policies

1.1 Agreement and scope

These Terms of Use (Terms) govern access to and use of Comic Republic, including the website, mobile applications, reader, catalogue, comic issues, videos and CR Motion+ content, accounts, profiles, libraries, shelves, progress, bookmarks, reactions, comments, follows, notifications, support channels, subscriptions, purchases, and related services (Service).

The agreement is between you and Comic Republic Global Ltd, trading as Comic Republic (Comic Republic, we, us, or our), at the address above. If a purchase is made through Apple, Google, Paystack, Stripe, Flutterwave, PayPal, or another provider, that provider may also apply its own terms to the transaction and payment method. Those provider terms do not replace these Terms for your use of the Service. The provider available at checkout determines how that transaction is billed and managed.

By using the Service, creating an account, or purchasing access, you confirm that you have read and agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. If you are accepting on behalf of a company or another person, you confirm that you have authority to bind them.

1.2 Eligibility and age

You must be 18 or older to independently create an account, make a purchase, post User Content, submit personal information through a quiz, or opt into marketing. A person under 18 may use an account-based feature only through a parental or guardian authorisation process that Comic Republic expressly provides and that meets applicable law. Until such a process is offered, those features are limited to adults.

Age-appropriate public content may be read under parental supervision, subject to any content and platform restrictions. Content ratings such as all ages, teen, mature and unreviewed help describe content; they do not constitute age verification or parental consent. Parents should review content and supervise a child's use. We may restrict an account and investigate deletion where we discover unauthorised processing of a child's information.

1.3 Accounts and security

Some features are available to guests; an account is required for account-linked access such as synced reading progress, library shelves, bookmarks, follows, comments, purchases, subscriptions, notifications, or offline access.

You must provide accurate information, keep your email and authentication device secure, and promptly tell us if you suspect unauthorised access. You are responsible for activity under your account unless the activity resulted from our failure to apply reasonable security. Do not share sign-in links, session material, or credentials. We may require verification before changing account, purchase, or deletion details.

We verify access against the applicable purchase or subscription. A cached display or payment confirmation may take time to update; contact support if verified paid access is missing.

Where guest checkout is offered, you may purchase before creating an account. Temporary access can be limited to the browser or device used for the purchase. Verify the checkout email and complete the account-claim process to associate the purchase with an account and use supported cross-device access. Creating or claiming an account does not extend the purchased period. Keep claim links private and request a replacement if a link expires.

1.4 Free content, paid access, and entitlements

We may offer free issues, previews, subscriptions, one-time purchases, promotional access, admin-granted access, migrated access, or other entitlements. The applicable product, price, currency, taxes, duration, renewal terms, included content, platform restrictions, and access conditions will be shown before you commit to a purchase.

Paid access is a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the applicable digital content through the Service for the period and account associated with the entitlement. It is not a sale or transfer of copyright and does not create ownership of a comic, file, character, artwork, video, page, or other content.

Entitlements may be limited by content rights, territory, platform, subscription status, account status, fraud controls, or the terms of an offer. We may correct an incorrectly issued entitlement and will provide any remedy required by applicable law.

1.5 Subscriptions

Subscriptions renew automatically for the stated period until cancelled, unless the applicable checkout or store terms say otherwise. Before subscribing, we will present the subscription name, included access, price, billing frequency, renewal price, trial or introductory-offer terms, and material limitations.

Unless the checkout says otherwise, cancelling stops future renewal and does not automatically undo the current paid period; access normally continues until the end of that period, subject to refund, chargeback, suspension, or legal rights.

• Web subscriptions: use the account controls where available or contact support.
• Apple subscriptions: manage cancellation, restoration, and refunds through the Apple account/App Store flow where Apple is the seller or billing intermediary.
• Google Play subscriptions: manage cancellation, restoration, and refunds through Google Play where Google Play is the billing intermediary.

We may not be able to cancel a store-managed subscription from our systems. We may reconcile provider events into the server-side entitlement record, including renewal, grace period, billing failure, cancellation, expiration, refund, or revocation.

1.6 Payments, taxes, and receipts

Payment credentials are handled by the applicable payment provider and should not be sent to Comic Republic by email or in comments. We may receive transaction references, provider, product, currency, amount, status, dates, and entitlement information needed to fulfil, reconcile, support, audit, and refund a transaction.

