Last Updated: October 7, 2024
This Privacy Policy describes how DarkXpose (referred to as “the Company,” “We,” “Us,” or “Our”) collects, uses, and discloses Your Personal Information when You visit or make a purchase from the website https://www.darkxpose.com (the “Service” or “Website”).
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://www.darkxpose.com. We are an e-commerce provider selling private-label clothing, accessories, and digital products.
2. Information We Collect
We collect several types of information from and about You, including Personal Data.
A. Data Collected During E-Commerce Transactions
When You place an order through the Website, we collect the following Transaction and Order Data to fulfill your order and process payment:
- Identity & Contact Data: Name, billing address, shipping address, email address, and phone number.
- Payment Data: We use a third-party payment processor (Stripe) to handle payments. We do not store Your full credit card numbers or banking details. This information is securely transmitted directly to our payment processor, who stores and processes it in compliance with PCI DSS standards.
- Order Details: Products purchased (physical and digital), price, quantity, and sales tax.
B. Data Collected Automatically (Analytics & Technical)
When You visit the Service, we automatically collect the following technical information:
- Usage Data: Information about how you access and use the Service (e.g., pages visited, time spent, referral sources).
- Device Data: Your Device’s IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, and operating system.
C. Data Collected from User Activity
- Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
- User Accounts: For users that register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile (e.g., name, email address, shipping addresses).
3. How We Use Your Data
We use the collected data for various purposes:
- To Process and Fulfill Orders: To manage your purchase, deliver physical goods and digital products, and communicate with you about your order status.
- To Provide and Maintain the Service: To manage your account, detect, prevent, and address technical issues, and ensure the security of the Service.
- To Improve Our Business: To analyze customer trends, measure the effectiveness of our marketing, and enhance our product offerings.
- To Handle Requests: To manage and respond to Your requests for support or inquiries.
4. Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information.
- Functionality Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again. These cookies will last for one year.
- Account Cookies: If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. When you log in, we also set up several cookies to save your login information (lasting two days) and screen display choices (lasting one year).
- Embedded Content Cookies: Please see Section 6 regarding embedded content.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service.
5. Disclosure of Your Personal Data
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share Your data with trusted third-party vendors who perform services on Our behalf, such as:
- Stripe (Payment Processing): To securely process your payments.
- Shipping Carriers: To generate shipping labels and deliver physical goods.
- Anti-Spam Services: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
- For Legal Purposes: If required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).
- Business Transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
6. Embedded Content and Third-Party Links
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
- These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, especially if you have an account and are logged in to that external website.
- We strongly advise You to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party websites or services that You visit.
7. Retention of Your Personal Data
We retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
- Order Data is retained for the period necessary to comply with our legal and tax obligations.
- Comments (including their metadata) are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically.
- User Account Information is retained as long as the user account is active.
8. Your Data Protection Rights
You have the following rights over your data:
- Right of Access: You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
- Right to Rectification: You can request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete data we hold about you. For registered users, most personal information can be edited or deleted at any time within the user profile (except the username).
- Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes (such as sales transaction records).
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information in Section 9.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your data rights, please contact us:
By email: [email protected]