Your Privacy is important
It is The Geek's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you on the website. The Geek, and other websites we own and operate.
We only ask for personal information when we really need it to provide you with a service. We do this by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also tell you why we are collecting it and how it will be used.
We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide the requested service. When we store data, we protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
We do not share personally identifiable information publicly or with third parties, except as required by law.
Our website may have links to external websites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites and cannot accept responsibility for their respective privacy policies.
You are free to refuse our request for personal information, with the understanding that we may not be able to provide you with some of the services you require.
Your continued use of our website will be deemed acceptance of our practices around Privacy Notice and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, please contact us.
The Geek Cookies Policy
What are cookies?
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they collect, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the website's functionality.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies for a variety of reasons, detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies if you are not sure whether or not you need them if they are used to provide a service you use.
disable cookies
You can prevent cookies from being set by adjusting your browser settings (see your browser's Help for how to do this). Please be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit. Disabling cookies will generally result in the disabling of certain functionality and features of this website. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
Cookies we set
- Account-Related Cookies If you create an account with us, we will use cookies for managing the sign-up process and general administration. These cookies will generally be deleted when you log out of the system, however in some cases they may remain afterward to remember your website preferences when you log out.
- Login Related Cookies We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this action. This saves you from having to log in every time you visit a new page. These cookies are normally removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when you log in.
- Email Newsletters Related Cookies This website offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications valid only for subscribed/unsubscribed users .
- Order processing related cookies This website offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
- Survey-Related Cookies From time to time, we offer surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting information, useful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already participated in a survey or to provide accurate results after changing pages.
- Form-Related Cookies When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember the user's details for future correspondence.
- Site Preference Cookies To provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you may encounter through this website.
- This website uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, to help us understand how you use the website and how we can improve your experience. These cookies can track things like how much time you spend on the site and the pages you visit so that we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information about Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
- Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this website so that we can continue to produce compelling content. These cookies can track things like the time you spend on the website or the pages you visit, which helps us understand how we can improve the website for you.
- From time to time, we test new features and make subtle changes to the way the site looks. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure you receive a consistent experience while on the site, while we understand which optimizations our users appreciate most.
- As we sell products, it's important for us to understand statistics about how many visitors to our website actually buy, and so this is the type of data these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means we can make accurate business forecasts that allow us to analyze our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
- The Google AdSense service we use to serve ads uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times a particular ad is shown to you.
For more information about AdSense, see the official AdSense Privacy FAQs. - We use advertisements to offset the costs of running this site and to provide funding for future developments. The behavioral advertising cookies used by this website are designed to ensure that you provide the most relevant advertisements whenever possible, anonymously tracking your interests and featuring similar things that may be of interest to you.
- Various partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers accessed the site through one of our partners' websites so that we can properly credit them and, where applicable, allow our affiliate partners to offer any promotion that may provide you to make a purchase.
User Commitment
The user undertakes to make appropriate use of the content and information that The Geek offers on the website and with an enunciative but not limiting nature:
- A) Not to engage in activities that are illegal or contrary to good faith and public order;
- B) Do not disseminate propaganda or content of a racist, xenophobic nature, gambling, any type of illegal pornography, in support of terrorism or against human rights;
- C) Do not cause damage to the physical (hardware) and logical (software) systems of The Geek, its suppliers or third parties, to introduce or disseminate computer viruses or any other hardware or software systems that are capable of causing the aforementioned damages.
Cookie Google DoubleClick DART
Google is a third-party provider on our website. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our website visitors based on their visit to other websites on the Internet. However, visitors may opt-out of the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google Ads and Content Network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Our advertising partners
Some of the advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their user data policies. For ease of access, we have created a hyperlink to our Privacy Policy below.
information for children
Another part of our priority is to add protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate and/or monitor and guide your online activities.
The Geek does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. such information from our records.
Online privacy policy only
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in The Geek. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or through channels other than this website.
More information
Hopefully this is clear and, as mentioned earlier, if there's something you're not sure you need or not, it's generally safer to leave cookies enabled in case it interacts with one of the features you use on our site.
Google uses cookies or unique device identifiers, in combination with its own data, to show you ads based on your visit to thegeek.club and other websites. You can opt out of Google's use of the cookie by visiting the related Google privacy policy.
For more information about targeted advertising and how to opt out with your specific browser and device, go to DAA Webchoices Browser Check and NAI Opt Out of Interest-Based Advertising.
This policy is effective from November/2023.
