In force since August 25, 2023.
Full text of the general conditions of use
www.geektateur.com published by the GeekTateur group, was put online in September 2023. Our Conditions of use, our Data use policy and our Cookie use policy came into force upon the launch of the site.
1. Terms and consitions
GeekTateur uses technologies that allow everyone to get in touch and form communities around the same center of interest (geek culture). These General Conditions govern your use of www.geektateur.com and the GeekTateur applications. These Products are provided to you by the GeekTateur group.
2. Billing
We do not charge you for the use of www.geektateur.com (the website) or GeekTateur (the application) or other products and services included in these Terms, unless we indicate otherwise. Instead, companies, organizations and others pay us to show you advertisements for their products and services. By using our Products, you agree that we may show you advertisements that we believe are relevant to you based on your interests. We use your interests to define personalized advertisements to show you.
3. Protection of personal data
We do not sell your personal data to advertisers or share information with them that directly identifies you (such as your name, email address or other contact details). ), unless expressly authorized by you. Instead, advertisers give us information, such as the type of audience they want to show their ads to, and we serve those ads across multiple pages on the site.
We show you personalized ads, offers and other commercial or sponsored content to help you discover content, products and services that are offered by many companies and organizations who use the GeekTateur application and the website www.geektateur.com as a sales channel.
4. GeekTateur Discussion Forum
In general, a discussion forum is a dynamic web space for different people to communicate. The discussion forum is generally made up of different discussion threads (the term “discussion thread” is sometimes replaced by discussion topic, post, thread, enfilade or topic) each corresponding to an exchange on a particular subject. The first message in a thread defines the discussion, and subsequent messages (below it) attempt to respond to it.
There are many ways to express yourself on GeekTateur to communicate with other geek culture enthusiasts, for example sharing photos, text or text with photo through the group’s Products GeekTateur, adding content to your profile, as well as seeing how others react to your content.
We promote the safety, security and integrity of our services, combat harmful behavior and ensure the security of our user community:
We make every effort to preserve the security (including availability, authenticity, integrity and confidentiality) of our Products and services.
We implement advanced technical systems to detect possible misuse of our Products, harmful behavior towards others and situations in which we may be able to support or protect our community.
If such content or behavior comes to our attention, we may take appropriate action, based on our assessment, including warning you, offering assistance, removing content, by removing or limiting access to certain features or by deactivating an account.
We share data between the two GeekTateur entities when we identify misuse or harmful behavior by a user of one of our Products, or to contribute to security GeekTateur Products, users and the community. For example, we share information with GeekTateur entities providing financial products and services to help them promote security, safety and integrity and comply with applicable law. GeekTateur may access, store, use and share any information it collects about you if it believes in good faith that the law requires or authorizes it to do so.
It is not recommended to post on the forum with your real name because forum discussions are asynchronous, which means that a message left on the forum is intended to remain forever. So, if you post under your real name, it is possible to find traces of all your discussions on all the forums you have visited. The Data Protection Act provides for a right of access and rectification to all personal data concerning you. It is therefore advisable to choose a pseudonym (pseudo or nickname), allowing your interlocutors to recognize you from one discussion to another and protecting your anonymity in a certain way.
5. Improved user experience
We are involved in research to develop, test and improve our Products. This includes analyzing the data we have about our users and understanding how people use our website, for example, by conducting surveys and tests on our social networks and troubleshooting problems that arise in new features. Our Privacy Policy explains how we use data to support research to develop and improve our services and provide consistent and seamless experiences across all GeekTateur entities’ Products.
Our Products help you find and connect with other geek culture enthusiasts. We design our systems so that your experience is consistent and fluid across all two GeekTateur Group Products that you use. For example, we use data about the people you interact with on the discussion board, such as followers.
6. Accessibility
To ensure that the GeekTateur website and application work in your country and allow you to communicate with people around the world, we need to transfer, store and distribute content and data to data center and internet service provider in your country, including outside your country of residence.
7. Financing
Instead of paying for the use of GeekTateur and the other products and services we offer, by using the GeekTateur Products covered by these Terms, you agree that we show you personalized advertisements and other commercial and sponsored content paid by companies and organizations for us to promote on and outside of GeekTateur entities’ products. We use your personal data, such as information about your activity and interests, to show you personalized ads and sponsored content that may be more relevant to you.
Privacy is at the heart of the design of our personalized advertising system. This means that we are able to show you relevant and useful advertisements without having to tell advertisers your identity. We do not sell your personal data. We allow advertisers to give us information, such as their business objective and the type of audience they want to show their ads to, in the case of GeekTateur, people like gaming and geek culture. Then we show their ad to people who we think might be interested. We do not share any information that directly identifies you (information such as your name or email address that, in itself, can be used to contact or identify you) without obtaining your specific permission.
