Privacy Policy

Our basic privacy policy is simple:

We will not spam you, sell information about you, or otherwise do anything sleazy. We believe you will not be spammed as a direct result of visiting our page, but be aware that the Google ads use DoubleClick for tracking, which could conceivably have privacy implications, discussed in more detail below.

What We Collect

We collect your email address, a password, and a screen name, which need not be your real name. We collect various statistics, such as when you have visited particular comics through our site. If you write reviews, we collect those, and anything you say about yourself in them. We obtain IP addresses for our general web logging (which we do not generally attach to anything), and some specific events, such as account creation, will also log IP addresses.

What We Do With Your Information

If required to by law, we will contact you ourselves, or give information about you to law enforcement officials. Not "if asked"; "if required to by law". We will not disclose any such information without first obtaining a legal opinion on the matter indicating that we are required to do so. At our sole discretion, we may choose to dispute such requirements.

We will send direct responses to your requests via email by default. For instance, if you submit a review, or report something you think is inappropriate or violates a policy, we may send you a response if one is called for. We are doing this because I don't want to develop Yet Another Messaging System.

In the future we may introduce announcement lists. You will never be added to any such list if you have not asked to be added to it. No excuses, no "database errors". If we can't tell you to the minute when you signed up to a list, and from what IP address, then you haven't really signed up. We apologize in advance if this results in a lost subscription now and then, but we hate spam more.

Removing Information

If you would like us to delete your account, we can do that. (I think. This may require new programming effort.) We will also happily remove personal information from your account, but if we do this, we may be forced to disable the account. You cannot have an active account without a valid email address.

DoubleClick and Google

Google serves some ads on this site. Google's ads are based in part on the DoubleClick DART cookie, a standardized cookie DoubleClick uses to track viewers and (by intent, anyway) improve the relevance or quality of ads.

Google's standard language to describe this is as follows:

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

So far as we know, this cookie is not linked to any personal information such as your name, phone number, address, email address, or anything like your account information here; it is used only to track sites you've been to, so they can guess at information that might make ads more relevant to you. We don't actually have any way of knowing exactly how they use it. If you aren't sure, you may wish to opt out of that; you can do so by going to the Google privacy link above.

Why This Policy?

Because I hate spam. I hate it with the fiery passion of a thousand burning suns. If we can't make this cost-effective with a couple of small text ads or something like that, then obviously we should leave the market to someone smarter.

We are not customers of TRUSTe, the BBB Online, or any other such organizations. I have gotten enough spam from their customers, and enough runarounds from them, to regard them as useless to us. You can trust us because we run this site under our own names and tell you who we are; we don't need to try to buy credibility.