Privacy Policy
Geekdo takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
Geekdo does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or companies , except when we have your explicit permission (for example, to pass on your contact information when you have won a contest). You will not get on a spammer's list because of your interactions with Geekdo.
Geekdo collects personal information when you register with Geekdo, when you use Geekdo products or services, when you visit Geekdo pages or the pages of certain Geekdo partners, and when you enter Geekdo contests. Geekdo may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
When you register we ask for information such as your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with Geekdo and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
Geekdo collects information about your transactions with us.
Geekdo automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Geekdo cookie information, and the page you request.
Geekdo uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and investigate abuse.
We partner with ValueClick to serve ads and/or collect certain information when you visit our website. ValueClick may use cookies or web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information during your visit to this website in order to help show advertisements on other websites likely to be more interesting to you. To learn more about this "behavioral advertising" practice or to opt-out of this use of your anonymous information, you can visit http://www.valueclickmedia.com/member_privacy.shtml
Geekdo reserves the right to modify all or some of this Privacy Policy at any time without notice. If we modify our Privacy Policy, we may post a notice on our website so our users are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information only in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected unless we have received explicit authorization from the appropriate user(s) to do otherwise.
We reserve the right to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, violations of the Geekdo Terms of Service, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required by law.