The Privacy Policy of XdFile.com will highlight about how our user’s personal information is being used. However, XdFile.com ensures its users that all the information provided by them will be safe and will be processed within the limits of this Privacy policy. If you are using any of our services or visiting XdFile.com, we assume that you have agreed upon all the policies of XdFile.com.
Requested Information
XdFile.com may request your personal information, like your name, e-mail address, website or any other information for the purposes of a survey, or a mailing list, or any other relevant purposes only. The purpose of inquiry of personal information is clearly mentioned in case XdFile.com asks a client for any such details.
XdFile.com believes in a “No Spam” policy which implies that XdFile.com will not sell or rent out or otherwise provide your personal information to any third party without your consent.
In addition to this, XdFile.com will never send you any email which you do not want to receive. If you do not want to receive any communication, there is always an option to “Unsubscribe” from the mailing list. A member of the mailing list will receive announcements regarding new design trends and articles, latest news etc.
Profile Data
When you register for the site, you may be asked to provide certain personal data for display on your profile. The “Name” field is required as well as public, and user profiles are visible to any site visitor. Other profile information may be required or optional, as configured by the site administrator.
User information provided during account registration can be modified or removed on the Profile > Edit panel. In most cases, users also have control over who is able to view a particular piece of profile content, limiting visibility on a field-by-field basis to friends, logged-in users, or administrators only. Site administrators can read and edit all profile data for all users.
Disclosure
XdFile.com will only disclose your personal details in case required by law. However, XdFile.com ensures its users that disclosure of the information will happen only in the good faith of the clients and the company. Sharing of personal information happens in the following cases:
- Conformance to the law or any legal process served on XdFile.com.
- Protection and defiance of the property or rights of XdFile.com, or visitors of XdFile.com.
- Identifying individuals who may be violating the laws.
- Cooperation with the investigations of any unlawful activities.
XdFile.com ensures the safety of all clients’ information disclosed to it. However, XdFile.com does not take responsibility for any violation of security or any other actions by the third parties. Any further changes to the policies of XdFile.com will be timely updated on the website to maintain transparency. This policy is applicable to the website and also on all services offered by XdFile.com .
What is Personal identification information?
The personal identification information of users may be collected in many ways; including when the user visits XdFile.com, register on the website, subscribe to our newsletters and other mailers, fill a form or any other activities or features that the user participates into, on XdFile.com. We collect a user’s information only if they submit it to their free will. However, users may also use our website anonymously. Users may at any point of time refuse to provide personal information, except that they will not be allowed to engage in certain activities related to the website.
What is Non-personal identification information?
The non-personal identification information includes the name of the browser, the system details, and other technical information which is related to our site. This information also includes the operating system details and the internet provider’s address and other similar information. The collection of any such information happens when a user interacts with our website.
How do we use/process collected information?
XdFile.com may collect User’s personal information for the following purposes:
- For improving service to the customers, this information is used. It helps us provide efficient services to our clients.
- For promotional activities, surveys or contests, etc. featured on XdFile.com, this information is needed to know the client’s interests.
Activity
This site records certain user actions, in the form of “activity” data. Activity includes updates and comments posted directly to activity streams, as well as descriptions of other actions performed while using the site, such as new friendships, newly joined groups, and profile updates.
The content of activity items obey the same privacy rules as the contexts in which the activity items are created. For example, activity updates created in a user’s profile is publicly visible, while activity items generated in a private group are visible only to members of that group. Site administrators can view all activity items, regardless of context.
Activity items may be deleted at any time by users who created them. Site administrators can edit all activity items.
What are Web browser cookies?
Our website may use “cookies” to enhance User experience. However, a user may at any point of time refuse cookies. These cookies help the website to keep a record of the users and also to track or collect information about them. Sometimes, if you turn off the cookies, some pages/parts of the website may not function properly.
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We use a cookie to show success and failure messages to logged-in users, in response to certain actions, like joining a group. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted immediately after the next page load.
We use cookies on group, member, and activity directories to keep track of a user’s browsing preferences. These preferences include the last-selected values of the sort and filter dropdowns, as well as pagination information. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted after 24 hours.
How do we protect your personal information?
We adopt a very transparent and appropriate method to collect data, to store and process it. Appropriate security measures are adopted to protect user’s data from being altered or misused. We also safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access or damage.
The exchange of all kinds of Sensitive and private data between the two interacting parties happen over an SSL secured communication channel. At times, this information is also protected and encrypted with digital signatures.
How do we Share your personal information?
We are not involved in selling or renting out our user’s personal information. We may, however, use the general information for demographic details only. Any general information that may be used is not linked to any private/personal information of our visitors or users. We may at times use services of a third party in some of our business functions and the Site or perform or monitor activities for us, such as sending out newsletters or surveys. We may then share your information, only after seeking your consent, with these third parties for those purposes only.
Third party websites and Google Adsense
Users may find advertisements or other content/links that are diverted towards the third parties, any partners, sponsors or suppliers, advertisers or licensors. We are not responsible for any third party content. In addition, these sites or services have all the rights of their content which they may even change from time to time. The user must also be aware of the privacy policies and customer services policies of these third party sites or services. Any sort of interaction with that website, including the websites which have diverted a link to our website, is subject to that website’s own policies.
For Google Adsense, you may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
Advertising
The advertising partners are responsible for delivering ads on our website. They may set cookies which allow the ad server to recognize your system each time you click or visit such ads. They are used to compile non-personal identification information about you or others who use your computer, which is then used by the ad networks. This allows them to deliver ads that they believe would interest you more. This privacy policy of XdFile.com does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. It is solely at the user’s discretion.
Protection against children’s online privacy
It is very significant to protect the interests of the young ones. We do not collect information on our website from people we know are under 13 years of age, and also our website is not designed to attract anyone under the age of 13.
GDPR
How can you exercise your rights under GDPR?
This is for users browsing from the EU/EEA, where the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) applies, the user can exercise rights related to their personal data by contacting us via contact details provided on the website. The following rights will be entertained by XdFile:
- The user can request access to a copy of their data.
- The user can ask us to remove their personal information and we will look into the same where we can legally.
- The user can object processing their personal information according to the legitimate interest.
- The user is free to change their settings from their profile; this will include revoking their consent.
- The user can rectify/edit their personal data.
All the above-mentioned requests by the user will be legally executed in a time frame of 1 month, and the user will have to present a valid identification proof with the request.
Plugins
Really Simple SSL and Really Simple SSL add-ons do not process any personal identifiable information, so the GDPR does not apply to these plugins or usage of these plugins on your website. You can find Really Simple SSL privacy policy here.
Modifications to this policy
XdFile.com has the right to change/update this privacy policy at any time. Whenever we do so, a notification will be posted on the main page regarding the same. Also, check for the last updated status at the end of this page. We would appreciate if all our users check this page regularly and are well aware of our policies. This would also assure them that their information is safe with XdFile.com. As a responsible citizen, you agree to review this policy from time to time. This also keeps you updated with the modifications done if any.
Contact Forms
You can reach Xd File in several ways, one of which is the contact form. In order to start a communication, you will need to share your first name and your email address using the contact form (encrypted page). Sending your message will create an email. Your personal information and the message do not get stored on website servers. Please note that data transmitted via the internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security breaches. Complete protection of your data from third-party access is not possible.
IMPORTANT: Please read all our policies carefully before using any of our services. And if you continue to use our services, visit our website; you actually agree to all our policies and also any changes made to the policies.
Contact Information
In case you have any queries regarding this policy or any of our practices, please feel free to contact us at:
XdFile.com | Privacy Policy
email us @ [email protected]
Last updated: 1th January 2019