We value your privacy and strive to protect it. This Statement of Privacy applies to http://www.familygeektogethers.com and Family Geek Togethers (“we” or “us” or “our website”) and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Family Geek Togethers include http://www.familygeektogethers.com. The Family Geek Togethers website is a blog site. By using the Family Geek Togethers website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, or mailing address, or personally sensitive data through Family Geek Togethers’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
Family Geek Togethers does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Family Geek Togethers 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 Family Geek Togethers, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Family Geek Togethers may disclose your personal information, without notice, 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 Family Geek Togethers or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Family Geek Togethers; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Family Geek Togethers, or the public.
Tracking User Behavior
Family Geek Togethers may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Family Geek Togethers, in order to determine what Family Geek Togethers services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Family Geek Togethers to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Family Geek Togethers. 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 quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Family Geek Togethers website.
Similarly, we use Google Analytics, which collects certain information about your location, browsing history, the pages you visit on our site, the equipment you use to access our site, traffic patterns, and other general patterns related to your usage of our website. All of this information is used to improve our ability to provide content geared toward our readers, enhance the website’s performance, and improve the products and services we offer.
Use of Cookies
The Family Geek Togethers website may use “cookies” to help you personalize 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 personalize Family Geek Togethers pages, or register with Family Geek Togethers site or services, a cookie helps Family Geek Togethers 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 Family Geek Togethers website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Family Geek Togethers features that you customized.
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 Family Geek Togethers services or websites you visit.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Additionally, we may include embedded links on our website. Embedded content from other websites treats the user as if they had actually left to visit the other website. Such websites may collect your data and monitor your interaction with the embedded content. We are not responsible for the activities or practices of these third-party websites. Please consult their privacy policies and contact them if you have any concerns. You also agree that your use of third-party websites and links is at your own risk.
Security of your Personal Information
Family Geek Togethers secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Family Geek Togethers uses the following methods for this purpose:
– SSL Protocol
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
• Delete your personal information from our records; and
• Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.
Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:
• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
• Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
• Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
Children Under Thirteen
Family Geek Togethers does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
Comments and Social Media
If you make a comment on our website, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely. This is largely to streamline the approval process for comments. We do not share the information obtained from comments with third parties, but we may use it to communicate with you through the website.
We have links to social media on our website. Such websites (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) can track your personal information. They have their own privacy policies, and you should be aware of them before using those websites. Please be aware that if you choose to interact with us on social media, you will be voluntarily disclosing your personal information. Once that information is disclosed, it becomes public and can be collected and used by others. We take no responsibility for the use, storage, or dissemination of information that you voluntarily elect to disclose publicly.
We are not liable for any misuse of the information you disclose through comments or social media interactions by you or other parties.
E-mail Communications
From time to time, Family Geek Togethers may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Family Geek Togethers, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button.
GDPR Visitor Rights
We do not envision offering goods or services to individuals living in the European Union as outlined in the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). However, we strive to comply with the GDPR. If you are a resident of the European Union, you are entitled to certain rights and information. You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please email us at [email protected].
You have the right to update, modify or request that we erase your personal data. You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data, at which point we can store, but not further process, your data.
You have the right to object to the processing of your data in certain circumstances including but not limited to direct marketing, profiling, scientific or historical research purposes, statistical purposes, automated decision making and profiling and tasks based on legitimate interests or in the public interest/exercise of official authority.
You have the right to the portability of your data. You have the right to request your personal data from us, receive it, and transfer it to another controller.
You have the right to withdraw consent at any time. If you have provided consent to Family Geek Togethers’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the GDPR.
We require only the information that is reasonably necessary to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.
California Residents
If you are a California resident, you have certain rights regarding your personal data. California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with the Website, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Website. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Website, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g. backups, etc.).
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) also provides California residents with the following rights:
Right to request deletion of the data––Request to delete
You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will respect your request and delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to) the exercise by another consumer of his or her right to free speech, our compliance requirements resulting from a legal obligation or any processing that may be required to protect against illegal activities.
Right to be informed––Request to know
Depending on the circumstances, you have a right to know:
· whether we collect and use your personal information;
· the categories of personal information that we collect;
· the purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
· whether we sell your personal information to third parties;
· the categories of personal information that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose;
· the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and
· the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
This information is outlined in our general privacy policy. In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete consumer information that is de-identified in response to a consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request.
Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights
We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.
Verification process
Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. These verification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so that we can match it with the information you have previously provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you submit, we may ask you to provide certain information so that we can match the information you provide with the information we already have on file, or we may contact you through a communication method (e.g. phone or email) that you have previously provided to us. We may also use other verification methods as the circumstances dictate.
We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes of verification. If, however, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity, and for security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete such additionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying you.
Other privacy rights
· You may object to the processing of your personal data
· You may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or ask to restrict the processing of the data
· You can designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA.
· Although we do not now, and do not intend to sell your information to third parties in the future, you may request to opt-out from future selling of your personal information to third parties. Upon receiving a request to opt-out, we will act upon the request as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than 15 days from the date of the request submission.
To exercise these rights, you can contact us by email at [email protected]. We will respond to your requests within 30 days.
California law also requires us to inform users whether we comply with “Do Not Track” settings in your browser. We do not monitor or respond to “Do Not Track” browser requests.
Changes to this Statement
Family Geek Togethers reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact Information
Family Geek Togethers welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Family Geek Togethers has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us at [email protected].