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Online Privacy Policy
Welcome to the X-Expats & Transnationals, LLC x-expats.com web site (“Web Site”). This Web Site is owned and operated by X-Expats & Transnationals, LLC, 12 Desbrosses Street, New York, NY 10013 (“X-Expats”). X-Expats is committed to your privacy as a visitor and user to our Web Site. Whenever the terms "we," "us," or "our" are used in this privacy statement, they refer to X-Expats.
WE NEVER SELL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO ANYONE. EVER!
Like many of you, we spend a lot of time working and playing on the Internet and understand that privacy is important and we are strongly committed to protecting the privacy of our customers and visitors to our Web Site. If you'd like to know more about of how we gather information from our site and online services, how we handle that information once we gather it, whether we disclose it to anyone, etc. keep reading. (Please note that this Privacy Policy applies only to this site (x-expats.com) and not necessarily to other companies' or organizations' websites to which we link, even if they market our products).
Non-Personal Information:
We currently contract with several online partners to help manage and optimize our Internet business and communications as well as using the services of a marketing company, and our own internal professionals to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and how visitors use our site. To do this, we use Web beacons and cookies throughout our Web Site. The type of information we collect includes Traffic data: page views, unique visitors, visits and file downloads; finding methods such as referring domains, referrers, search engines, search keywords; return frequency, return visits and visit number; visitor profile data such as domains, languages, time zones and user home page; geographic data including country, region, city, state; and, DMA data; technology used including browser type, browser width, browser height, mobile device, operating system, monitor color depth, monitor resolution, plug-ins, java, javascript, cookies and connection type. We also collect pathing data: entry pages, exit pages, exit links, most popular pages, page reloads, time spent on page, page flow and single page visits. By supplementing our records, this information helps us learn things like what pages are most attractive to our visitors, which of our products and services most interest our customers, and what kinds of offers our customers like to see. Although the information is logged, we control how that data may and may not be used.
Notice: Personal Information from your computer, cookies and other information from your computer for purposes that are unrelated to the Web Site or your interaction with the Web Site may be collected.
Clickstream:
As you use the Internet, a trail of electronic information is left at each web site you visit. This information referred to as "clickstream data," can be collected and stored by a web site's server. Clickstream data tracks the type of computer, operating system and browsing software you use, your IP address and the address of the web site from which you linked to the Web Site. Clickstream data is used by aggregating information to determine how much time visitors spend on each page of our Web Site, how visitors navigate throughout the Web Site and how we may tailor our web pages to better meet the needs of visitors. This information is used to improve our Web Site. Any collection or use of clickstream data will be anonymous and aggregate, and will not contain any Personal Information.
Forms That Request Personal Information
On certain pages, we require the collection of certain mandatory information as well as optional and voluntary information. We denote which information is mandatory and which is optional. Examples of mandatory information include the following which are collected at the time of registration with our Web Site: username, password, countries visited, and country of current residence, e-mail address, and related information. We give you the option of providing us with your name, address, phone number, demographic information, preferences, profile specifications, communications preferences, content preferences, and other personal information. We only gather this personal information with your knowledge, permission, and participation. You have the option to limit the amount of personal information you provide us at the time you submit it.
Restricted or Authorized User Only Areas
We collect unique identifying information assigned to you only to verify your identity when you visit restricted or authorized user only areas of our Web Site. We use User ID’s to verify that you are an active authorized user. We do not keep or use such identification information for other purposes.
Information that we collect
When you use the Web Site, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, add applications, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your relationships. When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information.
You post User Content (as defined in the Web Site Terms and Conditions) on the Web Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages and information, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Web Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Web Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your User Content. Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on the Web Site is a violation of the Web Site Terms and Conditions and should be reported through our help desk. If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will send your friend an email or instant message in your name inviting him or her to visit the site, and may send up to two reminders to them. The Web Site stores this information to send invitations and reminders, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, to allow you to see invitations you have sent, and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us through the help desk to request that we remove this information from our database.
Links to Other web sites and third parties
Our Web Site may contain links to web sites operated by third parties. While we provide links to these sites for your convenience, we do not control the persons or organizations who maintain these sites. We do not recommend or endorse the content of any third-party sites. Just as we cannot be held responsible for the content, accuracy or quality of information, or quality of services or products, provided by or advertised on our Web Site, we cannot be held responsible for the content, accuracy or quality of information, or quality of services or products, provided by or advertised on these third-party sites or the privacy practices of these third-party sites.
Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on the Web Site are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content (collectively referred to as "cookies"). Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. The Web Site does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on the Web Site unless you choose to share it with them. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by the Web Site and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.
Children's Privacy
We do not request, seek or intentionally collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13). Our Web Site is not directed or intended for children under the age of thirteen (13). This Web Site targets its content and is intended for use by professionals and should not be used by children or teenagers. Parents or legal guardians are responsible to determine the appropriate content for their children and to monitor use and access to the Web site and any information it contains.
Security of our Web Site, E-mail and Forms
We put certain security measures in place for our Web Site to protect loss, misuse, or change of the information that is under our control. Such security measures include, for example, firewalls, access restrictions and password protection. We treat all information we receive from you through our Web Site as confidential. However, e-mail links on our Web Site do not provide a means for completely secure and private communications between us. Your e-mails and form submissions (like most non-encrypted Internet e-mail communications) may be accessed and viewed without your knowledge or permission while in transit to us. If you wish to keep the information you send us private, please do not use e-mail links or forms.
Changing or Removing Information
Access and control over most personal information on the Web Site is readily available through the profile editing tools. Web Site users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their Web Site account may do so on the accounts page. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of the Web Site. Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on the Web Site, you generally cannot remove such communications.
Governing Law:
This Privacy Policy and our legal obligations hereunder are subject to the laws of the state of New York and the United States of America, regardless of your location. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of and venue in the federal and state courts located in New York County, New York, U.S.A. in all disputes arising out of or relating to this Privacy Policy, the use of the Web Site, or the purchase of any products or services.
Web Site Terms and Conditions:
Use of this Web Site is governed by the provisions contained in the Terms and Conditions. Your use, or access, of the Web Site constitutes your agreement to be bound by those provisions. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND THIS PRIVACY POLICY YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THE WEB SITE.
CONTACT:
For questions or concerns relating to privacy, we can be contacted at:
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This Privacy Policy was last updated on September 1, 2009.
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