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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for www.xeazy.com

Effective Date:

1. Introduction

Welcome to www.xeazy.com (the “Site”), owned and operated by [James Lander] (“we,” “us,” or “our”). 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 (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected through our Site, including our email newsletter subscription service and user forum (the “Services”).

2. Information We Collect

We collect personal data that you voluntarily provide to us and data that is automatically collected when you use our Services.

  • Personal Data You Provide to Us:
  • Contact Data: When you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address. When you contact us directly, we may collect your name, email address, and any information you choose to include in your message.
  • Account Data: When you register for an account on our forum, we collect your chosen username, your email address, and your password (which is hashed and not visible to us). You may voluntarily add other information to your profile.
  • User Content: We collect the information you provide when you post content to our forum, including text, images, or other media.
  • Information We Collect Automatically:
  • Log and Usage Data: Like most websites, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
  • Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Site and hold certain information. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

  • To provide, operate, and maintain our Site and Services.
  • To manage your forum account and allow you to participate in the community.
  • To send you our email newsletter, promotions, and other information related to our work, where you have consented to receive it.
  • To respond to your comments, questions, and requests and provide customer service.
  • To monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Site to improve our Services.
  • To detect and prevent fraudulent transactions, security incidents, and other illegal activities.
  • To comply with our legal obligations.

4. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data (Under GDPR)

If you are an individual in the European Economic Area (EEA), we collect and process your personal data on the following legal bases:

  • Consent: We rely on your consent to send you marketing communications (our newsletter) and to place non-essential cookies on your device. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Performance of a Contract: We process your Account Data to provide you with the forum Services you have registered for, which constitutes a contract between you and us.
  • Legitimate Interests: We may process your information for our legitimate interests, such as for security purposes and to improve our Services, provided that these interests are not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.

5. Sharing and Disclosure of Information

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We may share your information in the following limited circumstances:

  • Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors and service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as email delivery services (for our newsletter) and website hosting. These providers are contractually obligated to use your data only to provide services to us and to protect it.
  • Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you of any such deal and outline your choices in that event.
  • Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend our rights or property, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Services, or protect the personal safety of users or the public.
  • With Your Explicit Consent: We will not share your personal information with any third party (such as a future publisher) for their own independent marketing or commercial purposes without first obtaining your separate, explicit, and affirmative consent to do so.

6. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
  • The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
  • The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@xeazy.com. We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by law.

7. California Residents’ Rights (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have specific rights regarding your personal information:

  • Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell.
  • Right to Delete: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information collected or maintained by us.
  • Right to Correct: You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information.
  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: We do not currently “sell” or “share” your personal information as defined by the CCPA/CPRA. If this practice changes, we will update this policy and provide you with a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link.
  • Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: We do not collect sensitive personal information. If this practice changes, we will provide you with the right to limit its use.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

To exercise your rights as a California resident, please contact us at privacy@xeazy.com.

8. Data Security

We use commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology to encrypt data during transmission. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

9. Data Retention

We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain newsletter subscriber data until you unsubscribe. We will retain forum account data for as long as your account remains active. We may retain certain information for a longer period if required to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

10. Children’s Privacy

Our Services are not intended for or directed at children under the age of 13 (or 16 in the EEA). We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

11. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to—and maintained on—computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at: privacy@xeazy.com.