XLdesignbuild.com (“the website”, “we,” “us,” and “our”) is committed to treating your personal information with respect and sensitivity. This Privacy Policy explains how we may collect, store, use, and disclose personal information when you access or use (1) our website located at https://xldesignbuild.com and all of our other websites to which this Privacy Policy is posted (collectively, the “Website”), (2) including our programs, and (3) any services, content, and features made available by us through the Website or the Programs (together with the Website and the Programs, the “Services”).
Your Acceptance Of This Privacy Policy And Terms Of Use
By accessing or using the Services, you consent to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. The provisions contained in this Privacy Policy supersede all previous notices and statements regarding our privacy practices with respect to the Services. If you do not agree to every provision of this Privacy Policy, you may leave this Website.
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time in our sole discretion, subject to applicable law. When we revise this Privacy Policy, we will post a revised version on the Website. The revised Privacy Policy will be effective upon posting on the Website, unless otherwise set forth therein or as otherwise required by applicable law. You are free to decide whether or not to accept a revised version of this Privacy Policy, but accepting this Privacy Policy, as revised, is required for your continued access and use of the Services. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy or any revised version of this Privacy Policy, your sole recourse is to terminate your access and use of the Services.
Types Of Information We Collect
When you use the Services, we may collect information that allows you to be identified (“Personal Data”), and we may also collect information that does not identify you (“Anonymous Information”). When Anonymous Information is, directly or indirectly, associated or combined with Personal Data, such Anonymous Information will be considered Personal Data for purposes of this Privacy Policy. In addition, to the extent Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses or similar identifiers or information are considered personally identifiable information by applicable law, we will treat such identifiers and information as Personal Data under this Privacy Policy.
Information You Provide To Us
In general, you may visit the Website without telling us who you are or sharing any Personal Data with us.
When you register for an account for the Services (an “Account”), use other aspects of the Services, or communicate with us for customer service or technical support for the Services, we may ask you to provide certain Personal Data, such as your name, email address, postal address or telephone number, date of birth and gender.
You may decline to provide Personal Data to us, but, if you do so, certain Services, or features of certain Services, may not be available to you. For example, we sometimes request certain Personal Data to determine whether you are eligible for Services targeted toward particular populations, such as a program to promote mentoring of an individual or a staff of a corporation.
You may also have the opportunity to voluntarily provide additional Personal Data to us, such as information pertaining to your educational background or personal and professional goals, or other biographical information, which may or may not be associated with your Account.
Information Collected From Devices
When you access the Services using a computer or mobile device, including a desktop computer, laptop, mobile phone, tablet, smartwatch or other consumer electronic device (each, a “Device”), we may collect information from your Device, such as your Device type and manufacturer, your mobile carrier, your device software version, your Device identifiers, your mobile phone number, your IP address, your browser type, your network connection type, information about the webpage that referred you to the Website or that you visited prior to the Website, and your behavior and activity on the Website. Your behavior and activity on the Website may include the amount of time you spend using the Services and your login and log out times.
Information Collected From Cookies And Similar Technologies
When you access or use the Services, we may place small data files on your Device that assign random, unique numbers to your Device to enable us to recognize your Device when you use the Services. These data files may be cookies, pixel tags, other local shared objects, or similar technologies provided by your browser or associated applications (collectively, “Cookies”). We may use Cookies to recognize your Device, manage and store your settings and preferences for the Services, improve the Services, offer targeted products and services to you, and collect and analyze information about your use of the Services.
The Cookies we use in connection with the Services may include the following:
- Session Cookies: Session Cookies are temporary Cookies that expire and are automatically erased when you close your browser window. We may use session Cookies to grant you access to content and to enable actions that require you to be logged into your Account to perform.
- Persistent Cookies: Persistent Cookies are Cookies that usually have an expiration date in the distant future and remain in your browser until they expire or you manually delete them. We may use persistent Cookies to better understand usage patterns so we can improve the Services. For example, we may use a persistent Cookie to associate you with your Account or to remember your choices for the Services.
- Third-Party Cookies: We may permit certain third parties to place Cookies through the Services to provide us with better insights into the use of the Services and user demographics and to provide relevant advertising to you. These third parties may use Cookies to collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use the Services. For example, we may utilize Google Analytics to analyze usage patterns for the Services. Google Analytics generates a Cookie to capture information about your use of the Services that Google uses to compile reports on website activity for us and to provide other related services. Google may use a portion of your IP address to identify its Cookie. We may also allow third parties to display advertisements through the Services. These third-party advertisers may use Cookies to collect Anonymous Information. In some cases, we may have access to information from Cookies used by third-party advertisers through the Services, and this information may permit us to identify other websites or services that you have visited that are also associated with such third-party advertisers. The use of Cookies by third-party advertisers is subject to the respective third-party advertisers’ privacy policies.
By accessing or using the Services, you consent to the placement of Cookies on your Devices as described in this Privacy Policy. If you prefer not to receive Cookies through the Services, you may control how your browser responds to cookies by adjusting the privacy and security settings of your web browser.
Unless you set your browser settings to refuse all Cookies, our system may issue Cookies when you access or use the Services. If you set your browser settings to refuse all Cookies, the performance of certain features of the Services may be limited or not work at all.
In some of our email messages to you, we may use “click-through URLs” linked to content on the Website. We track click-through data to help us understand and analyze interest in topics and use of the Services.
Do Not Track
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is an optional browser setting that allows you to express your preferences regarding tracking by advertisers and other third parties. We do not use technology that recognizes DNT signals from your web browser.
Information Collected From Third Parties
We also collect Personal Data about you from other companies. For instance, we may receive Personal Data about you from nominating partners, and third-party service providers.
How We Use Information
We may use Anonymous Information as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy and for research and commercial purposes, such as to improve the Services. We may use Personal Data for the purposes described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy and internally for our general commercial purposes, including, among other things, to:
- provide the Services and notices related thereto
- analyze, improve, and customize the Services
- provide customer and technical support for the Services
- send you announcements, newsletters, promotional materials, and other information about the Services and third-party products and services that we think may be of interest to you
- detect, prevent, and investigate actual or suspected fraud, hacking, infringement, or other misconduct involving the Services
- collect fees and other amounts owed in connection with the Services
We may use Personal Data in other ways that we expressly disclose at the time you provide it.
We do not use your Personal Data to make automated decisions about you without any human input. In we ever begin to do so, if and as applicable, and to the extent required by applicable law, we will endeavor to implement suitable safeguards, including, for example, an opportunity for you to request human intervention, express your point of view, contest any decisions made, and request that we restrict the use of your personal data for the purposes of these automated decisions.