PRIVACY POLICY
UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 21, 2010
Antcomic.com and ant.tv (or whichever
TLD’s mirror site owned by us you used to arrive at the site), is
committed to protecting your online privacy and the security of the information
that you might provide to us. Please read this privacy policy (“Privacy
Policy”) carefully. By using the Antcomic.com or ant.tv Web site you
signify your agreement with the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the
Privacy Policy please do not use Antcomic.com or ant.tv or any portion of it.
As used in this Privacy Policy, “Antcomic.com or ant.tv” refers to
the Antcomic.com or ant.tv Web site or its owners Advanced Technology Media
Systems, Inc. or ANT. This Privacy Policy explains our practices related to:
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1.
What information we may collect;
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2.
How we may use and/or share your information
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3.
How to unsubscribe;
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4.
Information you post to any public area of the site(s)
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5.
What we do to protect your information;
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6.
Children under the age of 13;
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7.
Links to other sites;
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8.
How to contact us regarding privacy or to update or change your email.
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9.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
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10.
International Users
1.
What information we may collect
It is not necessary to provide any personal
information to view Antcomic.com or ant.tv.
For
all Antcomic.com or ant.tv visitors, however, we may log IP addresses (or the
location of your computer network on the Internet) for systems administration
and troubleshooting purposes. We also may use IP addresses to track
referring/exit pages and which pages people visit in order to improve the
quality of Antcomic.com or ant.tv. However, we do not use this data to develop
profiles of individual visitors to Antcomic.com or ant.tv. Antcomic.com or
ant.tv uses cookies to enhance functionality of the site and to aggregate and
analyze traffic data such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc. You
do not have to accept cookies as all major browsers allow you to block cookies
from your computer, and you can always delete them later. Antcomic.com or
ant.tv may also use "Web beacons" to track your behavior on the site.
Web beacons are small pieces of data that may be embedded in images on
Antcomic.com or ant.tv. Blocking cookies will prevent Web beacons from tracking
your activity and also prevent us from collecting certain other anonymous
unique information such as your IP address, but the Web beacon will still
account for an anonymous visit. Many advertisements are managed and placed on
Antcomic.com or ant.tv by third parties ("Network Advertisers").
Network Advertisers who place advertisements on Antcomic.com or ant.tv may also
use cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about
your visits to Antcomic.com or ant.tv and other Web sites in order to provide
advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. You can find more
information about this practice and your choices concerning these practices at Opting Out of
Network Advertising. (http://networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.)
If you click on an advertisement on
Antcomic.com or ant.tv and/or link may take you to a third party’s Web
site, then our Privacy Policy will not apply to your personally identifiable
information collected by that third party’s Web site. You must read the
privacy policy and terms and conditions posted on that site to see how your
personally identifiable information is used, gathered, shared and or
disseminated by that website.
2.
How we may use and/or share your information
We will use the information you provide about
yourself as explained in this Privacy Policy.
We offer you the ability to sign up to
receive communications and various items of interest from us, such as joining
the ANT Colony BLOG list. To sign up to receive communications from us you may
be asked to provide personally identifiable information about yourself such as
your name, e-mail address, postal address with your state and zip code, t-shirt
size (in case we want to send promotional items out). By joining any Antcomic.com or ant.tv
list, you agree that we can send you (via e-mail or postal mail, if provided)
any announcement or notices or information about anything we think you would
have an interest in at anytime, and such communications may, or may not, be sent
to everyone. Additionally, we may send you other e-mails, postal mailings and
communications on behalf of third parties we think you may have an interest
(without sharing your personal information with these third parties). We may
also try to keep you informed of activities and special promotions related to
the website, ANT or ANT’s activities as well as the ANT colony, blog, and
Creed as well as messages about upcoming events in your area.
In addition, Antcomic.com or ant.tv or our
third party vendors may also use your personal information for many purposes
other than sending you materials described above. For example, we or our third
party vendors may use your information to complete transactions requested by
you (such as your purchase of a product or service offered on Antcomic.com or
ant.tv), or to send you administrative communications either about your account
with us or about features of Antcomic.com or ant.tv.
In the e-mails that we send you, we may use
cookies, Web beacons or other technical means to determine, among other things,
whether you have opened or forwarded those e-mails and/or clicked on links in
those e-mails, to customize the display of banner advertisements and other
messages, and to determine whether you have made an inquiry or purchase in
response to a particular e-mail.
