Who we are
Champion This Project LLC (together its agents, representatives, consultants, employees, officers, and members — collectively, “Champion This Project!,” “Champion This Project,” “we,” or “us”) — provides crowdfunding services for graphic novels, comic books, and related merchandise.
Our website address is: https://www.championthisproject.com.
How we collect your information
Champion This Project! collects information in multiple ways, including:
- When users provide information directly to us (when setting up an account)
- When we passively collect information from you (such as from your browser)
- From third parties (such as Champion This Project’s payment processor)
In order for you to create an account on Champion This Project! and use our Services, we need to collect and process certain information. Depending on your use of the Services, that may include:
- Information you provide by completing forms on Champion This Project! — your name, email, shipping address, username, and site password. We may ask for this information if you register as a user of the Services, submit content to Champion This Project!, or if you contact us.
- Information a Project Creator provides for identity verification purposes when launching a project, including your name, email address, business location, at least one verified social media account, website URL (optional), social media URLs (optional) and shipping address (optional). In some cases, our payment processor will request that you provide them with a secure upload of an identity document (such as your passport, drivers license or other government-issued ID).
- Information a Patron provides for account setup includes your name, email address, business location (optional), website URL (optional), social media URLs (optional) and shipping address.
- Details of any requests or transactions you make through the Services. Champion This Project partners with other companies (such as Stripe) for payment processing, and the payment information you submit is collected and used by them in accordance with their privacy policies (read Stripe’s privacy policy).
- Information about your activity on and interaction with Champion This Project! (such as your IP address, the type of device or browser you use, and your actions on the Site).
- Information about the ways people visit and interact with our Site, in the form of traffic analytics. This may include StatCounter, Google Analytics, Google Maps, and Meta Pixel.
- Your communications to Champion This Project! (for example, when you ask for support, send us questions or comments, or report a problem).
- Information that you submit on or to Champion This Project! platform, such as comments, contributions to discussions, and project text & images.
You may decline to provide us with your information. However, this will limit your ability to register for an account or use our Services. You may review, change or remove your information through your account settings.
How we use your information
Publicly-Shared Information
Users may use online pseudonyms while on the site. However, they may opt to use their real names publicly.
Communications you send to us may be publicly-shared (eg: support questions, comments, or technical problem reports may be reposted in FAQ sections, etc).
Information that remains private
The following data will not be publicly displayed or revealed to other users:
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- Any payment information you provide
- Your password details
- Your device information, including your IP address
- Private profile information
- Most communications you send to us (ie: support questions, questions or comments, or reporting problems)
Project Creators are asked to verify their identities before launching a project, usually through possession of a verified social media account.
Information shared with third-parties
We may share some of your required information with our payment processors.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Information shared with Project Creators & collaborators
Project Creators are bound by this Privacy Policy and shall not sell or share any personal information except for fulfillment purposes.
Any Project Creator that chooses to add a collaborator to a project must only do so in a way that complies with the data sharing practices set forth below. Regardless of whether the collaborator is one person or a fulfillment company, collaborators are prohibited from using backer information provided to them by creators for any purposes other than direct fulfillment, such as shipping of rewards. Champion This Project! reserves the right to take disciplinary action(s), including suspension or account cancellation, for any creator who is found to be in violation of the requirements set out in this Policy.
Information shared between Patrons, Champion This Project!, and Project Creators
When a Patron donates to a campaign, both Champion This Project! and the Project Creator will receive information about the Patron, including email, full address, project name and project reward, as well as the date and time that the donation was made. Neither Champion This Project! nor the Project Creator receive any Patron credit card information from the Site.
However, limited information with regard to Patrons’ credit cards is available to both Champion This Project! and the Project Creator through our payment processor accounts. Such information includes your credit card type (Mastercard, Visa, etc), the last four digits of your card, expiry date and issuer. (More information about the device used during the donation is possible should either Champion This Project! or the Project Creator opt-in to a paid anti-fraud program.)
Information shared between Patrons and Project Creators
Depending upon the nature of the reward, Project Creators may send you a survey requesting information needed to provide your reward. (For instance, they may need your t-shirt size.) Any information you provide in such surveys will be received by the Project Creator.
Project Creators are required to keep patron information confidential, except as strictly necessary to communicate with patrons directly and fulfill rewards. Project Creators should not ask for personal information that isn’t necessary to provide your reward, and should never request sensitive personal information that is not necessary to fulfill your reward such as your Social Security number or payment information. Contact us if you receive a request for information that seems inappropriate or excessive.
Collaborators are third parties that Project Creators can appoint to help manage their project. These collaborators may be able to access the information available to Project Creators (including Patrons’ names, email addresses, addresses, pledge amounts, reward selections, messages, and survey responses), and are required to treat backers’ personal information with the same care and respect as Project Creators are.
Project Creators and their collaborators may also receive routine traffic analytics about their project pages.
Information shared to protect Champion This Project! or comply with the law
We reserve the right to disclose personal information when we believe that doing so is reasonably necessary to comply with the law or law enforcement, to prevent fraud or abuse, or to protect Champion This Project’s legal rights, property, or the safety of Champion This Project!, its employees, users, or others.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Our statistics cookies are used to generate aggregated, anonymous information about how you and other users use this website and its features. For example, our statistics cookies collect information about which pages on this website you visit most often, how long you spend on the Site’s pages, and if you receive any error messages. The information collected may be used to improve users’ online experience generally, or to collect statistics. Our statistics cookies don’t collect personally-identifiable information; however, if you have an account with us, the information collected using our statistics cookies may be associated with your account.
Embedded content from other websites
Projects on this site may include embedded content (e.g. YouTube videos, Tweets, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Both Project and Donation information will be kept indefinitely for administrative and legal purposes.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Users residing in certain jurisdictions, such as the EU and California, are afforded certain rights regarding their personal information. Except where an exception or exemption applies, these rights include the ability to access, correct, and request deletion of your personal information.
While these rights are not applicable globally, all Champion This Project users can manage their personal information in their account settings. You can request a downloadable copy of your personal data from Champion This Project! by contacting us. To modify or delete the personal information you’ve provided to us, please log in and update your profile. You may also delete your account by contacting us. We may retain certain information as required by law or as necessary for our administrative, legal or security purposes.