About Comic Crusaders

Mission Statement

Hello and welcome to Comic Crusaders! Here’s some info on who we are, where we come from and what you can expect from us.

Al Mega began this journey back in 2006 and over the years the website has been referred to as a comic book news site, a webzine, and even a fan site. As our site grew, so did our brand, no matter how you’ve experienced CC’s content, the core of our approach to comics journalism has never changed: we’ve always strived to be a website that pays  more attention to the independent and small press scene than to the mainstream. There’s so much more to comics than spandex and capes! One other constant in our near two-decade existence is the multitude of nationalities we’ve had on the team,  American, British, Canadian, German, Australian and so many more…

At Comic Crusaders, we’re adamant about serving you quality comic book journalism covering comic books, graphic novels, podcasts, toy reviews and more…  As Crusaders, we want you to come away with good impressions of the comics and the talent that you need to pick up today because they will be tomorrows top creators!

We’re here to report on the next steps in the evolution of our wonderful medium, no matter where it comes from. Let’s continue to explore all corners of the comics universe together. Wepa! Let’s Do It!

Contact Us

Office: 201-677-8702

Mail: Comic Crusaders, Orlando, Fl. USA (complete address provided upon request)

Marketing: marketing@comiccrusaders.com

Al Mega: Twitter – @TheRealAlMega

PODCAST

Comic Crusaders has it’s own line of podcasts, such as Comic Crusaders Podcast, The Yeah-Nah Wepa Show, Cinema Crusaders and more… We cover all things Pop-Culture and more.

Comic Crusaders also Presents The Undercover Capes Podcast Network. Where we are hosting a variety of podcast aimed at all comic enthusiasts. We have a DC podcast called The Definitive Crusade, a Marvel one called NO-Prize Podcast, an Indy podcast called Flipside Focus, another program dedicated to the comic verse on the big and small screen called Sloppy Spoilers and we dig in deep with creators in Outside the Panels and a lot of other shows! If you want to hear some of what we do, you can check out our network of amazing podcasts at www.undercovercapes.com

If you’re a creator interested in showcasing your work on the podcast email us at undercovercapes@gmail.com

Follow the podcast on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

POLICIES/DISCLAIMERS:

Review Policy:

If you would like us to review your work (comic book, graphic novel or other), feel free to contact us, but please review the following guidelines for full details:
  1. Submitting a book for review does not guarantee the book will be reviewed by anyone on staff. We receive a lot of books and as such the reviewers have a right to choose which books to review at their discretion. A submission provides no guarantee or a review.
  2. Upon submitting your book for review, please let us know if it needs to be reviewed in a certain time frame. We will do our best to accommodate any requests, but as stated above, we reserve the right to publish reviews at our discretion.
  3. We will always provide honest reviews based on the merits of the work being reviewed. All our reviews should be taken as constructive criticism whether the review is good or bad and never intended as an attack on a character, creator, book, or publisher.
  4. We believe in fostering a positive environment for our reviewers and comic book fans and as such will not tolerate any comments defaming anyone involved with the site in any way. All reviews are final and as stated above should be taken as constructive criticism of the work itself and nothing else. If you disagree with a review, feel free to contact us via the message box or privately, but we have the right to keep the review posted on the site.
  5. We accept ALL genres of comics! Feel free to submit your book and we’ll do our best to match it with someone who specializes in the same genre as your book.

Now if you understand the review policy and want your book looked at for review, please send an email to: reviews@comiccrusaders.com

NOTE: We DO NOT PARTICIPATE in COMIC BOOK PAYOLA, meaning, we do NOT accept payments of ANY kind for reviews. If you attempt to pay us for a “good review” we will out you! Do NOT ask!

Social Media Code of Conduct

You, the contributor, are required and encouraged to actively promote your contributions to Comic Crusaders on social media.

We do not condone/support bullying/harassment of ANY kind by Anyone to Anyone!! Comics and this whole world of Nerdom is for EVERYONE! It’s pretty simple!

We can acknowledge that unpleasant experiences happen through social media and contributors can/may block/mute individuals if they have had those unwanted and poor experiences with them. As a contributor to Comic Crusaders, Undercover Capes and Geekery Magazine, having a social media presence is crucial to the growth of not only the brands, but to you as a public figure as well and we would need to be able to confidently share your contributions to as many people as possible via our social channels. We have adopted a policy that discourages the use of anything that would directly affect our stance of full inclusion for readers and contributors.  We have readers of all walks of life and it is paramount to us, that we encourage, promote, and stand by our stance, that comics are for everyone. If you notice any instances of abuse/harassment by any of our contributors, please contact us immediately with proof and we’ll act accordingly!

