Public Works Comics Privacy Notice

“Public Works Comics;, owned by MPV Holdings LLC of Nevis, recognizes that its customers, visitors, users, and others who use ‘www.PublicWorksComics.com or other web sites owned or operated by us (collectively or individually "Users") value their privacy. This Privacy Notice details important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected on the Public Works Comics websites. The Public Works Comics provides this Privacy Notice to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue using the MyPetVideo.TV websites.

This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the Public Works Comics Terms Of Use. Your use of the Public Works Comics websites and any personal information you provide on the websites remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Notice and our Terms of Use.

Please note that any video, image, or other content posted at the direction of Users onto the Public Works Comics websites becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Notice.

The Information Public Works Comics Collects

Information You Provide: You provide certain personally identifiable information (such as your name and email address, or the email addresses of others) to us when choosing to participate in various activities on our websites, such as uploading videos, posting messages in our website, posting video comments, entering contests or sweepstakes, participating in promotions, responding to surveys, subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists, sending emails to others and so forth.
Cookies Information: When you visit our websites, we may drop cookies - a small text file - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We may use both session cookies and continual cookies. A continual cookie remains after you close your browser. Continual cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to our site. Continual cookies can be removed by following your web browser help file directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of our websites may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
Log File Information: When you use the Public Works Comics Sites, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
Clear GIFs Information: When you use our Sites, we may employ "clear GIFs" which are used to track the online usage patterns of our Users anonymously. In addition, we may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.

How We Use Information

If you submit personally identifiable information to us through our websites, then we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of our websites.
Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your public profile page, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Your account name is displayed to other Users when you upload videos or send messages through the Public Works Comics Sites and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to the Public Works Comics Sites may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.
We may use your email address, email addresses of others that you provide, and other personally identifiable information by you to send you or others commercial or marketing messages. And we may use the email addresses you provide for non-marketing or administrative purposes.
We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of our websites and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.
We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Public Works Comics websites; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.

When the Public Works Comics Discloses Information

We can provide personally identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or other businesses or persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf. We will require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with our privacy policy, and we will use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We do not share your personally identifiable information (such as name or email address) with other, third-party companies for their commercial or marketing use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.
We may share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Public Works Comics Sites.
We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with specific laws or respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant.
The Public Works Comics also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our web site, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of the Public Works Comics, our Users or others.

Your Choices

You can decline to submit personally identifiable information through our websites, in which case we may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page. Please note that media files uploaded by Users to the our websites cannot be removed and remain subject to our Terms of Use.
To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times. By providing us with any email addresses, you authorize us to use any and all of those email addresses, for use in any of our sales, marketing, or administrative activities. Please contact us with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, your personal information, your consent, or your opt-in or opt-out choices using this contact form.

Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites

We may allow other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within our websites. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on our websites. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or clear GIFs and so forth) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see. We do not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. However, please note that if an advertiser asks us to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, woman ages 18-22) or audience segment (for example, men ages 24-28 who have viewed certain channels of content) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the Public Works Comics websites, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks (see links below) for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. The Public Works Comics privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

Data Security

We use commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, so you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, we make commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

If we learn of a security systems breach, then we may or may not attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. We may post a notice on our websites if a security breach occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.

Childrens' Privacy

We do not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information on our sites from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of our website is directed to persons under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access our websites at any time or in any manner. If we learn that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on our sites without verified parental consent, then we will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.

Special Note to Users Outside The Island of Nevis

If you are a User accessing the Public Works Comics sites from the European Union, Unisted States, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from Nevis laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Public Works Comics Sites, which are governed by Nevis law, this Privacy Notice, and our Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal information to Nevis and you consent to that transfer.

In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy

In the event that we are acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.

Changes and updates to this Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the "effective date" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Notice in effect when we received the personal information you provided. Your continued use of the Public Works Comics Sites constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions. For revisions to this Privacy Notice that may be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of the personal information you have already provided to us, we will attempt to obtain your consent before implementing such revisions with respect to such information.

Date Last Modified: This Privacy Notice was last modified December 4, 2006.
Contact Information: Contact us with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice using this contact form.