Who we are
We are Xavier Media®, a registered trademark of Xinc AB. Our website addresses are: https://www.xaviermedia.net, https://www.xaviermedia.com, https://www.xaviermedia.org, https://www.xaviermedia.mobi, https://www.xaviermedia.info, https://www.xaviermedia.biz, https://www.xavier.media, , https://www.xavier.group, https://www.xavier.ltd.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
We collect email addresses from anyone subscribing to our newsletters. It’s free to join and you can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe links in the emails. We don’t store any personal information connected to your email address, other than the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself) 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.
Contact forms
Contact us using email at helloxavier-removethistext(a)xavier.group (remove the text “-removethistext” and replace “(a)” with “@” in the email address to send emails to us) or using Twitter: @xaviermedia
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to analyse the visitors to this web site in order to improve our content for the visitors.
Email newsletter
We use Feedburner for newsletters subscriptions to allow users to this web site to subscribe to our blog posts and news. Users may unsubscribe at any time using the instructions in the newsletters. The only data stored is an email address without any other connection to personal data or accounts at our site(s).
Who we share your data with
We share some anonymous data with trusted sites helping us with website analytics (Google Analytics), spam protection (Akismet), avatars (Gravatar), email newsletter subscriptions (Feedburner) etc.
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.
For users that subscribe to our newsletters we will keep the email address on record for as long as the user would like to stay subscribed. Users can unsubscribe at any time using the instructions in the newsletters.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments will be checked through an automated spam detection service. We also use Google Analytics and Gravatar.
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).