Privacy policy

Last modified: 3 August 2024

Thank you for using our products and services! We respect your concerns about privacy and appreciate your trust and confidence in us.

Please note that this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) only applies to GeekGame (“Service”). If you use any other products or services, please refer to the privacy policy for that particular product or service.

If you have any questions about anything in this Privacy Policy, or want to exercise any rights you may have, you can contact us.

Information We Collect From You

We value your trust in providing us your personal information. GeekGame does not share, disclose or sell any personally-identifiable information (such as your name, address, telephone number or email address) collected online on GeekGame’s sites with other unaffiliated companies or organizations for non-GeekGame marketing purposes. Because this information is a critical part of our business, it would be treated like our other assets in the context of a merger, sale or other corporate reorganization or legal proceeding.

By using our Services (as defined in our Terms of Use), you acknowledge and agree that you accept the practices, requirements, and/or policies as set out below, and you hereby consent to us collecting, using, disclosing and/or processing your personal data as described herein. IF YOU DO NOT CONSENT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA, YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO USE OUR SERVICES NOR HAVE FULL ACCESS TO OUR PLATFORM (as defined in our Terms of Use).

Why We Collect Data From You

GeekGame collects data from you for the following purposes: where it is necessary for the performance of our agreement with you to provide and deliver associated content and Services; where it is necessary for compliance with legal obligations that we may be subjected to; and/or  where you have given consent to the same.

We Are Responsible For Children’s Privacy

Children must not use the Service for any purpose, except where their parent or guardian has provided lawful consent (to the extent this option is available in your jurisdiction). By children, we mean users under the age of 18 years old;  or in the case of a region where the minimum age for processing personal information differs, such different age. You should in any case refer to the laws in your jurisdiction to ensure you are above the relevant legal minimum age. Other than as provided above, we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under these ages for any purpose. If you believe that we have personal information of a child under these ages without lawful consent, or if you are the parent or guardian of the user and wish to withdraw consent, please contact us.

How Can We Collect Your Personal Information?
GeekGame collects information online by asking you for it, for example, when you order a service, apply for a job, or respond to a survey, offer or other promotion. A customer’s name, address (postal and email) and telephone number are the most important pieces of information, but we might request other information, based on, for example, the service(s) being ordered or promoted.

Cookies: GeekGame may also use “cookies” and similar technology to obtain information about your visits to our sites or your responses to email from us – both individually and in aggregated data that does not identify you. These reporting tools tell us the parts of our web sites or e-mails in which you showed an interest or took some action, and help us improve the quality and usefulness of our sites.

Content: You also provide us information in content you post to the website. Your content (such as reviews, photos and videos) and metadata about your content will be viewed by other users. GeekGame can, but has no obligation, to monitor your content you post on the website. We can remove any information you post for any reason or no reason.

Payment Method: You will also be asked to submit Personal Information depending on the payment method you choose when accessing, purchasing or subscribing to one of our products or services. For example, if you choose to pay for a product/service by credit card, you will be required to provide us the name of your credit card issuer, credit card number, billing address, CVV number, and expiration date.

Log Files: When you use the website, our servers automatically record certain information sent by your web browser. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks and how you interact with links on the website, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, mobile carrier, and other such information.

Geo-Location Information: When you use the website by or through a mobile device, we may access, collect, monitor and/or remotely store “location data,” which may include GPS coordinates (e.g. latitude and/or longitude) or similar information regarding the location of your mobile device.

Device: When you use GeekGame.com, we may collect information about your devices such has device type, device hardware information, operating system type and version, device time and timezone, and other information necessary.

Third Party Tools: GeekGame uses third party analytics tools, to help understand use of the website. Many of these tools collect the information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including cookies and your IP address. These analytics tools also receive this information and their use of it is governed by their privacy policy.

Other Data You Unequivocally Submit: When you post, comment or follow any of our content and services, or send messages through our built-in online chat system, or provide us information in respect of any request or support required from us or for the purchase of our products and services, or participate in our competitions, contests, and tournaments, we may collect such information from you.

How Can We Use Your Information

GeekGame uses the personally-identifiable information collected online principally to provide you with the following service(s):

1.processing orders and/or transactions you have made

2.manage and administer your use of our Services including but not limited to remembering your preferences

3.for identification, verification, due diligence or known your customer purposes

4.deal with or facilitate customer service, carry out your instructions, deal with or respond to enquiries made by you or on your behalf

5.contact you via voice call, text message, email and/or post or otherwise for the purpose of managing your relationship with us or your use of our Services. This includes allowing us to let you know about other offerings which may be of interest to you. Postal and e-mail address information, for example, enables communication about services offered and ordered, as well as the proper provisioning and billing of those services.

