data changes hands only if we move to a new platform or if ownership of the business changes. Section 6 explains this.
- We run our own advertising platform. It counts ad views and clicks, and we sometimes use cookie-based revenue-share partners. Section 7 explains how that works.
- You can unsubscribe from any email in one click, and you can ask us what we hold about you, correct it, or delete it. Email privacy@justoncemedia.com.
The rest of this policy explains the details, including the notice California law requires (Section 9.2).
1. Who we are and what this policy covers
Just Once Media LLC, doing business as Lobbing Scorchers ("we," "us," or "our"), is a media publisher based in the State of Washington, USA. We operate the website at lobbingscorchers.com (the "Site"), send email newsletters, produce podcasts, publish written content, and run our own advertising platform (together, the "Services").
This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect from readers, listeners, and members, how we use and share it, and the choices you have. It applies to the Site, our newsletters, our podcasts and their show pages, ads we serve, and any other place we link to this policy. It also serves as our Notice at Collection for California residents.
It does not cover third-party platforms where our content also appears, such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or social media. Those platforms have their own privacy policies, and we encourage you to read them. Podcast guests, writers, and other contributors are covered by our separate Contributor Privacy Notice.
Legal entity: Just Once Media LLC, a Washington limited liability company, doing business as Lobbing Scorchers Mailing address: 522 W Riverside Ave, Ste N, Spokane, WA 99201, United States Contact: privacy@justoncemedia.com
2. Information we collect
2.1 Information you give us directly
| When you… | We may collect |
|---|---|
| Subscribe to a newsletter | Email address; optionally your name, ZIP or postal code, and any preferences you select (topics, frequency) |
| Create a free member account or paid subscription | Email address; optionally your name; subscription tier and billing history for paid members. There is no password: you sign in with a one-time link sent to your email. Payment card details are collected and stored by Stripe, our payment processor, not by us. |
| Leave a comment or reply | Your member name and the content of your comment, published alongside it. Commenting requires a member account, so your email address is already on file |
| Contact us, submit a tip, or send listener mail | Your name, email address, and whatever you include in your message |
| Enter a giveaway, survey, or reader poll | Your responses and any contact details you provide |
| Buy merchandise (if offered) | Name, shipping address, email, order details. Payment details go to the payment processor. |
2.2 Information collected automatically
When you visit the Site, open our emails, download an episode, or see or click one of our ads, we and our service providers automatically collect:
- Device and connection data: IP address, browser type and version, operating system, device type, screen size, language, and referring URL.
- Location data: the country, state or region, and city we infer from your IP address. We do not collect precise GPS location.
- Usage data: pages viewed, time on page, links clicked, scroll depth, and the date and time of visits.
- Email engagement data: whether an email was opened, which links were clicked, the approximate time, and the device or email client used, as described in Section 4.3.
- Member account data: the date you signed up, the post or referring site that led to your signup, your approximate location inferred from your IP address at signup, when you last visited while signed in, and your per-newsletter open and click history.
- Podcast download data: IP address, user agent (the podcast app used), episode downloaded, and timestamp, collected by Acast, our podcast host, when your app fetches an episode. Acast uses this to estimate downloads by region, app, and device. We see aggregated reports, not individual listener profiles.
- Advertising data: which ads were shown and which were clicked, as described in Section 7.
- Cookies and similar technologies: described in Section 4.
2.3 Information from other sources
- Podcast and content platforms (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.) give us aggregated audience statistics. They do not give us your identity.
- Social media platforms may provide aggregated data when you interact with our posts or accounts.
- Advertisers and revenue-share partners may tell us aggregate results of a campaign or promo code, or report that a click from our Site led to a sale, so they can pay us a commission. They do not tell us who you are.
We do not buy personal data from data brokers.
3. How we use information
We use personal information to:
- Deliver the Services — send the newsletters you subscribed to, serve the Site, publish and distribute podcasts, process any subscriptions or orders.
- Communicate with you — respond to messages, send service notices (for example, a change to this policy or to a paid subscription), and reply to comments.
- Understand our audience — measure which articles, episodes, and emails perform well, and improve what we make.
- Sell and serve advertising — describe our audience to advertisers and sponsors in aggregate, serve ads through our own platform, measure views and clicks, bill advertisers, and earn revenue-share commissions.
- Run giveaways, polls, and events — administer them and contact winners.
