Privacy Policy

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The privacy of our visitors to Help Desk Geek is very important to us.

We recognize that the privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you visit Help Desk Geek and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.


Log Files


Per the Adsense Terms of Service, we are required to let you know that all advertising programs use cookies to track visitors. As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. 

The information in the log files includes your internet protocol (IP) addresses, internet service provider (ISP), the browser you used to visit our site, the time you visited our site, pages you visited throughout our site, and referring/exiting pages in order to analyze trends and administer our site.


Cookies and Web Beacons


We use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences, when you visit our site.  This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third-party advertisements on Help Desk Geek to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information, including your IP address, ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. 

This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing ads based on location or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings.  However, this can affect your interaction with our site and other websites. This could include the inability to log in to services or programs (such as forums or accounts).


Email Addresses


When you comment on one of our articles or contact us using our contact page, your email address is required. Please be assured that your email address will only be used for responding to your email or comment and will never be made publicly available. We will never sell your email address to any third party—ever.


Comments Policy


While comments are welcome from anybody, we reserve the right to remove any comment that is not deemed suitable for publication. This could include, but is not limited to, objectionable and abusive comments. Hateful or racist comments or any other form of prejudice will be removed, and the poster will be banned.

Spam in any form will not be accepted.


Copyrights


Supreme caution has been taken to make sure that there are no copyright infringements in terms of the multimedia content and the subject matter that is posted on our site. If you find anything that could be considered a violation of the copyright norms, please contact us immediately.

We use a third party to provide monetization technologies for our site. You can review their privacy and cookie policy here.