Effective Date: October 2026
At Around Xiaomi (accessible from https://aroundxiaomi.com), one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Around Xiaomi and how we use it.
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://aroundxiaomi.com.
Around Xiaomi is an independent tech publication and specs database covering gadgets, mobile devices, and ecosystem products.
2. Comments & User Submissions
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
3. Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
4. Cookies & Web Beacons
Like any other website, Around Xiaomi uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
- Comment 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 when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.
- Login Cookies: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login details and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year.
- Publishing Cookies: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after 1 day.
5. Analytics & Third-Party Advertising
Around Xiaomi utilizes analytics tools (such as Google Analytics) and third-party vendor services to help analyze how users navigate the site and optimize content searchability.
- Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Around Xiaomi. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs.
- Around Xiaomi has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
6. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles and spec pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, tech charts, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
7. How Long We Retain Your Data
- Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
- User Accounts: For users that register on our website (if any), we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
8. What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also 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.
9. Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments and form submissions may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
10. Contact Us
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at aroundxiaomi@gmail.com.
