Sales and Return Policies:
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All sales are final. Return of non-defective product
within the first 30 days from date of purchase are subject to a 15%
Return Fee. |
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Sales Tax will be charged on all orders delivered to an address in
California (CA) |
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Damaged items or missing parts / accessories not as advertised must be reported
within 7 business days of receipt of product. |
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Shipping fees and/or Return shipping costs are not refundable and are the sole
responsibility of the customer. |
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Only defective product returns will be accepted after 30 days for repair or
replacement only. |
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Due to the dynamic nature of the Internet, computer and electronics related
parts, prices may change at any time without notice. Geeks.com does not offer
price protection. |
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Products sold with a Manufacturer or Direct Warranty must be
returned directly to the product manufacturer for repair or replacement. For
these items, the warranty policy from the product manufacturer explicitly
requires that any returns, repairs etc. be requested and processed directly by
the consumer (or "end-user") of the item. |
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Due to licensing and copyright laws, we do not accept returns on
software once a package has been opened. Defective software will be exchanged
for the same title only. |
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To return a product you must obtain a Return Merchandise
Authorization (RMA) number. Geeks.com will not accept returns without prior
authorization. |
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RMA numbers are valid for 30 days. RMA numbers will not be
extended and will be closed upon expiration. You must contact Geeks.com to
obtain another RMA number. |
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Once the RMA has been issued you will receive an email explaining what to
expect during the return process. It is highly recommended that you use the
non-prepaid address label provided on the lower portion of the RMA email sent
out upon generation. If the return is a multiple box shipment the RMA number
must be marked on all packages returned. All packages returned must have the
RMA number displayed in large bold letters on the outside of the box. |
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Unauthorized or Unmarked returns will not be honored and may be
refused upon receipt and/or shipped back at the customer’s expense. |
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Shipments that are refused without authorization, or that are returned due to
an invalid address, are subject to a 15% Return Fee plus applicable handling
fees. |
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All product(s) must be return as originally received to include
original packaging, manuals, documentation, and all bundled accessories.
Returns must be packaged appropriately as to minimize any unnecessary damage
during transit. Product(s) damaged during shipment will invalidate both the
warranty and RMA and will be returned to the customer at the customer’s
expense. |
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All Warranty Exchange replacements are subject to product
availability. If an exact replacement is not available upon testing Geeks.com
will substitute the product(s) with a similar, suitable, or upgraded product(s)
of equal or greater value within 7 to 10 business days. If none of these
options are available Geeks.com will credit the customer’s account based upon
current market value of the received product(s). |
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Other than Gift Certificates, credits expire 6 months after the
date they are issued. |
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Geeks.com will not be responsible or held liable for
any incidental or consequential damages arising from the use or misuse
of any product(s) it sells including products with a net total cost
of $0.00. |
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Per product descriptions, compatibility can be reasonably
assured in most cases but can never be guaranteed; a product that
is incompatible in a specific hardware/software environment is not
therefore inherently "defective". |
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Geeks.com reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. |
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Return Policies subject to change without prior notice.
Customer should review these policies prior to making purchase. |
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Geeks.com strives to be as accurate as possible in our content
and pricing. In the event a product is listed with an error in pricing or
incorrect content, Geeks.com shall have the right to refuse or cancel any order
whether or not the order has been confirmed and credit card charged. In the
event that a credit card has already been charged and an order subsequently
canceled, Geeks.com will issue a refund to the credit card account in the amount
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Customer Pickup ("Will Call") Policies:
Please visit: http://www.geeks.com/customerpickup.asp
Privacy
Policies:
Date Last Updated: September 4, 2007
INTRODUCTION
Geeks.com is committed to protecting the privacy of our Visitors and Customers.
Our privacy policy governs our use of private Visitor information and
other information about our Visitors and Customers.
Purpose
Geeks.com believes that our online Visitors
and Customers need to
be provided clear and prominent notice regarding what personal information
is being collected about them, how it will be used, whether or not it
will be disclosed, and if so, to whom.
Many entities have examined the issue of privacy and developed guidelines
for establishing reasonable policies. We believe that by addressing these
issues, we will fulfill the goals of fair information use supported by
the U.S. government and a variety of industry groups:
www.truste.org
www.privacyalliance.org
www.ftc.gov
www.the-dma.org
The
Glossary of Terms at the end of this Policy defines words
with specific meaning as used in these guidelines.
