Privacy Policy

The privacy of our visitors to geekerhertz.com is important to us. At geekerhertz.com, we recognise that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit geekerhertz.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties. Log Files As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

WHAT AND WHO THE POLICY COVERS

In this Privacy Policy, Personal Information refers to a specific individuals information, such as, consumer product references, online purchases, email address, full name, birth date, gender and country or location. geekerhertz.com understands the importance of your privacy, therefore, here we will inform you of how the information we collect from and about you is used when you visit our website. This policy also informs you of other sources we may use to collect and share information, and the choices you have about how your information is used and shared. By continuing to use our services you are agreeing to the terms and conditions of the privacy policy and give consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described below. Please note, all content, products and services are intended for general audiences and are not directed to children under the age of 16, nor do we knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information about users under the age of 16. We will discard any sensitive personal information sent to us such as ethnic origin, health, criminal background, political opinions, religion or any other spiritual beliefs on or through our services.

THE COLLECTION OF INFORMATION PROVIDED DIRECTLY TO geekerhertz.com

If you register on our site to become a member, either to receive a newsletter or receive updates on competitions, events or promotions, you may be asked for information such as your name, email address, gender, location, phone number and age. If you willingly take part in our polls, surveys, quizzes, sweepstakes or daily horoscopes we may ask for your name, birth date, cell phone number, email address, gender and/or personal interests that may be associated with other personal information that has been obtained from or about you.

THE COLLECTION OF INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY

Please see our Cookie Policy below for a more detailed description on Cookies and the tracking technologies present on our services. geekerhertz.com and our service providers use standard technologies to automatically collect certain additional information, this information may include IP address or other identifiers, social media information and content, cookies and other tracking technologies, web beacons and other tracking technologies and/or third party tracking.

ELABORATION ON THE ABOVE MENTIONED;

INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESS OR OTHER IDENTIFIERS

This identifies the PC, service provider, browser type, authentication identifiers, geolocation data which includes your precise location and/or mobile, desktop or tablet device you are using to interact with our services. This information may be used to make our communications and services more targeted to you and your interests.

SOCIAL MEDIA INFORMATION AND CONTENT

When or if you register through our site via a social media service or connect OUR site to a social media platform, the information we may collect (in accordance to that social media platforms policies) includes user ID and/or username, profile picture, email address, friend lists and/or any information made public via the social media platform. When connecting to geekerhertz.com via a particular social media service, you are authorising the collection, storage and usage of the information and content you have permitted the social media platform to share.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

It is entirely up to you whether you want to allow us to send you cookies, however, please note that by blocking any or all cookies you may not have access to certain features, content or personalisation available through the site. Cookies are small text files that are stored on a users PC that allow websites such as geekerhertz.com to retain information about users across the pages of our site, including page pop-ups. When a user registers on geekerhertz.com, it creates a unique cookie token that is recorded in our database, this information is accessible to you in your website profile. We also use persistent cookies, which allows us to personalise your return visit to our site and saves you time during certain activities such as browsing for location based content or seeing certain content first based on your preferred category interests. You can also have a look at the “help” menu of your browser to learn how you can change our cookie preferences to ‘ allow all cookies’, ‘reject all cookies’ or ‘ be notified when each cookie is set’.

WEB BEACONS AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Web Beacons cannot be turned off when delivered via a regular web page. Web Beacons, also known as clear GIFs, web bugs, page tag, tracking pixel or pixel tag are small electronic images embedded in web content which includes online adverts and emails used to collect information about your page and content activity. Web Beacons in Emails; We may use Web Beacons in emails to unobtrusively collect analytical data such as when an email was opened, how many people bounced right out of the email, how many people unsubscribed, which links were clicked in the email, how many times it was forwarded or allowing us to monitor readership levels in order to aggregate trends to provide our loyal audiences with relevant content and/or promotional offers. You may decline web beacons when delivered via Email by disabling HTML images or refuse HTML emails with your email software.

COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS

We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums. We also use third party advertisements on geekerhertz.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites). You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

3rd PARTY ADVERTISING AND MARKETING

geekerhertz.com sells advertising space on our site pages to advertisers, this results in adverts often containing cookies and other relating ad technologies that is placed by 3rd party partners such as ad agencies, ad network providers, ad servers and possibly research firms, they use the browsing information collected from these cookies to show more advertisements that are more relevant to you and also limit the amount of times you see the same ad. This process is often call Online Behavioural advertising, which is a way of using information about your web browsing activity with cookies to group users into interest groups to show you more adverts based on your interests. ‘Site Name’ may also advertise our own products, and these ads may use cookies in the same way described above.

HOW WE USE AND STORE YOUR INFORMATION

geekerhertz.com processes your data, in accordance with the contract you have with us, to provide you with content, products and services. This may include your own account management function for you to update or change your contact information, customer support, and preferable content. geekerhertz.com may also use your personal information for: 
- Making sure our products and services are transmitting your requests through the most efficient route. 
- Monitoring your use of our product and services to be able to continue improving our content, products, services and customer experience. 
- Market Research 
- Protecting our rights, or the rights of 3rd parties, by analysing activity on our network to block unauthorised or illegitimate content, publication or access to it.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

(a) geekerhertz.com collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested. (b) geekerhertz.com may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from geekerhertz.com and its affiliates. geekerhertz.com may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. (c) geekerhertz.com does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. geekerhertz.com may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique, personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. geekerhertz.com may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to geekerhertz.com, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
 
geekerhertz.com will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on geekerhertz.com or the site. (b) protect and defend the rights or property of geekerhertz.com. And (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of geekerhertz.com, or the public.

COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

geekerhertz.com may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name. If you purchase geekerhertz.com's products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. geekerhertz.com may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your age, gender and race. We may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future. Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by geekerhertz.com. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain the quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the geekerhertz.com website. geekerhertz.com encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from geekerhertz.com so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. geekerhertz.com is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the geekerhertz.com website.

USE OF COOKIES

The geekerhertz.com website may use Cookies to help personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise geekerhertz.com pages, or register with geekerhertz.com site or services, a cookie helps geekerhertz.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same geekerhertz.com website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the geekerhertz.com features that you customised. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the geekerhertz.com services or websites you visit.

OPT-OUT & UNSUBSCRIBE

We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out of receiving any or all communications from geekerhertz.com by contacting us here: Web page: geekerhertz.com/privacy.php

DATA RETENTION

We will only keep your data for as long as you are a customer to the service. Should you choose to terminate or delete you account we will delete your information and retain some personal information for so long as we are obliged to do so under South African law. Such personal information will be maintained under the same security and privacy controls that are in place for other customers of the service.

CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT

geekerhertz.com will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. geekerhertz.com encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how geekerhertz.com is protecting your information.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Web page: geekerhertz.com/contact.php