Privacy Policy for xyultra
Last Updated: February 1, 2024
We have updated our Privacy Policy to provide more information required under applicable data protection regulations, such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including:
- Why do we process personal data
- Legal grounds for processing personal data
- User’s European Union Rights under the GDPR and How to Exercise Them
- For the safety of the information that you give at xyultra, enjoy and benefit from our websites and online services with your full knowledge that we have put in place fair information practices designed to protect your privacy. Our Policy is applicable to xyultra and its affiliates and subsidiaries, which have their websites, mobile applications, and other online services directly linked (the “Sites”).
Our Privacy Policy sets out the types of information we may obtain when you visit the Sites, how we use that information, and when we may disclose your personally identifiable information and how you can manage your information.
This will also apply to sites maintained by other companies or organizations to which we may link or who may link to us. This privacy policy does not apply to the actions and privacy policies of third-party websites.
By visiting any of our Sites, you agree to the practices described in our privacy policy, including the use of cookies and similar online tools. If you do not accept any of the terms of this privacy policy, kindly do not use the Sites.
We reserve the right to modify or amend terms in our privacy policy occasionally and without prior notice to you. Your use of our Sites following such posting of any amendment will confirm your acceptance of the amended terms. If it is decided to retroactively apply any such changes or amendments to the personal information already in our possession, the company shall provide you with the notice for modification or amendment and seek your consent for the same.
Cookies and related technologies
We would like to inform you that, to be able to browse our website xyultra, you have to agree to the storage of data like cookies in your device. They inform us about your preferences regarding the appearance and operation of this website but do not store personal data.
The settings of your browser or the device you are using can be adjusted for the elimination or rejection of cookies. However, with this action, some of your preferences will be lost, and in each visit to xyultra, there are options that you will have to set manually.
Please read our Cookie Statement to learn more about how we use cookies and your options.
What information is collected?
We collect from you two basic types of information in conjunction with your use of the Sites: non-personal and personal information, respectively. Information that is not personally identifiable does not allow for individual identification. you, but may include tracking and usage information regarding your general location, demographics, use of the Sites, and the Internet. Personally, identifiable information is any information with which an individual may be identified, including your name, address, phone number, and email address, or non-personally identifiable information with which such personally identifiable information has become associated.
Personally identifiable information
As a general matter, you can browse the Sites without submitting your personally identifiable information to us. There are, however, several cases in which you may provide us with your personal information, and these are: the completion of subscription forms for publications, newsletters, and other Site content, ordering goods, registering on the Site or for any part thereof, responding to a poll or market research, entering a contest, uploading content, and making an application for employment at xyultra.
Personal, identifiable information
In general, you can surf on the Sites without our taking any of your personally identifiable information. In providing us with your personally identifiable information, there are some instances where it includes, among other actions, subscribing to our publications, newsletters, and other content; placing an order; registering for a Site or any part thereof; completing a poll or participating in market research; entering a contest; or when you apply for a job with xyultra.
Non-personally identifiable information
In the course of your interaction with the Sites, we may collect information that does not identify you individually (“non-personally identifiable information” or “non-PII”), such as demographic data; information regarding your computer, mobile device, or other device through which you access the Sites, including IP address, general geographic location, unique device identifiers, browser type, browser language, and other transactional information.
We may also gather information regarding your use of the Sites, such as search terms and search results. Other “traffic data” includes time of access, date of access, software crash reports, session identification number, access times, and referring website addresses. Our servers may automatically maintain a log of your usage activity of our Sites. Apart from individual non-identifiable information, we may collect aggregate data on the use of the Sites.
Collecting personally identifiable information via social media platforms
In addition, each time you visit any of our xyultra properties or interact with your account on our social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or LinkedIn, we may collect the personally identifiable information that you make available to us on that page or account, including your social media account ID. We will follow the privacy policy of the social media platform corresponding to the campaign and we will only collect and store the personally identifiable information permitted by the social media platforms. If you choose and authorize your xyultra to be linked or logged in with or through a social networking service, xyultra may receive certain information about you from the other platform, such as profile information and other information regarding your login credentials. Additionally, we may disclose your information about the Site to a social network and this will be solely based on your consent.
Collection of your source’s IP address and location information
We collect and store the source IP address of your device, which may disclose the general location of the device at the time you have accessed the Sites. Certain content and advertisements are presented to you based on the data.
Information from Other Sources. We may receive information about you from other sources, and we may add that to your account with us. The information will be treated as per this privacy policy. In some cases, this information may include but is not necessarily limited to demographic information, contact information, including additional contact information, group affiliations, occupational information, and educational background of the person.
How will we use your information?
