Privacy Policy for Geek2Investor

Last updated: July 31, 2025

Welcome to Geek2Investor (“we”, “us”, or “our”). Protecting your privacy is of utmost importance to us. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, your rights over your data, and how we comply with privacy laws and policies required by services such as Google AdSense.

By using https://geek2investor.com, you agree to the terms of this policy.

1. Who We Are

Geek2Investor is a financial education platform designed to demystify investing, personal finance, and technology for all learners. Our website address is: https://geek2investor.com.

2. What Personal Data We Collect and Why

a) Comments

When you leave a comment on the site:

We collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string (hash) from your email may be sent to the Gravatar service to display your avatar. The Gravatar privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon comment approval, your profile picture is visible alongside your comment.

b) Media Uploads

If you upload images to the website, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site may download and extract any location data from images posted on the website.

c) Cookies

If you comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies for your convenience. These last for one year.
Visiting the login page sets a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. It’s discarded when you close your browser.
Logging in sets several cookies, including login and screen display preferences. Login cookies last two days; display option cookies last one year. “Remember Me” keeps you logged in for two weeks.
Logging out removes login cookies.
Editing or publishing an article creates an additional cookie identifying the article’s post ID, expiring after one day.
For details on managing or deleting cookies, see your browser’s help documentation.

d) Embedded Content from Other Sites

Articles may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites acts as if you have visited those sites directly. These third-party sites may gather data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with such embedded content, including tracking your activity if you have an account and are logged in to that site.

e) Analytics and Tracking

We use analytics services (such as Google Analytics) to monitor visitor behavior, page popularity, and improve your experience. These services use cookies and collect anonymized data such as IP address, device type, and pages visited.

We serve ads using Google AdSense and may display ads from third-party partners.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on prior visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings (https://adssettings.google.com).
Third-party vendors and ad networks may also serve ads. To opt out of some third-party cookies for personalized advertising, visit https://www.aboutads.info.
For a full explanation, see Google’s Privacy & Terms: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

AdSense and partners may automatically receive your IP address, browser type, device information, and set cookies for analytics and ad personalization based on your interests.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email for security.
Visitor comments may be checked through automated spam detection services such as Akismet.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties, except to trusted third parties who assist in operating our website, serving ads, or servicing you, provided those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

5. How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically.
For registered users (if any), all personal information in their user profile is stored securely. Users can view, edit, or delete their information at any time (except usernames).
Administrators can also see and edit that information.

6. What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request an exported file of your personal data, including any data you have provided to us.
You may request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, except data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
To exercise these rights or for data inquiries, contact: privacy@geek2investor.com.

7. Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Certain analytics, email, or advertising services (outlined above) may process information on servers based outside of your country.

8. Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from children under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe we may have collected such data, please contact us at privacy@geek2investor.com.

9. Security

We take all reasonable steps to protect your data through secure technologies and strict internal controls. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. Please check back periodically for updates.

11. Contact Information

For any privacy-specific concerns, to request data disclosure or deletion, or with questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact:

Email: privacy@geek2investor.com

By using our site, you acknowledge and accept this policy. Thank you for trusting Geek2Investor with your learning journey and privacy. may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

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