What Color the News collects (your email, basically), what we do with it (run the club), and what we'll never do (sell it). Here is our full privacy policy.

 

Effective date: June 11, 2026​

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The Short Version

We collect the minimum information needed to run a coloring club: your name, your email, and your payment going through. We don't sell your data. We don't share it with advertisers. We use cookies because every website built this century uses cookies. The long version follows.

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1. Information You Give Us

Account and membership. When you join, we collect your name, email address, and login credentials. Payment details (card numbers) go directly to our payment processor — we never see or store your full card information.

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Newsletter. If you sign up for email alerts, we collect your first name and email address. That's it.

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Contact form. If you write to us, we receive whatever you choose to send — your name, email, and your message, including the hate mail, which we file under "fan correspondence."

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2. Information Collected Automatically

Like virtually all websites, our site (built on Wix) automatically collects certain technical information when you visit: IP address, browser and device type, pages viewed, and how you found us. This happens through cookies and similar technologies, described below. We use this information in aggregate to understand how the site is used — which pages people visit, where visitors come from — not to build a profile of you personally.

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3. Cookies

Our site uses cookies for three purposes:

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Essential cookies keep you logged in, remember your cart, and make membership functions work. The site doesn't function without them.

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Functional and analytics cookies help us understand site traffic and performance (for example, through Wix's built-in analytics and Google's search tools).

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You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking essential cookies will break login and downloads, which we mention not as a threat but as physics.

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4. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to: operate your membership and deliver downloads; process billing and renewals; respond when you contact us; send the newsletter you signed up for; keep the site secure and functioning; and understand, in aggregate, how the site is used so we can improve it.

That's the complete list. We do not use your information to target you with ads, and we do not build advertising profiles.

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5. What We Don't Do

We do not sell your personal information. We do not rent it, trade it, or share it with data brokers or advertisers. Your interest in coloring federal agents is between you, us, and your printer.

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6. Who We Share Information With

We share information only with the service providers required to operate the club: Wix (our website platform and hosting), our payment processors (to handle billing), and our email service (to deliver the newsletter), and Google reCAPTCHA (to protect our forms from spam bots, which involves Google processing limited technical data). Each receives only what it needs to do its job. We may also disclose information if required by law — though our records consist mostly of email addresses and a deep archive of villain drawings.

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7. Marketing Emails

You only get our newsletter if you opted in. Every email includes an unsubscribe link that works on the first click. Unsubscribing from the newsletter doesn't affect transactional emails about your membership (receipts, renewal notices), which we send because we have to and you'd want anyway.

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8. Data Retention

We keep your account information for as long as your membership is active, and for a reasonable period afterward as needed for legal, tax, and accounting purposes. Newsletter information is kept until you unsubscribe.

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9. Your Rights and Choices

You can access and update your account information by logging in. You can unsubscribe from marketing emails anytime. You can request a copy of the personal information we hold about you, or ask us to delete it, by reaching us through our contact page — we'll respond to verified requests within a reasonable time, subject to information we're legally required to retain. Depending on where you live (for example, California or the EU), you may have additional rights under local privacy law; we honor verified requests regardless of geography because it's less paperwork than checking.

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10. Children

Our site and content are intended for adults 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we'll delete it.

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11. Security

We rely on Wix's platform security and our payment processors' PCI-compliant systems to protect your information. No internet service can guarantee perfect security, but we minimize risk the old-fashioned way: by not collecting much in the first place.

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12. Changes to This Policy

If we change this policy, we'll post the update here with a new effective date. Material changes affecting members will be announced by email.

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13. Contact

Privacy questions or requests: contact us.