Privacy Policy

MyMangaIndex ("we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at mymangaindex.com (the "Website") or use our services.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Website or use our services.

We may use the information we collect about you for various purposes, including to:

• Create and manage your account
• Provide and maintain our services
• Improve, personalize, and expand our services
• Understand how our users use our services
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Communicate with you about updates, security alerts, and support
• Process contributions to our manga database
• Prevent and address technical issues, fraud, or illegal activity
• Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide the information

We only process your personal data when we have a valid legal basis to do so. The legal bases we rely on include:

• Consent: Where you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose
• Contract: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you
• Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights
• Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider:

• The amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data
• The potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure
• The purposes for which we process the data
• Whether we can achieve those purposes through other means
• The applicable legal requirements

In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you.

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure.

Depending on your location, you may have the following data protection rights:

• Access: The right to request copies of your personal data
• Rectification: The right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete
• Erasure: The right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions
• Restriction: The right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions
• Object: The right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions
• Data Portability: The right to request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided in the "Contact Us" section below.

Our services are not directed to children under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not provide any personal information to us. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will promptly delete such information from our servers.

Your information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data to the United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

If you are a California resident, you have specific rights regarding your personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). Please see our California Privacy Rights Notice for more information.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights covered by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Please see our EU Data Protection Rights Notice for more information.