Privacy Statement

Dark Matter Comics values its relationship with visitors and customers and therefore makes every effort to safeguard personal information while also making product and service information available to our customers. Dark Matter Comics collects information in several ways from different parts of the Site. For example, personal information would be collected if you place an order, were to enter a sweepstakes, contest or promotion sponsored by Dark Matter Comicsand/or its partners, or when you ask a question or report a problem with the Site. If you contact Dark Matter Comics we may keep a record of that session or correspondence. Dark Matter Comics may also occasionally ask users to complete surveys for research purposes. At present, registration is optional; however in the event registration is required in the future, personal information such as name, address, email, telephone and facsimile number, billing and credit card or other account information, would be gathered just as if you telephoned or contacted Dark Matter Comics via facsimile or regular mail. Dark Matter Comics may use "cookies" for various purposes, including to secure your transaction activities and enhance the performance of the Site. A cookie is a small amount of identifier data that is sent to your browser from a Dark Matter Comics web server and stored on your computer's hard drive.

Generally, Dark Matter Comics may use cookies to:

• remind it of who you are and to access your account information (if stored on its computers) in order to deliver to you more personalized service and/or
• estimate its audience size. By determining the nature and extent of repeat usage, Dark Matter Comics will be able to.
• target information to you based upon your interests and behaviors;
• track your progress and number of entries in promotions, sweepstakes and contests;
• measure certain traffic patterns to understand how users' habits are similar or different from one another, all so that Dark Matter Comics may improve its site. Dark Matter Comics also collects IP addresses for system administration to include them in outgoing mail message headers. Dark Matter Comics may also research its users' demographics, interests and behavior based on the information provided upon registration, during a promotion, from its server log files or from servers, to better understand its users. As Dark Matter Comics grows to improve your e-tail experience, Dark Matter Comics may share this information from time to time with a subsidiary, affiliate, third parties providing services on its behalf, sponsors of certain promotions or a partner company. Dark Matter Comics may, from time to time, make collective customer information available to selected third parties, but only in the aggregate and never with both your password and account information included. By accessing and using the site, you agree that information you have provided may be disclosed as described above or as may be modified from time to time, in addition to when Dark Matter Comics has reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action to enforce any of the rights of Dark Matter Comics, including against you or a third party for nonpayment, or violation of the Terms of Use causing injury to or interference with its rights or property, to other Dark Matter Comics users or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Dark Matter Comics may disclose or access account information when Dark Matter Comics believes in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that Dark Matter Comics deems necessary to maintain, service and improve our products and services and to protect our rights or property.