Privacy Policy

xoogu.com takes your privacy seriously. We collect both anonymous information and information you choose to provide to us. We also make use of some third party services which collect information about you, such as Amazon and Google.

The following information about visitors to this website is collected:

Anonymous information collected
Information collected What it’s used for

Your IP address

Checking what parts of the world visitors to the site come from.

It also allows us to track your progress on the site, so we can check how many pages on average people are viewing, what pages most people view when they enter the site, and what pages most people leave the site from.

If a lot of malicious requests are detected coming from a certain IP address, then this IP address will be banned to protect the site.

Date and time of visit

Allows us to see if there are particular times when the site is busy, and also to break down statistics by year, month, week or day.

The page/file requested and the method of request

We can see how popular particular pages/files are.

The address of the page that you followed a link from to get to the site

This allows us to see where most visitors to the site are being referred to us from.

In the case of search engines, it will normally also allow us to see what phrase/keywords you were searching for that lead you to the site. This allows us to try and tailor the site using Search Engine Optimisation to make it easier to find.

It also allows us to detect hot-linking of site content by external websites. Because hot linking to content on this site causes no benefit to the site but does detriment the site by using up bandwidth and server resources, sites found to be hot linking content on this site may be blocked or served with alternate content at our discretion.

The user agent string of your web browser

This means we can tell what web browsers people are using to visit the site and also what operating system they are using. With this information we can tailor the site to work better on the web browsers that most visitors are using.

Information provided by you
Information collected What it’s used for

Your email address

If you contact us, either by email or the contact form, we need your email address so we can reply to you.

Your name

If you contact us using the contact form, we request your name so we can address our reply to you correctly.

Any other information you choose to provide to us

Depends on what the information is and why you provided it.

Information collected by third party services
Service What it’s used for Link to privacy policy

Amazon

Providing adverts/links to products you may be interested in purchasing.

Amazon US Privacy Policy and Amazon UK Privacy Policy

eBay

Providing adverts/links to products you may be interested in purchasing.

eBay Privacy Policy

Cookies

This site uses cookies to track your visit to the site. Cookies may be used for the following:

  • Tracking your visit across the site (what pages you visit, how long each page is viewed for).
  • Validating that you are a real person (e.g. for the contact form).

Additionally, some of the third party services employed on this site also utilise cookies, for more information please see the individual third party services privacy policies.

Where your data may be stored

The information that we collect may be stored and/or transferred outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), and as such may not be subject to the same data protection laws as apply in the EEA. Additionally, some of the third party services employed on this site may also store the data they collect outside of the EEA, for more information please see the individual third party services privacy policies.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated from time to time. The current version can be found at xoogu.com/privacy-policy/.

External Links

This website contains links to external websites. We cannot be responsible for the content of external websites, and they may have a significantly different privacy policy to this site.

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