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This page briefly outlines the information gathering policy for the X-Day 2003 web site and creative arts showcase / competition. This page is short since the policy is very simple and straightforward.
Please feel free to contact the X-Day Manager if you have any concerns about what you read here.
Generally speaking, any information that I do obtain will not be used for any purpose other than X-Day administration, and it will never be shared with anyone else, certainly not marketers. It is for my own use only, and I only gather the minimum amount necessary to make this site work.
For the purpose of explaining this policy, there are two kinds of web site visitors. The first type, which every visitor is by default, will only read information on the web site (as with any typical web site), and will not cause any information displayed by the web site to change; they do not submit any kind of form on the site except possibly the 'Contact Us' form, which does nothing more than send an email to the X-Day Manager, and does not alter the web site. The second type of web site visitor is one who creates a personal account using a form on the web site, which is required to either submit an entry or vote for entries. The second type is an 'editing visitor'.
The X-Day 2003 web site will not collect any personally identifiable information on you when you browse the web site, such as to read the rules or to view submissions entered by someone else.
As a normal part of its operation, the web server will keep a log of every file that is requested from this site, whether an html page or an image or something that doesn't exist. For each request, the web server remembers:
This is very simple usage information and every normal web server gathers it. The information helps the web site owner make the site work better. For example, it says what parts of the site are most popular, so the owner can focus on improving or expanding those parts. Or it says what time of the day the site is most busy, so they can check then to make sure it is fast even then. Or it says if people are clicking on bad hyperlinks that don't go anywhere, and fix them. Or it says what other web sites are sending the most visitors over, or what search engines people use to find this site. Or it says if people just look at the front page and leave, or whether there are visitors that look at multiple pages. If everyone is leaving early, it draws attention to a problem that the web site owner may not have known existed, and they can work to make the site better for people.
But all of that information just shows trends, and no individual people are tracked while reading the web site. I don't know anything about you.
The only way I could know any more than that is if you type it in a form on the web site or email it to me, so you are in full control.
This web site does not use cookies at any time. It also does not use any javascript or active-x controls. Nothing is left on or taken from your computer.
In order for me to run X-Day 2003 in a way that is fair to everyone and easy to use, and fast, I do need a small amount of personal information about editing visitors. An editing visitor is someone who signs up for an account with the website, which is required to submit entries for listing or to vote.
This personal information is asked for when you create your account:
This other information is also asked for when you create your account:
The first step in making your account is to collect your email address and send an email message to it which contains a random number (currently 8 digits long); you then enter this number on the web site in order to confirm that the email you entered is real and that it is your address. You can not create an account for an email address which is fake or which belongs to someone else. Email addresses which are entered but not confirmed with the number will not have any messages sent to them besides the one with the number.
The email address you provide is what allows the X-Day Manager to contact you on matters related to X-Day. You will be notified by email when the submissions and voting periods begin and end. Confirmation/receipt emails will also be sent there when you create your account or want to be reminded of your password or when you submit an entry to be listed. In the further future, you may also be notified of other X-Day events, such as the anticipated 2004 one. But the address will not be used for anything else. The address is not printed anywhere on the web site, so no spam robots can harvest it.
Your real name is requested because I prefer to talk with people on a first name basis, should I manually write you any messages. That is my preference, and in kind I tell everyone my real name. Technically you could make up an answer for this question and it will not be verified, but I will treat it as the truth regardless of what you say. Mainly this real name is used in the 'To' header of emails that are sent to you by the site, like this 'To: Real Name <my@email>'. This name is not printed anywhere on the web site.
It is expected that you will invent a login name and password for this site which is different than ones you made for other sites, so no one can use this information elsewhere. The checkboxes are simply a hint to me and you can still both submit and vote regardless of what you pick. The public name will appear visibly on the web site when you are being credited with a submission or a feedback comment; this will probably match the online identity that you normally use regarding X-Men related subjects. The login name may appear in hidden text on the site, as part of urls that go to your submissions or comments. Your password will never appear on the site.
This web site will display a list of all the accounts in one place. Simply creating an account will add it to this list, even if you don't submit anything or vote. However, that list only contains your public name / alias. The list is to tell other visitors how many people might be submitting or voting.
This web site does not collect anything besides email and name which is personably identifiable. I do not ask you for your age or your gender or your income or your education or where you live or your phone number or anything like that. So unless you manually write me an email and tell me this, I will never know.
This web site will also let you type in a public 'profile' description of yourself, separately from registering an account; this is analagous to an 'about the author' page in a book or a website. This field is optional, and you can say as little or as much as you want (nothing children can't see). What you put here is visible to everyone, so only say what you want everyone to know about you.
Note that some entries that people submit to X-Day may not be suitable for young children. These will be marked as such by the person submitting the item. However, since this web site does not verify your age (part of its privacy policy), it will not actively prevent young children from viewing anything. It is up to you personally to not read anything that may be unsuitable for you. This said, X-Day does purely ban anything which is 'too mature', so even the 'worst' entries that do appear probably won't be too bad.
If you choose to bookmark this web site for later, or link to it from your own web site, please use this url: "http://www.xday.info".
Click here to read the privacy policy for this web site.
This site has been designed to be fully useable on any web browser; you should be able to navigate to all site pages, use all input forms, and read all of the site text, including all Fan Fiction. However, this site is graphics-oriented and will look better in a relatively new web browser that supports images and cascading style sheets; obviously, you also will need graphics support to view the Fan Art. The site should be fast even to dial-up modem users.
This web site displays and/or incorporates creative works by a wide variety of people; each work is Copyright (c) by its contributor, and they are credited in each place where their work is displayed in full or in part. Portions of this web site that do not have explicit credits, including the main organizational design, textual history or instructions, visual layouts, graphics, and program or database code, are Copyright (c) Darren Duncan and/or Shannon Pipik.
This site is not affiliated with Marvel Entertainment Group, who are the trademark and copyright holders of the 'X-Men' and associated characters. Any references made on this site to said property constitutes fair use.
Site last updated 2004 June 11.