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This Privacy Policy is effective as of April 1, 2011.

Privacy Policy

Please read the StopBullyingComics.com (the “Service”) Privacy Policy carefully. It is important that you know how Bitstrips Inc. (“Bitstrips”), which operates the Service, collects and uses your personal information. By visiting and/or using the Service, you are accepting the practices detailed in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

"Personal Information" means information about an identifiable individual.

Registration Information

During the registration process for the Service, we collect certain personally identifiable information, such as your login name, your age and your email address or, if you are under 13, your parent or legal guardian’s email address.

If you are under 13, we require you to provide your parent or legal guardian’s valid email address in order to register to use the Service. We use this email address to send a message to notify your parent or legal guardian that you have registered to use the Service, and to ask your parent or legal guardian to review our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy and complete your account activation.

We may use your or your parent or guardian’s email address to send account updates, information regarding your account activity or an account password reminder.

Automatically Collected Information

Whenever you interact with or through the Service, Bitstrips and its authorized agents collect certain information, such as your IP address, browser type, geographic location, Service cookie information and the page(s) you request. We study and use this information on an aggregate level to help resolve technical problems, analyze trends and operate the Service.

We may attempt to use automatically collected information to identify users in instances where we believe our Terms of Use for the Service have been violated. To the extent that this automatically collected information may be used to identify you or your parent or legal guardian, we consider it Personal Information.

Bitstrips uses cookies that are saved on your computer in order to provide the Service according to your preferences, and to permit Bitstrips to understand how the Service is being used. Some cookies are only stored for the duration of your browser session; other cookies remain stored on your computer after each browser session. Bitstrips cookies do not contain any Personal Information and are analyzed in aggregate.

Most browsers allow you to control your cookie settings and to delete your cookies, as you choose. However, some of the Service or its services may be unavailable to you.

Information Sharing

Bitstrips does not rent or sell your Personal Information.

We may share your Personal Information with third party individuals or third party companies for the following purposes:

Executing Service hosting and maintenance;
Displaying your StopBullyingComics.com Profile Info page;
Allowing other users to view your Content, as defined in the StopBullyingComics.com Terms of Use;
Complying with laws, law enforcement and legal claims against you; or
In the event of the sale of more than half of the assets in or ownership of Bitstrips.

Deleting Information

You may delete your StopBullyingComics.com account by emailing privacy@bitstrips.com.

Conditions of Use

Before using the Service, you must read, understand and agree to this Privacy Policy and the StopBullyingComics.com Terms of Use, accessible at StopBullyingComics/com/terms.php.

Updates

This Privacy Policy will be updated from time to time. Please check back regularly to stay informed of changes.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Officer at privacy@bitstrips.com.

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