Last update : 2023.08.22.

Ides Comics (" us ", " our ", " our ") takes steps to comply with privacy principles and requirements with respect to personal information under applicable privacy legislation. This Privacy Policy (the Policy) applies to the services offered by Ides Comics, through our Website https://idescomics.com. We care about your privacy and are committed to protecting it by adhering to the Policy.

This Policy should be read in conjunction with our Terms of Use. By accepting the Policy, you expressly consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Policy.

For the purposes of this Policy, "personal information" means information that relates, directly or indirectly, to an identifiable individual. All personal information collected by Ides Comics on the Site is subject to this Policy. All capitalized terms not defined in the Policy are defined in our Terms of Use.

Purpose of the policy

Our primary purpose in collecting information about you is to provide you with a secure, efficient and personalized experience, to provide you with services and features that meet your needs and to customize our service to make your experience safer and more user-friendly. The information we collect about you is only that which we deem necessary to achieve this purpose.

This Policy describes the information we collect from you in connection with our services and what may happen to that information. To access the entire Website, you must register as a user of Ides Comics and provide the necessary personal information. You can always choose not to provide the information requested by simply not accessing the functions or services offered on our Site.

Please read the Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding the collection, processing and storage of your information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Site. By accessing or using our Website, you indicate that you understand, accept and consent to the practices described in the Policy.

Collection of personal information

In order to use all the functions of our Site, we may ask you to provide certain personal information. We only collect personal information that is necessary to provide you with our various services. Wherever possible, we indicate which fields are mandatory and which are optional.

• When you register as a useryou must provide us with certain information such as your e-mail address, choose a valid user ID and create a password. Only Ides Comics has access to your user information and only Ides Comics may disclose the information contained therein in accordance with this Policy. By creating your account, you automatically subscribe to the Ides Comics newsletter and mailing list.
• If you subscribe to mailing list or newsletter, we will collect your e-mail address to send you Ides Comics mailing list or newsletter, we will collect your e-mail address to send you e-mails about various news and promotions. Even after you have subscribed to a newsletter or promotional communication from us, you may choose to change your preferences by following the "Unsubscribe" link provided in an e-mail or communication received.
• When you visit our Sitewe may collect information about your visit using cookies and similar technologies (see our section on Cookies and other tracking technologies). Cookies and other tracking technologies for more information).

Use of personal information

We collect information about you primarily so that we can provide you with access to our Site and so that you can enjoy a secure, efficient and personalized experience. You agree that we may use this information to:

• give you access to our Website and services;
• personalize and improve our services, content and advertising, where appropriate;
• contact you to resolve problems with your account or our Website or for other purposes permitted by law;
• contact you to inform you of our services and the services of our affiliates, send you niche marketing products and give you access to our updated services;
• prevent, detect and, if necessary, investigate fraud and security breaches, activities which may be prohibited or illegal;
• to enforce our Terms of Use and meet legal, regulatory, insurance and processing requirements, and otherwise with your consent, or as permitted or required by law.

Disclosure of personal information

We will disclose your personal information if we are legally permitted to do so, including in the following contexts:

• We may be required to disclose your personal information in order to meet certain legal, regulatory, insurance and auditing requirementsto enforce our Terms of Use, to respond to claims that certain content violates the law or the rights of third parties, including intellectual property rights, or to ensure the safety of all, and in any other way with your consent, or as permitted or required by law (including as required by Canadian and foreign laws applicable to us or our service providers). In particular, without the need for a subpoena, we are entitled to disclose your personal data, including your last name, first name, postal code, e-mail address, telephone number (if available), browsing history on our Site, IP address, and any other information that may seem relevant, in response to a formal request from a regulatory body in connection with a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activities or any other activity that may expose Ides Comics to legal liability.
• Where appropriate, we may share our data, including your personal information, with our affiliates, prospective partners and third-party service providers who provide services on our behalf, such as data hosting, technology development, payment processing, marketing and fulfillment, to the extent necessary for them to perform their functions. To the extent that these entities may have access to your information, they are contractually bound to maintain the confidentiality of personal information and to use it only for the purposes for which we provide it to them. Our affiliates, potential partners and third-party service providers are required to follow privacy practices that are no less protective of all users than our practices described in the Policy. We may share your personal information with our contracted service providers who are involved in our business activities.

In addition, we may disclose your personal information if we have your consent or if applicable privacy laws permit. If your personal information is to be disclosed outside your home jurisdiction, we will do so in accordance with applicable laws, and we will ensure that our external partners do the same. In such circumstances, the governments, courts, law enforcement or regulatory agencies of that jurisdiction may be able to obtain access to your personal information under the laws of the foreign jurisdiction. By using the Website, you consent to any such disclosure of your personal information outside your home jurisdiction.

Ensuring the security of your personal information

We take reasonable steps to protect personal information in our custody or control with physical, electronic or administrative safeguards that are appropriate to the nature and sensitivity of the information, including firewalls, information filtering and encryption. We use various security techniques to protect collected data from unauthorized access by Ides Comics internal and external users, and we take reasonable steps to limit access to such data to authorized employees and subcontractors who need to know such information to perform, develop or improve our services, and we ensure that such employees and authorized subcontractors are aware of their responsibilities.

