Privacy Policy
Xross collects
information about you and uses this information to help you connect with
others. This Privacy Statement covers how Xross collects and uses
personally-identifiable information collected from visitors to the Xross website
(“Personal Information”).
Websites Covered
This Privacy
Statement covers the privacy practices of Xross’s website, (http://www.xross.org).
Content on the Xross
Website may contain links to other websites. Xross is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such websites. Xross encourages you to
review the privacy statements of such websites to understand their privacy
practices.
Personal
Information Collected
Xross collects
Personal Information from you when you use the Xross Website. This
includes information collected directly from you including your name, your
contact details and profile information such as your skills, hobbies and
interests, social profiles, certifications. Review and messages, you send are
also collected, as is information about how you use the
Website. This includes users you have connected with and profiles
you have viewed.
You can log
into the Website using sign-in services, such as Google Connect or other
providers. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the
option to pre-populate our registration form with your Personal Information.
Services like Google Connect give you the option to share information about
your activities on this Website and others within your network.
As you navigate
the Website, Xross may also collect information through the use of
commonly-used information-gathering tools, such as cookies and web beacons
(“Website Navigational Information”). Website Navigational Information includes
standard information from your web browser (such as browser type and browser
language), your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, and the actions you take on
the Website (such as web pages viewed, and links clicked). Further
information about how Xross uses Website Navigational Information is included
below.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in
the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent
string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a
hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The
Gravatar service privacy policy is available here:
https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile
picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may
opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for
your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you
leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a
temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie
contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up
several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.
Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If
you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If
you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded
content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other
websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other
website.
These websites may collect data about you,
use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your
interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction
with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that
website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and
its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve
any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation
queue.
For users that
register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they
provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their
personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username).
Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Where we send your data
Visitor
comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
This Website
uses Google AdWords
The Xross Website
may use the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party
websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. For example, Xross
could advertise to a user that has not completed a task on the Website, such as
completing their profile. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the
Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on users’
past visits to the Xross Website.
You can set
preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you
can opt
out of interest-based advertising entirely by editing your browser’s cookie
settings or installing
a browser plugin.
Sharing of
Personal Information Collected
When using the Xross
Website and connecting with other users, your Personal Information may be
shared with them. Examples include when you comment on another
users’ work, or review another users’ skills, create an event, or participate
in a contest.
Xross cannot
control how other users store or transfer your Personal Information and while Xross
endeavors to limit access to the Website to legitimate users, it cannot be
guaranteed that unauthorized parties will not gain access.
Xross may use
your Personal Information and past activities on the Website to enhance your
user experience. Examples include identifying users that you might
want to connect with, finding events you might want to attend, or suggesting
projects you might want to view.
Xross uses
Website Navigational Information to operate and improve the Website and may use
Website Navigational Information alone or in combination with your Personal
Information to provide you with personalized information about Xross. Further
information about how Xross uses Website Navigational Information is included
below.
Xross may share
your Personal Information with its service providers to ensure a high-quality
user experience. Unless otherwise described in this Privacy
Statement, Xross does not share, sell, rent, or trade Personal Information with
third parties for their promotional purposes.
Xross reserves
the right to use or disclose Personal Information if required by law or if Xross
reasonably believes that use or disclosure is necessary to protect Xross’s
rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal
process.
Website
Navigational Information
Due to Internet
communications standards, when you visit or use the Xross Website, Xross automatically
receives the URL of the Website from which you came and the Website to which
you go when you leave the Xross Website. Xross also receives your computer’s
Internet Protocol (IP) address (or the proxy server you use to access the World
Wide Web), your computer operating system, the type of web browser you are
using, and your Internet Service Provider (ISP). This information is used to
analyze overall trends to help improve the Website.
The Website may
use “cookies” to track Website usage, to enable you to sign in to the Website,
and to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a small text file
that is placed on your hard disk through your web browser via a webpage server.
