Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At Geeky Travels and Fandoms, we have a few fundamental principles that we follow on how we use and protect any information you give us when using the site:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, sending out products (contest giveaways and/or shipping of items bought) or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
  • No credit card information is stored in our site. All credit card details are processed via a third-party secure platform.

It is Geeky Travels and Fandoms’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.  

What Non-Personally Identifying Information is Collected?

Like most website operators, Geeky Travels & Fandoms collects non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as:

  • the browser type
  • language preference
  • referring site
  • the date and time of each visitor request

Geeky Travels & Fandoms’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Geeky Travels & Fandoms visitors use its website. Geeky Travels & Fandoms also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Geeky Travels & Fandoms only discloses logged in user and comments’ IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that comments’ IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of Geeky Travels & Fandoms’ website where the comment was left.

What Personally- Identifying Information is Collected?

Certain visitors to Geeky Travels & Fandoms’ website may choose to interact with us in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Geeky Travels & Fandoms gathers depends on the nature of the interaction: For the purposes of subscribing to our e-mailing list, receive e-newsletters and/or to leave comments on the website, the following personally identifying information is collected:

  • Name (Username)
  • Email address

For customers/visitors of the Geeky Fandoms and Travels Store (the Store), the following personally identifying information is collected:

  • Name (Username)
  • Email Address
  • *Physical Mailing Address (*A physical mailing address is required to ship out items purchased from the Store)

For winners of contest giveaways on the website and e-mailing list, the following personally identifying information is collected:

  • Name (Username)
  • Email Address
  • *Physical Mailing Address (*A physical mailing address is only asked when a website visitor enters the contest and wins a prize that requires it to be mailed to them. The website visitor (winner) has the choice to not provide their physical mailing address for the claiming of prizes.)

In each case, Geeky Travels & Fandoms collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Geeky Travels & Fandoms.  Geeky Travels & Fandoms does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described above. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the understanding that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Geeky Travels & Fandoms discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Geeky Travels & Fandoms’ behalf or to provide services available at Geeky Travels & Fandoms’ website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.

Some of those affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Geeky Travels & Fandoms’ website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Geeky Travels & Fandoms will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.

Other than to its affiliated organizations, as described above, Geeky Travels & Fandoms discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Geeky Travels & Fandoms believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Geeky Travels & Fandoms, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of Geeky Travels & Fandoms’ website and have supplied your email address to be on our mailing list, Geeky Travels & Fandoms may send you email and newsletters to tell you about new updates on our website, solicit your feedback, or products and services recommendations in line with Geeky Travels & Fandoms’ geeky fandoms that you may be interested in. Registered users and/or email subscribers can choose to unsubscribe at any time.

If you send us a request and or feedback (for example via direct email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us improve the website.  Geeky Travels & Fandoms will do what it can to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

Geeky Travels & Fandoms may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Geeky Travels & Fandoms may monitor the most popular pages and posts on Geekytravelsfandoms.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Geeky Travels & Fandoms uses cookies to help Geeky Travels & Fandoms identify and track visitors, their usage of Geeky Travels & Fandoms, and their website access preferences. Cookies are also used to track affiliate sales links click-through so that Geeky Travels & Fandoms may earn a fee when website visitors do so.

Geeky Travels & Fandoms visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Geeky Travels & Fandoms website, with the acknowledgement that certain features of Geeky Travels & Fandoms website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Comments

When  visitors leave comments on the website, Geeky Travels & Fandoms collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives. Comments by website visitors to geekytravelsfandoms.com may or may not be published, depending on the nature of the comment. Geeky Travels & Fandoms reserves the right not to publish any comment that might be offensive, derogatory and/or unsuitable on the website.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Affiliate Sales

From time to time, Geeky Travels & Fandoms may put up recommendations and links to purchase products and services on our website. Whenever an affiliate link is displayed, a proper disclaimer will be included with the affiliate link. We are a participant in several affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to these affiliated sites. You acknowledge that by clicking on such affiliate links and recommendations, a commission fee may be earned by Geeky Travels & Fandoms.

Ads

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Geeky Travels & Fandoms and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting and changing your Ads Settings. 

Privacy Policy Changes

Geeky Travels & Fandoms may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Geeky Travels & Fandoms sole discretion. Any changes will be updated on this page. Visitors are encouraged to frequently check this page for any changes to the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contact Information

If you have any queries or feedback on Geeky Travels & Fandoms’ Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@geekytravelsfandoms.com

Geeky Travels & Fandoms is committed to ensuring that your privacy is respected