goComics.com (uclick, LLC) is a general audience entertainment site dedicated to providing the Internet-using public with the most complete and enjoyable online comic viewing experience. goComics is also concerned about your privacy and we encourage you to read our Privacy Policy to learn all about how we use information about visitors to our Web site(s).

We also encourage you to read our Children's Privacy Policy - it details how we deal with personally identifiable information collected from children 13 years of age or younger.

What does the goComics/uclick Privacy Policy cover?

• This policy covers the treatment and use of personally identifiable information that is collected by goComics/uclick, at any of its Web sites and when you sign up to use any of the services provided at the sites.
• This policy does not cover information that may or may not be collected by companies or web sites that uclick does not own or control. This policy also does not guide the behavior of individuals not employed by uclick or goComics.
• What information does goComics/uclick collect and use?
• goComics and uclick does not sell or provide personally identifiable information about you to any third party.
• goComics collects personally identifiable information when (i) you register for a goComics account (the extent of the information collected depends upon what you provide during the registration process), (ii) when you use certain goComics services, (iii) when you make purchases from goComics-controlled or affiliated online stores and e-commerce sites and (iv) if you enter any special promotions or contests provided by goComics for its users.
• When you choose to join or register for any goComics or uclick controlled Web site or service we will ask for your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, interests and other biographic data to assist us in personalizing your goComics.com experience.
• goComics also receives certain information automatically from our computer network and servers, including your IP address, certain "cookie" information, server log information and information that details which goComics pages have been requested by your browser.
• goComics and uclick may use user data in an aggregate form for marketing and advertising purposes and may rent, sell or lease this aggregate information to responsible third parties using the information for legitimate purposes.
• All of the information received or collected by goComics is used for one or more of the following reasons: to allow for customization of content and advertising/marketing information at our site, to allow us to respond to your requests for products or services provided by goComics, and to contact you about new products, changes to existing products and services provided by goComics for our users.
• goComics and uclick may provide personally identifiable information about you to other companies, affiliates and people if:
  
  - You have consented to the sharing of the information.
  - The information must be shared to provide you with a product or service requested by you.
  - The information must be shared with companies who work with goComics or uclick to provide a product or service to you.
  - We are required by law, or we are required to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, to cooperate with a legitimate law enforcement investigation or to investigate a threat to our network or services.
  - We are investigating actions by users whose actions violate our Terms of Service and Conditions of Use or any other guideline or rule we have established that controls the use of our service or products
  

• goComics and uclick will utilize "cookie" technology by sending and/or receiving information from our computers to your browser and computer.
• Other companies over whom goComics.com and uclick have no control that serve advertisements on our Web sites may also utilize "cookie" technology to send and/or receive information from their computers to your browser and computer.
• goComics and uclick will use server logs to track your movement through our Web sites and properties - in addition, we will use this information to customize the user experience or provide registrant continuity between our various Web sites and properties.
• We may also use other technologies to verify and track your use of certain services, confirm receipt of certain e-mailed products or to test the integrity of our systems, products and services.

• The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to you by our Web advertising partners. Information about your visit to this site, such as the number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to you on this site. For more information about DoubleClick, one of our partners, cookies, and how to "opt-out," you can visit this page, http://www.doubleclick.net/us/corporate/privacy/privacy/ad-cookie/default.asp

• In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.

• This opt-out feature replaces a network advertiser's unique online preference marketing cookie on your browser with a general opt-out cookie; it does not delete cookies and does not necessarily replace other cookies placed by network advertisers, such as those that are used for aggregate ad reporting or mere ad serving purposes. Such cookies allow network advertisers to rotate ad banners sequentially and track aggregate numbers of impressions. Please see the companies' privacy policies for more details or visit the NAI web site for more information.

• goComics and uclick will provide you with the ability to edit your goComics account, registration and preference information. We will also give you the option of whether you wish to receive marketing and products information from us excluding the marketing information connected with products or services specifically requested by you. For example, if you request to receive a daily goComics comic via e-mail delivery we will, at your request attach certain marketing or advertising information to the comic you receive.
• You will have the ability to request the deletion of your goComics registration at any time by utilizing the registration system established for this purpose. However, we may maintain certain other information as part of our internal processes to prevent accidental loss of user data or information and to prevent or discourage fraudulent activities that may involve goComics registration or account information. We may also continue to maintain information about your goComics registration or account and your computer access to our Web sites or services as part of our server logs.

• goComics and uclick utilize access passwords at our Web sites and other properties to help maintain your privacy and security.
• In certain other areas goComics and uclick may use certain other industry-standard security measures, techniques and technologies to protect the integrity of data transmissions.

• If a user under the age of 13 attempts to register or join any Web site or property controlled or owned by goComics or uclick the registration will not be completed or accepted until the consent of the child's parent is secured.
• If a user under the age of 13 attempts to register for an account with goComics or another uclick Web site, the user must provide information sufficient to allow goComics and uclick to secure the permission of the child's parent to utilize our products and services. This information will include the parent's e-mail address, mailing address, phone number and full name.
• goComics and uclick may require that children under the age of 13 provide the same information required of all other users to establish a goComics user account, including first and last name, e-mail address, birth date, zip code and personal interests. goComics and uclick uses this information to personalize the user experience, maintain account integrity and accounting, and to provide customized marketing and advertising information to our users.
• At no time will goComics or uclick, require that a child under 13 years of age, as a condition of participation in an activity or to utilize our products or services, provide more information than is reasonably necessary. This is a requirement of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). goComics and uclick, strictly abides by this requirement.

• goComics and uclick, will not sell or rent the personally identifiable information about children under 13 years of age to anyone.
• goComics and uclick, will not contact children under 13 about products, services or for marketing purposes without the express consent of the child's parent
• goComics and uclick, will share the personally identifiable information about a child under 13 years of age with other parties, companies and people when:
  
  - Required by law or required to do so to comply with a subpoena, court order or legal process.
  - Explicit permission has been granted by a child's parent or legal guardian.

• Users under the age of 13 will have the ability to delete or update information that is part of their goComics and uclick, Web site account. In addition, the parents or legal guardians of children under the age of 13 will have the ability review, edit and delete information relating to their child's goComics or uclick, account at any time.
• Parents and legal guardians can send e-mail or contact goComics or uclick via the information below to stop the collection or use of information about their children by goComics and uclick.