It contains information about you that can later be read by a web server in the
domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies allow Xross to recognize you as a
visitor or user when you return to the Website using the same computer and web
browser. Xross uses cookies to store your preferences so that you do not have
to repeatedly enter the same information, and to display your personalized
content. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually
modify your browser setting to decline cookies or configure acceptance of cookies.
If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use all of
the interactive features of the Website that depend on cookies.
Xross may use
both session cookies and persistent cookies. A “persistent” cookie is set once
you’ve logged in to your Xross user account and remains on your hard drive for
an extended period. The next time you visit the Website, the persistent cookie
will allow Xross to recognize you as an existing user so that you do not need
to log in to the Website again. If you log out of the Xross Website, however,
you will need to re-enter your password the next time you wish to access your
Account. A “session” cookie is used to enhance or customize a visit to the Xross
site. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web
browser.
Xross may use
local browser storage. Once you’ve logged in to your Xross user account, Xross stores
some of your account information on your local browser storage and remains on
your hard drive for an extended period. The next time you visit the Website,
the stored information will allow Xross to recognize you as an existing user so
that you do not need to log in to the Website again. If you log out of the Xross
Website, however, you will need to re-enter your password the next time you
wish to access your Account. The locally stored information is used to enhance
or customize a visit to the Xross site.
Xross employs,
or our third-party advertising partner(s) may employ, clear gifs (a.k.a. Web
Beacons/Web Bugs). Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier that,
like cookies, track the online movements of web users. In contrast to cookies,
clear gifs are embedded on web pages and are about the size of a pixel. Xross ties
the information gathered by clear gifs to certain personally identifiable
information of our customers, users and Website visitors to assess the
effectiveness of the Website. Xross uses clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to
let us know which email alerts have been opened by recipients. This allows Xross to gauge the effectiveness of
communications and marketing campaigns.
Xross may
collect aggregated data regarding the use of the Website, including, without
limitation, the number of visitors to the Website, frequency and patterns of
use, tag usage, feedback request trends, etc. (“Aggregated Data”). Xross uses
this data as a statistical measure, and not in a manner that would identify you
personally. Aggregated Data enables Xross to figure out how often users use
certain parts of the Website so that they can be improved. Xross may make use
of, or make such Aggregated Data available to third parties, in any manner in
its sole discretion.
International Transfers of
Personal Information
To facilitate Xross’s
global operations, Xross may transfer and access your Personal Information from
around the world, including the United States. This Privacy Statement shall
apply even if Personal Information is transferred to other countries.
For European
visitors to the Xross Website, please note that to provide the information or
services requested, your Personal Information may be transferred outside of the
European Economic Area (“EEA”). By visiting the Website, you agree to Xross transferring
your Personal Information outside the EEA.
Communications
Preferences and Access to Personal Information
You can access,
review, correct, update or delete your Personal Information at any time by
logging into your account and accessing the Edit Profile page. Users
can also contact Customer Support at support@xross.org.
Security
Xross takes
precautions, including administrative, technical, and physical measures, to
help safeguard Personal Information against loss, theft, and misuse as well as
unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
Users are
solely responsible for protecting their passwords, limiting access to their
computers, and signing out of the Website after their sessions.
Changes to
this Privacy Statement
Xross reserves
the right to change this Privacy Statement. Xross post the updated version of
the privacy policy on this Website together with the date on which it was
revised. We may revise this privacy policy at any time by posting an updated
version to this Web page. You should visit this page periodically to review the
most current ones because they are binding on you.
As well, we
may, but are not obliged to, ask you to actively confirm your consent to any
revised privacy policy. If we do not do so, but you continue to use
this Website after the changes come into effect, you will be deemed to have
agreed to abide by the revised privacy policy. If you do not agree
with the revised privacy policy without limitation or qualification, do NOT log
in, discontinue using this Website and the Services and instruct us to disable
any password for this Website assigned to you.
We reserve the
right, in our sole discretion, to change or modify this Website from time to
time including but not limited adding or removing functionality or features or
changing its name. We may change this Website without prior notice to you.
Contact Us
Questions regarding this Privacy Statement or the information practices of Xross should be directed to Xross Admin at team@xross.org