Privacy Policy — Buncomic

1. Who We Are

Buncomic is published by Agora Publishing Consortium, a Canadian-incorporated business operating from 300 Eagleson Rd, Kanata, Ontario, K2M 2C3, Canada.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, please contact us at: privacy@buncomic.com

2. Data We Collect

We collect personal information only in the following circumstances:

Newsletter subscriptions: When you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address.
Contact form submissions: When you use our contact form, we collect your name, email address, and the content of your message.
Cookies: We use essential cookies only (see Section 6).

We do not collect data through analytics tools, advertising trackers, or any other passive tracking mechanisms.

3. How We Use Your Information

To send you newsletters and editorial updates you have subscribed to.
To respond to enquiries you send us via the contact form.
To maintain the basic technical functioning of the website.

We do not use your information for automated decision-making or profiling. We do not sell your personal information.

4. Service Providers and Third-Party Services

We use a small number of third-party services to operate this website:

Formspree (formspree.io) — processes form submissions (subscribe and contact). Your email address is shared with Formspree only for the purpose of delivering your submission to us. See Formspree’s Privacy Policy.
Bunny Fonts (fonts.bunny.net) — privacy-friendly web font delivery. No cookies are set by this service.

We do not currently use third-party advertising trackers, retargeting pixels, or behavioural-analytics tools. We do not share your personal information with advertisers or data brokers.

If we add advertising partners in the future, we will update this section and notify subscribers before any tracking begins.

5. Your Rights (PIPEDA / Provincial Acts)

Under Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and applicable provincial privacy legislation, you have the right to:

Access the personal information we hold about you.
Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
Withdraw consent to our processing of your information at any time.
Request deletion of your personal information, subject to legal obligations.

To exercise these rights, contact us at privacy@buncomic.com.

You also have the right to file a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at www.priv.gc.ca, or with your provincial regulator (Ontario IPC, BC OIPC, or Quebec CAI, as applicable).

6. Cookies

We use only essential cookies required for the website to function (for example, remembering form submissions and consent preferences). We do not use marketing, tracking, or analytics cookies.

Your browser may block or delete cookies at any time via its settings. Blocking essential cookies may affect certain site functionality.

7. Data Retention

We retain subscriber email addresses for as long as you remain subscribed. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link in any newsletter email.

Contact form submissions are retained for up to 12 months from the date of receipt, unless a longer period is required to resolve an ongoing matter.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. For material changes, we will notify newsletter subscribers by email before the change takes effect.

Continued use of the site after changes to this policy constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.