Privacy Policy

Last updated: 5/19/2026

This Privacy Policy explains how CPV Price Guide handles information when you visit CPVPriceGuide.com and use the Newsstand CPV Price Guide, search features, My Collection, Watchlist/Wishlist tools, notes features, charts, affiliate links, advertising, and related site features.

By using this site, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

Plain-language summary: CPV Price Guide is designed primarily as a static reference site. Some features may use ordinary browser storage, cookies, analytics, advertising, affiliate links, server logs, or API-backed features. My Collection and Watchlist/Wishlist tools are intended to store collection data locally in your browser unless a future feature clearly states otherwise.

1. Information you provide directly

You may choose to provide information to us when you contact us, submit corrections, send feedback, request help, participate in site-related correspondence, or use any future form-based features. Depending on the feature, this may include your name, email address, message contents, correction details, collection-related notes, or other information you voluntarily submit.

2. My Collection, Watchlist/Wishlist, and notes data

My Collection, Watchlist/Wishlist, notes, and related tools may allow you to record information about comics you own, want, follow, or are researching, including issue identifiers, grades, notes, quantities, values, completion status, or similar collecting information.

Unless a feature clearly states that it uses an account, cloud sync, server storage, or another external service, these tools are intended to store your collection information locally in your own browser or device using technologies such as localStorage, IndexedDB, cookies, or similar browser-side storage.

Locally stored collection data may be visible to anyone with access to your device or browser profile. It may also be deleted or become inaccessible if you clear browser data, use private browsing, change devices, change browsers, disable storage, reset your device, or experience software or hardware issues. You are responsible for maintaining your own records and backups.

3. Information collected automatically

Like most websites, our servers or hosting providers may automatically receive technical information when you visit the site. This may include your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring page, pages viewed, dates and times of access, approximate location inferred from network information, and other standard log information.

We may use this information to operate, secure, troubleshoot, analyze, improve, and protect the site, including to understand traffic patterns, diagnose errors, reduce spam, respond to abuse, and help prevent automated or excessive requests.

4. Cookies and browser storage

The site may use cookies, localStorage, IndexedDB, session storage, or similar technologies for functionality, preferences, search behavior, collection tools, watchlists, notes, analytics, advertising, affiliate attribution, security, rate limiting, or abuse prevention.

You can usually control cookies and browser storage through your browser settings. Blocking or deleting cookies or browser storage may affect site functionality, including My Collection, Watchlist/Wishlist, notes, search preferences, and other interactive features.

5. Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the site, which pages are popular, how users navigate the guide, and where errors or usability problems occur. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to collect information such as page views, referring pages, device and browser information, approximate location, and interaction events. This information helps us improve the guide, prioritize content, monitor performance, and understand whether features are useful to visitors. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing your return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser or by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

6. Advertising and affiliate links

CPV Price Guide may display ads, marketplace links, affiliate links, or sponsored/partner content. For example, some pages may link to eBay or use eBay-related tools or links. If you click an affiliate link or make a purchase after following one, CPV Price Guide may receive compensation.

Advertising networks, affiliate networks, marketplaces, or other third-party partners may use cookies, tracking parameters, browser storage, pixels, or similar technologies to measure clicks, conversions, ad performance, fraud prevention, attribution, or personalization. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not this Privacy Policy.

7. API-backed and live-data features

Some current or future features may use API-backed services to show live or semi-live information, such as marketplace availability, listing counts, search results, or other contextual data. To operate these features, the site may send limited request information such as an issue identifier, page context, browser request details, tokens, or other technical data needed to process the request, prevent abuse, apply rate limits, or cache results.

We aim to limit these features to the information needed to provide the requested functionality and protect the site from excessive automated traffic.

8. How we use information

We may use information for purposes such as:

operating, maintaining, securing, and improving the site;
providing search, My Collection, Watchlist/Wishlist, notes, and other interactive features;
responding to messages, corrections, questions, or support requests;
analyzing traffic, usage patterns, performance, and errors;
detecting abuse, automated scraping, spam, fraud, security issues, or excessive requests;
measuring advertising, affiliate-link, and marketplace-link performance;
complying with legal obligations or protecting rights, safety, and site integrity.

9. How we share information

We do not sell your personal information. We may share information with service providers or third parties that help operate the site, such as hosting providers, analytics providers, advertising or affiliate partners, security tools, email or contact-form services, marketplace/API providers, or other technical vendors.

We may also disclose information if required by law, legal process, or a good-faith belief that disclosure is necessary to protect the site, users, contributors, rights, safety, property, or the integrity of the guide.

10. Third-party websites and services

The site contains links to third-party websites, including comic shops, marketplaces, grading resources, census tools, blogs, advisor websites, social platforms, advertising partners, affiliate partners, and other external services. We do not control third-party websites or services and are not responsible for their privacy practices, security, content, or policies.

Before using a third-party site or service, you should review its own privacy policy and terms.

11. Data retention

Locally stored My Collection, Watchlist/Wishlist, notes, and preference data may remain in your browser or device until you delete it, clear browser storage, or the browser/device removes it. Server logs, analytics data, contact messages, and other operational records may be retained for as long as reasonably useful for site operation, security, analysis, correspondence, legal compliance, or recordkeeping.

12. Your choices

You can make privacy choices through your browser or device settings, including blocking cookies, clearing localStorage or IndexedDB, deleting browsing data, disabling certain tracking technologies, using privacy tools, or limiting access to device or browser features. These choices may affect site functionality.

If you contact us and want us to review, update, or delete information you previously sent directly to us, you may contact us through the Contact page. We may need reasonable information to identify the relevant correspondence or request.

13. Children’s privacy

CPV Price Guide is intended for a general comics-collecting audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can review the issue.

14. Security

We use reasonable efforts to operate the site securely, but no website, browser storage method, transmission method, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed completely secure. You are responsible for protecting your own device, browser profile, backups, and any locally stored collection information.

15. International visitors

The site may be accessed from many locations. If you use the site from outside the country where our hosting providers or service providers operate, your information may be processed in other jurisdictions with different privacy laws.

16. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date. Continued use of the site after changes are posted means you accept the updated policy.

17. Contact

Questions or requests about this Privacy Policy may be sent through the Contact page.