Effective Date: 04/12/2024

Welcome to Oshkosh Toon Fest! At Oshkosh Toon Fest, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal data when you visit our website [http://oshkoshtoonfest.com] (referred to as the "Site").

Oshkosh Toon Fest celebrates the world of animation and brings together enthusiasts, creators, and fans of cartoons and animation art.

Comments: When visitors leave comments on our Site, we collect the data provided in the comments form, including the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to help us detect spam.

Gravatar Service: If you use the Gravatar service, an anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to Gravatar to see if you have a profile picture associated with that email.

Media: If you upload images to our Site, please ensure that you avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) as visitors can download and extract this information.

Contact Forms: Information provided through contact forms on our Site is collected for communication purposes.

Cookies: We may use cookies to enhance your experience on our Site. If you leave a comment on our Site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These cookies last for one year. Additionally, temporary cookies may be set when you visit our login page.

Embedded Content: Articles on our Site may include embedded content from other websites, which may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.

Analytics: We may use analytics services to track and analyze visitor interactions on our Site for statistical purposes.

We may share your data with third-party service providers to perform functions on our behalf, such as hosting services and spam detection.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. User profile information for registered users is also retained until requested otherwise.

Your Rights

If you have an account on our Site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, or request the deletion of your personal data, except for data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

We implement security measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

For inquiries or concerns regarding your privacy, please contact us at [insert contact email].

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be reflected on this page with an updated effective date.