Privacy Policy
Artificial Reality
Effective date: June 01, 2026 Last updated: 2 September 2026
1. Who we are
Artificial Reality (also "Artificial Reality Media," "we," "us," "our") is a media company that produces a podcast, written research and live events about how businesses actually adopt AI. Artificial Reality Media is a brand operated by Fendikevich Enterprises LLC, which is the controller responsible for the personal information described in this policy.
Contact for privacy matters: hello@fendikevichenterprises.com
This policy covers:
- artificialrealitymedia.com and any subdomains, landing pages and tracked partner pages we operate;
- our newsletter, forms and scheduling links;
- our outbound business communications to professional contacts;
- podcast production, including guest interviews and recordings;
- our salons, dinners, conference activations and other events.
It does not cover third-party platforms where our content also appears — YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, LinkedIn and similar services each apply their own privacy policies to what they collect from you.
2. The short version
- We collect what you give us (your email, your form answers, what you say on the record), what your browser tells us (analytics and advertising identifiers), and business-contact details we obtain from professional data providers for B2B outreach.
- We use it to publish and promote the show, to run our newsletter and events, to contact businesses that may want to partner with us, and to produce aggregated research about AI adoption.
- We do not sell your personal information for money. We do use advertising and analytics cookies that count as "sharing" or "targeted advertising" under some US state laws, and you can opt out.
- Podcast guests appear knowingly and on the record; episodes are public and permanent.
- You have rights over your information — including deletion — and Section 12 explains how to use them.
This summary is for orientation only. The sections below govern.
3. Information we collect
3.1 Information you give us
| What | When | Typically includes |
|---|---|---|
| Newsletter signup | You join the newsletter | Email address; optionally name and company |
| Partnership inquiry | You book a call or submit the partner form | Name, work email, company, role, budget range and qualification answers, what you want to achieve |
| Guest application | You apply to be interviewed | Name, contact details, company, industry, role, background you choose to share |
| Introductions | You introduce someone, or someone introduces you | The names and contact details in that message |
| Event registration | You RSVP to a salon, dinner or conference session | Name, email, company, role, dietary requirements or accessibility needs, guest names |
| Correspondence | You email, DM or message us | Anything in the message and its metadata |
| Commercial relationships | You become a partner, sponsor, vendor or contractor | Billing contact, invoicing details, contract information |
We do not ask for special-category or sensitive personal information. Dietary or accessibility details you volunteer for an event may reveal health or religious information; we use them only to run that event and delete them afterwards.
3.2 Information we collect automatically
When you visit our sites we and our providers collect, through cookies, pixels, SDKs and server logs:
- IP address (and the approximate location derived from it), device type, operating system, browser and language;
- pages viewed, time on page, scroll depth, referring URL and exit links;
- the campaign, tracked landing page or partner attribution link that brought you;
- email interaction data such as opens and clicks, where our email provider records them;
- advertising and analytics identifiers set by our providers, including LinkedIn and Meta advertising pixels.
Section 8 explains cookies and how to control them.
3.3 Information we obtain from others
- Business-contact data providers and enrichment tools (for example Apollo and comparable B2B databases, and LinkedIn's own tools) supply professional information about people at companies we believe may want to partner with the show: name, job title, employer, work email, work phone, LinkedIn profile, company size, funding stage and industry. This is business-context information about you in your professional capacity. We do not build profiles of private individuals for advertising.
- Platforms and analytics — YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, LinkedIn and our podcast host give us aggregated audience statistics, and occasionally identifiable information such as a public comment or a message you send us there.
- Introductions and referrals — someone may pass us your contact details as a suggested guest or partner. If you would rather we had not received them, tell us and we will delete them.
- Event and conference partners — attendee or registration lists you have agreed may be shared with participating hosts and sponsors.
4. Podcast guests, recordings and likeness
If you appear on Artificial Reality:
- We record audio and video of the interview, and we retain raw footage, transcripts and derived clips.
- We publish the episode and clips on our own channels and on third-party platforms, and we may license clips to partners, subject to the terms of the release or agreement you sign. Where our agreement with you allows a partner to license the moment you named their product, that is a commercial use of your recorded likeness and statements, and it is described in your release.
- We publish your name, role, employer and the industry context of your business, because attribution is the point of the format.
- We may quote you in written research, in marketing, in our operator-insight reporting and in sales materials.
- Statements you make on the record are used in our aggregated research about AI adoption, including product requests you name.
Published episodes are permanent and are copied by platforms, listeners and aggregators outside our control. If you ask us to remove an episode we will do what we reasonably can on our own channels, but we cannot guarantee deletion of copies elsewhere, and previously published material may remain in archives, caches and third-party feeds. Where a request conflicts with an agreement you signed, that agreement governs. Our specific commitments to you are in your guest release, not in this policy.
If you are recorded incidentally — background audio or video at an event or on location — tell us and we will cut you out where it is technically feasible before publication.
