PRIVACY STATEMENT

The Marvel Chronology Project (MCP) is committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of visitors to our web site.

We've structured our web site so that, in general, you can visit us on the web without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information.

What information do we collect?

When you visit our web site, our web server collects basic user information about you that includes your ISP's domain, the time you accessed our web site, and the pages within our web site that you visit.

We may at times also use cookies, which are small pieces of information that a web site can store in a designated file on your computer. Cookies allow a web application to respond to you as an individual. By gathering and remembering information about your preferences, the web application can tailor its operation to your needs, likes, and dislikes.

Our web server does not collect your e-mail address or aggregate information on what other pages on the Web you have accessed or visited. However, if you wish to post messages on our posting board, our software does collect and store the email address that you give us. This software does not aggregate information on pages you access or visit, outside of the posting board.

How do we use this information?

The basic user information collected is used to help us analyze web traffic and to improve the content of our web site. Cookies may be used to facilitate your customer interaction with us. For example, we may use a cookie on the landing page of products sold online which record the customer information that is required on the order form, and then forward this information to our internal sales tracking database.

We may from time to time disclose to third parties aggregate information on our web site's traffic profile. For example, Internet advertising companies may require this data to help us better target our advertisements on our web site(s) and/or other web sites.

Note that our site provides links to products and services offered by other sites; the web site that you link to will be able to determine that you linked from our web site.

We will not disclose your personal and account information unless we have reason to believe that disclosing such information is necessary to identify, make contact with, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing harm or interfering with the rights or property of the MCP, our visitors, or others, or where the MCP has a good faith belief that the law requires such disclosure.

The MCP also will not, except for reasons stated below, disclose to third parties the contents of any electronic mail or other electronic communications that the posting board software stores or transmits for its visitor. The circumstances under which the MCP will disclose such electronic customer communications are when:

1. It is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the MCP;
2. It is required to cooperate with interception orders, warrants, or other legal process that the MCP determines in its sole discretion to be valid and enforceable; and
3. It is necessary to provide to a law enforcement agency when the contents are inadvertently obtained by the MCP and appear to pertain to the commission of a crime.