Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

When you create an account on Manga Drifter, we collect your chosen display name and email address. When you interact with the platform, we store your reading list entries, chapter progress marks, personal ratings, and submitted editorial reviews. Standard web server logs may also record your IP address, browser type, and timestamps for security and rate-limiting purposes.

2. How We Use Information

Your information is used strictly to authenticate your account, maintain your personal reading lists, compute verified aggregate community ratings, protect infrastructure security, and prevent platform abuse. We never sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties.

3. Cookies, Web Beacons & Advertising Partners

Manga Drifter uses essential HTTP-only cookies to keep you signed in securely and remember your reading preferences.

We partner with third-party advertising networks, including Google AdSense and affiliated technology partners, to support our free editorial journalism. Please note the following regarding third-party cookies:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user's prior visits to Manga Drifter or other websites across the Internet.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its network partners to serve relevant advertisements to our visitors based on their browsing activity.
• Users may opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings or by visiting www.aboutads.info.

4. Affiliate Links & Sponsored Content

Some links on Manga Drifter directing to licensed digital comic storefronts (such as digital volume retailers or licensed platform subscriptions) may be affiliate links. Manga Drifter may earn a modest referral commission at no additional cost to you when you purchase or subscribe through these links. Our editorial scores and recommendations are strictly independent and never influenced by affiliate partnerships.

5. External Websites & Legal Platforms

Manga Drifter contains outbound links to authorized publishers and external services (e.g. Webtoon, Tapas, MangaPlus, KakaoPage, Viz Media, YouTube). We are not responsible for the privacy practices, policies, or contents of third-party platforms. We encourage you to review their respective policies.

6. Data Retention & Deletion Rights

You have the right to request access to, correction of, or complete deletion of your personal account data at any time. To request account deletion and removal of all associated reading list entries, please contact our privacy compliance team at [email protected].