Privacy policy
Xplore Digital Privacy Policy
Xplore Digital
Xplore Digital is an affiliate marketing company that operates globally. We are a part of Xploredigi Media Pvt. Ltd. a company registered in India and head-quartered in Gurugram, India.
We are dedicated to protecting the privacy of individuals who interact with our services, website, and business-to-business contacts. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard personal data in these contexts.
- Please visit our Services Privacy Policy Section (Below) if you want to learn more about the personal data we collect and use about consumers when providing our affiliate marketing services to our clients. This policy includes information about the types of personal data we process to ensure that publishers get paid for referrals or marketing efforts that result in transactions with advertisers.
- When you visit our website, we may collect certain information, such as your IP address, browser type, and browsing behavior. We use this information to improve our website and provide you with a better user experience.
- Please visit our Website & Business-to-Business Privacy Policy Section (Below) if you want to learn more about the personal data we collect from our website and how we process personal data about our business-to-business contacts. This policy provides detailed information about the data we collect from business contacts, such as clients, partners, or vendors, including their names, email addresses, and job titles. We use this information to maintain business relationships, communicate with you, and provide our services.
Data Security and Retention:
We take appropriate measures to protect the personal data we collect. We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in our respective privacy policies or as required by law.
Your Rights:
You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data held by Xplore Digital. If you have any questions or requests regarding your personal data, please contact us using the information provided in our privacy policies.
For more detailed information about how we collect and use personal data, as well as your rights, please refer to our full Privacy Policies linked above.
Xplore Digital Services Privacy Policy
Introduction
Welcome to the Xplore Digital Affiliate Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”). Xplore Digital (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is an affiliate marketing company and is part of Xploredigi Media Pvt. Ltd. We’ve created this resource to provide you with valuable transparency and choice on how we might collect, use, and share your personal information as a consumer (or visitor) to the website(s) of one of our affiliate publishers or advertisers.
Scope of this Privacy Notice
To make some of our services possible and to make smarter decisions, we need to process consumer personal information. This Privacy Policy is intended to describe how your personal information as a consumer is collected and used by XPLORE DIGITAL while providing our affiliate marketing services. We believe that your privacy and data protection is essential to the growth and prosperity of the internet, and that a great online experience can provide significant benefits to consumers when done properly. In accordance with these beliefs, XPLORE DIGITAL strives to create results for publishers, advertisers and consumers in revolutionary ways without compromising privacy.
This Privacy Notice is created and maintained as part of our commitment to provide you with transparency and choice on how we process their personal information. We have taken steps to describe our personal information processing activities as clearly and easy-to-read as possible and encourage you to read the entire Privacy Notice. If you still have questions about our privacy practices, you can always contact us at hello@xploredigital.in.
If you are looking for information on how XPLORE DIGITAL collects and uses personal information in connection with visitors to our website (Xplore Digital.in), which includes our clients, prospective clients, business-to-business contacts, please continue to the website and business-to-business privacy notice section below.
We may use several capitalized terms throughout this Privacy Notice that may be unfamiliar to you. You can find the definitions to these terms at the bottom of this page.
I. Overview of XPLORE DIGITAL and Affiliate Marketing
When you visit websites and mobile applications, there are almost always third parties working behind the scenes to help provide a great digital experience. XPLORE DIGITAL is one of these companies and we offer affiliate marketing technology and services that keeps your favorite blogs free, your favorite stores in business, and your experience with brands more relevant.
1. What do we do?
Affiliate marketing is the process of a brand (for example, a retailer) paying a commission to a publisher (for example a blog or a news site) for the transactions the publisher helps to drive by promoting the brand’s products or services . Publishers will promote products or services from advertisers to visitors of their properties (examples include websites or mobile applications) and earn a piece of the profit for each transaction generated. XPLORE DIGITAL operates an affiliate network, which helps publishers and advertisers partner with each other. An affiliate network is the platform used by publishers and advertisers to discover and form new partnerships, define criteria for qualified marketing efforts and is used to ensure that appropriate parties are rewarded for qualified activities.