You authorise the applicable provider to charge the payment method shown at checkout. You are responsible for taxes or charges that the checkout lawfully places on you. A pending, failed, duplicated, reversed, or disputed payment may temporarily affect access while it is reconciled.

1.7 Cancellation and refunds

The current operational refund process is in Section 3. It does not limit non-waivable consumer rights, statutory cancellation rights, remedies for defective or undelivered digital content, or the rules of the provider that processed the transaction.

To request help for a web transaction, email holla@thecomicrepublic.com with the account email, payment reference, product, date, and a concise description. Never include a full card number, CVV, PIN, password, or one-time code.

1.8 Our content and your licence to use the Service

The Service and its contents—including comic books, characters, stories, scripts, artwork, page images, videos, audio, animation, designs, logos, trademarks, metadata, software, and compilation—are owned by or licensed to Comic Republic and its contributors. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

Subject to these Terms and a valid entitlement, we grant you a limited, personal, non-commercial, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to access and display the content for your own reading or viewing through supported Service features.

You must not copy, download outside an authorised offline feature, scrape, crawl, frame, mirror, sell, rent, sublicense, publicly perform, broadcast, distribute, modify, translate, reverse engineer, train a model on, or create derivative works from our content, except where the law or a written licence expressly permits it. You may share an official link to a public page, but not a copy of the underlying content.

1.9 Offline access

Where enabled, offline downloads are a controlled feature, not a right to retain a permanent copy. They may require an active entitlement, device registration, storage limits, periodic online validation, a manifest, or expiry. An expired, refunded, revoked, or otherwise invalid entitlement may disable offline access. Do not extract or redistribute offline files.

1.10 Profiles, libraries, follows, and public activity

The Service may let you create a display name, avatar, profile, shelves, favourites, reading activity, follows, reactions, or other social signals. Treat public profile and activity settings as public to the audience described in the relevant control. Private shelves and restricted activity must not be exposed through public surfaces.

You may not impersonate another person, expose someone else’s private information, follow or contact someone in a harassing way, bypass a block or privacy setting, or use social features to facilitate abuse.

1.11 User content

If you submit a comment, review, profile image, username, reaction, report, suggestion, or other material (User Content), you retain rights you already own. You grant Comic Republic a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt for technical presentation, moderate, display, and distribute that User Content only as necessary to operate the feature you use and protect the Service. Private reports and support messages are not licensed for public promotion. Separate permission is needed to use your contribution in unrelated advertising or merchandise. The licence ends when the User Content is deleted, except for temporary backups, lawful evidence retention and copies already lawfully shared by others. This licence does not replace the lawful basis required to process personal data.

You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed to submit User Content and that it does not violate law, these Terms, or another person’s rights. Do not submit confidential, highly sensitive, or unnecessary personal information.

1.12 Acceptable use

You must not:

• break applicable law, evade sanctions, or infringe intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or other rights;
• attempt unauthorised access, probe or defeat security, bypass entitlement checks, manipulate progress or purchase state, or interfere with the Service;
• scrape, bulk-download, index, mirror, or use automation except through an authorised API or feature;
• upload malware, spam, scams, discriminatory abuse, threats, sexual exploitation, graphic material outside an expressly permitted context, or content that exploits or endangers children;
• use the Service to stalk, dox, harass, defame, impersonate, or target another person;
• use bots or multiple accounts to manipulate reactions, follows, rankings, promotions, streaks, quizzes, or other signals; or
• use our content or User Content to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or supply a machine-learning system without a separate written permission.

1.13 Moderation and enforcement

We may review, restrict, remove, preserve, or disclose content and information when reasonably necessary for safety, rights, fraud prevention, security, legal compliance, or operation of the Service. Enforcement may include a warning, content removal, loss of a feature, rate limit, temporary suspension, permanent termination, or referral to a competent authority.

We may use automated signals for spam, fraud, security, or content triage. A human review or appeal route will be made available where required by applicable law or where we publish one. Contact holla@thecomicrepublic.com with the account email, relevant URL/ID, and explanation if you believe enforcement was mistaken.

1.14 Third-party services and links

The Service may integrate authentication, hosting, email, analytics, marketing, payment, app-store, video, and other third-party services. Third-party terms and privacy notices may apply. We are not responsible for third-party services that we do not control, although we will take reasonable steps to address an issue affecting our Service.

