Privacy policy

Who this document is about

Xalant group of companies a wholly owned subsidiary of Eight Galaxies LLC.

What happens when you only read

Nothing is collected and nothing is stored in your browser when you read a page on this site. No cookie is set, by us or by anyone else.

Every typeface is served from this domain, so there is no web-font request to a third party. There is no tracking pixel, no embedded map, no social widget, no comment system and no advertising of any kind anywhere on the site.

The one thing this site stores in your browser

The footer carries a Motion toggle. If you press it, your choice is written to your browser's local storage under the key x-motion so that the site remembers it on your next visit.

That value never leaves your browser, is never sent to a server and identifies nothing about you. Clearing site data for xalant.net removes it.

What the contact form asks for

The form on the contact page asks for your name, your email address, your company name and your message. A phone number is optional. You also choose what your enquiry is about, and that choice adds a small number of qualifying questions — a market, a rough capacity, a timeline.

Two things are sent with the form that you do not type. The first is a short signed timestamp, issued when the page loads, which is used only to measure how long the form was open before it was submitted; it contains no identifier and is not a cookie. The second is a hidden field that real people leave empty and automated submitters tend to fill in.

Where a submission goes today

A submission is written to a file on the server that runs this site and printed to that server's log. Email is sent to Xalant's information and sales teams.

Analytics

No analytics script is served on this site today, and no measurement request leaves your browser.

The two products intended for it are Vercel Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights. Both are cookieless and report aggregate page and performance figures rather than individual behaviour. The site's content-security policy already permits their hosts, so switching them on is a configuration change — and this section is updated in that same change.

Bot protection on the form

The contact form has a bot check built around Cloudflare Turnstile, which is a challenge that does not ask you to solve a puzzle and sets no advertising cookie.

It is not enabled today: the check passes locally and no request is made to Cloudflare. When it is enabled, the widget loads from challenges.cloudflare.com on your first interaction with the form rather than when the page loads, and Cloudflare receives your network address and a challenge token as part of performing the check.

The industry news feed

The industry pages show headlines published by independent trade outlets. The fetching happens on our server, on a schedule, from a fixed list of feeds held in this repository. Your browser makes no request to those outlets while you read the page, and no image is loaded from them.

Following a "Read at" link takes you to the outlet's own page, where their privacy notice applies and ours stops. Those links carry rel="noopener nofollow".

Server logs

The hosting platform keeps short-lived request logs that include your network address, the page requested and your browser's user-agent string. They exist so that errors can be found and fixed.

How long information is kept

A contact submission is kept until it is deleted by hand.

If you would rather we did not keep your message, say so in it, or write to the address below and ask.

Asking what we hold, and asking us to delete it

Write to info@xalant.net. You can ask what information we hold about you, ask for a copy of it, ask us to correct it or ask us to delete it, and we will do that.

Changes to this document

The date at the top of this page is the date it last changed. When the review is finished and the entity is confirmed, the draft notice at the top of the page goes away and the blanks listed below are filled in.

What is deliberately blank

• The operating entity responsible for this policy.