2. Privacy by Design
We have a deep-rooted foundation and culture of privacy and data protection at XPLORE DIGITAL. We integrate privacy in all aspects of our business, including strategy, product development, delivery, and more. We set a ‘privacy-first’ tone early and often, proactively working to limit our data collection to what is necessary to provide our services.
In that spirit, XPLORE DIGITAL does not collect, store, process, or allow in our systems any of your personal information that is linked, or is intended to be linked, to an identified individual, such as names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, driver’s license numbers, or financial account numbers, which we define as directly identifiable information (“DII”). We have built, and continue to build, all our products and services without the use of any DII.
As part of our Privacy by Design philosophy, we consider and prioritize data protection and privacy throughout the entire lifecycle of the data from before it is collected to when it is ultimately destroyed. We constantly strive to maintain unparalleled visibility with consumers. We provide transparency and choice through our website and encourage the same practice throughout the internet.
II. Information Collection & Use
Unless voluntarily provided by you, XPLORE DIGITAL does not collect or use any DII. Instead, XPLORE DIGITAL only processes pseudonymous personal information. Pseudonymous or pseudonymized personal information is information that does not directly identify a specific consumer without the use of additional information. XPLORE DIGITAL only collects and processes personal information in a pseudonymous format and has both technical and organizational measures in place to make sure that additional information is not used to identify or link that pseudonymous information to an identified consumer. Some examples of pseudonymous information that we process include IP addresses, Cookie IDs, or referring site website addresses, order IDs, and browsing activity. We do not link or attribute pseudonymous information to DII, such as a your name, email address, or phone number.
Using pseudonymous information allows us to see and understand your journey between publishers and advertisers without revealing to us your identity. In other words, we do not directly identify you using the pseudonymous information that we process. In fact, we have no interest in knowing your DII details, and we work to proactively keep such information out of our systems. We will only ever collect DII if it is expressly provided to us, such as when you contacts us on your own initiative via our contact form or otherwise. Even in these instances, we will not tie this DII to pseudonymous information about you that we may have, such as your site browsing or transaction data.
1. Pseudonymous Information Collected by XPLORE DIGITAL
The majority of the data that XPLORE DIGITAL processes is machine generated and is collected when a consumer visits and interacts with one of our advertisers or publishers, such as a website or mobile application that leverages our services. Such information includes the following:
·Commercial or transactions information: E.g., information relating to online purchases and actions made by you, order IDs, order timestamps, and other purchasing information of products and services.
·Identifiers and Device Information: E.g., hashed emails, mobile identifiers (such as IDFA or AAID), Cookie IDs, user agent strings which provides browser type and version, and IP address.
·Online browsing activity information: E.g., browsing activity and information on your interaction with a website, application, or advertisement where our technology is deployed, such as clicks, ad impressions, time stamps, referring site URLs, and current site URLs.
·Location data: E.g., location information based on IP addresses.
2. How XPLORE DIGITAL Collects Pseudonymous Information
Information Collected Online:
We collect the types of pseudonymous information identified above in a variety of ways. However, we principally use Reporting Technologies, such as cookies, pixels, tags, or other similar technologies to collect the pseudonymous information we need to provide our services. We leverage these technologies to collect the necessary pseudonymous information from you directly as you navigate or interact with our advertisers and publishers.
Information Received from Clients:
Our clients may also provide us with information relating to their customers, prospective customers, or other individuals, which we handle on the behalf of our clients as a service provider. Our clients are independently responsible to determine how they engage with their customers and determine the handling of their customer data. Under these circumstances, the use of such personal information is subject to the privacy policies of the client’s privacy policies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of our clients, and accordingly, this Privacy Policy and the rights acknowledged herein do not apply to the data that XPLORE DIGITAL handles on behalf its clients.
3. XPLORE DIGITAL’s Purposes for Collecting Pseudonymous Information
XPLORE DIGITAL collects pseudonymized personal information for a variety of purposes, as detailed below.