1.15 Availability, changes, and termination

The Service, catalogue, features, pricing, and eligibility may change, be unavailable, or be discontinued for maintenance, rights, security, safety, business, or legal reasons. We will provide notice of material changes where required. Changes to paid access will not remove non-waivable rights, and we will provide any legally required refund or remedy.

You may stop using the Service and request account deletion under Section 6. We may suspend or terminate access for a material breach, fraud, unlawful conduct, security risk, rights complaint, or legal requirement. Provisions that by their nature should survive—including ownership, licences, disclaimers, liability limits, dispute terms, and enforcement—survive termination.

1.16 Disclaimers and liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided on an “as available” basis. We do not promise that every issue, feature, device, region, download, recommendation, streak, profile, notification, or integration will be uninterrupted, error-free, current, secure, or available forever. Reading, entertainment, recommendation, quiz, or AI-assisted features are not professional advice.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability, warranties, guarantees, refund rights, or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including mandatory rights under Nigeria's Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2018. We remain responsible for performing the Service with the care and standards required by law.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we are not responsible for losses caused solely by your breach of these Terms, misuse of your device or credentials, or an independent third party outside our reasonable control. We do not exclude liability for fraud, wilful misconduct, unlawful processing of personal data, or other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. Any liability limitation must be read subject to those protections.

1.17 Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Contact holla@thecomicrepublic.com with a description of the dispute so we can try to resolve it. This informal process does not prevent urgent relief, regulator complaints, or the exercise of a statutory right and does not suspend a legal limitation period.

If unresolved, a court with competent jurisdiction in Lagos State, Nigeria may hear the dispute. Consumers retain any right under applicable law to bring proceedings in another competent forum. There is no compulsory arbitration or waiver of regulator complaints in these Terms.

1.18 Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms by publishing a new version, changing the effective date, and giving additional notice for material changes where appropriate. Continued use after the effective date means acceptance only to the extent permitted by law. If you do not accept a material change, stop using the affected Service and contact support about any available remedy.

1.19 General provisions

Specific purchase terms control the price, duration and benefits of that purchase; these Terms govern general use. The Privacy Policy explains processing and does not obtain consent merely because you accept these Terms. Applicable mandatory law overrides a conflicting policy provision.

If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to the extent lawful. Failure to enforce a provision immediately does not waive it. You may not transfer an account or its licence without our written agreement. We may transfer the agreement as part of a lawful business transfer, subject to applicable consumer and data-protection safeguards. Ownership, lawful evidence retention and dispute provisions survive termination where their nature requires it.

1.20 Future features and promotions

Descriptions of shelves, follows, streaks, offline access, CR Motion+, AI features, merchandise, tips or per-chapter purchases apply only when that feature is actually offered. They are not a promise that a roadmap feature is included in a current subscription. A merchandise sale, contest or paid creator arrangement requires the relevant delivery, return, eligibility or creator terms before purchase or participation.

2.1 Who controls personal data

Comic Republic Global Ltd, at the address above, is the data controller for the processing described in this policy. Contact holla@thecomicrepublic.com with privacy questions or requests. This policy covers the website, native reader, accounts, commerce, marketing, quizzes, support and related services. It reflects the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (NDP Act) and General Application and Implementation Directive 2025 (GAID), alongside any other law applicable to the processing.

An app store, payment provider, authentication provider or external website may independently control processing under its own notice. Our use of software such as Better Auth does not, by itself, mean that its software developer receives your account data.

2.2 Personal data we collect

We collect only data reasonably needed for the purpose described. Depending on how you use the Service, this may include:

Do not send full payment-card details, passwords, one-time codes, government identifiers, health information, biometric data, or other sensitive data through comments or support email unless we specifically request and secure it through an approved process.

An account is not necessary for every public page, but an IP address and other request information may still be processed to deliver and secure that page. Account-linked information is used across the website and app to maintain the same identity, library and access. We do not require access to your address book, microphone, precise location or photo library merely to read comics; any future permission must be explained when requested.