8. What you can share and do on the GeekTateur forum
We want people to use GeekTateur Products to express themselves and share content that matters to them, but not at the expense of the safety and well-being of others or the integrity of our community. You therefore agree not to act in the manner described below (or encourage or support others to do so): You may not use our Products to do or share anything: that violates these Terms , Community Standards or other terms and policies applicable to your use of our Products;
That is illegal, misleading, discriminatory or fraudulent (or helps anyone else use our Products in this way); That is not owned by you or for which you do not have the necessary sharing rights;
Who infringes or violates the rights of another, including their intellectual property rights (such as by infringing another person’s copyright or trademark or by distributing or selling counterfeit or pirated goods), except in case of exception or limitation provided for by applicable laws.
You may not import viruses or malicious code, or use services to send spam, or otherwise act in any way that could disable, overburden, interfere with or inhibit the proper functioning, integrity, operation or functionality of the service. the appearance of our services, systems or Products.
You must not collect data about our Products or access such data by automated means (without our prior authorization), nor attempt to access data to which you are not authorized. not authorized to access. You may not use a proxy server, request or collect Product usernames and passwords, or misappropriate access tokens.
You may not sell, buy or license any data obtained from us or our services, subject to the Platform Terms.
You may not misuse any reporting, dispute or appeal channel, such as making fraudulent, duplicative or unfounded reports or appeals.
We may remove or limit access to content that violates these provisions. We may also suspend or deactivate your account if you fail to comply with these provisions.
If we remove content you’ve shared because it violates the Community Standards, we will notify you and explain your options for requesting a review. You will not be able to make this request if you seriously or repeatedly breach these Terms or if doing so gives rise to legal liability to us or a third party, harms our community of users, or compromises or impairs the integrity or operation of our services, systems or Products, or in the event of technical restrictions or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons.
We may also remove or limit access to content, services or information if we believe this is reasonably necessary to prevent or mitigate misuse of our services or negative legal or regulatory effects on GeekTateur.
9. The permissions you grant to us
We need certain permissions from you to be able to provide our services: Permission to use content you create and share: Content you share or upload, such as photos or videos, may be protected by intellectual property rights. You retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (such as copyrights and trademarks) in all content you create and share on GeekTateur and other products GeekTateur entities you use. Nothing in these Terms deprives you of any rights you have in your own content. You are free to share your content with anyone, anywhere you want. However, in order for us to provide our services, you must grant us certain legal permissions (called “licenses”) to use this content. This is solely for the purpose of providing and improving our Products and services, as described in section 1 above. In particular, when you share, post or upload content protected by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, use, distribute , modify, perform, copy, publicly perform or publicly display, translate and create derivative works of your content (in accordance with your privacy and application settings). This means, for example, that if you share a photo on GeekTateur, you authorize us to store it, copy it and share it with others (again, in accordance with your settings), such as GeekTateur Products or service providers who support these products and services. The license ends when your content is deleted from our systems. You can delete individual content that you share, post and upload at any time. Additionally, all content posted to your personal account will be deleted if you delete your account. Find out how to delete your account. Deleting an account does not necessarily delete content you have posted as an admin of a page or content you have created collectively with other users, such as photos from shared albums. , which other members of the albums can continue to see.
In each of the cases mentioned above, this license will continue until the content is completely removed.
Authorization to use your name, profile picture and action information in connection with advertisements and commercial or sponsored content: You authorize us to use your name and profile picture and action information that you you have made on GeekTateur alongside or as part of advertisements, offers and other sponsored or commercial content that we display through our Products, without paying you any compensation.
Permission to update the mobile application you use or download: If you download or use our application, you authorize us to download and install updates to the application, if any.
10. Updating our conditions
We strive to constantly improve our services and develop new features to provide better Products to you and our community. Therefore, we may update these Terms from time to time in order to properly reflect our services and practices, to promote a safe and secure experience of our Products and services and/or to comply with the applicable law. We will only modify them if the provisions are no longer adequate or if they are incomplete, and if the modifications are reasonable and take into account your interests, or if they are necessary for security purposes or compliance with applicable legislation.
If these Terms change, We will notify you by email at least 10 days before they come into effect unless the changes are required by law. Once the revised Terms are in effect, you will be bound by them if you continue to use our Products.
We hope that you will continue to use our Products, but if you do not agree with our revised Terms and no longer wish to be part of the Geektateur community, you can delete your account at any time.
Date of last update: January 12, 2024
