Privacy & Legal Disclaimer

Welcome to Comic Con Wanderers and Ranbert's Online Portfolio (www.ranbert.com). Your privacy and clear legal transparency are important to us.

This Privacy and Legal Disclaimer policy explains how information is collected, used, and protected when you visit this website, alongside our policies regarding third-party content, trademarks, and copyright compliance.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide a better browsing experience.

2. How We Use Cookies & Tracking

We utilize cookies and local tracking technologies for several key functions:

• Essential Cookies & Consent Preferences: Necessary for core website functions, security, navigation, and remembering your cookie consent choice ("accepted" or "rejected") in your browser's local storage. Storing this preference allows us to respect your choice without redisplaying the banner on every page load.
• Analytics Cookies: Collect anonymous data about how visitors navigate and interact with our platform to improve overall performance (only active if you accept cookies).
• Social Media & Comments Cookies: Used when interacting with embedded widgets, reels, posts, or the Facebook comments plugin.

3. Affiliate Links, External Websites & Third-Party Tracking

Our blog posts, reviews, and community pages frequently contain links and embedded media leading to external websites. Please note the following regarding third parties:

• Affiliate Partnerships: We participate in affiliate marketing programs, including Amazon Associates, Streamily (via Awin), and KingIce. Clicking these links may place tracking cookies via third-party networks to attribute any resulting purchases or referrals.
• Social Media Embeds: We embed content, widgets, buttons, and media reels from platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. These third-party platforms may automatically collect data, track your interactions, and set their own cookies, even if you do not click on them directly.
• External Directories & Webshops: We may link out to convention ticket websites, card shows, celebrity pages, podcasts, or search engines (such as Google with prefilled queries).

These external websites and platforms operate under their own independent privacy policies. We hold no responsibility or liability for data collection practices or cookies on third-party domains.

4. Managing and Disabling Cookies

You can control, block, or delete cookies at any time by configuring your web browser settings. Note that disabling certain cookies may impact the appearance or full functionality of parts of our website.

5. Independent Status, Editorial Accreditations & Trademarks

Comic Con Wanderers is an independent fan-run pop culture blog and media platform created and managed by Ranbert Hernandez.

• No Official Employment or Agency: We are not employees, agents, representatives, or official staff members of any comic conventions, event promoters, talent agencies, public relations (PR) firms, management teams, or celebrity guests featured on this site.
• Press & Media Accreditation: Conventions and their official PR teams frequently invite us to cover events by granting us official press or media accreditation as content creators. Accepting press access, reviewing products, or occasionally collaborating directly with talent to provide visual assets or graphics does not constitute an employment relationship, agency agreement, or corporate partnership. We maintain full editorial independence at all times.
• Trademarks & Logos: All product names, logos, brands, trademarks, and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. All company, product, and service names used on this website are for identification, commentary, news reporting, and editorial review purposes only. Use of these names, trademarks, and brands does not imply official endorsement or corporate affiliation.
• Intent: Our sole intention is to celebrate fan culture, share convention experiences, and provide independent journalism, photography, and commentary.

6. Content Takedown & Contact Procedure

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and expect our users and team to do the same. If you are a copyright owner, brand representative, or an authorized agent thereof, and you believe that any material hosted on blog.ranbert.com infringes upon your rights or requires correction, please visit our About Us page and scroll down to the Contact section. Provide the specific URL of the content in question, proof of ownership or authorization, and the exact reason for your takedown, edit, or removal request. We review all inquiries promptly and act in good faith to resolve them.