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Privacy Policy

How we collect, use, and protect your personal information.

This Privacy Policy describes how Geek T Shirts Company collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.

Collecting Personal Information

When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support.

Device information

  • Examples collected: web browser version, IP address, time zone, cookie information, pages viewed, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
  • Purpose: to load the Site accurately and to perform analytics to optimise our Site.
  • Source: collected automatically using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
  • Disclosed to: our processor Shopify.

Order information

  • Examples collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information, email address, and phone number.
  • Purpose: to fulfil our contract with you — processing payments, arranging shipping, providing order confirmations, and screening for fraud.
  • Source: collected from you directly.
  • Disclosed to: Shopify, Printify, and PayPal.
Minors

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us to request deletion.

Sharing Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfil our contracts with you. For example:

  • We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
  • We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
Behavioural Advertising

We use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:

For more information about targeted advertising, visit the NAI's educational page at networkadvertising.org.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by visiting:

You can also opt out via the Digital Advertising Alliance at optout.aboutads.info.

Using Personal Information

We use your Personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfilment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.

Lawful Basis (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, we process your personal information under the following lawful bases:

  • Your consent
  • The performance of the contract between you and the Site
  • Compliance with our legal obligations
  • To protect your vital interests
  • To perform a task carried out in the public interest
  • For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms
Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information.

Automatic Decision-Making

Our processor Shopify uses limited automated decision-making to prevent fraud that does not have a legal or otherwise significant effect on you. This includes:

  • Temporary denylist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions (persists for a few hours).
  • Temporary denylist of credit cards associated with denylisted IP addresses (persists for a few days).
Your Rights — GDPR

If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. Please contact us to exercise these rights.

Your Personal Information will be initially processed in Ireland and then transferred outside of Europe for storage and further processing, including to Canada and the United States. See Shopify's GDPR Whitepaper: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/privacy/GDPR.

Your Rights — CCPA

If you are a resident of California, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. Please contact us to exercise these rights or to designate an authorised agent to submit requests on your behalf.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of information downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use functional, performance, advertising, and social media cookies to improve your browsing experience and to understand how people use the Site.

Cookies necessary for store functioning:

NameFunction
_abUsed in connection with access to admin.
_secure_session_idUsed in connection with navigation through a storefront.
cartUsed in connection with shopping cart.
cart_sigUsed in connection with checkout.
cart_tsUsed in connection with checkout.
checkout_tokenUsed in connection with checkout.
secretUsed in connection with checkout.
secure_customer_sigUsed in connection with customer login.
storefront_digestUsed in connection with customer login.
_shopify_uUsed to facilitate updating customer account information.

Reporting and analytics cookies:

NameFunction
_tracking_consentTracking preferences.
_landing_pageTrack landing pages.
_orig_referrerTrack landing pages.
_sShopify analytics.
_shopify_sShopify analytics.
_shopify_sa_pShopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.
_shopify_sa_tShopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.
_shopify_yShopify analytics.
_yShopify analytics.

Most cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded. You can control and manage cookies through your browser settings. Note that removing or blocking cookies may negatively impact your user experience. For more information visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Do Not Track

Because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to "Do Not Track" signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.

Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

Contact

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us at contact@geektshirtsco.com.

If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/.

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