Transparency in the Shockwave. How we handle your data, your cookies, and your digital footprint.
Welcome to ShockPlanet. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, including:
Identity Data: If you subscribe to our “Daily Dose.”
Technical Data: We collect IP addresses, browser types, and device identifiers. This data is processed by our performance layer (Optimole) to serve optimized images and by our security protocols to prevent “Bot” interference. This ensures the Intel Archive remains accessible and fast.
Usage Data: Information about how you use our 8 streams of content.
This site uses Google AdSense to serve advertisements.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to ShockPlanet or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
Our “8 Streams” of video content utilize YouTube API Services. By interacting with the video intel on this site, users are agreeing to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service, which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/t/terms.
Data Processing: These API services may drop cookies and collect usage data as governed by the Google Privacy Policy at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy. You can revoke this site’s access to your data via the Google Security Settings page. We do not personally store or share your private YouTube profile data; we only process public-facing video metadata to populate our streams.
ShockPlanet participates in various affiliate marketing programs. This means we may get paid commissions on products purchased through our links to retailer sites. This does not impact the “verifiable truth” of our gear reviews.
When you click a link in our Gear Reviews, a tracking cookie is placed on your device by the respective partner (e.g., OpticsPlanet, Survival Frog). This cookie notifies the vendor that you were referred by ShockPlanet. These cookies have varying “lifespans” (typically 30–90 days) and are governed by the privacy policies of the destination sites.
When an operative places an order in the Gear Depot, your Identity and Shipping Data are transmitted to our fulfillment partner, Printful, solely for the purpose of manufacturing and delivery. This data is handled in compliance with Printful’s privacy standards. Payment data is encrypted and handled by PayPal or Stripe; ShockPlanet never sees or stores your full credit card digits.
ShockPlanet uses cookies to maintain your session and analyze traffic patterns via Google Analytics.
Functional Cookies: Essential for the Gear Depot (Printful) and site navigation.
Analytical Cookies: Used to track which of our 8 Streams (like Hidden History or Survival Hacks) are trending.
Opt-Out: You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, but note that some parts of the Intel Archive may become “redacted” (inaccessible).
We have deployed high-level security measures to protect your intel. Your data may be processed through our encrypted hosting nodes on our secure cloud infrastructure and, for Gear Depot customers, shared with Printful to facilitate fulfillment. We do not store financial data; all transactions are handled via secure, third-party encrypted gateways (PayPal/Stripe).
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to request access, correction, or erasure of your personal data.
For the purposes of data protection laws, the data controller for ShockPlanet LLC is the website Admin. If you wish to exercise your legal rights (Access, Erasure, or Correction), or if you have questions regarding our “Tactical Data Protocols,” initiate a support ticket at: [email protected]
