We Protect Your Right to Privacy
X-tremegeek.com respects your privacy.
Our guidelines for protecting the information you provide us during your visit
to our Web site appear below.
Privacy Statement
This statement discloses the privacy practices for www.X-tremegeek.com.
We have designed X-tremegeek.com so that no personal identifying information is
displayed online or is accessible to the general public. You can browse the X-treme Geek web site and online catalogs without telling us who you are or revealing
any information about yourself.
Use of Data
For ordering and operations purposes, we collect only the
following information about our users: name, account number (if applicable) street
address, Zip Code, state, and country, courses/grades taught and email address.
For promotions we collect other information to help us track the success of the
promotion (i.e. how you learned about the offer).We use the name and email address
to manage registrations. We do not sell or distribute that information to any
third party. We do not reveal your email address or other personal information,
except to complete transactions with our third party suppliers. The ZIP code,
state, and country information is used only to assess our needs in the way of
technology, for the purposes of offering the best possible service to our world-wide
customer base. We do not sell or distribute this information to any third party.
Information such as name, phone number, and credit card numbers are collected
through third party partners of x-tremegeek.com, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover,
and American Express.
Use of Your Email Address
When you provide us with your email address
during registration as a customer or make a purchase from us, we will occasionally
send you email with recommendations or notices of new products, prices, and services.
At the time that you register or make a purchase, you will be given an opportunity
to opt out of this service. If you do not initially choose to opt out, you may
still block future email of this type, simply by following the instructions at
the bottom of the update messages. Eventually, we send email to keep you informed
about the status of your orders. These messages cannot be blocked.
Registration
During the x-tremegeek.com registration process, we ask you to provide us with
contact information, such as name, email address, phone number, ZIP code, state,
and country. We do not sell, rent, or share any customer information that we
collect on our site except for the purposes described here and to our suppliers
for the same purposes. By contract, third parties such as must comply with
their own privacy policies with regard to the renting, selling, or sharing
of information.
Links
x-tremegeek.com contains links to other Web sites. Please note that when you
click on one of these links, you are 'clicking' to another Web site. We encourage
you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites, as their privacy
policies may differ from ours.
Cookies
x-tremegeek.com uses software tags called "cookies" to identify customers and
track shopping baskets when they visit our site. Additionally, cookies help
us to identify returning users so that we don't ask them to register with every
visit. They also help us understand your buying preferences and customize our
service to your needs. By recording which areas of the site you visit, cookies
allow us to present information, products, and special offers that are most
likely to be of interest to you. The information we collect with cookies is
not sold, rented, or shared with any outside parties. We cannot provide a total
secured shopping experience to users whose browsers are set to reject cookies.
Log Files
x-tremegeek.com maintains log files of the traffic that visits the x-tremegeek.com
site. We do not link any information gathered in these log files to personally
identifying information. Log files are used to manage traffic loads and information
technology requirements for providing reliable service. Information collected
includes IP addresses and browser types.
Feedback
We collect user feedback. Users who would like a response to specific questions
concerning the service or their subscriptions are directed to the customer
service area. These questions will be responded to as quickly as possible.
We read all of our customer service queries and use the information contained
therein only to resolve the question at hand.
Update User Information
Users can update or correct, their personal information on X-tremegeek.com
by changing their profile information in the "Account Sign In". If you have
and questions e-mail us at (address to be filled in) Information security All information
gathered on the X-tremegeek.com site is stored and maintained in secure facilities
that limit access to authorized personnel only. Our personnel can only access
the information through a series of access-control procedures. All X-tremegeek.com
employees are briefed about the company's privacy and security policies on
a regular basis. The X-tremegeek.com Web site is regularly tested for security
breaches to ensure that all information collected is secure from unauthorized
viewing. We currently employ Secured Socket Layer (SSL) security protocol.
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time.
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