2.3 Purposes and lawful bases

We may process the categories above to:

We do not treat acceptance of Terms, creation of an account or completion of checkout as consent to marketing. Consent must be specific, informed and freely given, and can be withdrawn. Where legitimate interests apply, we consider necessity, proportionality and the impact on your rights. If essential information is not supplied, we may be unable to create an account, deliver a purchase or answer a request; optional information is not a condition of those services.

2.4 How we use information

We use personal data to authenticate you, sync your library and progress, enforce access and offline rules, process and reconcile transactions, provide support, protect the Service, prevent abuse and fraud, send service messages, send optional marketing where permitted, measure performance, improve catalogue discovery, and comply with law.

We use data for account operation, reading, commerce, analytics and marketing. We do not authorise sale of your data or unrelated behavioural-advertising use through this notice. Any future activity classified as a sale or sharing under applicable regional law requires the appropriate disclosure and choice before it starts.

Recommendations may use saved or viewed issues and catalogue/engagement signals. A recommendation is not a decision about credit, employment, housing, insurance or health. Payment verification and moderation may involve automatic rules. You may contact support to challenge an access or moderation error. Any future solely automated decision with legal or similarly significant effects requires separate assessment, notice, lawful consent where required, and the applicable human-review safeguards.

2.5 Sharing and processors

We may share information with the following categories when the relevant integration is enabled:

Providers may be processors acting on our instructions or independent controllers, depending on their service. Processors must be subject to appropriate contracts, confidentiality, security and use restrictions; providers independently controlling data apply their own notices. The providers receiving your information depend on the feature and payment method you use. Contact us for information about recipients relevant to your data.

We may disclose information to comply with law or legal process, protect users or the Service, investigate fraud or abuse, enforce rights, or support a merger, financing, restructuring, or sale with appropriate safeguards.

2.6 International transfers

Some providers or infrastructure may process data outside Nigeria or your country. Transfers must meet the NDP Act, GAID and any other applicable law. We assess recipient protections and use an applicable adequacy decision, approved contractual safeguards or other lawful mechanism, with specific consent where GAID or applicable law requires it. Contact us for information about the countries and safeguards relevant to your data.

2.7 Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the stated purpose, account and entitlement administration, security, fraud prevention, customer support, accounting, dispute resolution, and legal obligations. We then delete, anonymise, or securely isolate it according to a documented retention schedule.

These criteria are not permission for indefinite retention. Contact us for the retention period applicable to a particular record. Pseudonymised or detached records can still be personal data if they can be re-associated with a person. A legal hold pauses only the necessary deletion and must be reviewed and released when its justification ends.

2.8 Your privacy rights

Subject to applicable law and lawful exceptions, you may have rights to be informed, access, correct, delete/erase, restrict or object to processing, withdraw consent, receive portable data, and obtain human intervention or explanation for qualifying automated decisions. You may also complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission or another competent supervisory authority.

To make a request, email holla@thecomicrepublic.com with “Privacy request” in the subject line, the account email and a description of the request. A form is not required. We may ask for proportionate verification to protect you; we do not ask you to send a password or full card details. An authorised representative must demonstrate authority.

We will respond without undue delay within the period required by applicable law, with an operational target of 30 days. We will explain any lawful extension, limitation or refusal, including where a request affects another person's rights or legally retained records. Ordinary requests are free; a fee or refusal is possible only where applicable law permits it and with an explanation. You may challenge our response through the same contact and complain directly to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission or another competent authority without contacting us first.

Withdrawal of consent does not undo earlier lawful processing. You may object to direct marketing at any time. Deletion, restriction and portability apply subject to the conditions and exceptions in the applicable law.

2.9 Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies, secure device storage, local storage and SDK tracking are explained in Section 7. Optional tracking requires the applicable affirmative choice. Server-side analytics and forwarding are also subject to the lawful basis; moving a tracking event off the browser does not remove privacy duties.

2.10 Security and incidents

We use reasonable technical and organisational safeguards such as access controls, least privilege, secure authentication, encryption where appropriate, monitoring, backups, provider controls, and incident procedures. No online service can guarantee absolute security. If a personal-data incident occurs, we will assess, contain, document, and notify affected people and regulators where required by law.

2.11 Children

Children's data requires special protection. In Nigeria, the relevant child definition generally covers people under 18; an app-store content rating is not a parental-consent mechanism. The age rule in Section 1.2 limits account and personal-data features until a lawful parental process is implemented. Parents or guardians can contact holla@thecomicrepublic.com to request review, access or deletion of a child's information, subject to verification and lawful exceptions.