6.conduct research, analysis and development activities (including but not limited to data analytics, surveys, products and service development and/or profiling) to analyze how you use our Services, to recommend products and/or services relevant to your interest, to improve our Services and/or to enhance your customer experience

7.respond to legal processes or to comply with or as required by any applicable laws, governmental or regulatory requirements of any relevant jurisdiction, or where we have good faith to believe that such disclosure is necessary under any applicable law. This includes but not limited to in response to subpoenas and other legal demands, and where we believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against individuals who may be endangering public safety or interfering with GeekGame services, or with our customers’ or others’ use of them.

8.deal with and/or facilitate asset sale transaction or potential asset sale transaction, where such transaction involves GeekGame as a participant or involves a related company or affiliate of GeekGame as a participant, and there may be other third party organizations who are participants to such transaction. An ‘asset sale transaction’ refers to the purchase, sale, lease, merger, amalgamation or any other acquisition, disposal or financing of an organization or a portion of an organization or of any of the business or assets of an organization.

9.necessary for the detection, investigation, and prevention of fraud, cheating and other violations. This data is used only for the purposes of detection, investigation, prevention, and where applicable, action on such violations, and is stored for the time necessary for this purpose. If such data displays signs of violation, we will store such data for the purpose of establishing, exercising or defending legal claims, where necessary.

10.any other purposes which we notify you of at the time of obtaining your consent

At any point of time, should you feel the need to opt-out future communications with GeekGame, options are given within to exclude those communicated messages to you.

How Long We Store Your Data

We will keep your information for as long as is required to fulfil the purpose for which it has been collected and processed or if any applicable legislation requires longer storage as required by law.

If you terminate your account with us, all personal data will be deleted except if it is required by legal process or any other legitimate reason as GeekGame deems necessary. If you remove the consent of processing personal data of your child, we will delete the personal data without delay based on the consent you have given. If you choose to object to the processing of your personal data, we will delete your data within a reasonable period, except if it is required by law to retain the same.

What We Request From You

We request you to provide us accurate and complete information about yourself and any other person whose personal information you provide us and for updating when it becomes incorrect or out of date by contacting us.This obligation is a condition to the provision of our Products and/or Services to you and/or any other person authorized or permitted by you or your organization/company to use the Products and/or Services.

We Promise Privacy & Security

Both of us together play an important role in protecting against online fraud. You should be careful that any information including your User ID, Password, Security Device and/or Security Code are not compromised by ensuring that you do not knowingly or accidentally share, provide or facilitate unauthorized use of it. Do not share your User ID, Password, Security Device and/or Security Code or allow access or use of it/them by others.

At GeekGame, we use encryption, firewalls and other technology and security procedures to help protect the accuracy and security of your personal information and prevent unauthorized access or improper use. For example, you will note that while using some features of the GeekGame’s website you will need to submit a password or some other type of authenticating information.

If you click a link to a third-party site, you will be leaving our Platform and we don’t control or endorse what is on third-party sites.

Your Rights

Individuals located in certain countries, including the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, have certain statutory rights in relation to their personal data. Subject to any exemptions provided by law, you may have the right to request access to your personal data, as well as to seek to update, delete or correct this information.

To the extent that the processing of your Personal Data is subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (or applicable laws covering the processing of Personal Data in the United Kingdom), GeekGame relies on its legitimate interests, described above, to process your data. GeekGame may also process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, and you have a right to object to our use of your personal data for this purpose at any time.

Disclosure of Your Information (If Needed)

In addition to the above, when you have provided Personal Information to us for a particular purpose, we may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents (“third parties”) who perform services for us or on our behalf and require acces to such information to fulfill your request. The categories of third parties we may share personal information with are as follows:

1.Affiliate Marketing Programs

2.Cloud Computing Services

3.Communication & Collaboration Tools

4.Data Analytics Services

5.Data Storage Service Providers

6.Finance & Accounting Tools

7.Order Fulfillment Services Providers

8.Payment Processors

9.Performance Monitoring Tools

10.Social Networks

11.Ad Networks

12.Testing Tools

13.User Account Registration & Authentication Services

14.Website Hosting Service Providers

15.Products Engineering & Design Tools

16.Sales & Marketing Tools

We may also disclose any of your Personal Information to law enforcement or other appropriate third parties in connection with criminal investigations, investigation of fraud, infringement of intellectual property rights, or other suspected illegal activities, or as otherwise may be required by applicable law, or, as we deem necessary in our sole discretion, in order to protect the legitimate legal interests of GeekGame.

We also may need to share your personal information in the following situations:

1.Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

2.Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy notice. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.

3.Business Partners. We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.

Notices to the Changes in Privacy Policies

GeekGame reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time by notifying registered users via e-mail of the existence of a new Privacy Policy and/or posting the new Privacy Policy on GeekGame. All changes to the Privacy Policy will be effective when posted, and your continued use of GeekGame, product or service after the posting will constitute your acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes.

Contacting GeekGame

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you are seeking to exercise any of your statutory rights. We will respond within a reasonable timeframe. You may contact us at [email protected].