Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 12, 2026

1. Who We Are

XEA ("we", "us", "our") operates the AI creative platform at https://xe-a.com and the XEA Progressive Web App (PWA) / native app distributions packaged via Capacitor. We are the controller of the personal data we process about you. Contact: privacy@xe-a.com.

2. Information We Collect

a. Account data

  • Name and email address
  • Hashed password (bcrypt, never stored in plain text)
  • Subscription tier (Free, Starter, Premium, Pro, Platinum) and token balance
  • Earnings balance, tip-transaction history, and token-activity ledger
  • Active studio mode (Marketing, Designing, CGI, Movie) and per-mode onboarding state
  • Referral code and referral graph (who invited whom)
  • Admin flags (for staff accounts only)

b. Content data

  • Product URLs, captions, prompts, edit prompts, negative prompts
  • Uploaded images (including HEIC/HEIF from iOS), audio, and any reference media
  • AI-generated images, videos, voiceovers, music, sound effects (SFX), and full cinematic films
  • Movie-mode scripts and shot plans produced by Claude Sonnet 4.5
  • FX Lab timeline projects, multi-clip compositions, and Director-Polish settings
  • Community posts (only when you opt-in via "Share to community"), realm tag, likes, comments, follows, reports

c. Payment data

Card and crypto details are handled directly by PayPal, Stripe (where active), and supported crypto wallet providers; we receive only transaction identifiers and statuses — we never see your full card number or wallet private keys.

d. Technical data

  • IP address, user-agent, device type, OS, language, time-zone
  • Pages visited, features used, A/B-test exposure events, click streams
  • Login timestamps, failed-login counts (for brute-force protection)
  • PWA / native-app install state, push-token (only if you opt-in to native push)
  • Session-storage and local-storage state for auth tokens and onboarding flags

e. Personalization signals (XEA Brain)

To make the product learn from each user, XEA logs the prompts you generate from, the styles you select, the moods you favor, the durations you pick, and the outputs you publish vs. discard. These signals power per-user recommendations (e.g. default style, default duration, music vibe) and aggregate, anonymized signals across the user base. Aggregated signals are never tied back to an identifiable individual.

3. How We Use Your Information

  • Provide and operate the Service — Marketing, Designing, CGI / FX Lab, and Movie Mode
  • Process payments and credit/deduct tokens, including automatic refunds on failed generations
  • Send transactional emails (receipts, tip notifications, password resets, security alerts, weekly leaderboard digests)
  • Send the optional Daily Email Reminder at a time you select in Settings (if enabled)
  • Rank the Weekend Top 20 (per realm and overall) using automated, objective likes + comments counts
  • Moderate user-generated content with automated safety filters across every prompt, caption, overlay, and uploaded media
  • Improve the product through aggregated analytics, A/B testing, and XEA Brain personalization
  • Gift tokens or subscription upgrades from the Admin Dashboard (logged as ledger entries)
  • Comply with legal obligations and prevent fraud, abuse, multi-accounting, and CSAM (see §6 + §8.1 of Terms)

4. Third-Party Service Providers

We share strictly the minimum data needed for these vendors to perform a function. Each vendor is bound by a Data Processing Agreement or equivalent contractual safeguard:

  • Anthropic (Claude Sonnet 4.5) — Movie Mode planner, FX Lab "Director Polish", and structured reasoning. Receives your prompt and reference media URLs.
  • OpenAI — GPT Image 1 image generation, Whisper transcription (where used), and selected language features.
  • Google Gemini — Vibe Translator, vision analysis, and Nano-Banana image generation.
  • DeepSeek — fast, low-cost Marketing-Mode chat suggestions and prompt drafting. Receives the Marketing-chat conversation only.
  • Kling AI — image-to-video and text-to-video generation (incl. all Movie-Mode shots). Receives your prompts and reference frames.
  • ElevenLabs — text-to-speech for Movie narration / FX Lab voiceovers, AI vocal music, and SFX. Receives the line / prompt to synthesize.
  • Mubert — AI-generated instrumental music for video polish.
  • Jamendo — licensed royalty-free music search.
  • Resend — delivers our transactional and reminder emails.
  • PayPal, Stripe (where active), and supported crypto processors — charge subscriptions and token packs.
  • Cloudflare R2 / equivalent object storage — hosts your media (images, videos, audio, voiceovers, movies).
  • MongoDB Atlas — managed database hosting.
  • Emergent — application hosting, infrastructure, and LLM key brokerage for the integrations above where we use the Emergent Universal Key.
  • Capacitor / Ionic — native-app shell packaging (no data leaves the device for Capacitor itself).
  • fal.ai — currently gated / disabled. Will be re-enabled in a future release; if so, we will publish a policy update before any data is sent.

