/ PRIVACY POLICY

We value your privacy and recognise our role protecting your personal data. Please read carefully before using or proceeding to access to the website. Your use of the site and services indicate for us that you are accepting the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

GEEKREVIEWS.CO may make changes to this privacy policy at any time. If and when we do, we will inform you by posting the revised, updated privacy policy here.

When we refer to “Personal Data”, we mean any information relating to an identifiable natural person, or data subject, and identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly, or indirectly by reference to and identifier, such as a name, identification number, or an online identifier.

In addition to Personal Data, we collect general information (“Usage Data”) regarding your use of the services provided on our site. This “Usage Data” can include demographic information, information about your preferences, interests, search queries, and online activity.

When Usage Data includes Personal Data, we treat the Personal Data as described by this Privacy Policy.

YOUR LOCATION / “Location Data” is collected with your consent or inferred as you use the Services. Such information will include the location of the mobile device or computer used to access the Services derived from GPS or WiFi use, your device’s IP Address, or the geographic information you provide to us (e.g. your city). We use this information to analyze the use of the Services, customize and improve the content for you on the Services, send you location-specific content, and show you events or businesses near you. We use and retain the Personal Data for as long as necessary and useful to provide personalized and improved services to you or until you withdraw consent.

YOUR SUBMISSIONS / We might will collect your Personal Data when you sign up for an online newsletter or contact us with a question or request. For example, if you submit a request to advertise with us, you may provide us with your name, email address, telephone number, address, and company. We use this information as necessary to respond to your request or inquiry and to provide and improve the Services and our products. We process this Personal Data as long as we have a legitimate interest or based on your consent.

YOUR CONTENT SUBMISSIONS / It is allowed for users to submit content, such as comments and images, on some or all of our sites which we post on the Services with your consent. Users who choose to sign up for this service must provide a user name and email address. We receive any Personal Data in the comments or images you submit to us. We process this Personal Data as long as we have a legitimate interest and based on your consent. If, in addition to you, other persons are identifiable in the content you provide, you must obtain consent from those persons prior to publication.

YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA INTERACTIONS / We receive Personal Data about you when you interact with us using the social media aspects to our Sites, on our social media pages and channels, or on other channels and content. The Personal Data includes profile name, profile identifier, and the content of your submissions. We use this information to communicate with you and for internal purposes until you withdraw consent or we do not use the social media pages anymore. Please review the privacy policies and settings of any websites, mobile applications, or social networks should you have any questions about their privacy practices. Please note that any content (e.g. comments, photographs, information and other materials) that you post directly to our website, including our social media pages, that is public and can be read, collected or used by others. Please always be cautious when disclosing any Personal Data through public activities or submissions.

AUTOMATIC USAGE DATA COLLECTION BY COOKIES / With your consent, or as otherwise permitted by law, when you visit the Services (including our social media pages) or open our e-mails, we and other third-party vendors, such as advertising networks, social media widgets, affiliate partners, and analytics providers, collect certain information, including Personal Data, by automated means, such as cookies, web beacons and web server logs. The information collected in this manner includes Usage Data, IP address, browser characteristics, device IDs and characteristics, operating system version, language preferences, date and time of your access to the Services, referring URLs, and information about the usage of our Services. We use this information, for example, to determine how many users have visited certain website and social media pages, social media channels, or opened messages or newsletters, to evaluate and improve the Services we provide. See below for more information about our use of cookies and the retention of your Personal Data collected via cookies.

MARKETING AND OTHER INFORMATION UPDATES / With your consent and as otherwise permitted by law, we use your email address and other information we receive from and about you to contact you with information about our products and services and others’ products and services, provide special offers and promotions that may be of interest to you. You may withdraw your consent at any time by unsubscribing from such marketing communications. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before the withdrawal. We may also notify you periodically about important changes to the services. Withdrawing consent from marketing communications does not affect our ability to send you these communications, such as those related to providing services to you or responding to your requests.

HOW WE PROTECT PERSONAL DATA

GEEKREVIEWS has technical, administrative and physical safeguards in place to help protect against unauthorized access to, use or disclosure of Personal Data we maintain. Under our security practices, access to personally identifiable information is authorized only for those who have a business need for such access, and sensitive records are to be retained only as long as necessary for business or legal needs and destroyed before disposal. Although we work hard to protect personal information that we collect and store, no program is one hundred percent secure and we cannot guarantee that our safeguards will prevent every unauthorized attempt to access, use or disclose personal information.