‘‹As a contributor, if you have poor experiences with anyone in relation to your work – online or otherwise – and feel that you are being threatened, please reach out to us and we’ll work with you on how to handle this situation.‘‹

We want all of our readers AND our contributors to feel welcome in this comic book safe zone!

Privacy Policy

This is our updated Privacy Policy going into effect on May 22, 2018.

Your privacy is critically important to us. At Comic Crusaders we have a few fundamental principles:

  • We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services.
  • We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
  • We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what information in your account is shared publicly (or kept private), indexed by search engines, and permanently deleted.
  • We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.

Below is Comic Crusaders privacy policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.

Name of the controller:

Alexander Perez

Chief Executive Officer:

Alexander Perez

Address of the controller:

Alexander Perez
Comic Crusaders,  Orlando, Fl. 32828 (complete address provided upon request)
USA
E-Mail: alex@comiccrusaders.com

Data Protection Officer (shown below as ‘DPO”) under the EU GDPR:

Alexander Perez
Comic Crusaders, Orlando, Fl. 32828 (complete address provided upon request)
USA
E-Mail: alex@comiccrusaders.com

Purpose and data minimization

Comic Crusaders is an pop culture website sharing news of all the best that comic culture has to offer. We collect and use your personal only within the framework of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) and the legislation of the United Kingdom related to data protection.

We respect your privacy and we are committed to safeguarding your privacy while online at our site. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Website.

Legal Ownership

COMIC CRUSADERS (the ‘Website”) is owned and operated by Alexander Perez a/k/a Al Mega, having its head office at Comic Crusaders, Orlando, Fl. 32828 USA

Personal Data Collected

When you visit our Website, we collect certain information related to your device, such as your IP address, what pages you visit on our Website, whether you were referred to by another website, and at what time you accessed our Website.

We do not collect any other type of personal data. If you are accessing our website through a social media account, please refer to the social media provider’s privacy policy for information regarding their data collection.

Log Files

Like most standard Web site servers, we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/timestamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We and some of our business partners (for example, advertisers) use cookies on our Website. These cookies track usage of the site for security, analytics and targeted advertising purposes. If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. For further information regarding cookies and how to manage them, please see http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

Advertisers

We use third-party advertising companies to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies and/or web beacons to collect usage and demographic data in the ad serving process and are collected by our ad companies, we do not have access to this information. We work with ad companies such as Google Adsense. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

We have reviewed all of our advertising partners’ policies to ensure that they comply with all applicable data privacy laws and recommended data security practices.

Links to Other Websites

This site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site, and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Website.

Purpose of Data Collection

We use the information we collect in order to:

  • Administer our Website, including troubleshooting, and statistical or data analysis;
  • To improve our Website and enhancing user experience by ensuring you have access to personalized content in line with your interests;
  • Analyze user use and optimize our services.
  • To ensure that our Website remains secure and is not subject to any hacking or fraud.

Data Shared with Third Parties

We do not sell or rent your data to third parties. However, our partners, including ad partners, may collect data in relation to your Website using as disclosed below. Please see our ‘advertisers’ section above for details.

How your Data is Stored

All data collected through our Website is stored on servers located in the United States. Our servers are certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield.

IP address and user agent string data from all visitors is stored in rotating log files on Amazon servers for up to 7 days. All of our employees, agents and partners are committed to keeping your data confidential.

We have reviewed our partners privacy policies to ensure that they comply with similar policies in order to ensure your data security.

Consent under Applicable Laws

If you are based in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), a consent window will appear when accessing this website. If you have clicked “yes”, your consent will be stored on our servers for six (6) months and your data will be processed as disclosed in this privacy policy. After six months, you will be asked to provide consent again. You can withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawing consent may impede your ability to access certain services and will not allow us to provide the personalized Website experience.

Data Security

Our servers comply with ISO 27018, a code of practice that focuses on protection of personal data in the cloud. We comply with all reasonable precautions in order to ensure your data’s safety.

In the event that we become aware of any data security breach, alteration, unauthorized access or disclosure of any personal data, we will take all reasonable precautions to protect your data and will notify you as required by all applicable laws.

Accessing, Amending and Deleting your Data

You have the right to request information regarding the data we have on file for you, to request correction and/or deletions of your personal information. Please contact us at alex@comiccrusaders.com or at the postal address listed above.