2.12 Third-party links

Links to third-party websites, app stores, payment pages, creator pages, or social services are governed by their own policies. Review those policies before providing information or completing a transaction.

2.13 Updates

We will publish material changes with a new version and effective date, explain material changes where appropriate, and seek fresh consent where the law requires it.

2.14 Marketing and notification choices

You can withdraw marketing consent using the unsubscribe link in a marketing email or by contacting support. Essential authentication, security, receipt, cancellation, account and legal messages may continue because they serve a separate service purpose. Creating an email contact for service delivery does not authorise newsletters.

Browser/device notification permission can be changed in browser or device settings. Title-update subscriptions and push settings may also be managed where the relevant control is available. A minimal suppression/rejection record may be retained to honour your choice. Marketing email engagement tracking, where used, requires the applicable disclosure and consent.

2.15 Quizzes, uploads and AI features

A character quiz may collect the answers and metadata present in a form payload, a result, supplied email, completion times and campaign attribution. A quiz result is for entertainment and is not a psychological assessment. Sharing a result is optional; public sharing exposes the information you choose to share. Newsletter signup must remain a separate choice.

An uploaded avatar may be publicly displayed with a comment and processed by media storage. Avoid uploading another person's image without permission. Embedded videos and external forms may send request data directly to their providers; their notices and the applicable consent controls govern that collection.

AI lore, summaries and conversational features described in the architecture are conditional future features. Before collecting prompts or providing private activity to an AI provider, we must disclose the provider, data, purpose, retention and any training use. This policy does not authorise general-purpose model training on private reader data or confidential support messages.

3.1 Before purchase

Before you purchase, the checkout explains the product, included content/features, currency, total price, billing period, renewal, taxes/fees, introductory terms and access restrictions. Products can include Comic Republic, CR Motion+, a bundle or an individual issue where enabled. The amount billed is the prominent price; an annual offer must show its total annual cost even if a monthly equivalent is also described. The specific confirmed offer governs the purchase. Roadmap features and other content types are not included unless stated in that offer.

3.2 Billing and entitlement timing

A purchase may be pending while the provider verifies payment. If money was debited and access has not arrived, keep the reference and contact support rather than paying repeatedly. We reconcile valid provider evidence and correct delivery errors.

Access begins and ends according to the confirmed purchase, not the date you later create or claim an account. Trials, grace periods, billing retries, pauses and restoration are available only where the applicable provider/product supports them. A failed renewal may end access after any applicable grace period. A refund or reversal can remove the corresponding paid access without affecting unrelated valid purchases.

3.3 Cancellation

Cancel an automatically renewing web subscription through supported account controls or contact holla@thecomicrepublic.com for help. Apple subscribers should use their Apple subscription settings; Google Play subscribers should use Google Play subscription management. Cancel before the next renewal according to the provider's displayed cutoff. Keep the confirmation and contact us if the status appears incorrect.

Cancellation normally prevents future renewals while leaving access until the end of the paid period. Uninstalling the app, stopping use, signing out or deleting the account does not reliably cancel an externally billed subscription. You do not need to delete your account to cancel. A refund is a separate request.

3.4 Refund requests

For web purchases, Comic Republic will investigate requests involving duplicate charges, failed delivery, materially incorrect entitlement, unauthorised use, technical error, or another basis required by law or the applicable offer. We may ask for the transaction reference and account details needed to verify the request.

For Apple purchases, request a refund through Apple's purchase-support process. For Google Play purchases, use Google's refund process or contact us where developer action is available. We will help troubleshoot and reconcile approved reversals. The seller/provider's procedure and mandatory law determine the available remedy. Do not send payment credentials to support.

Tell us promptly about a problem, but a support target or discretionary window does not shorten a statutory right. Where access was not supplied or was materially defective, we will provide the correction, repeat performance, access extension, full/partial refund or other remedy required by law. You need not accept a promotional credit instead of a legally required refund.

Unless a purchase offer, provider rule or applicable law gives a refund right, cancelling mid-period or changing your mind does not automatically entitle you to a refund for delivered access. This is not an unconditional “no refunds” policy. Any right to withdraw from a digital-content purchase, and any lawful condition for immediate delivery, must be explained before purchase; this general policy does not obtain a waiver of withdrawal rights.