- Keep things secure — detect spam, abuse, bots, and fraud; protect our systems and our readers.
- Comply with law — meet tax, accounting, and other legal obligations, and respond to lawful requests.
- With your consent — for anything else we ask you about at the time, which you can withdraw at any time.
We do not use personal information for automated decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects on you.
4. Cookies, analytics, and tracking
Our Site runs on Ghost(Pro), the managed hosting service run by the Ghost Foundation, the non-profit that makes the Ghost publishing platform. Ghost handles the Site, member accounts, comments, and newsletter delivery in one system.
4.1 Cookies
| Cookie | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|
| Member sign-in cookie (set by Ghost) | Keeps you signed in after you click a sign-in link, so the Site can show you member-only content, comments, and your account page | About 6 months, or until you sign out |
| Advertising cookie (set by us) | A first-party cookie holding a random identifier, used to count unique ad views and avoid showing you the same ad too often (Section 7) | Persistent until you clear it |
Signing in does not involve a password. When you sign in, Ghost emails you a one-time link. If you sign out, the member cookie is removed.
4.2 Site analytics
We use the web analytics built into Ghost to see how many people visit, which posts they read, which sites and search engines send them to us, their country, and the device and browser type. Ghost describes its analytics as working without cookies, counting each visit with a short-lived anonymized identifier rather than storing a personal profile; see Ghost's own documentation for details. The data is processed by Ghost and the analytics infrastructure provider Ghost uses, acting as our service providers. We see aggregate reports, not a browsing history for any individual.
Ghost also records member attribution: when you sign up, it notes which post or referring site brought you here, so we know which content wins subscribers.
4.3 Email tracking
Ghost sends our newsletters through its email delivery provider. Ghost records, per member, whether each newsletter was opened (using a tracking pixel) and which links were clicked. We use this to see which stories land and to clean up addresses that never engage. You can prevent open tracking by turning off remote images in your email client. Some email clients (such as Apple Mail Privacy Protection) pre-load images, which can make open data imprecise.
4.4 Embedded content from other websites
Posts may include embedded content from other websites, such as YouTube or Spotify players, social media posts, and forms. Embedded content behaves exactly as if you had visited that other website: it may set cookies, collect data about you, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with it, including linking that interaction to your account if you are signed in to that service. We have no control over this. Blocking third-party cookies in your browser limits it.
4.5 Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, so there is no sale or sharing to opt out of and no opt-out mechanism is needed. If that ever changes, we will update this policy, add the opt-out link California law requires, and honor Global Privacy Control signals. We do not respond to the older "Do Not Track" browser setting, because there is no accepted standard for it.
5. How we share information
We share personal information only in the following situations:
- Service providers: who process data on our behalf, under contracts that restrict them to using it for our purposes:
- Website hosting, member accounts, comments, analytics, and newsletter delivery: Ghost(Pro), operated by the Ghost Foundation, together with the email delivery and analytics infrastructure providers Ghost uses
- Podcast hosting, distribution, and analytics: Acast (see Acast's privacy policy)
- Payment processing for paid memberships: Stripe (receives your payment details directly)
- Business email and office software
- Our staff: Site administrators and editors can see and edit member profiles (email, name, subscription status, engagement) inside Ghost. Access is limited to people who need it to run the publication.
- Advertisers and sponsors: receive only aggregated, non-identifying audience statistics (Section 6.3).
- Revenue-share partners: receive information only through your own visit to their site after you click a link (Section 7.3).
- A buyer or successor: if ownership or control of the business changes, or a new platform provider if we migrate, as described in Section 6.2.
- Public content: Comments, replies, and anything you post publicly are visible to everyone, along with the display name you use.
- Legal reasons: If we believe disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, subpoena, or court order; to enforce our Terms of Service; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Lobbing Scorchers, our audience, or the public.
- With your consent: or at your direction.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We have not done either in the preceding 12 months.
6. Email addresses, names, and location data
This section covers the three pieces of subscriber information people care most about.
6.1 What this covers
- Email address — the address you subscribe with.
- Name — your first and last name, or display name, if you give it to us.
- Location — the ZIP or postal code you give us, and the country, state or region, and city we infer from your IP address. Never precise GPS location.
Together we call this "Subscriber Data."
