Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

GeekGirlDigial takes your privacy seriously. This privacy policy describes what personal information we collect and how we use it. We hate when websites collect our info in scammy ways and then use it or sell it. We will NEVER do that. We won’t use it to contact you or spam you except in the manner in which we initially agreed to. It’s a pet peeve of ours, it’s usually illegal, and we won’t do it to you.

Routine Information Collection

All internet servers track basic information about their visitors. This information includes, but is not limited to, IP addresses, browser details, timestamps, and referring pages. None of this information collected can personally identify individual visitors to this site or is considered PII (personally identifiable information). The information is tracked for routine administration, analytic, and maintenance purposes. Please see below for more information related to this.

With the new GDPR requirements, we are in the process of updating this policy as of May 25, 2018.

Privacy Policy

GeekGirlDigital is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us at jana@merlotmommy.com if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.

By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.

Table of Contents

1. Definitions used in this Policy
2. Data protection principles we follow
3. What rights do you have regarding your Personal Data
4. How we use your Personal Data
5. Who else has access to your Personal Data
6. How we secure your Data
7. Information about Cookies
8. Contact Information

1. Definitions use in the Policy

Personal Data: any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing: any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject: a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child: a natural person under 16 years of age.
We/us (either capitalized or not): GeekGirlDigital

2. Data Protection Principles

We promise to follow the following data protection principles, to the best of our ability:

• Processing is lawful, fair, transparent. Our Processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before Processing Personal Data. We will provide you information regarding Processing upon request.
• Processing is limited to the purpose. Our Processing activities fit the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered.
• Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and Process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.
• Processing is limited within a time period. We will not store your personal data for longer than needed.
• We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.
• We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data.

3. What rights do you have regarding your Personal Data

The Data Subject has the following rights:

• Right to information: meaning you have to right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed; what data is gathered, from where it is obtained and why and by whom it is processed.
• Right to access: meaning you have the right to access the data collected from/about you. This includes your right to request and obtain a copy of your Personal Data gathered.
• Right to rectification: meaning you have the right to request rectification or erasure of your Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Right to erasure: meaning in certain circumstances you can request for your Personal Data to be erased from our records.
• Right to restrict processing: meaning where certain conditions apply, you have the right to restrict the Processing of your Personal Data.
• Right to object to processing: meaning in certain cases you have the right to object to Processing of your Personal Data, for example in the case of direct marketing.
• Right to object to automated Processing: meaning you have the right to object to automated Processing, including profiling; and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated Processing. This right you can exercise whenever there is an outcome of the profiling that produces legal effects concerning or significantly affecting you.
• Right to data portability: you have the right to obtain your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or if it is feasible, as a direct transfer from one Processor to another.
• Right to lodge a complaint: in the event that we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled please contact us.
• Right for the help of supervisory authority: meaning you have the right for the help of a supervisory authority and the right for other legal remedies such as claiming damages.
• Right to withdraw consent: you have the right withdraw any given consent for Processing of your Personal Data.

4. How we use your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data in order to:

• Provide our service to you. This includes, for example, registering your account; providing you with other products and services that you have requested; providing you with promotional items at your request and communicating with you in relation to those products and services; communicating and interacting with you, and notifying you of changes to any services.
• Enhance your customer experience;
• Fulfill an obligation under law or contract, such as with our design services.

We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent.

On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To identify you;
• To provide you a service or to send/offer you a product; and
• To communicate either for sales or invoicing.

On the ground of legitimate interest, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To send you personalized offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);
• To administer and analyze our client base (purchasing behavior and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of products/services offered/provided;
• To conduct questionnaires concerning client satisfaction; and
• To conduct questionnaires concerning the things you are interested in as it pertains to the services and products that we provide to you.

As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or same to your purchasing history/browsing behavior to be our legitimate interest.

With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To send you newsletters and campaign offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners); and
• For other purposes we have asked your consent for.

We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfill obligation rising from the law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymize Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymized. We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from the law.

We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

• The link between purposes, context, and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing;
• The further Processing would not harm your interests; and
• There would be an appropriate safeguard for Processing.

We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.

5. Who else has access to your Personal Data

We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience. We share your data with:

Our business partners:

TBD

Connected third parties:

Information captured by Wordfence and the website hosting company is accessed only by the administrators of the website and is stored on the website’s database.

Our processing partners:

We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure an adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.

6. How we secure your Data

We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe. We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymizing and pseudonymizing where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks through our web hosting company and security software.

Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.

Children

We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services.

7. Information and Cookies

Cookies and other technologies: We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyze customer behavior, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalize and enhance your experience with us.

A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.

Advertising partners and third parties may also use cookies, scripts, and/or web beacons to track visitors to the site in order to display ads and other customized information. Such tracking is done directly by the third parties through their own servers, and the tracking is subject to the third parties’ own privacy policies. If you click through to a site via a link on our page, all privacy and tracking for that website is outlined by said website. We have no idea what their policies are, so we can’t tell you what to expect.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

• Necessary cookies: help make a website usable by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. These cookies don’t collect any personal information.
• Functionality cookies: these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalized features possible. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.
• Analytics cookies: these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services
• Advertising cookies: these cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and to your interests. In addition, they are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They are usually placed on the website by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.
• Statistic cookies: help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

You can remove cookies stored on your computer via your browser settings. Also, you can control some third-party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

Please see our Cookie Policy for more information.

We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy, which you can review here. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.

8. Contact Information

Representative Contact: Jana Seitzer
Email: jana@merlotmommy.com

Changes to this Privacy Policy: We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy.

Last update: 05/24/2018.