Attribution: XPLORE DIGITAL primarily uses pseudonymous information to attribute a referral or marketing effort by a publisher to an event or transaction with an advertiser. When a consumer responds to or views an affiliate advertisement served by one of our publishers, we may assign a unique identifier that is tied to that consumer’s internet browser or device, often via a cookie or similar technology. One function of these technologies is to provide XPLORE DIGITAL with the information needed to facilitate the verification and payment of affiliate commissions to a publisher when a consumer clicks on a link, creates a lead, or makes a purchase directly on an advertiser’s website. Even if the consumer re-visits the advertiser's site directly, XPLORE DIGITAL is able to recognize the unique identifier assigned earlier, and is able to continue to attribute the consumer’s activities on the advertiser's site and credit the publisher that referred the consumer where appropriate. In other words, if a consumer reads a blog about a pair of shoes and decides to visit that advertiser’s website and purchase that pair of shoes, we would ensure that the blog gets compensated for referring the consumer to that advertiser’s website.
Cross-Device Reporting: We may also collect pseudonymous information across multiple browsers or devices to help us more accurately credit a publisher for their referral or marketing effort. Our cross-device reporting allows us to follow a your journey from a publisher to a potential transaction even if you decide to switch browsers or devices throughout that journey. For example, if you interact with a blog post on your phone referring them to purchase a certain pair of shoes, but later decide to switch to a desktop computer to make the purchase, we would be able to leverage our cross-device reporting technologies to ensure that the blog site is credited for the referral.
Insights and Analytics: XPLORE DIGITAL also uses the pseudonymous information collected to provide our publishers and advertisers with reports to help with their marketing efforts. This information is generally used by our clients to enhance their ad campaigns, such as by learning where the optimal ad placement is on their website, or learning what type of products or services consumers are more interested in. We will generally aggregate or de-identify any pseudonymous information prior to compiling these reports so that it is no longer technically feasible for the data to be linked to you, your device, or your household (“aggregated information”). For example, to measure the effectiveness of an ad or ad campaign, we may compile a report indicating how many unique individuals clicked on an ad. The report, in this example, would only consist of the ad itself and the total number of unique clicks, with no means for the recipient of the report to relate the clicks back to any particular individual. While many of these reports are at the aggregate level, we also produce reports that contain customer-level pseudonymous information. These reports can help our clients identify areas of growth, such as identifying new partnerships or customer audiences.
Internal Business Purposes: XPLORE DIGITAL may also collect and process personal information for some of our internal business purposes, such as:
·Auditing our systems and services for compliance with applicable regulations and standards.
·Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity.
·Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
·Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, the contextual customization of ads shown as part of a single interaction.
·Performing services on behalf of our advertisers or publishers, such as maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service.
·Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration.
·Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of our systems and services, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance our systems and services.
·Other purposes as required or permitted by applicable law, or with your consent.
III. Information Sharing by XPLORE DIGITAL
We only share your information for our limited business purposes, as described in this Privacy Notice, including:
Sharing with XPLORE DIGITAL’s Partners and Affiliates: We may share your personal information with companies affiliated with XPLORE DIGITAL under Xploredigi Media Pvt. Ltd. Groupe for the purposes described in this privacy policy.
Sharing with Service Providers: We may share your personal information with service providers to assist or facilitate in the services we provide to our clients, such as vendors, administrative service providers, technology providers, and carefully selected partners for services including, but not limited to, data validation, enhancement, information verification and suppression services.
Sharing with Third Parties: We may share your personal information and/or aggregated information with third parties including advertisers, promotional partners, sponsors, and publishers, for the purposes stated above in this Privacy Notice, including for attribution, cross-device reporting, and insight and analytics purposes.
Sharing for Legal Purposes: In addition, we may share personal information with third parties in order to: (a) comply with legal process or a regulatory investigation (e.g. a subpoena or court order); (b) enforce our Terms of Service, this Privacy Notice, or other contracts with you, including investigation of potential violations thereof; and/or (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties.
Sharing for Fraud Prevention & Safety: We may share your personal information with third parties or service providers to protect the rights, property or personal safety of us, our platform, our customers, our agents and affiliates, its users and/or the public. We likewise may provide information to other companies and organizations (including law enforcement) for fraud protection, and spam/malware prevention, and similar purposes.
Sharing in the Event of a Corporate Transaction: We may also share personal information in the event of a major corporate transaction, including for example a merger, investment, acquisition, reorganization, consolidation, bankruptcy, liquidation, or sale of some or all of our assets, or for purposes of due diligence connected with any such transaction.