6.2 We do not sell Subscriber Data
We do not sell, rent, or license Subscriber Data to anyone. There are only two situations in which it can move to another organization:
- Change of ownership or control. If Lobbing Scorchers or any of its newsletters, podcasts, or other assets is sold, merged, or reorganized, Subscriber Data will transfer to the buyer or successor as part of that transaction, so the publications you subscribed to can continue. We will notify you of any such change as required by law, and this policy will continue to apply until it is replaced.
- Moving to a new platform. When we migrate to a new email, podcast, website, advertising, or analytics platform, we transfer Subscriber Data to the new provider so your subscription continues without interruption. The new provider is a service provider bound by contract, not a buyer of your data.
Neither of these is a "sale" of personal information under California law or the laws of other U.S. states.
6.3 What advertisers see
To sell advertising and sponsorships, we describe who reads and listens. Advertisers receive aggregate figures only: total subscribers, open and click rates, downloads per episode, and a breakdown by region, device, or email provider. They never receive your email address, name, ZIP code, or any other information that identifies you. If a sponsor runs a promo code or landing page, they learn about you only if you choose to give them your details on their own site.
6.4 Your control
You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in every email. You can ask us to correct or delete your Subscriber Data at any time by emailing privacy@justoncemedia.com. Section 9 describes these rights in detail.
7. Our advertising platform
We serve ads in our newsletters, on the Site, and around our podcast content using an advertising platform we built and operate ourselves, rather than a third-party ad network.
7.1 What the platform collects
- Ad views (impressions). Each time an ad is shown, we record which ad it was, where it appeared (which page, email, or episode page), the date and time, the region inferred from your IP address, and your device and browser type or email client.
- Ad clicks. When you click an ad, we record which ad, when, and where you clicked from, and send you on to the advertiser. We may add a parameter to the destination URL that identifies our campaign (not you).
- A first-party cookie. Our platform sets a cookie holding a random identifier so we can count unique viewers and avoid showing you the same ad too many times. It is not used on other websites and we do not use it to build a profile of your interests.
7.2 How we use it, and what we do not keep
We use this data to serve and rotate ads, report campaign results to advertisers, bill advertisers, detect bots and fraudulent activity, and decide which ads to run in the future. Reports to advertisers are aggregated (total impressions, clicks, and regional breakdown) and never identify individual readers. Ads are selected based on the content you are reading or listening to and general region, not on a personal profile of you.
The platform does not store your IP address, your email address, or anything that links an ad view or click to your member account. We do not combine ad data with member records, and we do not track you on other websites. The cookie identifier is a random value that is meaningful only to our platform. Raw view and click records are kept for 90 days and then reduced to aggregate totals (Section 10).
7.3 Cookie-based revenue-share partners
Some ads and links are part of revenue-share or affiliate programs. When you click one of these, the partner (the retailer, the advertiser, or an affiliate network acting for them) may set a cookie in your browser or read a tracking parameter so that, if you later make a purchase, the sale is credited to us and we earn a commission. In that process the partner may receive your IP address, the fact that you arrived from lobbingscorchers.com, and details of your purchase on their site.
We do not send the partner any personal information about you; they collect it directly when you visit their site. We receive commission reports showing that a sale occurred and its value, not your identity. These partners' cookies are governed by their own privacy policies, and you can clear or block them in your browser. We identify sponsored and affiliate content where it appears.
7.4 Your choices
Block or delete cookies in your browser to prevent cookie-based ad counting and affiliate attribution. Ads will still appear, but frequency capping and attribution will not work. A content blocker has the same effect.
8. Sponsorships and affiliate disclosures
- Host-read and newsletter sponsorships are sold based on aggregate audience size and engagement, as described in Section 6.3.
- Affiliate links. Some links in our content are affiliate links. If you click one and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you, as described in Section 7.3. We disclose affiliate relationships where they appear.
- Third-party display ads. We do not run third-party programmatic display advertising on the Site.
- Dynamically inserted podcast ads. Acast, our podcast host, may insert ads into episodes at download time based on general geography inferred from your IP address and the app you use. Acast, not us, controls that process; its privacy policy describes it and how to opt out. This does not use your identity or your activity on our Site.
9. Your choices and rights
9.1 Everyone
- Unsubscribe from any newsletter using the link at the bottom of every email, or by emailing us. We process unsubscribes promptly and in any case within 10 business days, as required by the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act. Unsubscribing from marketing email does not stop transactional messages tied to a paid subscription or purchase.
