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Geekbidz Privacy Policy
Effective from September 21, 2020
1. Please read carefully!
Geekbidz cares deeply about the privacy of its visitors and users. To that end, this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Geekbidz LLC, collect, use, and share your Personal Information, as well as an explanation of the data rights you may have in that Personal Information. This Privacy Policy applies to all Geekbidz users, including unregistered visitors, registered users, and premium users (collectively, “Users”, “you”, or “your”), and to all Geekbidz services, including our web applications (“Geekbidz Apps”), mobile applications (“Mobile Apps”), and related services (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy is not intended to override the terms of any contract you have with us, nor any rights you may have under other applicable data privacy laws.
Prior to accessing or using our Services, please read this policy and make sure you fully understand our practices in relation to your Personal Information. If you read and fully understand this Privacy Policy, and remain opposed to our practices, you must immediately leave and discontinue all use of any of our Services. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact at support@geekbidz.com.
By accessing or using any of our Services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy.
2. What Personal Information do we collect
2.1. User Information:
To provide you the Services, we must collect Personal Information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Personal Information”). We collect Personal Information you provide us, from your use of the Services, and from other sources. Here are the types of Personal Information we collect about you:
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Information you provide us. When you register for our Services, purchase and/or use any of our Services; and/or when you contact us directly by any communication channel (e.g., Geekbidz support tickets, emails), you may provide us Personal Information, such as name, email address, phone number, payment information (for Users with Paid Services), information you include in your communications with us, and Personal Information contained in scanned identification documents (such as an ID card, driver’s license, passport, or official company registration documents).
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Information we collect when you use the Services. When you visit, download, and/or use any of our Services, we may collect aggregated usage Personal Information, such as Visitors’ and Users’ browsing and ‘click-stream’ activity on the Services, session heatmaps and scrolls, non-identifying Personal Information regarding the Visitor’s or User’s device, operating system, internet browser, screen resolution, language and keyboard settings, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, date/time stamps, etc.
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Information we collect from other sources. We may receive Personal Information about you from third-party sources, such as i) security providers , fraud detection and prevention providers for example to help us screen out users associated with fraud, ii) social media platforms, when you log-in or sign-up using your social media account, we may receive Personal Information from that service (e.g., your username, basic profile Personal Information) and in some cases, we may collect Personal Information from lead enhancement companies which help us to improve our service offering; iii) advertising and marketing partners in order to monitor, manage and measure our ad campaigns.
To provide our Services, we collect Personal Information about our Users.
The Personal Information comes from you when you visit or use our services, Personal Information we collect automatically, and Personal Information we collect from other sources.
2.2. Users of Users Personal Information
We may also collect Personal Information pertaining to visitors and users of our User’s services (“Users-of-Users”), solely for and on our Users’ behalf (as further described in Section 6 below).
3. Why do We collect such Personal information
We use your Personal Information for the following purposes:
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To provide and operate the Services;
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To further develop, customize, expand, and improve our Services, based on Users’ common or personal preferences, experiences and difficulties;
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To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
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To be able to contact our Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages (as further detailed in Section 8 below);
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To help us to update, expand and analyze our records to identify new customers;
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To facilitate, sponsor, and offer certain contests, events, and promotions, determine participants’ eligibility, monitor performance, contact winners, and grant prizes and benefits;
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To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
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To provide you with professional assistance, only upon your request;
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To enhance our data security and fraud prevention capabilities; and
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To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
We use your Personal Information for the purposes set out in Section 3 where:
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Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to perform a contract or to take steps to enter into a contract with you (e.g. to provide you with our customer assistance and technical support);
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Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to comply with a relevant legal or regulatory obligation that we have; or
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Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to support legitimate interests and business purposes (for example, to maintain and improve our Services and the effectiveness of Geekbidz by identifying technical issues), provided it is conducted in a way that is proportionate and that respects your privacy rights.
We use the Personal Information we collect about you to provide our services and make them better and safer.
We also collect and use Personal Information in order to contact Users and to comply with the laws applicable to us.
4. How we share your Personal Information
We may share your Personal Information with service providers and others (or otherwise allow them access to it) in the following manners and instances:
Third Party Service Providers: Geekbidz has partnered with a number of selected service providers, whose services and solutions complement, facilitate and enhance our own. These include hosting and server co-location services, communications and content delivery networks (CDNs), data and cyber security services, billing and payment processing services, fraud detection and prevention services, web analytics, e-mail distribution and monitoring services, session recording and remote access services, performance measurement, data optimization and marketing services, content providers, and our legal and financial advisors (collectively, “Third Party Service Provider(s)”).
Geekbidz may share the following categories of Personal Information with Third Party Service Providers for a business purpose:
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identifiers, including name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers
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commercial information, for example information regarding products or services purchased, obtained, or considered