Sharing with your Consent: We may also share your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
IV. Protecting Personal Information
In addition to our Privacy by Design philosophy, XPLORE DIGITAL takes extra steps to ensure that any personal information collected and retained is secured and protected from unauthorized access.
1. Security and Data Integrity
XPLORE DIGITAL takes steps to help ensure that the data we possess is housed and transmitted securely. This may include various types of physical and electronic security, including firewall protections, encryption, hashing or truncation of data, and access controls to personal information. While neither we nor any platform can guarantee 100 percent safety from hacks or illegal intrusion, we employ efforts that are designed to ensure that this does not occur.
2. Retention
XPLORE DIGITAL retains pseudonymized information collected online for 6 years, at which point such information is disassociated from the applicable consumer. Aggregated/De-Identified reports generated from such data may be retained for a longer period as ad delivery and reporting data.
V. Notice to California Residents
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) requires certain additional information be provided regarding your rights with respect to your personal information. Please do not rely on the below information and disclosures in this section or otherwise directed to California residents if you are not a resident of California.
1. Your California Rights and Choices
California law allows you to make certain requests about your personal information, including pseudonymous information. Specifically, under the CCPA you have the right to request access to certain personal information we hold about you, to request that we delete that information, and to opt out of the “sale” of your personal information. However, XPLORE DIGITAL does not “sell” your personal information as defined by the CCPA.
To understand the categories of personal information we have collected in the last 12 months, as well as our purposes for such collection, please review the “Information Collection and Use” section above. To understand the categories of parties with whom we have shared the categories of Personal Data within the past 12 months, please see the “Information Sharing by XPLORE DIGITAL” section above.
Please note that certain information may be exempt from such requests under California law. We also will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to a request. Since XPLORE DIGITAL does not maintain any directly identifiable information about consumers, we will verify you by reading the Cookie ID associated with your browser.
2. Right to Non-discrimination
We do not deny, charge different prices for, or provide a different level of quality of goods or services if you choose to exercise these rights.
3. Authorized Agents
You may also designate an agent to make requests to exercise your rights under CCPA as described above. We will take steps both to verify the identity of the person seeking to exercise their rights as listed above, and to verify that your agent has been authorized to make a request on your behalf through providing us with a signed written authorization or a copy of a power of attorney.
VI. Modifications to this Privacy Notice
From time to time, we may update this Privacy Notice. Any changes to it will become effective when it is posted to our website. You can determine when this Notice was last revised by checking the “Last Modified" legend at the top of this Policy. Please check back periodically to learn of any changes to this Privacy Notice.
VII. Contact Us
For any additional questions, inquiries, or complaints concerning XPLORE DIGITAL’s privacy notice, please contact us at hello@xploredigital.in.
If you are looking for our privacy notice as it relates to information collected from our website or our business-to-business contacts, please continue to the website and business-to-business privacy notice section below.
VIII. Definitions
“Cookies” are small text files that are downloaded and stored onto your device (e.g. a computer or smartphone). Cookies allow us to recognize your device and store information about your preferences or past actions. In this Privacy Policy the definition of “Cookies” includes similar technologies that can write or read information on your device such as “Local Shared Objects” (sometimes called Flash Cookies), pixels and web-beacons. There are many misconceptions about cookies. Cookies cannot erase your hard drive, install programs, or collect PII from your browser or device.
“Reporting Technologies” means any technology, tool, or code (including cookies, pixels, SDKs, APIs, local shared objects, web-beacons, tags, and scripts) that enables access to or storage of information on a device. “Log files” track actions occurring on Sites and collect data including, as an example, your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, click data and types of advertisements viewed.
"Pixels or Web beacons" are objects that are embedded in a web page or e-mail and are usually invisible to the user but are used to track a web user’s navigation of a website or collection of websites or pages, interaction with an e-mail, use of mobile applications, the completion of transactions, submittal of applications and browsing behavior.
Xplore Digital Website and Business To Business Privacy Policy
Introduction
Welcome to the Xplore Digital Affiliate Privacy Notice ("Privacy Notice"). Xplore Digital ("we," "us," or "our") is an affiliate marketing company and is part of Xploredigi Media Pvt. Ltd. We've created this resource to provide you with valuable transparency and choice on how we might collect, use, and share your personal information.