We treat the personally identifiable
information that you provide us with care and we value your privacy. We will
not rent, sell, lease or barter the information you provide with any third
party. We may, however, we may use other companies and individuals to perform
functions on our behalf, like fulfilling orders, shipping packages, sending
e-mails, processing credit card payments, analyzing data and providing quality
customer service. These contractors or other third parties may have access to
your personal information as necessary to perform services for us. They are bound to only use such
personal information for performing that function and not for any other purpose. Additionally, our owner/parent companies
may sell or transfer your personal information to successor organizations or
companies.
Finally, we may release any personal
information about your or your activities on our sites when release is required
by court order or law, to help enforce our T&C or Privacy Policy, or to
protect the rights or safety of our users and others.
We provide you the opportunity to opt-out of
receiving communications from us easily and promptly. You can remove yourself
from any list that you have signed up for at Antcomic.com or ant.tv at any time
by sending an e-mail with “remove” in the subject line to unsubscribe@antcomic.com.
4.
Information posted to any public area of the site(s)
Please keep in mind that whenever you decide
to post in the comments sections or any forums (or any other public forums on
Antcomic.com or ant.tv), or post a picture or post any other content on the
public areas of Antcomic.com or ant.tv, you are voluntarily and publicly
disclosing any personal information contained in your question, post or
content. Any such information can be collected and used by other visitors to
Antcomic.com or ant.tv and you may receive unsolicited communications as a
result. We cannot control which visitors will access such information or what
they may do with such information, so please be careful about what you post.
Any content that is posted on Antcomic.com or ant.tv by you or at your
direction becomes publicly available published content and is not subject to the
terms of this Privacy Policy.
5.
What we do to protect your information
Antcomic.com or ant.tv has technical,
physical and administrative security measures in place designed to protect
against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information you provide to us
(other than in public areas of Antcomic.com or ant.tv). From time to time, we
review our security procedures in order to consider appropriate new technology
and methods to protect the information you provide to us. However, despite our
reasonable efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot
and do not guarantee that the information you provide to us will not be viewed
by unauthorized persons.
Also, remember that steps you take to help
protect the privacy of your personal information (such as logging off
Antcomic.com or ant.tv after viewing or submitting personal information) are
equally important. If you have broadband access to the Internet, it is strongly
advised that you use a firewall when accessing the Internet.
6.
Children under the age of 13
We do not knowingly collect or solicit
personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13, nor is
any part of Antcomic.com or ant.tv designed to attract anyone under the age of
13. If you are under 13 years of age, please do not use Antcomic.com or ant.tv.
There are lots of other great Web sites for you. Your parents can tell you what
sites are appropriate for you.
Antcomic.com or ant.tv links to a number of
other Web sites. This Privacy Policy only applies to information collected by
us at Antcomic.com or ant.tv. Antcomic.com or ant.tv is not responsible for the
content or the privacy policies or practices of any other Web site available
through links on Antcomic.com or ant.tv. Before providing personal information
to any linked Web site, please check that Web site’s privacy policy and
practices, which are completely separate from and
unrelated to this
8. How to contacting us regarding privacy, correct your personal
information, or to update your email address
If you have any questions about our Privacy
Policy, the information we have collected from you online, or the privacy
practices of, or your interactions with, Antcomic.com or ant.tv, please send an
e-mail to webmaster@antcomic.com.
You
can also reach us via regular mail at:
ATMS,
Inc.
849
S. Broadway, Suite 608
Los
Angeles, CA 90014-3232
If you need to correct any personal information
you have provided to us, please send us an e-mail to info@antcomic.com.
If you need to change your e-mail address, you can unsubscribe from our mailing
list and sign up again using your new information.
9.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to
update or revise this Privacy Policy. Please periodically check this Privacy
Policy for updates and revisions, because your continued use of this site
following the posting of any updates or revisions to this Privacy Policy
constitutes your acceptance of those changes. When we change our Privacy
Policy, we may change the date this Privacy Policy was last updated at the top
of this Privacy Policy. For revisions to this Privacy Policy that may be
materially less restrictive in terns if our use or disclosure of the personal
information you have already provided to us, we will attempt to give you notice
of the specific changes to this Privacy Policy by posting this information
prominently on Antcomic.com or ant.tv, or by any other means that we deem
appropriate.
We make no representation or warranties that
this Privacy Policy is in compliance with the privacy or data protection laws
or regulations of any country from which you access or use Antcomic.com or
ant.tv. Accessing this site from territories where the site contents are
illegal is strictly prohibited. By your use of this Web site, you consent to
our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information consistent with
the terms of this Privacy Policy, including transfer of your personal
information to any location (including a country other than the country from
which you access or use the Web site) at which our servers and/or databases may
be currently located or relocated, or relocated to. Those who choose to access
Antcomic.com or ant.tv from locations outside the United States do so at their
own risk and at their discretion, and are responsible for compliance with all
local laws.