If you become aware of a security issue, please contact us. We will work with you to address any problems.

HOW LONG WE KEEP PERSONAL DATA

We retain the information we collect about you for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose we collected it for and for the purpose of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we process your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

For information about deleting your Personal Data, including, your account, see below.

WHERE PERSONAL DATA IS BEING USED AND STORED

We are headquartered in the United Kingdom. Users are advised that your Personal Data may be hosted, transferred or processed on servers and databases located outside your resident country or other governmental jurisdictions that are not members of the EEA or recognised by the European Commission as possessing adequate privacy protections. Each of those jurisdictions maintain their own data protection laws. To provide adequate safeguards, standard contractual clauses (SCC) may be used when transferring your personal data internationally and solely as outlined in this Privacy Policy. More information on SCCs is located here:

Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC)

Standard contractual clauses for data transfers between EU and non-EU countries.

Read on ec.europa.eu

NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (EEA) AND SWITZERLAND

If you are a resident of the EEA or Switzerland, you are entitled to certain rights under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union 27 April 2016 (the “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”). These include, without limitation, the right: (i) to access your personal data, (as that term is defined under the GDPR), (ii) to request deletion of your personal data in our possession, (iii) to restrict processing of your personal data, and (iv) to receive your personal data in a portable manner. We will only process your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy and only for the duration necessary. To exercise any of these rights, please click here. As a security measure, we may ask you to verify your identity. We may contact you to ask you for further information to help you exercise your legal rights or to speed up our response. We will try to respond to requests within one month and we will let you know if we need longer, for example, because your request is complicated. We may have an overriding lawful basis for processing your Personal Data, or certain exemptions may apply. You have the right to complain about data privacy matters to the relevant data protection regulator in your country of residence, a list of whom is located here:

Members – European Data Protection Board

Read on edpb.europa.eu

We invite you to raise your concerns with us first, so that we can try to resolve them.

We use industry standard website tracking and delivery technology to serve you relevant advertising on and off the Services. Our services display advertisements to you via targeted advertising methods. This permits us to show you certain advertising about products and services tailored to your individual interests based on information we receive from visitors of the Services and by third-parties. You may also see certain ads through your use of the Services because we participate in advertising networks. Ad networks allow us to target our advertising to users through the use of click-stream, demographic, behavioral and contextual information. The use of third-party tracking technologies to collect this information is often subject to their own privacy policies.

AD SERVING / The ads appearing on our sites are delivered to you by advertising vendors and/or by GEEKREVIEWS.CO’s own proprietary advertising delivery software. In order to serve ads to you, we may use information collected during your searches or visits to our websites and information that we specifically acquire from third parties.

ADVERTISING AND COOKIES / Some of our third party advertising partners may distribute cookies to users in advertisements that are provided to us. GEEKREVIEWS.CO has no access to or control over these cookies once we have received the advertisements. Some of these advertisers and services we use to deliver advertising may be engaging in online behavioral advertising as defined by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). 

AFFILIATE ADVERTISING / We participate in affiliate advertising and allow affiliate links to be encoded on some of our pages. This means that we may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via affiliate links and affiliate partners may use cookies to understand your use of the Services.

When yo are visiting our website, it is places small data files called cookies on your device to ensure that the site function properly, to track how you use our site, to improve our site and your user experience, and to tailor our site to your interests.

Cookies are small text files that are saved on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. They enable the sites to record and/or remember your actions and preferences. we uses the following cookies on our site:

STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES / These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features. These cookies will be placed on your device and used even if you do not consent to the use of cookies.

PERFORMANCE COOKIES / These cookies collect information about how you use the site (e.g. which pages you go to most often) to improve how the site work.

FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES / These cookies allow the site to remember the choices that you make (e.g. language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features.

TARGETING/ADVERTISING COOKIES / These cookies are used to deliver online advertisements on and off the site that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. The cookies remember that you have visited the site and this information may be shared with other organizations, e.g. advertisers.

The cookies used by GEEKREVIEWS are either first party or third party cookies. First party cookies like the ones used when you log in to your account, are set by GEEKREVIEWS and share the same domain. Third party cookies, on the other hand, are stored by third party providers and organizations with different domains.

We use cookies that expire once you close your browser (called session cookies) and cookies that stay on your device until you delete them or they expire (called persistent cookies).

If you have any question regarding this Privacy Policy, please CONTACT US and we will contact you as soon as possibe.