Scope of this Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice is intended to describe how XPLORE DIGITAL collects and uses personal information of our clients, prospective clients, business-to-business contacts, and other visitors to this website and any other website on which this Privacy Notice is posted ("Website or Websites").
If you are looking for information on how XPLORE DIGITAL collects and uses consumer personal information in connection with our services, please click here to view our Services Privacy Notice.
We may us several capitalized terms throughout this Privacy Notice that may be unfamiliar to you. You can find the definitions to these terms at the bottom of this page.
I. INFORMATION COLLECTION & USE
We will sometimes give you the opportunity to provide information directly to us through our corporate Websites – such as if you are a business interested in a relationship with us or an individual completing one of our surveys. Additionally, as you interact with our Websites, we may use (or engage with business partners and vendors that use) automatic data collection technologies such as cookies (described below) to collect certain information about your browser or device, as well as activities or actions taken on the websites.
1. Personal Information Collected by XPLORE DIGITAL
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following personal information:
Contact Information such as your name, email address, telephone number, the company you work for, business title, postal address, and other similar types of information.
This information is collected directly from you when:
·you attend or register for our marketing events;
·you use the functionalities and features of our services, such as our affiliate platform;
·you correspond with us directly, such as when you fill out a form, send us an email, or sign up for our services;
·you choose to disclose your personal information on message boards, chats, profile pages, social media posts or comments, blogs, and other features on our Website or our services with such capability;
or
·we may also collect your personal information from publicly available sources, such as LinkedIn, or receive it from our partners who have collected it therefrom.
Browser and device information such as the type of web browser you are using and its version, your IP address, and what parts of our Websites you have visited. This information is automatically collected via Reporting Technologies (such as cookies, log files, pixels, tags, or other similar technologies) when you visit our Websites or open emails from us. Such technologies may be operated by a third party or service provider acting on our behalf. Some of these third parties may collect data about your browsing behavior on our Websites and combine it with data collected from other websites over time for purposes that may include online interest-based advertising. Most of these companies offer a way to opt-out of such use of your information. You can learn more about how to opt-out of this use in the Your Rights section below.
Note, however, that XPLORE DIGITAL will not directly (via our xploredigital.in domain) collect, retain, or share any data regarding a particular user or device (including IP addresses and user identifiers) on sites or apps not owned by XPLORE DIGITAL. Any information collected on such sites or apps will be collected via Reporting Technologies operated by third parties, service providers, or other affiliated companies. XPLORE DIGITAL's tracking of users across websites in connection with its services will be conducted via alternate domains and Reporting Technologies.
Financial Information such as credit card numbers, billing address and/or other related information required for payments made to and from XPLORE DIGITAL as part of our services. This information is voluntarily provided by you, and is stored in a password protected environment, and is used for its intended purposes including providing our services, billing, and accounts payable.
2. XPLORE DIGITAL's Purposes for Collecting Personal Information
We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
·Direct marketing in accordance with your preferences via email, phone or other channels, including features of our services. Such marketing could include newsletters, white papers, market research opportunities and similar.
·To fulfil requests you have made to us, including to communicate with you, respond to your inquiries, and provide updates on our products and services,
·To analyze and report on trends and activities on our Websites and our marketing efforts, such as understanding the parts of our Websites visited most often.
·To administer or improve our services, Websites and marketing communications.
II. INFORMATION SHARING BY XPLORE DIGITAL
Sharing with XPLORE DIGITAL's Partners and Affiliates: We may share your personal information with companies affiliated with XPLORE DIGITAL under Xploredigit Media Pvt. Ltd. for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice.
Sharing with Clients: We may share your personal information with third party participants of our services, such as publishers and advertisers, as is necessary to provide our services to you.
Sharing with Service Providers: We may share your personal information with service providers to assist or facilitate in the services we provide to our clients, including payment processing, such as vendors, administrative service providers, technology providers, and carefully selected partners for services including, but not limited to, data validation, enhancement, information verification and suppression services.
Sharing with Third Parties: We may share your personal information with third parties including advertisers, promotional partners, sponsors, and publishers, for the purposes stated in this Privacy Notice.