The information we learn from you helps us to personalize and continually improve your experience on the Sites, including:
- Providing content, products, and services that you request
- Posting your user-generated content to our Sites as you request
- Servicing you through our Sites
- Communicating with you about your account or transactions with us and sending you information about features and enhancements on or to our Sites
Sending you promotional and non-promotional information - Communicating with you about changes to our policies
- Allowing you to comment on a story or topic
- Customizing content and experiences on our Sites, including by providing you with recommendations based on your selections
- Sending you newsletters and offers, promotions about our products and services, third-party products or services, or special events by email, text, or other medium
- Providing you advertising, including advertising based on your activity on our Sites or activity on third-party sites and applications
- Administering contests, giveaways, promotions, and polls
- Optimizing or improving our products, services, and operations
- Detecting, investigating, and preventing activities that may violate our policies or be illegal
- Performing statistical, demographic, and marketing analyses of users of the Sites and their purchasing patterns
We may use the information from one part of the Sites on other parts of the Sites in our network of Sites, all of which are owned and operated by xyultra. We may combine information that we receive online with other information and with information from external sources. Furthermore, we also may use or combine the information we collect from you offline with the information collected from third party sources, and from third parties, for many reasons including but not limited to improving, expanding and verifying the accuracy of our records. Additionally, data collected from a particular browser or device may be combined with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.
Who sees this information?
We will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information collected through the Sites to organizations not part of xyultra or its subsidiaries or related entities, except as described in this privacy policy.
THIRD-PARTY AGENTS
Our third-party agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and partners do the work for us, including hosting, syndicating content, managing content tools, integrating with social media for marketing and analytics, and also billing and customer service. These may have access to personally identifiable information if it is required in order to perform their functions. In the event that access to personally identifiable information is necessary, third parties will be obliged not to disclose the personally identifiable information or otherwise use or communicate it in any way that is inconsistent with applicable laws and regulations. They may not use, sell, distribute, or create derivative products from this data in any way other than for purposes of providing the requested services to the Sites.
Business Partners and Other Third Parties. Through our Digital Properties, you have the option to exercise choice regarding certain data practices of companies participating in the choice tools we provide. When you exercise this choice, we may share some information collected from you, your computer, or your mobile device with these companies so they can honor your requests regarding their data collection practices. Additionally, we may provide information to service providers that assist us in performing some business or operational functions. Furthermore, we may disclose personal information about you when required by law, including, but not limited to, by a search warrant, subpoena, or court order; to protect our rights and those of third parties; and for purposes disclosed at the time of collection.
Links to Third Party Websites
Our Digital Properties may contain links to other websites not under our control, and this Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected through our Digital Properties. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these other websites.
ASSIGNMENT
In the event of a corporate change in control, such as a sale to or merger with another entity, or in the case of asset sales or bankruptcy, xyultra may transfer your personally identifiable information to the new party in control or the party acquiring assets. In such instances, we will expect the acquiring party to adhere to the practices described in this privacy policy as much as reasonably possible. However, we cannot guarantee that the acquiring company or the merged company will maintain the same privacy practices or treat your information in the same manner as described in this privacy policy.
Law Enforcement, Legal Process, and Emergency Situations
Your personal information may also be used or disclosed to third parties when legally required or when acting in good faith that such action is necessary to conform to legal requirements or legal processes. This includes protecting and defending the rights or property of the Company, its employees, agents, partners, customers, or the public, including acting under urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of its employees or the public.
Use of Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We may, from time to time, disclose non-personally identifiable individual information and aggregate information to any person or entity other than the user in any manner that we deem appropriate or necessary. Among other things, we will disclose non-personally identifiable information to third parties to help us determine how people are using parts of the Sites and who our users are so we can improve our Sites. We may disclose non-personally identifiable information with partners and other third parties about how users collectively use the Sites.
Please be advised that, like most websites, we use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies to track the use of our Websites and your exposure to our online advertisements. Some of these technologies may be used by us to monitor traffic, improve the Sites, and make it easier and/or relevant for your use.
Most web browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you so prefer. Some of the features that make the Sites more usable require the use of cookies; therefore, you will need to enable your web browser to allow access to these features.
We also use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), on our Websites. Google Analytics uses cookies or other tracking technologies in order to help the Company analyze how users interact with and use the Websites, compile reports on the activity of the Websites for them, and provide other services relating to Websites activity and usage.
The technologies used by Google may collect information such as your IP address, time of visit, whether you are a return visitor, and any referring website. The Websites do not use Google Analytics to collect information that personally identifies the user.
Information generated by Google Analytics will be transmitted to and stored by Google. This will be subject to Google’s privacy policies.
We may also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. On the other hand, third-party advertisers may collect such information using cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies when you use the Sites. May be collected, and if collected, may include information about your online activity over time and across different websites and other online services. These third parties may use this information to tailor your interest-based advertising or other targeted content.
But, in any event, such online advertising partners do not have access to or use your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, or other personally identifying information from us without your permission. They may, however, collect persistent identifiers from your Internet usage on other websites within their networks that go beyond these Sites. Even if we limit their further use of such information, the third parties may have been able to personally identify you under adequate data from other sources, which were available to them.
