Geyers Privacy Policy

Date of Implementation: 10 August 2020

Here, we explain how we handle information we gather about you while you’re using our services, and how that information may be shared with third parties. Any micro- or mobile-specific websites that we run or use are included as “Website” for the purposes of this policy. In this context, “app” refers to our mobile application that you can download on your own device from our website or through our app store. Official Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, and other social media pages are referred to as “Social Media Pages.” Any queries concerning this policy should be sent to us by email at https://www.geyers.info/ if at all possible

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We gather a variety of information about our clients and visitors to the site. We may have gathered the following throughout the last year:

Personal information such as name, email address, phone number, and physical address may be gathered by us.

  • If you use our Website, we may collect information about your physical location, such as your zip code and/or mobile device’s cellular service provider’s location. Your device’s location services settings may have an impact on the information we collect from you.
  • Information about your device is gathered when you visit our website, engage with our Social Media Pages or online adverts, or open our emails. This information includes the type of browser you use, the operating system you are using, and the language of your browser.
  • Our Website users’ birthdates, genders, zip codes, and other demographic information may be available to us if they provide it to us.
  • Your credit card number and expiration date may be collected when you place an order or log in to your account.
  • We may maintain a record of your communications with our customer support employees when you phone, text, mail, or email us. It’s possible that our conversations with you will be monitored and recorded for training and quality assurance purposes.
  • Your interactions with our website and app are recorded in order to better serve you. This information includes the pages you visit and the material you are interested in as well as your access times and search activity.
  • Photos, videos, posts, and reviews are all examples of the kind of content we gather from you when you use our App or send them to us in person. Depending on the details you supply, this information may include personal data.
  • Information about your profile, such as your preferences and Website usage, may be available to us.
  • Whenever you ask others to join Geyers or become your friends, we receive the e-mail addresses associated with those individuals.

HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION

We may get the aforementioned information in a variety of ways, including directly from you, via third parties with whom we have partnered, or through the use of automated tools like cookies. Some examples of these resources are:

  • In the following ways: When you make a purchase; visit our Website; send us a message with questions or comments; upload content; participate in one of our contests or promotions; create an account; update the information on your account profile; write a review or use or like our Social Media Pages, we receive information directly from you.
  • When you visit our Website or engage with our Social Media Pages or online advertising, certain information is automatically gathered from your device or browser and evaluated.
  • Payment processors, analytics businesses, research firms, and advertising firms are examples of third parties with which we collaborate. Third parties’ privacy statements may govern how they gather and use your information. These third parties may provide us with information that they have gathered to other third parties for marketing purposes.
  • Social Media Networks: We get information from social media platforms. Reviewing the privacy rules and settings of social media sites can teach you more about how they gather and utilise your data.
  • Cookies: When you visit our Website, we use a variety of different technologies to gather information. These include cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, pixels, and others. Ads on other websites may be sent to you by third-party advertising or analytics providers. These businesses gather information about your activities with our website and other websites through the use of cookies or other similar technologies that they develop. These ad networks may make use of and share your personal information to provide adverts that are more relevant to your preferences. Information gathered by cookies or other similar technologies, whether from us or third parties, may be combined with other information we have about you. Aboutcookies.org and allaboutcookies.org provide in-depth explanations of cookies and how they work.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

For the following business objectives, we may utilise the data we collect:

To fulfil your requests, including, but not limited to, processing your transactions and populating forms for future transactions. Fulfilling your orders and other requests.

  • Online, email, and other communication channels are all ways to provide advertising, including collaborations with social media platforms and internet search engines.
  • Analysis of your interactions with us (including our Website, Social Media Pages, App and emails or other forms of contact) as well as evaluating the efficacy of advertising and communications allows us to better understand our customers.
  • It is our goal to make our connection with you more personalised by offering personalised communications, advertising and experiences on our website, app and in emails and social media advertisements.
  • Communicating with you about our services, replying to your enquiries, and sending you certain administrative, transactional or legal messages are all examples of communications.
  • Promote your products or services by holding contests, drawing for prizes, or promoting your business in any other way.
  • To provide a great client experience, we serve information on our website and social media pages while also enhancing our services and addressing customer support issues and improving website functioning.
  • Secure Geyers against fraudulent behaviour, security risks, and other unlawful or destructive activity.
  • It is necessary to meet legal and regulatory obligations as well as respond to court orders or other government requests.