- See and edit your own details. Members can sign in and open their account page to change their name or email, adjust newsletter preferences, or delete their account. Or reply to any newsletter or email privacy@justoncemedia.com.
- Block tracking by disabling remote images in your email client and using browser cookie controls or a content blocker.
- Delete comments you have made by contacting us.
- Access, correct, or delete your personal information by following Section 9.6. We extend these rights to everyone, wherever you live.
9.2 California residents — CCPA/CPRA notice
This section is our notice under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (together, the "CCPA"). It applies to California residents. It also serves as our Notice at Collection.
Categories of personal information we collect. In the past 12 months we have collected the following categories of personal information, as the CCPA defines them:
| CCPA category | Examples of what we collect | Where it comes from | Why we collect it | Who we disclose it to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identifiers | Name, email address, IP address, display name, cookie or device identifier | You; your device; our service providers | Sections 3(1), 3(2), 3(3), 3(4), 3(6) | Service providers (Section 5) |
| Personal information under Cal. Civ. Code §1798.80 | Name, shipping address if you buy merchandise | You | Sections 3(1), 3(7) | Service providers; payment processor |
| Commercial information | Subscription tier, order history, sponsor promo code use | You; payment processor | Sections 3(1), 3(7) | Service providers; payment processor |
| Internet or network activity | Pages viewed, emails opened, links and ads clicked, podcast downloads, referring URL | Your device; our service providers | Sections 3(3), 3(4), 3(6) | Service providers |
| Geolocation data (approximate) | Country, region, and city inferred from IP address; ZIP code if you give it | Your device; you | Sections 3(3), 3(4) | Service providers |
| Inferences | Which topics and shows you engage with, used to improve content | Derived from usage data | Section 3(3) | Service providers |
We do not collect sensitive personal information as the CCPA defines it (such as government ID numbers, precise geolocation, account log-in credentials in combination with access codes, racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, health data, or the contents of private communications). Member accounts use one-time sign-in links, so we hold no passwords.
Sale and sharing. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We have not done either in the preceding 12 months. Because we do not sell or share, we do not offer a "Do Not Sell or Share" link; Section 4.5 explains what happens if that ever changes.
Disclosures for a business purpose. In the preceding 12 months we disclosed each category above to service providers for the business purposes listed in Section 3, under contracts that prohibit them from using the information for their own purposes.
Retention. We keep each category for the period listed in Section 10.
Your CCPA rights. You have the right to:
- Know what personal information we have collected about you, including the categories, sources, purposes, and the categories of third parties we disclosed it to, and to receive the specific pieces of information we hold;
- Delete personal information we collected from you, subject to exceptions (for example, to complete a transaction, comply with a legal obligation, or maintain a record of your opt-out);
- Correct inaccurate personal information;
- Opt out of sale or sharing (which we do not do) and to limit the use of sensitive personal information (which we do not collect);
- Non-discrimination — we will not deny you service, charge you a different price, or provide a different quality of service because you exercised these rights.
Financial incentives. We do not offer financial incentives or price differences in exchange for personal information. A free newsletter is available to everyone on the same terms.
How to exercise your rights. Submit a request by:
- Emailing privacy@justoncemedia.com with the subject line "California privacy request," or
- Using the request form at lobbingscorchers.com/privacy-request.
Verification. We will verify your identity by confirming the email address on file, usually by sending a confirmation link to it. For requests to receive specific pieces of information or to delete, we may ask you to confirm additional details we already hold. We will not ask for more information than needed to verify you, and we send personal information only to the email address already on file.
Authorized agents. You may designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf. We will ask for signed written permission from you, and may ask you to verify your own identity directly with us.
Timing. We will confirm receipt within 10 business days and respond within 45 calendar days. If we need more time (up to an additional 45 days), we will tell you why. We do not charge for requests unless they are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in which case we will explain why before charging.
Shine the Light. California Civil Code §1798.83 lets California residents ask what personal information we have disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
Complaints. If you are unhappy with our response, you may contact the California Privacy Protection Agency at cppa.ca.gov or the California Attorney General at oag.ca.gov/privacy.
9.3 Residents of other U.S. states with privacy laws
If you live in a U.S. state with a comprehensive consumer privacy law, you have similar rights to access, correct, delete, and receive a portable copy of your personal information, to opt out of sales, targeted advertising, and profiling (none of which we do), and to appeal a decision on your request by replying to our response. We honor these requests for every U.S. resident.
