X-Files News | Privacy Policy & Copyright

Summary

This site collects no more data about you than most other websites.

Comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks are published, and except in very limited circumstances, will be a permanent part of this site. If you decide to comment, link, or pingback to a post, you must keep this in mind.

This privacy policy will be reviewed and revised as of November 2015. Future changes to our policies may happen without notification.

Public data and publishing

Browsing this site doesn't reveal your identity publicly, though see Private Logging later in this document for more information.

Author identification

When posting a comment, your IP address will be logged for administrators. You do not have to select your real name. Your email address will not published.

Comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks will be identified by your IP address. These numbers could potentially be traceable to identifying information about you, whether it is your home ISP or the University or Work account where the IP address is registered. Your IP address could potentially be used in conjunction with other data to identify you.

If you are concerned about attempts to match your IP address to your identity, you may wish to use an anonymous browsing service or attempt some means to obfuscate your real IP address.

Cookies for commenters

Joomla, which this site runs, uses cookies if you comment on the site. This is a convenience for you so that you do not need to type in the same information the next time you comment.

Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information.

You may wish to clear these cookies and the browser cache if you wish to refrain from revealing any identifying information, especially if you are using a public or shared computer.

Private logging

Any time you visit a page on the internet, you send quite a bit of information to the server. The webservers that host this site maintain access logs with the information that you send. This information is used to provide site statistics and to get an idea of popular pages and what sites link here. We do not intend to use these logs to identify legitimate users.

The data logged may be used by us to solve technical problems with the site and, in cases of abuse of this site, to investigate the abuse.

Again, if you are concerned about attempts to match your IP address to your identity, you may wish to use an anonymous browsing service or attempt some means to obfuscate your real IP address.

Data release policy

Our policy is to only release the data we collect in the following circumstances:

As required by law, such as in response to a valid request from law enforcement.
To designated third parties to resolve or investigate abuse complaints.
When the information is related to spiders or bots, usually when investigating technical issues.
For abusive users, we may release information to assist in attempting to block the abusive user or to complain to that user's Internet Service Provider.
If necessary to defend legal claims against us by third parties.
When we deem it necessary to protect the property or rights of the user community, or this website.

No selling of information

We will not sell information collected via this site, such as your email address, to third parties.

Information security

We make no guarantee that the information that you provide us will be secure.

Copyright

The X-Files TM and (c) Fox and its related entities. All rights reserved. Any reproduction, duplication or distribution of these materials in any form is expressly prohibited. This web site, its operators and news content on this site relating to The X-Files is authorized by FOX.

This website has been created and mantained by XFN Productions.

All personal opinions in XFN Comments and XFN Forums do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of XFN and/or Fox and related entities. All web urls, materials, interviews, stories, and assets have been created for this website and its rights belong to XFN Productions.