Age

This Website does not target people below the age of 13. By visiting this Website. You hereby warrant that you are 13 years of age or older or are visiting the Website under parental supervision.

Legal Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on any of our sites.

Notification of Changes

Whenever we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy page, and other places we deem appropriate, so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

Information Shared Publicly

Information that you choose to make public is you guessed it disclosed publicly. That means, of course, that information like your public profile, reviews, other content that you make public on the Comic Crusaders website, and your likes  and comments on other websites that use our Services, are all available to others and we hope you get a lot of views! We provide a Firehose stream of public data (like reviews) from sites that use our Services to provide that data to subscribers, who may view and analyze and republish the content. Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties. Please keep all of this in mind when deciding what you would like to share.

Use of Social Plugins

We’re using so-called Social Plugins (Plugins) in order to participate in social networks with social media content:

Privacy Policy for the use of Facebook (Like button)

Our website integrates plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. You will recognize the Facebook plugins from the Facebook Logo or the ‘Like button” or maybe even content about our Facebook presence on the right side of our website. You may find an overview on Facebook plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins.

When you visit our website, a direct connection is made via the plugin between your browser and the Facebook server. From your IP address, Facebook thus receives the information that you’ve been visiting our website. When you click on the Facebook ‘like” button or on a Facebook content while logged into your Facebook account, you can link our website’s contents to your Facebook profile. This also means that Facebook can then connect your Facebook account to your visit on our website. Please note that as the owner of this website, we will not receive any information of the content of transmitted data or their use from Facebook. You can get more information on this from Facebook’s Privacy Policy here: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Privacy Policy for the use of Twitter

This website also uses Twitter plugins. These are operated by Twitter Inc. (795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA). When you’re visiting a site using such a plugin, which you may recognize from the Twitter bird, the logo or embedded tweets, a direct connection is made via the plugin between your browser and the Twitter servers. We don’t have any influence on the nature and extent of data the plugin transmits to the Twitter servers. According to Twitter, only your IP address is collected and stored. You can find more information on the use of personal data by Twitter here: https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorised access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so.

Rights

Under the EU GDPR and at any time, you have the right to address the controller or our DPO (see above) and request information on how your data is process. You also have a right to rectification of your data. Or you can have the processing restricted, meaning a right to have processing limited to parts of your data. At any time, you may object to the processing of your personal data. When you do so, we will check whether there are any conflicting legal transmitting and processing obligations and inform you accordingly. You also have a right to data portability, meaning that we hand over your data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format determined by us upon your request.

In addition, if you feel that we do not treat your personal data properly and as laid out in this Policy, you have a right to complain to the supervisory authority responsible for your country.

When you’ve given your consent to the processing of your data you may, of course, revoke your consent at any time.

If you receive advertisement from us, you also have a right to object at any time so that we stop sending you ads.

Other Things You Should Know (Keep Reading!)

Transferring Information to other countries

Comic Crusaders is a worldwide website. By accessing or using the Services or otherwise providing information to us, you consent to the processing, transfer, and storage of information in and to the U.S. and other countries, which may have rights and protections that are different from those in your home country.

What if you decide to Leave Us?

If you decide that it is time for you to leave our services, there are tools in the application that allow you to delete your account. If you have a problem with this, please don’t hesitate to contact our DPO. According to the EU GDPR, you have a right to be forgotten.

Once you leave, we will after a period of 60 days, eliminate any reference to your name or other personal details. We will also eliminate the link between your identity and any System Activity Data. We will hold on to your System Activity Data indefinitely. System Activity Data, are site statistics such as your requests, downloads, and feedback. This data (without anything that links back to you), are necessary elements in the ongoing operations of the service.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via email to comiccrusaders@gmail.com / Suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at alex@comiccrusaders.com.

Comment Policy:

Any opinions expressed by people in their comments are THEIR opinions, and not mine. I take no responsibility for what anybody says in their comments. I encourage comments to be opinionated, thoughtful and respectful. That being said, I do moderate comments. This means that I reserve the right to delete, edit or moderate any and all comments made on this blog. Your comment is more likely to be moderated or deleted if it contains hateful content (based on race, sex, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, etc.), is a personal attack or threat toward another commentator, is entirely unrelated to the entry topic, features more than a ‘fair use” amount of someone else’s copyrighted work, if I deem you are trolling, or for any other reason that I choose. If this policy does not work for you, then don’t comment.

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1 thought on “About Comic Crusaders

  1. I would like to see a holy force comic
    Where they would face the demon king and balthazar and the point of the comic would be to stop the devil and Lucifer from raising hell on earth

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