Last updated: February 16, 2024
This privacy notice for My Geeks Shout (“we,” “us,” or “our“) describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and share (“process“) your information when you use our services (“Services“), such as when you:
- Visit our website at mygeekshout.com or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice
- Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events
Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. Please only use our services if you agree with our policies and practices.
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
This summary provides key points from our privacy notice.
What personal information do we process? When you visit, use, or navigate our services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. Learn more about the personal information you disclose to us.
Do we process any sensitive personal information? We do not process sensitive personal information.
Do we receive any information from third parties? We do not accept any information from third parties.
How do we process your information? We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our services, communicate with you for security and fraud prevention, and comply with the law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your data only when we have a valid legal reason. Learn more about how we process your information.
In what situations and with which parties do we share personal information? We may share information in specific situations and with specific third parties. Learn more about when and with whom we share your personal information.
How do we keep your information safe? We have organizational and technical processes and procedures to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Learn more about how we keep your info safe.
What are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information. Learn more about your privacy rights.
How do you exercise your rights? The easiest way to exercise your rights is by submitting a data subject access request or contacting us. We will consider and act upon any request under applicable data protection laws.
Want to learn more about what we do with any information we collect? Review the privacy notice in full.
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
In short, we collect personal information that you provide to us.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when you participate in activities on the services, or when you contact us.
Personal information provided by you. The personal information we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us, the services, your choices, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:
- names
- phone numbers
- email addresses
Sensitive Information. We do not process sensitive information.
All personal information you provide must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
In short, we process your information to provide, improve, and administer our services, communicate with you for security and fraud prevention, and comply with the law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.
We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our services, including:
- To save or protect an individual’s vital interest. We may process your information when necessary to preserve or cover an individual’s vital interest to prevent harm.
3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short, We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary. We have a valid legal reason (i.e., legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with regulations, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business interests.
This section applies to you in the EU or the UK.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on to process your personal information. As such, we may depend on the following legal bases to process your personal information:
- Consent. We may process your information if you have permitted us (i.e., consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Learn more about starting your consent.
- Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, such as cooperating with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercising or defending our legal rights, or disclosing your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
- Vital Interests. We may process your information where it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as in situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.
If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you.
We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e., express consent) to use your personal information for one purpose or in situations where your authorization can be inferred (i.e., implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time.
In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including, for example:
- If collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained promptly,
- For investigations, fraud detection, and prevention
- For business transactions, provided certain conditions are met.
- If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim,
- For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin
- If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is, or may be a victim of financial abuse.
- If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or accuracy of the information and the collection is appropriate for investigating a breach of an agreement or an infringement of the laws of Canada or a province,
- If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating to the production of records
- If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business, or profession, and the collection is consistent with the purposes for which the information was created,
- If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes,
- If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations,
4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
In short, we may share information in specific situations described in this section and with the following third parties:
We may need to share your personal information in the following situations:
- 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.
- When we use Google Analytics, we may share your information with Google Analytics to track and analyze the use of the services. The Google Analytics advertising features we may use include remarketing with Google Analytics. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across the services, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can opt out of Google Analytics Advertising Features through Ads Settings and Ad Settings for mobile apps. Other opt-out means include http://optout.networkadvertising.org/ and http://www.networkadvertising.org/mobile-choice. For more information on Google’s privacy practices, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms page.
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In short, we keep your information as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice unless a more extended retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will need us to keep your personal information for longer than 90 days.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your data has been stored in backup archives), we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
In Short, We aim to protect your personal information through organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, the transmission of personal information to and from our services is at your own risk. You should only access the services in a secure environment.
7. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short, In some regions, such as the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom (UK), Switzerland, and Canada, you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.
You have certain rights under applicable data protection laws in some regions (like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada). These may include the following:
- To request access and obtain a copy of your personal information.
- To request rectification or erasure.
- To restrict the processing of your personal information.
- If applicable to data portability.
- Not to be subject to automated decision-making.
In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to processing your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us using the contact details provided in the “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?” section below.
Following applicable data protection laws, we will consider and act upon any request.
Suppose you are in the EEA or UK and believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information. In that case, you also have the right to complain to your Member State or UK data protection authority.
If you are located in Switzerland, you may contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.
Withdrawing your consent: If we rely on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express or implied consent, depending on the applicable law, you can withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent anytime by contacting us using the contact details provided in the “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE section?” below.
However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal, nor when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
8. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers, mobile operating systems, and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference and not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized at this stage. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.
9. DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short, If you are a resident of, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.
What categories of personal information do we collect?
We have collected the following categories of personal information in the past twelve (12) months:
| Category | Examples | Collected | |
| A. | Identifiers | Contact details, such as real name, alias, postal address, telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, and account name | NO |
| B. | Protected classification characteristics under state or federal law | Gender and date of birth | NO |
| C. | Commercial information | Transaction information, purchase history, financial details, and payment information | NO |
| D. | Bio-metric information | Fingerprints and voice-prints | NO |
| E. | Internet or other similar network activity | Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest data, and interactions with our and other websites, applications, systems, and advertisements | NO |
| F. | Geo location data | Device location | NO |
| G. | Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information | Images and audio, video, or call recordings created in connection with our business activities | NO |
| H. | Professional or employment-related information | Business contact details to provide you with our Services at a business level or job title, work history, and professional qualifications if you apply for a job with us | NO |
| I. | Education Information | Student records and directory information | NO |
| J. | Inferences are drawn from collected personal information | Inferences drawn from any of the collected personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics | NO |
| K. | Sensitive Personal Information | NO |
We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories through instances where you interact with us in person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of:
- Receiving help through our customer support channels;
- Participation in customer surveys or contests; and
- Facilitate the delivery of our services and respond to your inquiries.
How do we use and share your personal information?
Learn how we use your personal information in the “HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?”
Will your information be shared with anyone else?
We may disclose your personal information with our service providers according to a written contract between us and each service provider. Learn more about how we disclose personal information in the section “WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?”
We may use your personal information for business purposes, such as undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. This is not considered the “selling” of your personal information.
We have not disclosed, sold, or shared any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months. We will not sell or share personal information belonging to website visitors, users, and other consumers in the future.
10. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
In Short, we will update this notice to comply with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date, and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
11. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at https://mygeekshout.com/contact-us/ or contact us by post at:
My Geeks Shout
12. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please fill out and submit a data subject access request.