This web­site uses cook­ies to improve your expe­ri­ence. We’ll assume you’re ok with this, how­ev­er you can opt-out if you wish by sim­ply leav­ing our website.

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.