Privacy Guidelines:
Navigational Data/Tracking.
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Computer Geeks collects navigational data about where individual
site visitors come from, exit to, and go while on our website. We do not
disclose this information to third parties, except for those with whom we have
contracted to analyze and safeguard the data on our behalf. |
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We may use web browser "cookies"
to track progress through our Web site, but the cookies will not be used to
collect or store individually identifiable information nor be linked to other
information that allows us to identify any specific individual. However, we may
use cookies with individual identifiers to support visitor enhancements such as
site personalization or other eCommerce features such as product
recommendations and your shopping cart. |
Information Sharing/Disclosure.
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We do not share navigational data with outside companies, except
with those with whom we have contracted to analyze and safeguard the data on
our behalf. |
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To offer our products and services in the best way
possible, Geeks,com contracts with third party service partners. These
partners provide us with data collection, storage, analysis and reporting
services and are restricted from using your information in any way
other than to help us make our site and services more useful to you
and our other visitors. If you would like to opt-out of having your
personal information collected by the company with whom we have contracted,
please click here. |
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We do not disclose individual names or customer contact
information (such as telephone numbers, email address, or various personal
identification numbers), to any third party without your prior consent, except
as required by law, or as needed to fulfill an order or deliver a product that
a customer has ordered.
Service partners will abide by Geeks.com's privacy policies.
Additionally, we may share information with law enforcement agencies or other
companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigations.
In support of maintaining a safe and secure environment for credit card
purchases, it is essential to our customers that we use credit card and other
billing account numbers only for the fulfillment of purchases or other
transactions initiated by our Customers. We do not use credit card or other
billing account numbers in other ways without your prior consent. |
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We do not release to third parties specific customer account
information except to comply with valid legal process or in reasonable efforts
to fulfill a transaction initiated by our Customers. |
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We provide Customers with the opportunity to update or correct
contact and billing information.
We provide to our customers a means to update and ensure the accuracy of their
online contact and billing information. For security reasons, we will not
disclose the original information directly to the customer, but rather provide
a means to reenter changes to the information on record. |
Online Purchases.
The objective of the online purchases principle is to protect the information
about customer transactions and other online uses from misuse and unauthorized
disclosure.
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We may use information about the kinds of products you buy from us
to make other marketing offers to you, unless you tell us not to, or to
personalize your visits to our Web site. We do not give out this purchase data
to others except as specified below: |
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We do not give out information about what individual customers
purchase, except to complete the transactions or to comply with valid legal
process.
However, pursuant to specific contracts, we may be required provide
third-parties with listings of specific groups of customers who have made
purchases. Generally, this data will be aggregated and not individually
identifiable, but this may not be true in all cases. |
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When we facilitate a transaction which is to be fulfilled by an
outside party, we will not use the specific, individually identifiable
transaction information collected from a customer for purposes other than
fulfilling the transaction without your prior consent. |
Choice.
We give you choices about how we use your personal information.
The objective of the choice principle is to allow customers to opt-out of
future marketing offers.
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We give you choices about how the information that you provide may
be used to make marketing offers to you. We provide you with a means to easily
remove your contact information (like your email address) from marketing lists
at any point in the future. Should you wish to be removed from our 100% opt-in
Email subscribers list,
click here. |
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We do not sell or rent customer contact information to
unaffiliated third parties for marketing purposes without your prior consent. |
Safeguarding Personal Information.
The objective of the safeguarding personal information principle is to assure
you that we actively protect your privacy using a variety of security and
controls. We use secure technology, privacy protection controls and
restrictions on employee access in order to safeguard your personal
information.
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We use state of the art technology (e.g., Secure Socket
Layer, or SSL) encryption to keep customer personal information as
secure as possible. We have also put in place privacy protection control
systems designed to ensure that personal Customer data remains safe
and private.
To learn more about SSL data encryption and how it helps to secure
you personal information, click
here. |
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We allow only authorized employees access to personal information
and ensure that the access is limited by need. |
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We require companies contracted as agents to adhere to
confidentiality agreements to ensure that Customer information remains safe and
secure. |
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We require employees to acknowledge that they understand and will
comply with our privacy policy. We subject employees who violate the privacy
policy to disciplinary action. |
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Safe Shopping Guarantee: We guarantee that every
online transaction you make will be 100% safe. Under the
Fair Credit Billing Act, your bank cannot hold you liable
for more than $50.00 of fraudulent charges. In the event of unauthorized
use of your credit card, you must notify your credit card provider
in accordance with its reporting rules and procedures. |
Notice.