Sharing for Legal Purposes: In addition, we may share personal information with third parties in order to: (a) comply with legal process or a regulatory investigation (e.g. a subpoena or court order); (b) enforce our Terms of Service, this Privacy Notice, or other contracts with you, including investigation of potential violations thereof; and/or (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties.
Sharing for Fraud Prevention & Safety: We may share your personal information with third parties or service providers to protect the rights, property or personal safety of us, our platform, our customers, our agents and affiliates, its users and/or the public. We likewise may provide information to other companies and organizations (including law enforcement) for fraud protection, and spam/malware prevention, and similar purposes.
Sharing In Event of a Corporate Transaction: We may also share personal information in the event of a major corporate transaction, including for example a merger, investment, acquisition, reorganization, consolidation, bankruptcy, liquidation, or sale of some or all of our assets, or for purposes of due diligence connected with any such transaction.
Sharing with your Consent: We may also share your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
III. YOUR RIGHTS
1. Marketing databases.
If we market to you by email, in our corporate capacity – such as if you are a client or prospective client and we send information about our services – you may "unsubscribe" from our marketing emails through a link placed in your emails.
You may also request that XPLORE DIGITAL opt you out of marketing by contacting us directly via the contact details below.
2. Interest-Based Advertising.
You may visit www.AboutAds.info or the Network Advertising Initiative to learn more about interest-based advertising and to see your opt-out choices from other participating companies that may be collecting and using data on our Websites.
For those in Canada, you can opt-out via the DAAC's industry site at http://youradchoices.ca/.
IV. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
Our Websites may contain links to unaffiliated third-party sites. We do not endorse or make any representations about any third-party websites (or any information, software or other products or materials found there) to which our sites might link. This Privacy Notice does not apply to the data collection and use practices of third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy notices of these unaffiliated third-party websites to understand their data collection and use practices.
V. PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE FORUMS
Our Websites may provide you with the opportunity to participate in various online forums. If you contribute any content to an online forum, you retain your rights to any content you post. However, by posting content on or through an online forum, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute your content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed) for any and all purposes.
Any content you post to an online forum may be publicly viewed and used by anyone on the Internet. You are responsible for any content you post, and for any consequences thereof, including the use of your content by other users. To protect your privacy, we remind you and ask you to not submit Personal Data in a public forum.
By posting, you agree not to post any content that (i) is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, invasive of another individual's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; (ii) you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; (iii) infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party; or (iv) contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
We may pre-screen, refuse or remove any content that you post. We may also modify or adapt your content in order to transmit, display or distribute it.
We do not control the content you or others can publicly post on our Websites and through online forums and as such, we do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such content. Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any user-contributed content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any user-contributed content. To request removal of your personal information from our online forums, or to notify us of a posting that violates the rules for posting in XPLORE DIGITAL's online forums described above, please contact us using the contact details provided below.
VI. CONTENT SHARING FEATURES
Our Websites include social media sharing features, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and Twitter buttons. A Cookie might be set to enable such features to function properly. These features may collect information about your browser and your device, including your IP address as well as which part of our Websites you are visiting.
We also have other content sharing features embedded on our Websites, such as YouTube, SoundCloud, Vidyard and Vimeo, which lets us share content with you directly (e.g. videos, podcasts, tracks and playlists). The providers of these content sharing features might collect information about you (including personal information), such as what part of our Website you visited. They do this to be able to recognise you, and in some cases show you personalised content. We are not responsible for the data practices of these providers and recommend you read their own privacy notices.
Some features might allow you to email useful information from our Websites to a friend or colleague. If you choose to do so, we may ask you to provide your full name and email address, as well as your friend's complete email address. We will send your friend a one-time email inviting them to visit our Website, except were prohibited by law.
VII. SENSITIVE INFORMATION
We ask that you not send or disclose any sensitive personal information (e.g., information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership) to us through our Sites or otherwise.
VIII. USE OF THE SITES BY CHILDREN
Our Sites are not intended for children under the age of thirteen (16). We ask that children not provide personal information through our Sites. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 16, we will delete that information from our records.