Please note that the safety and security of your information is also your responsibility. Your password is an essential tool for protecting your account. We advise you to create your password with a unique string of numbers, letters and special characters, and not to share it with anyone. If you give your password or personal information to others, be aware that you will be held responsible for anything done with your account credentials. If you lose control of your password, you may also, to a large extent, lose control of your personal information, and will have to bear the consequences of any legally binding actions taken on your behalf. If the security or use of your password is compromised for any reason, please notify Ides Comics immediately and create a new password.

Despite our best efforts to preserve the confidentiality of your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted via the Website, and third parties may unlawfully intercept information hosted on our Website or the security of our systems may otherwise be breached. In such a case, we cannot be held responsible for any loss, alteration or unauthorized disclosure of information that is beyond our reasonable control.

Cookies and other tracking technologies

When you browse our Website or use our services, we automatically collect information that is transmitted to us via your computer, mobile device or, more generally, whatever device you are using. The information collected in this way may include your IP address, your geolocation data, as well as anonymous information collected thanks to our cookies and web trackers, such as the date and time of your visit, the pages you visit, the functionalities you use, the reference URL you came from and the one you go to next, the navigation path (i.e. the pages you consult, the links you click on and the other actions you perform in relation to our Site), the type of browser used and the language selected.

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer's hard drive and help us analyze traffic on our Site pages, customize our services, Site content and advertising, and evaluate the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns. Our service providers may also download cookies onto your computer to display advertising messages and, on our behalf or on behalf of our advertising partners, to evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising messages and to compile anonymous data on their use by visitors to our Website. Cookies placed by our server are readable only by us, and cookies cannot access, read or modify any other data on a computer.

Many web browsers allow you to manage your preferences. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or delete some of them. You may be able to manage other technologies in the same way as cookies by using your browser preferences. However, if this is the case, you may experience problems browsing our Site or using some of its functions.

We also use Google Analytics to better understand who uses our Site and how people use them. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as which pages of the Website are visited, where users click, the time spent on each page of the Website, IP address, type of operating system used and location. Please visit http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ to find out how Google Analytics uses this information. Google can track your activity over time and across different websites. Again, this information is used to target ads and content that may be of interest to you, as well as to provide statistical information through features such as Google Analytics and Google Ads.

In some cases, the tracking tools used by third-party service providers can be deactivated. For example, Google allows you to deactivate cookies used to target ads by accessing the Opt-Outpage on its main site. Google Analytics can also be deactivated by downloading the browser add-on available for this purpose. You can also refuse the use of cookies by other third-party suppliers by logging on to the Network Advertising Initiative consumer deactivation page.

Links to other sites

We may provide links to other websites controlled by other entities. We are not responsible for how such other entities collect, use and disclose personal information, and we do not accept any liability in this respect. You should consult the privacy policies of these other websites before providing any personal information.

Accessing, correcting and deleting your information

By law, you have the right to request access, correction and/or a copy of the personal information we hold about you. As a general rule, we do not modify your personal information manually, as it is very difficult to verify your identity remotely. If your personal information changes or is incorrect, we ask you to update it. You may withdraw your consent at any time.

Unless we have your consent to do so and in accordance with applicable laws, we will retain your information on our servers only until it is no longer required to provide our services, to prevent fraud, to troubleshoot problems, to cooperate in any investigation, to comply with legal requirements prescribed by law and to fulfill any other purpose for which it was collected. When your personal information is no longer required, we will delete or anonymize it in accordance with applicable laws.

If you have any doubts about whether or not we keep a file containing your personal information and would like confirmation, if you wish to correct or access information and are unable to do so yourself, or if you would like the personal information we hold to be permanently deleted from our servers, please contact us at privacy@idescomics.com[RGG1] . Please note that if you request the deletion of certain information or withdraw your consent to the collection of your personal information, we may not be able to provide you with certain services. We will explain the consequences of deletion at that time to assist you in your decision.

Before giving you access to your information, we may ask you for specific information to help us confirm your identity and your right of access, and to provide you with the personal information we hold about you, or to make the changes you have requested. In some cases, applicable law requires us to refuse you access to some or all of the personal information we hold about you, or which we may have destroyed, erased or made anonymous in accordance with our legal record-keeping obligations and privacy best practice. If we are unable to provide you with access to your personal information, we will inform you of the reasons, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Policy is effective as of the last update date above and may be revised from time to time. If we intend to use or disclose personal information for purposes materially different from those described in this Policy, we will use reasonable efforts to notify you, including by posting the revised Policy on our Site or by notifying you using the e-mail address you have provided to us. Your continued provision of personal information or use of our Site following any changes to this Policy constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

Contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about the Policy, or would like to make a complaint, please contact our Privacy Officer at: privacy@idescomics.com ..