Privacy Policy

Last updated November 4, 2024

XDF (“XDF”, “I”, or “me”) respects your privacy. As far as your personal information is concerned, I believe in transparency, so that expectations are aligned. That’s why I have set out here what personal information I collect, what I do with it and your choices and rights associated with that usage.

Analytics

This website collects personal data (but not like, that kind of personal) to power this site’s analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

  • This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

This information is shared with Squarespace, the website’s analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

XDF.CEO uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies that Squarespace uses.

Here is a link to the necessary and required cookies that are always used, which allow Squarespace, the hosting platform, to securely serve XDF.CEO website content to you.

Here is a link to the analytics and performance cookies that are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge the cookie banner. XDF.CEO uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Contact form submissions

When you submit information to XDF.CEO via a webform, I collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. I share this information with Squarespace so that they can fulfill the website hosting services to me. This information is stored with my XDF Google Drive for data porting.

Member site subscribers

When you subscribe and purchase a membership on this website, I collect personal information from you to grant you access to the member site. XDF may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your subscription

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

This information is shared with Squarespace so that they can provide exclusive member site hosting services.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

Website visitors

Given that this website is hosted by Squarespace, again, the platform collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Blog commenting

XDF includes commenting functionality on some pages (blogs specifically) which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:

  • Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)

  • Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)

  • Your website URL (optional)

XDF includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

  • Your IP address

Squarespace Payments

When you make a purchase from me on this website, XDF uses Squarespace Payments as the payment solution. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated, native payment solution as part of the hosting platform. Squarespace Payments makes use of the following third party service providers which will also receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy policies:

Stripe - payment processing services. You can read Stripe’s privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.

Sift - fraud monitoring and detection services. You can read Sift’s privacy policy at https://sift.com/service-privacy.