1.Who we are
StripScroll runs stripscroll.com. We decide how your personal information is used, which makes us responsible for looking after it.
This policy covers the website and everything you do on it. Privacy questions go to the address in Contact.
2.What we collect
Your Google details. When you sign in with Google, we receive your name, email address and profile picture. We never see your Google password.
What you add yourself. A username, a short bio and a profile photo, if you choose to. These show on your public profile.
That you agreed to our terms. When you sign in, we save the date you agreed to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and which version you agreed to, so we can show that you accepted them.
Your age, for 18+ mode. If you switch on 18+ mode we ask for your date of birth and your consent. We keep your date of birth on your account and note when you gave consent. We do not ask for ID.
What you create and do. Comics you publish, with their titles, descriptions and tags, and your likes, follows and comments.
What you read. Which comics we showed you, which you opened, how far you got, whether you finished, what you liked, and when you confirmed your age to open an adult comic. We use this to learn what you enjoy, such as tags, artists, series, and whether you lean towards safe for work or adult comics. When you are signed in it is tied to your account. When you are not, it is tied to a random code kept in your browser (see the Cookie Policy).
Basic details about your visit. Like any website, our servers and the company that hosts us handle your internet address and the kind of device and browser you use, so the site can load properly and be protected from abuse.
Review records. If we remove something or limit an account, we note what we did, why, and who did it.
Messages to us. Anything you send to our contact address, and our replies.
3.How we use it
- To make your account, keep you signed in, and show your profile and comics.
- To tailor your feed: putting comics you are likely to enjoy first, not repeating ones you have seen, and mixing in new things.
- To keep adult comics away from anyone who has not confirmed they are 18 or older.
- To review content, enforce our rules, look into abuse and keep StripScroll safe.
- To count likes and views and show creators how their comics are doing.
- To answer your messages and handle copyright, privacy and safety requests.
- To follow the law and to deal with legal claims.
4.Why we are allowed to use it
Privacy laws in some countries ask us to explain why we may use your information. Our reasons are:
- You asked for it. We need it to give you an account and the service.
- It is reasonable and expected. We tailor the feed, keep StripScroll safe, stop abuse and make it better, as long as that does not override your rights.
- You said yes. This applies to 18+ mode, and wherever the law asks for your permission before we store or read something on your device. You can take your permission back at any time.
- The law requires it. Sometimes we must keep information or hand it over.
5.What other people can see
Anyone, including people who are not signed in, can see your name, username, bio, profile photo, published comics, and numbers such as likes and followers. Comments you write can be read by other readers. People can also find your profile by searching for your name or username. Your email address, date of birth and reading history are never public, and they are never used in search.
Anything you make public can be copied or shared by others, and we cannot take back what has already been copied.
7.Other countries
The companies we use work in several countries, so your information may be handled outside the country where you live. Where the law asks for it, we make sure it stays properly protected.
8.How long we keep it
- Your account information stays as long as your account does. When an account is deleted, its profile, comics, likes, comments and follows are removed.
- What you read is kept while it helps tailor your feed, and removed when your account is deleted. Reading history from a browser where you were not signed in is not linked to your name or email.
- Records about rule breaking may be kept longer when we need them to stop repeat abuse or to follow the law.
- Safety copies may hold information for a short while after it has been deleted from the live site.
9.Your choices and rights
You can ask us to:
- tell you what we hold about you and send you a copy;
- correct anything that is wrong;
- delete your account and your information;
- stop or limit some uses, including the feed tailored to you;
- give your information to you in a form you can take elsewhere.
Depending on where you live, you may have these rights under the privacy laws of your country, such as those in Europe, the UK and California. You can also complain to your local privacy authority. We will not treat you worse for using your rights.
You can change your username, bio and photo on your profile, and switch 18+ mode on or off in settings. For anything else, write to contact@stripscroll.com. We may need to check that it is really you, and we will reply within the time the law requires.
We do not sell personal information or use it to target ads, so there is nothing to opt out of there.
10.Children
StripScroll is not for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. Adult comics are only for people who are 18 or older. If you think a child has given us personal information, tell us and we will delete it.
11.Keeping it safe
We take sensible steps to protect your information, such as secure connections and limiting who can get into our systems. No service is perfectly safe, so we cannot promise your information will never be seen by the wrong people or lost.
13.Changes to this policy
We will update this policy when the way we handle information changes. The “last updated” date at the top shows the current version. For important changes we will tell you on the site or by email.
14.Contact
Privacy questions and requests: contact@stripscroll.com.