PRIVACY STATEMENT

At Thinkcomix.com, we believe that greater protection of personal privacy on the web will not only protect consumers but also increase consumer confidence, ultimately increasing participation in online activities. We endeavor to educate users about how to protect their privacy when using the Web. Our information collection practices are described below.

Registration

VIP Accounts (Free).
When a user registers for VIP, premium services available to our users FREE, certain personal information is collected and retained after registration is successfully completed like their name, email, and some surveys. The customer's contact information is used to send promotional material from some of our partners to our customers, and to get in touch with the customer when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future email mailings. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences.

Use of Information.
We may disclose personally identifiable information to third parties when required by law or in the event such information is relevant to judicial or government investigations or proceedings, or otherwise necessary to protect our website or the safety of its users. Finally, thinkcomix.com may also use information obtained from cookies to perform statistical analyses of aggregate user behavior, but personally identifiable information is not used in that instance. We may use that information for internal purposes to improve content and design, and share it, in the aggregate, with advertisers.

Cookies.
Cookies are information files that your web browser places on the hard drive of your computer when you visit a website. Cookies were designed to help a web site recognize the prior visits to a site made by a user's browser. Cookies cannot damage user files, pass on computer viruses, capture e-mail addresses or read information from a user's hard drive. At thinkcomix.com, we do not store any personal information into cookies nor do we link or combine information collected through cookies to any personal information that is submitted online when participating in our activities.

Third Party Advertising
We use other third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Advertisers, Partners and Third Party Content Providers.
Thinkcomix.com, and all its related brands and sites, provide links to other websites, such as those of our advertising partners and Third Party content providers, including but not limited to web search-engine providers, that may have their own information collection practices. These other websites are governed by their own privacy policies or information collection practices, which may be substantially different from ours. We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies and information collection practices of those websites. This site contains links to other sites which thinkcomix.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Security.
Thinkcomix.com uses its best efforts to ensure the security of personal information submitted by its users. All forms used for the submission of personal information are secure and all user data is stored in a secure environment.

Use of Materials.
The right to download and store or output the materials in our site is granted for the user's personal use only, and materials may not be reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproduction, transmission, performance, display or editing of these materials by any means mechanical or electronic without the express written permission of us is strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing on these sites may contact us.

Customer Contacts.
Thinkcomix.com reserves the right to email any free or VIP subscribers information regarding important issues and/or changes related to their accounts at any time.

Children's Guidelines
Although most of our comix can be read by children under the age of 13, We encourage children to get their parent's permission before using thinkcomix.com and sharing personal information online. We do not operate our site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and permit registration by anyone under 13 years of age. Contents/ Comix that are unsafe for children are marked to provide guidance to both parents and children.

Questions and How Users Can Correct Information.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding thinkcomix.com's privacy policy and/or practices, or you need to correct personal information, please write to us at:

Thinkmedia Design Pte Ltd
Attn: Web Privacy Policy
780, Upper Serangoon Road, #02-01, Choon Kim House, Singapore 534649
Or contact us here.
We try to read every message submitted and try to reply promptly to every one. We may also file your comments to improve the site, or review and discard the information.

We believe strongly in promoting "netiquette", or proper use of the Internet. A strong anti-spamming policy will benefit all of us by establishing thinkcomix.com & our customers as effective sources of virtual servers and web design services.

This policy is effective as of March 16, 2006. Any change will be posted at the earliest possible time and shall apply to all personal information submitted after the effective date of such change.




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