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Who we are
Our mission is to help collaboratively curate Creative, Do It Yourself, & Do It Together endeavors. Our goal is to help provide connectivity, promotion, and available resources for the Creative, DIY (do it yourself), and DIT (do it together) communities. read more on our mission page here…
Web addresses & website sub-directories
Our website address is: thexfactory.com.
We host other member domain names with websites which forward directly to our site. These addresses begin with our web address thexfactory.com/… and are also under our privacy policy.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
We’ll simply ask for your contact email address and name which will be used for only for the purposes of direct communication only unless you specifically request that we use it for other purposes. You ip address will be logged along with each communication only to be reviewed for spamming and/or hacking activities.
Cookies: Automatic OPT-IN Policy
Our site uses cookies in order to work correctly. If you do not agree to use cookies to browse our site, you may want to take this opportunity to leave our website now. Don’t forget to clear your Internet browsing history(INCLUDING COOKIES) as you have already visited our site an other websites which accept cookies. Please know that we will miss you… Best Wishes.
Cookies: Details
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
Google Captcha (reCaptcha): This is a very necessary plug-in which we use on our site to protect us against spamming and hacking. We do not use any true Analytics on our site. However, We do not claim that Google does NOT Analytize your information from their servers.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
On our contact forms we ask only for your email address & your name. Other than that we avoid asking you for more than that. If you delete you account, these two pieces of information are delete along with your account.