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Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 2026

Overview

This Privacy Policy explains how Xhaowen ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and protects your information when you visit xhaowen.com (the "Site"). By using this Site, you agree to the practices described in this policy.

Information We Collect

Automatically Collected Data

When you visit our Site, we may automatically collect the following types of anonymized data through Vercel Analytics:

  • Pages visited and time spent on each page
  • Referring website or search engine
  • Device type, browser, and operating system
  • Approximate geographic location (city/country level)
  • Interactions with on-page tools (e.g., calculators)

We do not collect personally identifiable information (PII) through analytics.

Contact Form Submissions

If you voluntarily submit a message through our contact form, we collect your email address, subject, and message content. This data is stored securely and used solely to respond to your inquiry.

How We Use Your Information

  • Site improvement — To understand how visitors use our content and tools
  • Content quality — To identify which topics are most valuable to our audience
  • Communication — To respond to your contact form submissions
  • Advertising — To display relevant advertisements via Google AdSense

Google AdSense & Advertising

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. These third-party vendors use cookies to tailor advertising content.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting:

Cookies

This Site uses cookies for the following purposes:

  • Analytics cookies (Vercel Analytics) — To measure site traffic and user behavior
  • Advertising cookies (Google AdSense) — To serve relevant advertisements
  • Preference cookies — To remember your cookie consent choice

When you first visit our Site, a cookie consent banner will appear. Non-essential cookies (analytics, advertising) are only loaded after you provide explicit consent. You may withdraw consent at any time by clearing your browser cookies and revisiting the Site.

Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services that may process your data:

GDPR — European Users

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have the following rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

  • Right of access — Request a copy of your personal data
  • Right to rectification — Request correction of inaccurate data
  • Right to erasure — Request deletion of your personal data
  • Right to restrict processing — Request limited processing of your data
  • Right to data portability — Receive your data in a machine-readable format
  • Right to object — Object to data processing based on legitimate interests

Legal basis for processing: We process personal data based on (a) your consent (cookie consent), (b) legitimate interests (site improvement), and (c) contractual necessity (responding to contact submissions).

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us through our contact page. We will respond within 30 days.

CCPA — California Residents

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California residents have the right to:

  • Know what personal information is collected and how it is used
  • Request deletion of personal information
  • Opt out of the sale of personal information

We do not sell personal information. To exercise your CCPA rights, please visit our contact page.

Children's Privacy (COPPA)

This Site is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will promptly delete it.

Data Retention

Contact form submissions are retained for up to 12 months and then permanently deleted. Vercel Analytics data is privacy-friendly and does not use cookies for tracking by default. Cookie consent preferences are stored in your browser's local storage and persist until you clear them.

Data Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data, including HTTPS encryption, secure hosting, and access controls. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

Contact

For privacy-related inquiries, please visit our contact page.