We do not sell your personal data, and we do not use it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

5. Community Visibility & Realms

Community posts are visible to all logged-in XEA users inside the realm you publish to (Marketing, Designing, CGI, or Movie). When you publish to the community, the following becomes visible: your display name, your profile initial / avatar, the media you chose to share, the caption, the original prompt, the realm, and aggregated counts of likes and comments. Your email address, plan, exact token balance, ledger entries, and earnings balance are never visible to other users.

A privacy-safe form of your name (e.g. "Maria K.") may also appear in the public "Top Earners" ticker on the landing page if your earnings rank you in the top positions for the period. To opt out of public visibility entirely, email privacy@xe-a.com and we will set the exclude_from_public flag on your account; you will then no longer appear in tickers, leaderboards, or community feeds.

6. AI Moderation & Zero-Tolerance Enforcement

We use automated content-safety models to screen prompts, captions, comments, edit prompts, negative prompts, text overlays, voiceover scripts, movie scripts, uploaded media, and shared posts for explicit, hateful, violent, or otherwise prohibited content. These models process your input in transit and are not used to train any public model of ours.

Flagged generation attempts (including the prompt text, the endpoint, a timestamp, and account identifiers) are logged in our internal moderation queue for audit purposes. This log is retained for 24 months and is accessible only to our moderation and compliance staff.

Any attempt to generate sexual, nude, or child-unsafe content — through any studio, any tool, or any field — results in immediate, permanent account termination across every studio. No warning, no appeal. See Terms §8.1.

7. Data Retention

  • Account & profile: while your account is active.
  • Generation outputs (images, videos, movies, voiceovers, music): while your account is active; you can delete them anytime from your dashboard / gallery.
  • Community posts: until you unshare them or your account is closed.
  • Token-activity ledger entries: 7 years (financial-audit law).
  • Payment, tip, and earnings records: at least 7 years (tax/accounting law).
  • Email log & security log: 24 months.
  • Moderation log (incl. flagged prompts): 24 months; CSAM-related identifiers may be retained longer where law requires.
  • Anonymous analytics & aggregated XEA-Brain signals: indefinitely.

8. Your Rights (GDPR / CCPA / equivalent)

Subject to applicable law, you have the right to access, correct, export, restrict, or delete your personal data, and to object to certain processing (incl. opting out of the XEA-Brain personalization signals). You can exercise most of these directly from the Settings page; for the rest, write to privacy@xe-a.com and we will respond within 30 days. California residents may also exercise their CCPA rights via the same address. You have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority.

9. Security

We use TLS in transit, bcrypt-hashed passwords, brute-force lockouts, signed PayPal / Stripe webhook verification, strict CORS, role-based access control on admin endpoints, and rate-limited APIs. Tokens are scoped per-account and stored in localStorage; we recommend logging out of shared devices. No system is 100% secure — please use a strong unique password, never share credentials, and notify us immediately if you suspect unauthorized access.

10. Communications

Transactional emails (receipts, tip notifications, password resets, security alerts, refund notices, ban / suspension notices) are required to operate the Service and cannot be opted out of while you have an active account.

The optional Daily Email Reminder is sent only if you enable it in Settings. Browser push notifications have been retired; we no longer collect or store browser push subscription endpoints. Native-app push (Capacitor) is opt-in at install time and can be revoked from your OS settings.

11. Children

XEA is not intended for users under 18 and is not directed at minors. We do not knowingly collect personal data from minors. If you believe a minor has provided us data, please contact us and we will delete it promptly. Any prompt attempting to generate content involving a minor in a sexual or unsafe context will trigger immediate permanent termination and may be reported to law enforcement.

12. International Transfers

Your data may be processed in the EU, US, UK, or other countries where our vendors operate. Where required, we rely on Standard Contractual Clauses, UK Addendum, or equivalent safeguards.

13. Native App (PWA & Capacitor)

XEA is available as a Progressive Web App (PWA) and as native iOS / Android shells packaged with Capacitor. The native shells use the same backend and apply the same policies as the web app. Operating-system level data (push tokens, install ID, device-info APIs) are governed additionally by the App Store / Google Play privacy labels published alongside the app.

14. Changes

We will notify you of material changes via email and/or an in-app banner before they take effect. The current version is always available at this URL with the "Last updated" date at the top.

15. Contact

Privacy questions: privacy@xe-a.com. General support: support@xe-a.com. Legal: legal@xe-a.com.

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