We recognize that your privacy is very important and take it seriously. This Privacy Policy describes XEPHULA's policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use the XEPHULA Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Note: You are never required to give us any personally identifiable information. You are required to be 18 years of age or older to register on the Service. If the birth date you enter indicates that you are 18 years of age or older, that is acceptable. We do not allow anyone under 18 years of age to create an account on Xephula. If you are under 18 years of age, you are not allowed to enter a birth date that indicates you are 18 years of age or older to circumvent the age requirement.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information Collection and Use

We use information we collect to analyze how the Service is used, diagnose service or technical problems, maintain security, personalize content, remember information to help you efficiently access your account, monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns, and track User Content and users as necessary to comply with applicable laws.

User-Provided Information:

You provide us information about yourself, such as your name and e-mail address, if you register for a member account with the Service. Your name and other information you choose to add to your profile will be available for public viewing on the Service. We may use your email address to send you Service-related notices. You can control receipt of certain Service-related messages on your Settings page. We may also use your contact information to send you marketing messages. If you do not want to receive such messages, you may opt out by following the instructions in the message. If you correspond with us by email, we may retain the content of your email messages, your email address and our responses.

You also provide us information in User Content you post to the Service. Your posts and other contributions on the Service, and metadata about them (such as when you posted them), are publicly viewable on the Service, along with your name (unless the Service permits you to post anonymously). This information may be searched by search engines and be republished elsewhere on the Web in accordance with our Terms of Service.

If you choose to use our invitation service to invite a friend to the Service, we will ask you for that person's email address and automatically send an email invitation. We store this information to send this email, to register your friend if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our invitation service.

Cookies:

When you visit the Service, we may send one or more "cookies" - small data files - to your computer to uniquely identify your browser and let XEPHULA help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through the site. A cookie may convey anonymous information about how you browse the Service to us, but does not collect personal information about you. A persistent cookie remains on your computer after you close your browser so that it can be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Service. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser's directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the Service may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.

Log Files:

Log file information is automatically reported by your browser each time you access a web page. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. When you use the Service, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such information. 

How We Share Your Information

Personally Identifiable Information:

We store personal information in locations outside the direct control of XEPHULA for backup purposes only. The services used for backups are Wasabi and Backblaze. Use of your information as described above, will be bound by this Privacy Policy.

We use Postmark SMTP service for transactional emails. For example, when you sign up for an account, you will recieve and email with a confirmation code to verify you own the email address. Use of your email address as described above, will be bound by this Privacy Policy.

We may share or disclose your information with your consent, such as if you choose to sign on to the Service through a third-party service. We cannot control third parties' use of your information. We do not use any third-party sign on services at this time.

XEPHULA may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information:

Non-personally identifiable information is only shared in the same way as described in the above section "Personally Identifiable Information."

How We Protect Your Information

We use commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to XEPHULA or guarantee that your information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

Your Choices About Your Information

You may decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Service. You may update or correct your account information and email preferences at any time by logging in to your account.

Links to Other Web Sites

We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from the Service, nor the information or content contained therein. Please remember that when you use a link to go from the Service to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including those that have a link on our website, is subject to that website's own rules and policies.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on this page to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Last updated on: May 13, 2024