Privacy & Policy


Introduction


This Privacy Policy explains the privacy practices of Xpress mines Inc., and describes the way we use and protect the information we collect from our website xpressmines.com about customers and users.


The type of personal information we collect


We collect information that you provide when logging in to your account, entering contests, sweepstakes or promotions, placing an order, subscribing to any newsletters, responding to surveys, utilizing our store locator services or other requests for information.

Any data we request that is not required will be specified as voluntary or optional.

Information received in connection with providing your service or fulfilling your purchase order.

Like most websites, we use cookies to enhance your experience, gather general visitor information, and track visits to our website


How we collect personal information


We collect personal information directly when you provide it to

s, automatically as you navigate through the Sites, or through other people when you use services associated with the Sites.

We collect your personal information when you provide it to us when you complete membership registration and buy or provide items or services on our Sites, subscribe to a newsletter, email list, submit feedback, enter a contest, fill out a survey, or send us a communication.


Personal information we collect about you from others


Although we generally collect personal information directly from you, on occasion, we also collect certain categories of personal information about you from other sources.

This may be like third party service providers (like Google, Facebook) who are located in the US or UK, which may provide information about you when you link, connect, or login to your account with the third party provider and they send us information such as your registration and profile from that service. The information varies and is controlled by that service provider or as authorized by you via your privacy settings at that service provider


How we use personal information


We will use your personal information:

Where this is necessary for purposes which are in our, or third parties’, legitimate interests. These interests include:

  • Operating the Sites;
  • providing you with services described on the Sites;
  • verifying your identity when you sign in to our Site;
  • updating you with operational news and information about our Sites and services e.g. to notify you about changes to our Sites, website disruptions or security updates;
  • carrying out technical analysis to determine how to improve the Sites and services we provide;
  • monitoring activity on the Sites, e.g. to identify potential fraudulent activity and to ensure compliance with the user terms that apply to the Sites;
  • managing our relationship with you, e.g. by responding to your comments or queries submitted to us on the Sites or asking for your feedback or whether you want to participate in a survey;
  • managing our legal and operational affairs (including, managing risks relating to content and fraud matters);
  • improving our products and services;
  • providing general administrative and performance functions and activities;

Where you give us consent:

  • providing you with marketing information about products and services which we feel may interest you; and
  • customising our services and websites, like advertising that appear on the Site – where this involves the use of cookies or similar technologies – in order to provide a more personalised experience.

For purposes which are required by law.

For the purpose of responding to requests by government, a court of law, or law enforcement authorities conducting an investigation.


Cookies (not the type you eat!) and web analytics


For more information about how we use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies see our cookie policy here and for more general information on cookies, see http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

When you visit our Sites, there’s certain information that’s recorded which is generally anonymous information and does not reveal your identity. If you’re logged into your account some of this information could be associated with your account. We’re talking about the following kinds of details:

  • your IP address or proxy server IP address;
  • the date and time of your visit to the website;
  • the length of your session;
  • the pages which you have accessed;
  • the number of times you access our site within any month;
  • the technical capabilities of your web browser.

Information you make public or give to others


If you make your personal information available to other people, we can’t control or accept responsibility for the way they will use or manage that data. There are lots of ways that you can find yourself providing information to other people, like when you post a public message on a forum thread, share information via social media, or make contact with another user (such as a third party Author) whether via our Sites or directly via email. Before making your information publicly available or giving your information to anyone else, think carefully. If giving information to another user via our Sites, ask them how they will handle your information. If you’re sharing information via another website, check the privacy policy for that site to understand its information management practices as this privacy policy will not apply.


Privacy and copyright protection


Xpress mines's privacy policies explain how we treat your personal data and protect your privacy when you use our Services. By using our Services, you agree that Xpressmines can use such data in accordance with our privacy policies.

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement and terminate accounts of repeat infringers according to the process set out in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

We provide information to help copyright holders manage their intellectual property online. If you think somebody is violating your copyrights and want to notify us, you can find information about submitting notices and Xpressmines's policy about responding to notices in >our Help Center


Your content in our services


Some of our Services allow you to upload, submit, store, send or receive content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.

When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Xpressmines (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Xpress mines Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.