In what ways and for what purposes are your personal data shared with service providers and third parties?

For some purposes, we may give away or sell your personal information to other parties. As an illustration, we may share your personal information with the following third parties:

  • Many areas of our operation, including delivering services, processing purchases, advertising, and evaluating your interests and activities on our website and social media pages, need the assistance of third parties, with whom we work together. Third parties also help us interact with you. All of the objectives listed in HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT may be served by third parties, and we may share any information included in INFORMATION WE COLLECT with them. Third-party information that we acquire and combine with our own may include information gathered by these third parties. Third parties, such as the payment providers you pick, may collect and handle your information as well. These third parties will do so according to their respective privacy statements.
  • Our business relies on third-party marketing providers to help promote and advertise it. It’s possible that we’ll provide them access to the kinds of information included under INFORMATION WE COLLECT
  • This means that we enable third-party partners to utilise and display some of the public-facing content available through the Website.
  • Third Parties: We may disclose information about you to third parties, such as governments or law enforcement agencies, where we believe doing so is required to comply with the law or to protect our Website users, the public or ourselves.
  • To discover more about your privacy rights if you live in the UK, see the UK Privacy Rights section below. You may also visit our Do Not Sell My Personal Information website.

YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES

You have the following options for managing how we use and gather your personal information:

This information may be turned off on your mobile device or web browser by changing the configuration options. As a result, our website will be unable to access your current location. If you disable location-based services, you may not be able to access all of them.

Electronic alerts, such as emails, offer a link that allows you to unsubscribe.

Logging into your account on our Website allows you to keep your contact and payment information current. Please send an email to p[email protected] if you desire to terminate your account.

Signing up for an account and using certain services entails opting in to receive messages from Geyers as well as from other individuals and organisations. You can change some of your communications options in your account settings, but keep in mind that you will continue to receive administrative, transactional, and legal messages from Geyers even if you change your mind.

The privacy and security policies of social media platforms on which Geyers has Social Media Pages are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you have any concerns or questions about how these social media sites gather and handle your data, please see their terms, policies, and settings.

Visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/ or the Digital Advertising Alliance for information on how to stop third-party advertising from appearing on your computer screen. Eventually, you’ll move from this site to a another one that’s in your control and where you may express your preferences. We may employ the services of more than one third-party firm to place this advertising, and you will need to choose not to receive communications from each of those companies.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

You must be 18 years of age or older to use our services. The creation of an account or making a purchase from our Website should not be done by anybody under the age of 16. Personal information about minors under the age of 16 will not be deliberately collected by us. Please use this form to request the erasure of personal data pertaining to a child under the age of sixteen.

DATA RETENTION AND ACCOUNT TERMINATION

Contacting us will allow you to terminate your membership. Certain public postings will be hidden and/or de-linked from your profile, but we may keep information about you for the reasons permitted by this Privacy Policy unless forbidden by law. We may, for example, keep your information on file to investigate, prevent, or identify any wrongdoing related to the Website or to comply with legal requirements.

SECURITY

We take precautions to keep your personal information secure and confidential. Even though we take precautions to keep your personal information safe, the Internet is not a 100% secure medium for transferring data. This means that the security of information sent via the Internet cannot be guaranteed. As a result, you transmit at your own risk. The Website and any linked email accounts can both be secured with strong, unique passwords that you create. Please email us at [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns regarding the security of your account.

SUPPORTED WEB BROWSERS AND DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS

To get the most out of your visit, we suggest upgrading your web browser to the most recent version available. Some pages on our website may not function properly in older web browsers. Our Website may not be able to receive or honour “Do Not Track” signals from web browsers, in which case we will continue to collect information as outlined by this Privacy Policy..

WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Geyers’s Terms & Conditions include this privacy policy as an integral aspect.

UPDATE

Please check this policy periodically since we retain the right to amend, revise or otherwise update it. This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time, and your continued use of our Website beyond the posting date indicates your acceptance and agreement to be governed by the policies in force at the time of the update. It’s possible that we’ll revise our Privacy Policy in the future, and the effective date will be updated as a result.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Alternatively, you may reach us at (800) 545-4772 if you have any questions or complaints about our privacy policies.

UK PRIVACY RIGHTS

Your rights under the UK Consumer Privacy Act (with any implementing rules and as may be modified from time to time, “CCPA”) regarding your Personal Information (as defined under the CCPA) and other laws are protected if you live in the UK. Exemptions under the CCPA and other limits in the law apply to the rights outlined below.

Consumer Protection in the United Kingdom For purposes of the CCPA, If the CCPA applies to your Personal Information, you may be entitled to certain privacy protections. You may be entitled to the following:

• Request no more than twice in a year that we provide you access to the following:

the types of Personal Information we’ve acquired on you, as well as the exact items;

the types of sources from which the Personal Information is acquired.

  • the commercial or business reason for which your Personal Information is collected or shared;
  • third party categories with whom we disclose your personal information; and
  • Categories of Personal Information sold (as defined by the CCPA) and the categories of third parties to whom Personal Information was sold.
  • The CCPA or other relevant law may allow you to request that we erase your Personal Information.
  • If you don’t want us to “sell” your personal information, you can choose not to participate in the selling of it.
  • UK citizens also have the right to be treated equally regardless of how they use their privacy rights under the CCPA. We won’t treat you any differently just because you’ve exercised any of your CCPA rights.

How to Submit a Request

Please use this webform or phone 070 8727 3923 if you wish to exercise your right of access, opt out of the sale of your Personal Information, or seek deletion of your Personal Information. Help us by entering your complete name, email address and mailing address, and specifying which right you desire to exercise in the comments section below. To react to your inquiry, we will only utilise the information we obtain via this method.

Only in response to a genuine consumer request are we obligated to provide you access to or erase your Personal Information. In order to validate your request, we’ll check the information you submit against any data we already have on file. We may also need to get in touch with you to get further information about your request. There should be no discrepancies between what you supply and what we already have. There is a safeguard in place that will assist guarantee that no one who has no business receiving Personal Information gets it. This data will only be used for verification reasons after it has been obtained.
Visit our Don’t Sell My Personal Information page for additional information on your right to refuse the sale of your Personal Information.

Requests Made Through Agents

Please keep in mind that you have the option of designating an agent to act on your behalf if you so want. In such case, we’ll check your agent’s authorisation in the same way we do for access or deletion requests, as explained above. We may ask for further information to make sure your agent’s identification and authorisation are properly verified.

Categories of Personal Information Sold

Device and location information, interactions with websites and mobile apps, transactional data, social media use, contributed material and profile information may all be examples of Personal Information that Geyers has sold in the last year (as defined by the CCPA). Marketing Providers and Content Partners purchased the personal information we collected from you.

Categories of Personal Information Disclosed for a Business Purpose

To offer you with the products and services you want from us, we share personal information about you with service providers and third parties for business purposes. Please see HOW INFORMATION IS SHARE WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS AND THIRD PARTIES AND FOR WHAT PURPOSES, above, for more information about the business purposes for which we disclose personal information, and please see INFORMATION WE COLLECT, above, for what types of information are collected and shared.

Additional UK Privacy Rights

Additionally, UK residents have the right to request that we provide them with I a list of the categories of personal information that we have disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, as well as (ii) the names of those third parties.. One request from a UK resident per year is allowed.
Please use this webform to submit your request. The subject line of your request should be “CA Shine the Light Request,” and please give your current UK address for our response.