5. How we use information, and our legal bases
For people in the UK, EU/EEA and Switzerland, we must have a legal basis for each use. Ours are:
| Purpose | Legal basis (UK/EU GDPR) |
|---|---|
| Sending the newsletter | Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) |
| Responding to your inquiry, booking and holding a call | Contract / pre-contractual steps (Art. 6(1)(b)) |
| Running events you registered for | Contract (Art. 6(1)(b)) |
| Producing, publishing and promoting episodes | Contract with the guest (Art. 6(1)(b)); legitimate interests in journalism and publication (Art. 6(1)(f)); UK/EU journalistic exemptions where they apply |
| B2B outbound to professional contacts about partnering | Legitimate interests in marketing our services to relevant businesses (Art. 6(1)(f)) |
| Analytics, measuring campaigns and improving the site | Consent where cookie law requires it; otherwise legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)) |
| Advertising and remarketing pixels | Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) |
| Producing aggregated operator-insight research | Legitimate interests in publishing and licensing research (Art. 6(1)(f)) — the reports are drawn from on-the-record statements and are attributed or aggregated as agreed |
| Invoicing, accounting, tax and record-keeping | Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)) |
| Security, fraud prevention and enforcing our terms | Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)) |
| Anything else we ask you about | Consent |
Where we rely on legitimate interests, we have considered the impact on you and concluded our interest is not overridden by your rights. You can object — see Section 12 — and we will stop unless we have compelling grounds not to.
We do not use your personal information to train third-party AI models, and we do not sell recordings or transcripts for that purpose. We do use AI tools internally for transcription, editing, research and drafting; those providers act as our processors under contract and are not permitted to train on our content.
6. B2B outbound — what we do and how to stop it
We run outbound campaigns to people at AI companies, agencies and businesses we think should hear about the show. If you received an unsolicited email or LinkedIn message from us:
- We obtained your work contact details from a professional data provider, from your employer's public materials, or from a public professional profile.
- We contacted you in your professional capacity about a business matter.
- Every email contains a one-click unsubscribe, and we honour it permanently. You can also reply "remove" or email hello@fendikevichenterprises.com, and we will suppress you across every sequence and add you to a do-not-contact list. We retain the minimum needed — normally your email address in hashed or plain form — solely to make sure we do not contact you again.
- If you are in the UK or EU, you may object to this processing at any time under Art. 21 GDPR and we will stop, no questions asked.
- If you would like to know which provider supplied your details, ask and we will tell you.
7. Who we share information with
We share personal information with:
- Service providers acting on our instructions — website and email hosting, newsletter and CRM platforms, scheduling tools, podcast hosting and distribution, video and audio editing and transcription services, cloud storage, analytics providers, payment processors, accountants and legal advisers. They may use it only to provide their service to us.
- Advertising and analytics platforms — including LinkedIn and Meta, which receive identifiers through pixels on our site and use them for measurement and audience building. See Sections 8 and 11.
- Distribution platforms — YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and others, which receive published episodes and anything in them, and independently collect data from listeners.
- Partners and sponsors — in aggregated, de-identified form for audience and campaign reporting; for events, the attendee information you agreed to share; and, where a guest release permits, licensed clips featuring that guest. We do not give partners or sponsors our newsletter list or our subscribers' contact details.
- Co-hosts and venues for events you register for, where they need it to run the event.
- Professional advisers, acquirers or successors if we are involved in a financing, sale, merger or insolvency — subject to confidentiality, and with notice to you if the handling of your information will materially change.
- Authorities and other parties where we must comply with law, respond to lawful requests, or establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
8. Cookies and similar technologies
We use:
| Category | What it does | Control |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Serves the site, keeps it secure, remembers your cookie choices | Always on |
| Analytics | Tells us which pages, episodes and campaigns work — e.g. [Google Analytics 4 / Plausible / other] | Consent banner; browser settings |
| Advertising | LinkedIn Insight Tag, Meta Pixel and similar — attribution, audience building and remarketing | Consent banner; platform ad settings; opt-out signals below |
| Email tracking | Opens and clicks in our newsletter | Disable remote image loading; unsubscribe |
You can change your choices at any time through [the "Cookie settings" link in our footer], through your browser, and through each platform's own advertising controls.
Global Privacy Control. We treat a GPC signal from your browser as a valid opt-out of sale/sharing and of targeted advertising for that browser. We do not currently respond to legacy "Do Not Track" headers, which have no agreed standard.
9. International transfers
We operate from the United States and our providers are largely US-based. If you are in the UK, EEA or Switzerland, your personal information will be transferred to and processed in the United States and other countries whose laws may not provide equivalent protection.
For those transfers we rely on the UK and EU Standard Contractual Clauses (with the UK International Data Transfer Addendum where relevant), on the EU–US, UK Extension and Swiss–US Data Privacy Framework where a provider is certified, and on adequacy decisions where one applies. We carry out transfer risk assessments where required. You can request a copy of the safeguards we use by writing to hello@fendikevichenterprises.com.
