Privacy Policy & Disclosures
The short version: we barely collect anything, we don't track you, and we're upfront about affiliate links.
No cookies, no ad trackers, no analytics scripts, no profiles. ThwipNet doesn't follow you around the web or sell anything about you. We don't even set a login cookie.
What little we store
Visitor counter. To run the classic hit counter, we store a one-way hash of your IP address combined with the date — just enough to count you once per day. It can't be reversed back into your IP and is never shared.
Guestbook. If you sign the guestbook, the name, location, and message you type are stored and shown publicly (that's the point!). Don't post anything you wouldn't want public. A hashed IP is kept with each entry purely for spam control.
Wall-Crawler high scores. If you save a score in the game, the name you enter and your score are stored and shown publicly on the leaderboard, alongside a hashed IP for spam control. Use a nickname if you'd rather not use your real name.
💲 Affiliate-link disclosure
ThwipNet is a participant in the Amazon Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program.
This means some outbound links to Amazon are affiliate links: if you click one and make a
purchase, ThwipNet may earn a small commission — at no extra cost to you. These links are marked
with a "find it on Amazon"-style button, a visible affiliate link note, and
rel="sponsored" in the markup. Affiliate links never change which products we mention or
what we say about them; we only point to things genuinely relevant to the page (a film on Blu-ray, a
specific comic, etc.). "As an Amazon Associate, ThwipNet earns from qualifying purchases."
Third-party data, links & images
Pages pull data from external services and link out to publishers and stores. Specifically: character
data from the Superhero API; movie & TV data from TMDB and OMDb; comic data
from Metron (with Comic Vine as a backup); video-game data & art from RAWG; and
headlines from Google News. Comic
cover images are loaded directly from Metron's servers (static.metron.cloud), so your
browser requests those images from Metron when you view the comics pages. Outbound links (to Amazon,
publishers, official sites, the webring, etc.) open third-party websites that have their own privacy
policies — this policy only covers ThwipNet.
The Old Web Project webring
The Prev/Random/Next links in the footer redirect you between independent member sites via the hub at
theoldwebproject.org. The hub only redirects you; it isn't an ad network.
Questions, or want a guestbook entry removed? Sign the guestbook and we'll take care of it.