Approved refunds are normally returned through the original payment method unless the provider or law requires another approach. Posting time depends on the provider and bank. We will explain the decision, affected access and next steps.

3.5 Promotions and grants

Trials, promotional codes, scholarships, admin grants, migrated access, and bulk grants may have separate eligibility, duration, content, and non-transfer rules. Unless stated otherwise, promotional access has no cash value and cannot be sold. We may withdraw an offer obtained through error, fraud, or abuse, subject to applicable law.

3.6 Price changes, upgrades and duplicate coverage

Price changes apply according to the notice and consent rules of the applicable provider and law. A required approval is obtained before a higher renewal charge. You can cancel future renewal if you do not accept the changed offer.

Upgrades, downgrades and bundles follow the timing and charge shown in the transaction flow. Do not assume a refund or proration unless the offer or applicable law provides it. If a bundle replaces another subscription, confirm that the prior renewal was stopped. Report unintended overlapping charges with both references so we can investigate.

3.7 Receipts, recovery and disputes

Keep your receipt/reference and use the correct checkout email. Guest purchase recovery requires verification; knowing an email or reference alone does not authorise transfer of another person's purchase. Receipts and claim messages are service communications, not newsletter consent.

You retain the right to raise a good-faith dispute with your provider, bank or a regulator. We may temporarily restrict only the access associated with a genuinely reversed or disputed payment while evidence is reviewed. Fraudulent claims or attempts to obtain payment and access twice may lead to enforcement, but an honest dispute is not misconduct.

Comic Republic is intended to be a respectful reading and creative community. Keep discussion relevant, critique ideas without attacking people, respect creators and cultural communities, and use reporting tools when something feels unsafe.

Do not post or use the Service for threats, harassment, hate, sexual exploitation, child sexual abuse material, non-consensual intimate imagery, doxxing, impersonation, scams, spam, malware, piracy, infringement, graphic abuse, promotion of dangerous wrongdoing, or targeted manipulation of follows, reactions, reviews, quizzes, or rankings.

When reporting, provide the relevant profile, issue, comment, or URL and explain the concern. Do not repost harmful material to prove a report. We may remove material, restrict visibility, suspend features, or close accounts. Emergency threats should be reported to local emergency services; the Service is not an emergency response channel.

4.1 Comments, spoilers and author identity

Use discussion features for the relevant issue or topic. Mark or avoid unsolicited spoilers. A comment may display your name/avatar, creation time and replies; do not assume it is private. Editing/deleting a comment may leave a removed-content marker so replies remain understandable. Account deletion is handled separately under Section 6.

4.2 Reports and blocks

Use a comment's report action where available, selecting the closest reason, such as harassment, hate, sexual content, spam, spoilers or other. Add necessary context without including unrelated sensitive details. Reports are assessed in context and are not a vote to remove content. Report details are restricted to authorised handling except where law or a necessary investigation requires disclosure.

You may block a comment author where available and manage supported blocks in the relevant controls. Blocking affects your own view; it does not necessarily remove the person's content for everyone. Do not evade another person's block through replacement accounts.

4.3 Moderation, repeat violations and appeals

We may dismiss a report, place content under review, remove it or restore it after review. Serious or repeated violations may result in feature restrictions, suspension or termination. We consider severity, context, evidence and any repeated abuse; immediate action may be appropriate for exploitation, threats or security risks.

For an appeal, email holla@thecomicrepublic.com with “Community appeal”, the account/content reference and an explanation. Do not create multiple reports or accounts to pressure reviewers. We will communicate the outcome where reasonably possible, subject to protecting others and legal constraints. An automated flag is not itself a finding that a person committed a crime.

Comic Republic respects copyright and other intellectual-property rights. If you believe content on the Service infringes your rights, send a notice to holla@thecomicrepublic.com with:

1. your name and contact details;
2. identification of the protected work or right;
3. the exact Comic Republic URL, issue, page, profile, or other location;
4. a clear explanation of the alleged infringement;
5. a statement that you have a good-faith basis for the report and that the information is accurate; and
6. evidence of authority to act for the rights holder where applicable.