9.4 Washington residents — consumer health data
Washington's My Health My Data Act gives Washington residents specific rights over "consumer health data." We do not intentionally collect consumer health data and our Services are not designed to gather it. If you voluntarily share health-related information with us (for example, in a listener email or a comment), we use it only to respond to you and do not sell it or use it for advertising. You may ask us to delete it at any time.
9.5 Visitors from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland
If you are in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR apply. We act as the data controller for the personal data described in this policy.
Legal bases. We process your data on the basis of:
- Consent — when you subscribe to a newsletter or accept non-essential cookies. You may withdraw consent at any time.
- Contract — to provide a paid subscription or fulfill an order.
- Legitimate interests — to run and secure the Site, serve and measure our own ads, measure audience engagement, communicate with readers, and transfer data as part of a change of ownership or a platform migration, balanced against your rights.
- Legal obligation — for tax, accounting, and similar duties.
Your rights include access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, and the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. To exercise them, contact us at privacy@justoncemedia.com.
International transfers. We are located in the United States and our service providers store data there. Where required, we rely on the service providers' Standard Contractual Clauses or Data Privacy Framework certifications to transfer data lawfully.
9.6 How to make a request
Email privacy@justoncemedia.com with the subject line "Privacy request" and tell us what you would like us to do, or use the form at lobbingscorchers.com/privacy-request. We may ask you to verify your identity, usually by confirming the email address on file, and we send personal information only to that address. We will respond within 45 days (or the shorter period required by your local law) and will tell you if we need more time. We do not charge for requests unless they are excessive or repetitive.
10. Data retention
| Data | How long we keep it |
|---|---|
| Member records (email, name, location, newsletter preferences) | Until you delete your account or ask us to. Unsubscribing from a newsletter keeps your account but stops that newsletter |
| Unsubscribed email addresses | Kept on a suppression list so we continue to honor your opt-out |
| Privacy requests and our responses | 24 months, as California law requires |
| Email engagement data (opens, clicks) | For as long as your member record exists |
| Advertising platform records (views, clicks) | 90 days in raw form, then aggregate totals only |
| Site analytics | Aggregate counts kept indefinitely |
| Comments | Until you ask us to remove them or we close the comment section |
| Correspondence | Up to 3 years after last contact |
| Paid subscription and purchase records | 7 years for tax and accounting purposes |
When you delete your account, we remove your record from our systems; our service providers apply their own retention practices to backups. We may keep information longer if required by law or to resolve a dispute.
11. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect personal information, including encrypted connections (HTTPS), access controls, and reputable service providers. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Breach notification. If we discover a security breach affecting your personal information, we will notify you and, where required, the Washington Attorney General, the California Attorney General, and other regulators, in the manner and timeframe required by applicable law (in Washington, generally within 30 days of discovery).
Reporting a security issue. If you believe you have found a vulnerability in the Site or our systems, email security@justoncemedia.com. We will acknowledge your report and will not take legal action against good-faith research that respects our readers' data.
12. Children
Our Services are intended for adults and are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us personal information, please contact us and we will delete it. Residents of some jurisdictions may set the relevant age higher (for example, 16 under GDPR for consent-based processing); we apply the age that governs in your location.
13. Links to other sites
Our content links to many outside websites, and our podcasts and social posts appear on third-party platforms. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites and platforms. This policy applies only to information we collect.
14. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will change the "Last updated" date at the top. We review it at least once every 12 months, as California law requires. If a change materially affects how we use personal information we already hold, we will notify newsletter subscribers by email or post a prominent notice on the Site before the change takes effect. If we ever intended to begin selling or sharing personal information, we would first update this policy, add the opt-out link California law requires, and give you the chance to opt out.
15. Contact us
Just Once Media LLC
522 W Riverside Ave
Ste N Spokane
WA 99201, United States
Privacy: privacy@justoncemedia.com
Security: security@justoncemedia.com
Privacy request form: lobbingscorchers.com/privacy-request
If you are unhappy with how we have handled a privacy request, you may also contact the Washington State Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division at atg.wa.gov, the California Privacy Protection Agency at cppa.ca.gov, or your local data protection authority.
Accessibility. If you need this policy in an alternative format, email privacy@justoncemedia.com and we will provide it.