IX. PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
XPLORE DIGITAL takes extra steps to ensure that any personal information collected and retained is secured and protected from unauthorized access.
1. Security and Data Integrity
XPLORE DIGITAL takes steps to help ensure that the data we possess is housed and transmitted securely. This may include various types of physical and electronic security, including firewall protections, encryption, hashing or truncation of data, and access controls to personal information. While neither we nor any platform can guarantee 100 percent safety from hacks or illegal intrusion, we employ efforts that are designed to ensure that this does not occur.
2. Retention
XPLORE DIGITAL retains your information for as long as you have an open and active account profile with us or as needed to provide you the services you requested. We will retain and use your information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
We will retain the minimum amount of personal information necessary to maintain a record of your opt-out if you choose to opt out of our communications.
Personal information collected on our Websites, through our direct marketing efforts, and through our business-to-business relationships will be retained for up to four (4) years.
X. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
From time to time, we may update this Privacy Notice. Any changes to it will become effective when it is posted to our website. Please check back to learn of any changes to this Privacy Notice
XI. STORAGE OF INFORMATION IN THE UNITED STATES
If you are accessing our Websites from a location outside of the United States, your connection will be through and to servers located in the United States and the Information you provide will likely be processed and securely maintained in our web servers and internal systems located within the United States. (We likewise generally store the Information used in our Services in the United States.) Thus, you should be aware that in accessing this website or otherwise communicating with us, the information we collect or receive from you may be subject to laws with lesser or different privacy standards than those in your own country (such as if you are in a country located in the European Union).
XII. NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA") requires certain additional information be provided regarding your rights with respect to your personal information. Please do not rely on the below information and disclosures in this section or otherwise directed to California residents if you are not a resident of California.
1. Your California Rights and Choices
California law allows you to make certain requests about your personal information, including pseudonymous information. Specifically, under the CCPA you have the right to request access to certain personal information we hold about you, to request that we delete that information, and to opt out of the "sale" of your personal information. However, XPLORE DIGITAL does not "sell" your personal information as defined by the CCPA.
To understand the categories of personal information we have collected in the last 12 months, as well as our purposes for such collection, please review the "Information Collection and Use" section above. To understand the categories of parties with whom we have shared the categories of Personal Data within the past 12 months, please see the "Information Sharing by XPLORE DIGITAL" section above.
Please note that certain information may be exempt from such requests under California law. We also will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to a request. Since XPLORE DIGITAL does not maintain any directly identifiable information about consumers, we will verify you by reading the Cookie ID associated with your browser. You can submit requests to access and delete your personal information by contacting us at hello@xploredigital.in.
2. Right to Nondiscrimination
We do not deny, charge different prices for, or provide a different level of quality of goods or services if you choose to exercise these rights.
3. Authorized Agents
You may also designate an agent to make requests to exercise your rights under CCPA as described above. We will take steps both to verify the identity of the person seeking to exercise their rights as listed above, and to verify that your agent has been authorized to make a request on your behalf through providing us with a signed written authorization or a copy of a power of attorney.
XIII. CONTACT US
For any additional questions, inquiries, or complaints concerning XPLORE DIGITAL's Privacy Notice, please contact us at hello@xploredigital.in.
XIV. DEFINITIONS
"Cookies" are small text files that are downloaded and stored onto your device (e.g. a computer or smartphone). Cookies allow us to recognize your device and store information about your preferences or past actions. In this Privacy Notice the definition of "Cookies" includes similar technologies that can write or read information on your device such as "Local Shared Objects" (sometimes called Flash Cookies), pixels and web-beacons. There are many misconceptions about cookies. Cookies cannot erase your hard drive, install programs, or collect PII from your browser or device.
"Reporting Technologies" means any technology, tool, or code (including cookies, pixels, SDKs, APIs, local shared objects, web-beacons, tags, and scripts) that enables access to or storage of information on a device.
"Log files" track actions occurring on Sites and collect data including, as an example, your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, click data and types of advertisements viewed.
"Pixels and Web beacons" are objects that are embedded in a web page or e-mail and are usually invisible to the user but are used to track a web user's navigation of a website or collection of websites or pages, interaction with an e-mail, use of mobile applications, the completion of transactions, submittal of applications and browsing behavior.