We may request more information, temporarily restrict access, notify the submitting user, preserve evidence, or refer the matter to the rights holder, provider, or competent authority. Knowingly false reports may lead to account enforcement. If your content was removed and you believe that was an error, contact the same address with evidence of ownership, permission or a lawful exception. We follow any mandatory statutory notice/counter-notice process applicable to the complaint; this general procedure does not claim US DMCA registration or safe-harbour status.

Creators and licensors should ensure that written agreements define ownership, territory, formats, translation/adaptation, promotional use, AI/data-training restrictions, payment/royalty, takedown, and moral-rights requirements before content is ingested into the catalogue.

6.1 Request and verification

In the mobile app, open Profile → Delete account and confirm. The website's /account-deletion page provides fallback instructions. If you cannot use the app, email holla@thecomicrepublic.com from the account email with “Account deletion request”. Do not send passwords or full payment details. We may verify identity proportionately and provide the status of a manual request. A guest purchaser can request deletion of applicable checkout/campaign data through support without first creating an account.

6.2 Core account data

The current self-service operation removes account-linked comments, read-issue records, progress, bookmarks, favourites, reactions, views, title subscriptions, local marketing-contact mappings, sessions, authentication links and entitlement grants. It clears profile identity and campaign attribution, removes native purchase-attempt/upgrade workflow records, and detaches certain purchase/store records from the account. Access is revoked and the former account cannot be used.

Some historical account rows remain with replacement identity values so retained billing references remain consistent. Provider transaction/customer IDs and some audit identifiers can remain linkable; these are not automatically anonymous just because the name and email were removed. We treat them as restricted retained data where they remain personal data.

6.3 Other records and processors

A core account transaction does not automatically erase standalone quiz submissions, support correspondence, provider-side contacts, analytics destinations or every notification/block/audit record. These require additional handling under the request and retention rules. Tell us about a quiz, campaign or other email address if needed to locate it. We must instruct processors to delete or suppress applicable data and record necessary follow-up; deleting only a local provider mapping is not complete processor deletion.

6.4 Access, billing and retained evidence

Before deletion, review purchases and cancel any subscription you no longer want. Deletion can end account access immediately, even during a paid period, and does not automatically cancel billing controlled by Apple, Google, Paystack, Stripe or another external provider. Cancel through the relevant management flow or contact support. Deleting an account does not automatically issue a refund or restore its purchases to a new account; applicable consumer and refund rights remain.

Financial evidence, fraud/security records, justified moderation evidence, consent/suppression records and legal claims may be retained only for their stated purpose and period. Backup copies expire under the normal rotation, and restored systems must reapply deletion restrictions. We explain lawful exceptions and do not use retained evidence to resume marketing or rebuild a reader profile.

Requests to access, correct, export, restrict, or object to processing should use the privacy contact and verification process in Section 2.8.

7.1 Technologies and scope

Cookies are small records stored by a browser. We also use local storage, secure application storage and SDK identifiers where enabled. They can remember a session, link a guest checkout, preserve a preference or record an interaction. Data stored on a device can still be personal data and remains subject to this policy.

“Anonymous” branding, first-party storage or a server-side event does not exempt a tracking activity from the applicable privacy rules. Our purchase and session storage must be assessed individually rather than universally labelled essential. The GAID necessary-cookie exception has limits, including for financial or privately stored data.

7.2 Accept, reject and change choices

Optional categories require a clear accept or reject choice. Rejecting optional tracking must not block core reading or unnecessarily prevent purchase. Consent cannot be inferred solely from continued browsing, inactivity or acceptance of the Terms. A preference centre, where supplied, lets you withdraw or change consent as readily as granting it.

Browser/device settings can also block or clear storage. Clearing necessary session or purchase material can sign you out, reset preferences or interrupt guest recovery; account-linked purchases remain subject to verification. Removing a cookie does not itself cancel a subscription or delete an account.

7.3 Cookie register and permission inventory

Contact us for information about cookie/storage keys or SDKs relevant to your use of the Service, including their provider, purpose, data, category, lifetime and controls. We obtain renewed choice where a materially different optional purpose is added. Optional consent-dependent tracking must remain disabled until the applicable choice is available.

7.4 Contact

For questions or difficulty changing choices, contact holla@thecomicrepublic.com with “Privacy request”. Device notification permission can additionally be changed in browser/device settings.