Thank you for your interest in the XYverify website located at www.XYverify.com (the "Website"). The Website is operated and owned by XYverify Corp. ("XYverify," "we," "our," or "us").
XYverify has highest regard for personal security and privacy of our users ("users," "you," or "your"). This Privacy Policy, effective January 3, 2012, lets you know how information that we receive or collect from you is processed, disclosed and used. This Privacy Policy only governs the Website and by using the Website, you acknowledge your consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms, please do not use the Website.
What Information Do We Collect and Why?
Anonymous User Information
General. In many cases, we will automatically collect certain non-personal information about your use of the Website that includes, among other things, information concerning date and time of your visit, the pages of the Website that you visited, your path through the Website, your IP address, the type of browser and operating system you are using and, and the third-party web sites or advertisements linked to or from the Website that you visited. For this purpose, we may use cookies, clear gifs, frames, server log analysis and other technology. Information, pertaining to your visits to the Website, collected through these technologies will be anonymous unless you provide, or have provided, us with personal information. Any information collected through the use of these technologies will be handled according to this Privacy Policy.
Cookies. Like other websites, we may use a feature of Internet web browsers called "cookies." Cookies are generated by web servers and stored on users' hard drives when they visit practically any website on the Internet. Cookies enable us to remember users, to store user preferences and to track user trends in general. We use cookies to improve the quality of the Website and to better understand how users interact with the Website. We do not and cannot use cookies to retrieve individual personally identifying information about you from your computer unless you knowingly and willingly provide such information. You can adjust your web browser security settings to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you disable the use of cookies in your web browser, some features of the Website may not function properly.
Navigational data. As you browse our Website, we may gather navigational data that shows what pages are visited and how long various features are used. This information will not reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to complete, support and analyze users' purchases from us; to facilitate and improve use of the Website; to comply with any requirements of law; to serve, or have a third party serve specialized or relevant advertising content and/or recommendations to you on the Website or on a third party's website; for internal purposes; and to determine any commissions due our Affiliates. This information may be disclosed only to our staff and to third parties involved in the completion of your transaction, the delivery of your order, and the analysis and support of your use of the Website. We may from time to time supply the owners or operators of third party sites from which it is possible to link to our Website with information relating to the number of users linking to our Website from their sites. You cannot be identified from this information.
IP Addresses. When you access the Website, our servers may record your IP address. An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer when you access the Internet. It is not truly personally identifiable information because many different individuals can access the Internet via the same computer. We may use IP addresses for system administration and troubleshooting, ensuring user compliance with our terms of service, investigating security breaches and compiling anonymous non-personal information such as how many users visited the Website.
Personally Identifiable Information
We do not collect any unique personally identifiable information about you such as your name, email address or any other contact information, except when you specifically and knowingly provide such information. The personal information that you submit is shared only with those people in our organization who need this information to respond to your question or request. Information submitted through any of our online forms may be collected to ensure technical functionality. It will also be utilized to address any inappropriate use of our Website. We do not save personal information to use for other purposes, nor do we provide it to any other organization.
We do not share, rent or sell information concerning you to third parties, except that we may share personally identifiable information with third parties only when we have a good faith belief that such action is reasonably necessary to: (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, court order, legal process or enforceable government request, or (b) ensure compliance with applicable terms of service or agreements including investigation of any potential violations, or (c) to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person.
Security
We have security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect our site from the loss or misuse of information that we have collected. Our servers are protected by firewalls and are physically located in secure data facilities to further increase security. While no computer is 100% safe from outside attacks, we believe that the steps we have taken to protect your personal information drastically reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of information involved.
Third Party Information Gathering
Our Website may contain links to, and contain content and advertisements hosted on, third party websites. If you click on such links, content or advertisement, you may be directed to these third party websites. When accessed, such third-party websites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect data, solicit personal information or perform user activity tracking other than that described herein. For more information about each third party content provider, cookies, and how to "opt-out," please refer to such third party privacy policy. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every third-party website that they visit. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this Website.
Change of Control
In the event that another company acquires all or substantially all of the assets related to the Website, or if we experience some other change of control event such as merger, insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, we reserve the right to include any or all user-related information among the assets transferred to the acquiring company. We do not guarantee that any entity receiving such information in connection with any of these transactions will comply with all the terms of this policy.
Children's Privacy
We comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying FTC regulation establish United States federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet.
The Website is not intended for children under the age of 13. If you are a child under the age of 13 please do not submit any information to the Website. We do not knowingly request or collect personally identifiable information online or offline contact information from users under 13 years old nor do we knowingly use or share personal information of users under 13 years old with third parties.
Changes to Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is subject to change without notice. We may change our policy at any time by posting a new version of it on the Website. Please check the Website regularly for information about revisions to this Privacy Policy. In the event that we change our Privacy Policy, such changes will affect all of the information we collect after any such change. If you object to the change to our Privacy Policy, then you must contact us in writing regarding your objection.