Last updated : October 2023

     Please read our Privacy Notice carefully as it describes our collection, use, disclosure, retention and protection of your personal information.  Where you provide us with your personal information in any of the ways described below, you agree that we may collect, store and use it (a) in order to perform our contractual obligations to you, (b) based on our legitimate interest for processing (i.e. for internal administrative purposes or for the detection or prevention of crime) or (c) based on your consent, which you may withdraw at any time, as described in this Privacy Notice.

WHO WE ARE

     The website address is: https://humormecomic.com, using WordPress. By default, WordPress does not collect any data but some installed plugins may do so, as specified below.

HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION

     To the extent permissible under applicable law, we collect information about you and any other party whose details you provide to us when you:

• • complete online forms, take part in surveys, enter any competitions or prize draws or participate in any other interactive areas that appear on our website;

• • interact with us using social media;

• • provide your contact details to us when accessing any services we make available or when you update those details; and

• • contact us offline, for example by telephone, email or post.

We also collect information from your devices (including mobile devices) and browsers you use to access and use any of our websites or services (for example, we may collect the device identification number and type, location information and connection information such as statistics on your page views, traffic, referral URL, ad data, and your IP address) for analytics purposes and we will ask for your permission before we do so. We may do this using cookies or similar technologies.

COMMENTS

     When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

MEDIA

     If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

COOKIES

     Cookies are small text files which are transferred from our websites or services and stored on your device. We use cookies to help us provide you with a personalised service, and to help make our websites and services better for you. Our cookies may be session cookies (temporary cookies that identify and track users within our websites or services which are deleted when you close your browser or leave your session in the service) or persistent cookies (cookies which enable our websites or services to “remember” who you are and to remember your preferences within our websites or services and which will stay on your computer or device after you close your browser or leave your session in the application or service).

We use the following different types of cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies

These are cookies which are needed for our websites or services to function properly, for example, these cookies allow you to access secure areas of our website.

Performance cookies and analytics technologies

These cookies collect information about how visitors and users use our websites, applications and services, for instance which functionality visitors use most often, and if they get error messages from areas of the websites, applications or services. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor or user. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. We only use these cookies to improve how our website, applications and services work.

Web beacons and parameter tracking

We also use cookies and similar software known as web beacons to count users who have visited our website after clicking through from one of our advertisements on another website or in emails. These web beacons collect limited information which does not identify particular individuals. It is not possible to refuse the use of web beacons. However, because they are used in conjunction with cookies, you can effectively disable them by setting your browser to restrict or block cookies.

How to disable cookies

You may be able to configure your browser or our website or the websites of our partners to restrict cookies or block all cookies if you wish, however if you disable cookies you may find this affects your ability to use certain parts of our website, or services.

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES

     Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos youtube, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

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PATREON FEATURES

    In order to enable you to use this website with Patreon services, we save certain functionally important Patreon information about you in this website if you log in with Patreon.

These include your Patreon user id, Patreon username, your first, last names and your vanity name. Additionally, the id of your campaign at Patreon and your campaign’s Patreon URL are also saved.

If you request that your data be deleted from this website, this data will also be deleted and Patreon functionality will not work. You would need to register on this website and log in to this website with Patreon again in order to re-populate this data and have Patreon functionality working again.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

     To the extent permissible under applicable law, we use your information to:

• provide any information and services that you have requested or services that you have ordered; compare information for accuracy and to verify it with third parties;
• provide, maintain, protect and improve any products, services and information that you have requested from us; manage and administer your use of products and services you have asked us to provide;
• manage our relationship with you (for example, customer services and support activities);
• monitor, measure, improve and protect our content, website, and services and provide an enhanced, personal, user experience for you;
• undertake internal testing of our website, systems and services to test and improve their security and performance. In these circumstances, we would anonymise any information used for such testing purposes;
• provide you with any information that we are required to send you to comply with our regulatory or legal obligations; detect, prevent, investigate or remediate, crime, illegal or prohibited activities or to otherwise protect our legal rights (including liaison with regulators and law enforcement agencies for these purposes);
• contact you to see if you would like to take part in our customer research (for example, feedback on your use of our products and services);
• to monitor, carry out statistical analysis and benchmarking, provided that in such circumstances it is on an aggregated basis which will not be linked back to you or any living individual;
• deliver joint content and services with third parties with whom you have a separate relationship (for example, social media providers); and
• provide you with location based services (for example, changing the website’s language according to your localisation), where we collect geo-location data.

Our website and services may contain technology that enables us to:

• check specific information from your device or systems directly relevant to your use of the website, or services against our records to make sure the website, or services are being used in accordance with our end-user agreements and to troubleshoot any problems;
• obtain information relating to any technical errors or other issues with our website and services; collect information about how you and users use the functions of the features of our website and services; and
• gather statistical information about the operating system and environment from which you access our applications or services.

You can manage your privacy settings within your browser or our website and services (where applicable).

We may monitor and record our communications with you, including e-mails and phone conversations. Information which we collect may then be used for training purposes, quality assurance, to record details about our website and services you order from us or ask us about, and in order to meet our legal and regulatory obligations generally.

WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH

We may share your information with:

• law enforcement agencies so that they may detect or prevent crime or prosecute offenders;
• any third party in the context of actual or threatened legal proceedings, provided we can do so lawfully (for example in response to a court order);
• any third party in order to meet our legal and regulatory obligations, including statutory or regulatory reporting or the detection or prevention of unlawful acts;
• our own professional advisors and auditors for the purpose of seeking professional advice or to meet our audit responsibilities;
• another organisation if we sell or buy (or negotiate to sell or buy) any business or assets; and
• Government departments where reporting is mandatory under applicable law.

We may share non-personally identifiable information about the use of our website, applications, products or services publicly or with third parties but this will not include information that can be used to identify you.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA

     If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

If you send an email outside of the website, your email address may get collected by gmail (Google) and I’ll keep it stored on my gmail account for as long as it is needed for our exchanges.

If you send a fanwork via email with your consent to add it to the fanwork gallery (as well as your name and a link to your website/social media) then it will stay stored indefinitely or until you ask us to take it away (at marvin.wackadoodle@gmail.com)

WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA

     If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.