Privacy for Xing
Xing is a social career network. It is here that professional contacts are cultivated above all. Many personal user details in the profile are publicly visible, not only to all Xing members, but also to non-members.
In its privacy policy, Xing specifies which personal data is collected and how it is processed and used.
This is the information that each user enters when registering.
This includes information such as:
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Names
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Date of birth
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Business
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Contact details
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Professional status
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Company, position, sector
In addition, there are a large number of voluntary details that users can provide in their profile, for example about personal interests.
According to Xing, the data is used exclusively to enable the services for the users. In addition, Xing makes it clear in its basic data protection principles that under no circumstances will personal data be passed on to third parties for advertising or marketing purposes.
Further information on Xing data protection can be found here.