Third-party ad serving companies and other unaffiliated advertisers may be found on our site. In the provision of their service, third parties may place a separate cookie on your computer or employ other data-collecting and tracking technologies to gather information, including your IP address, type of browser, and server your computer is logged onto, area code, zip code, and whether you responded to a specific advertisement. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies, how the information might be used, or the data that might be collected, and we are not liable for those particular third parties’ privacy policies or content. Please, follow above the links to visit the sites of those businesses and review their privacy policies. We have the right to include or change the list of third-party ad servers added in your paragraph from time to time, and we encourage you to check this section for changes.
Third-party advertisers who use tracking tools on our websites are part of programs that provide you with additional options for how your information is collected and used. You can learn more about the options for limiting how these third parties collect and use your information.
You can find out options for opting out of mobile app tracking by some advertising networks at your device settings. Learn more about how to do that with respect to the following devices:
Windows: http://choice.microsoft.com/en-US/opt-out
Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228
Android: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
Please keep in mind that opting out of the advertising network services will not prevent you from receiving advertisements while browsing our websites or any other website, nor will it prevent you from receiving interest-based advertisements from third parties who do not participate in these programs. However, depending on their policies and choice mechanisms, it may exclude you from interest-based advertising delivered by participating networks. Your browser or device may have a setting that allows you to signal websites that you do not wish to track your online behavior for interest-based advertising purposes. In the absence of a “Do Not Track” compliance protocol, xyultra’s information collection and disclosure practices, as well as the choices we offer to our customers, will continue as described in this privacy policy, whether or not a Do Not Track signal is enabled.
RIGHTS YOU HAVE
If you are a resident of the European Union, under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have specific rights regarding your personal information:
Access, rectification, and erasure: You have the right to request access to your personal data and to rectify or erase your personal data at any time.
Object to and restrict further processing of your personal information, lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, and access, rectify, and restrict further suspend the processing or deletion of your personal data or xyultra.com user account by visiting your user account
If you reside in the EU and wish to exercise your right to restrict processing or your right to object, please contact us at the following email address: info@xyultra.com
Collection of Personally Identifiable Information
Any such personally identifiable information is provided on a voluntary basis. Should you prefer not to have xyultra collect this information, please refrain from submitting it to the Sites. Note, however, that this choice may prevent you from accessing much of the content and some functionalities of the site.
Newsletters and Emails
You have the option to opt out of receiving future email marketing messages and newsletters from xyultra by following the instructions contained within the emails and newsletters, or by reaching out via email, phone, or postal mail at the provided addresses.
Other Important Information
How Your Data Is Protected
We commit to ensuring reasonable security for your data through physical, technical, and administrative control measures. It’s important to understand, though, that no data transmission over the internet or any public network can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Thus, you play a crucial role in protecting your own information. You are responsible for safeguarding any personally identifiable information you might transmit over home networks, wireless routers, or wireless (WiFi) networks, or similar devices, employing encryption and other security measures to prevent unauthorized interception. You also bear responsibility for your information’s security when using unencrypted, open, or otherwise unsecured networks. The duration for which we retain information varies based on its intended use. While there are instances where legal stipulations mandate the retention of data for a minimum period, we generally hold onto it no longer than necessary for the processing purposes for which it was collected.
Gaming Gadgets, Tech Reviews, Giveaways, and Contests
When we host contests, giveaways, or games Gadgets And Accessories Reviews related to our Sites, they come with a set of rules. These rules will outline the specific use and disclosure of information collected from your participation, should it differ from this privacy policy. We will collect personally identifiable information alongside your entry only if you voluntarily provide it.
Children’s Information
The Site does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from individuals under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not submit any personal information to xyultra without the explicit consent and participation of a parent or legal guardian. Should xyultra discover the collection of personal information from a child under 13 without parental consent, it will promptly remove such information from its systems.
If you suspect that xyultra has been provided with the personal information of a child under 13 without appropriate parental notice, please contact us immediately at info@xyultra.com
Your California Privacy Rights
xyultra does not share your personal information with any third party for their direct marketing purposes, except as specifically stated. If you have a xyultra account, you are entitled to review and update your personal information by logging in and editing your account or profile. Should you have any inquiries regarding our privacy policy, please feel free to reach out to us at:
Email: info@xyultra.com
Additionally, you may use the provided contact information for requests to access or modify your personally identifiable information. It’s important to note, however, that you will not be allowed to inspect the personally identifiable information of any other individual or entity. To access any records containing information about you, we may require you to furnish us with your personally identifiable information for identity verification purposes. Please understand that we might not be able to fulfill requests to alter or erase personally identifiable information if we believe such actions would contravene any applicable laws or regulations or render the information inaccurate.