10. How long we keep information
| Information | Retention |
|---|---|
| Newsletter subscribers | Until you unsubscribe, then a minimal suppression record indefinitely |
| Unsubscribe / do-not-contact records | Indefinitely — that is what keeps you off our lists |
| Inquiry and application records | [24] months from last contact, unless a relationship starts |
| Outbound prospect records | [12] months from last engagement, then deleted or suppressed |
| Event registrations | [12] months after the event; dietary and accessibility notes deleted within [30] days |
| Guest agreements and releases | For the life of the published work plus [6] years, because they evidence our right to publish |
| Raw recordings, footage and transcripts | Retained as part of our archive; see Section 4 |
| Published episodes and clips | Indefinitely — they are published works |
| Financial and tax records | [7] years, as tax and company law require |
| Website analytics | [14] months in identifiable form, then aggregated |
Where a period is bracketed, it reflects our current practice and may change; we will not keep information longer than we need it for the purpose we collected it for or than the law requires.
11. US state privacy rights
11.1 Categories of personal information
In the twelve months before the date of this policy we have collected the following categories, as they are defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act:
| Category (CCPA) | Collected | Sources | Disclosed for a business purpose to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identifiers — name, email, IP address, online identifiers | Yes | You; automatic collection; data providers; referrals | Service providers; advertising platforms |
| Customer records — contact and billing details | Yes | You | Service providers; payment processors; accountants |
| Commercial information — inquiries, purchases, partnership history | Yes | You | Service providers |
| Internet activity — browsing, interactions with our site and emails | Yes | Automatic collection | Analytics and advertising platforms |
| Geolocation — approximate, from IP | Yes | Automatic collection | Analytics providers |
| Audio, electronic, visual information — interview recordings and clips | Yes | You, as a guest | Production vendors; distribution platforms; licensees under your release |
| Professional or employment information — title, employer, seniority | Yes | You; data providers; public profiles | Service providers |
| Inferences — interest and fit for partnership | Yes | Derived from the above | Service providers |
| Sensitive personal information | We do not collect it, other than dietary or accessibility notes you volunteer for an event, which we use only to run that event | You | Venue or caterer for that event |
We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16, and we do not sell or share the personal information of minors.
11.2 Sale and sharing
We do not sell personal information for money. Our use of advertising and analytics cookies may constitute "sharing" for cross-context behavioural advertising under the CCPA, and "targeted advertising" or a "sale" under other state laws. The categories involved are identifiers and internet activity.
To opt out: use [the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link in our footer], reject advertising cookies in our banner, or send a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser.
11.3 Your rights
If you live in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Minnesota, Maryland, Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky, Rhode Island or another state with a comprehensive privacy law, you may — subject to that state's specifics — request:
- to know what we have collected about you, and the sources, purposes and recipients;
- a copy of it, in portable form;
- correction of inaccuracies;
- deletion;
- to opt out of sale, sharing, targeted advertising and profiling with legal or similarly significant effects;
- to limit our use of sensitive personal information;
- not to be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights.
Section 12 explains how. If we deny your request and you are in a state that provides an appeal, you may appeal by replying to our decision; we will respond within the time your state allows and, if we still deny it, tell you how to complain to your Attorney General.
12. Your rights, and how to use them
12.1 If you are in the UK, EEA or Switzerland
You have the right to access your personal information; to have it corrected; to have it erased; to restrict or object to our processing (including an absolute right to object to direct marketing); to data portability; to withdraw consent at any time without affecting processing already carried out; and not to be subject to solely automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects — we do not make any.
Some of these rights are qualified where information is processed for journalism and publication, and we will tell you if we rely on that.
12.2 How to make a request
Email hello@fendikevichenterprises.com with what you want. Please tell us which right you are exercising and give us enough to find your records — the email address you used, or the episode or event concerned.
- We will verify your identity in proportion to the sensitivity of the request, usually by confirming control of the email address on file.
- An authorised agent may act for you with written permission; we may still verify you directly.
- We respond within 30 days (UK/EU: one month, extendable by two further months for complex requests, which we will tell you about; California: 45 days, extendable to 90).
- There is no charge, unless a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.
12.3 Complaints
Tell us first and we will try to fix it. You can also complain to a regulator: in the UK the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk); in the EEA your local supervisory authority; in California the California Privacy Protection Agency or the Attorney General; elsewhere in the US your state Attorney General.
[EU/UK representative — if we appoint an Article 27 representative, their name and address will appear here.]
13. Security
We protect information with access controls, encryption in transit, restricted administrative access, vendor due diligence and confidentiality terms in our contracts. Raw footage and transcripts are held in access-restricted storage.
No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. If a breach affects your personal information and the law requires it, we will notify you and the relevant regulator within the required time.
14. Children
Our sites, events and newsletter are intended for business professionals and are not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has given us information, write to hello@fendikevichenterprises.com and we will delete it.
15. Third-party links and platforms
Our content and links appear on services we do not control — YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, LinkedIn, our scheduling tool, our newsletter platform and our partners' sites. What they collect is governed by their own privacy policies, not ours. We encourage you to read them.
16. Changes to this policy
We will update this policy when our practices change. The "last updated" date at the top always reflects the current version. If a change materially affects how we use your personal information, we will give you prominent notice — by email to subscribers, or a notice on the site — before it takes effect where the law requires that.
17. Contact
General & Privacy: hello@fendikevichenterprises.com Web: artificialrealitymedia.com