We will keep you informed, clearly and prominently on this page, about what we
do with your personal information, and we will advise you here if we change our
policy. The objective of the notice principle is to ensure that you are aware
of and understand how we protect your privacy.
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We explain to visitors and customers how their information is used
by providing this written privacy policy for our visitors and customers. |
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We notify customers of our privacy policy during registration when
they make a purchase. |
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We provide written notice of policy changes through prominent and
ongoing disclosure. |
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We provide a means for Visitors and Customers to ask questions
about, voice concerns about, or report violations of the privacy policy. |
If you have questions or concerns about our privacy policy, or to report a
suspected violation of our privacy policy, you may contact us by the following
means:
Email: privacy@geeks.com
OR
Attn: Privacy
Geeks.com
1890 Ord Way
Oceanside, CA 92056
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Account Information: Information pertaining to and supporting
the management of a customer's account, including but not limited to account
numbers and other account identification, promotion information,
registration/cancellation information, and preferences and profiles.
Aggregate: Information considered as a whole or in groups.
Compiled information that does not disclose individual identity.
Billing Information: Customer generated information specific
to a customer's billing and payment methods and history, including but not
limited to bills, payment and billing statements, credit card number, credit
card expiration date, checking account number, debit card number, and credit
card type.
Choice: Providing customers options about how their
information can be used, such as opt-outs of email marketing offers.
Collection: Requesting, recording, or generating information.
The automatic or manual collection or receipt of customer information from a
customer or other party.
Contact Information: Information to support contacting
customers, including but not limited to name, mailing address, telephone
numbers, email addresses, and fax numbers.
Cookie: A collection of data that gets
entered into the memory of Web browsers by some Web sites. This data contains
the domain, path, lifetime, and values of variables that are set by the Web
site. Cookies may be "permanently" or temporarily stored as small text files on
your computer's hard drive.
Customer: Someone who has registered
with us for the purpose of making a purchase or who has made a purchase from us
in the past. Generally, we store much more information regarding Customers,
including but not limited to Contact Information, Account Information, and
Individually Identifiable Information. Customers are different from Visitors.
Disclosure: The release of information to unafilliated third
parties. Disclosure does not include release to those agents and vendors who
are covered by appropriate non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements or
release of information for the purpose of complying with valid legal process,
to protect the rights or property of Computer Geeks, or for emergencies. If you
initiate contact with a third party with regard to us, we may disclose your
communication with us or other relevant informtion to that same third party.
Individually Identifiable Information: Any information which
can be used to identify a specific individual in particular by reference to an
identification number or to one or more factors specific to the individual's
physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural status, or social
affiliations.
Marketing: Promotions provided by us. May be through direct
mail, email, pop-ups, banner and/or other online advertisements.
Navigational Information: Information about what visitors or
customers do online and where they go, including but not limited to recency of
visit to specific online areas, frequency of visit to specific online areas,
and pathing information.
Need to Access: The need to have access to information,
including private customer information, for the fulfillment of an official
corporate duty.
Notice: Indications to visitors and customers about policies
and practices in effect.
Personal Information: Individual information about a customer
that is specific to that customer. Personal information includes but is not
limited to anything collected about a customer on an individual level and any
information volunteered by the customer, such as a personal profile or
preferences.
Registration Information: Customer created, personalized
information used to customize services and content, and/or to fulfill
transactions.
Private Communications: Communications that are intended
to be contained among a defined set of participants, such as Email. Message
board postings and public room conversations are not considered private
communications.
Private Information: Private information includes all
information about a customer that the customer has not made publicly available.
Public Information: Public information includes all online
information about a customer that a customer has made publicly available.
Publicly Available Consumer Data: Information acquired from
consumer marketing and reporting organizations and other publicly available
sources.
Transactional Information: Purchase information, including but
not limited to date of purchase, source of purchase, recency of purchase,
frequency of purchase, dollar amount of purchase, type of product or product
category purchased, means of purchase, type of credit card used, other uses of
online commerce.
Use: Processing, transmitting, transforming, or otherwise
handling information. Includes promotional, advertising, and marketing use.
Visitor: A Visitor to our Web site.
Visitors are different from Customers.
(All Customers are Visitors, but not all Visitors are Customers.)
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