Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.anime-talk.com and is owned by BetContent, VAT number BE0734.718.382.
Goal and targeted audience of the site
The primary goal of this site is to share opinions, discussions, and knowledge about certain animes, mangas, and light novels.
This site targets adults and children over the age of 13 and the content is written with this target in mind. Although the aim is not to shock, adult and sensitive subjects not suitable for children can be shown and discussed on the website. The webmaster is not responsible for anyone disregarding this warning and viewing content that is not suitable or offensive. In addition, children under the age of 13 are explicitly forbidden from making any purchases based on information on this site without express permission from their parents or legal guardians.
Objectivity and Impartiality
Discussed topics
At this time all animes, mangas and light novels discussed on https://www.anime-talk.com are the personal property of the author, obtained using the personal funds of the author (or viewed/read through a legal streaming method).
It should, however, be clarified that the author is not against the idea of reviewing and providing information about a certain topic for a certain anime/manga/light novel delivered to the author at no cost if the product in question is deemed to be a good fit for the site by the author. This is due to the fact the author believes to have built a professional attitude of objectivity over the course of years. This information is provided to you as a full disclosure however, in case your opinion differs.
All content on this site may potentially have one or more affiliation links contained in them. These affiliation links will qualify the author for a commission if you buy any products on the sites they lead to within a certain timeframe. The author is of the opinion that this fact does not affect his impartiality, but this information is shared with you never the less as a full disclosure, in case your opinion on the matter differs.
It is also worth noting that, objectivity aside, different animes/mangas/light novels are a match for different people. What may be a good fit for the author may not be a good fit for you. Potential buyers are advised to gather as much information as possible from multiple different resources before making any purchase.
Advertisements
Visitors to https://www.anime-talk.com should be aware the site contains advertisements. Effort has been made to make these clearly distinguishable from content written by the webmaster, but the webmaster shall not be responsible for any confusion in this regard.
Although the webmaster will make efforts to ensure advertisements on the site are safe and do not cause any objective untruths, visitors should still be aware that the opinions on ads may contain subjective marketing messages and do not necessarily match the webmaster’s opinion.
Those looking to advertise on https://www.anime-talk.com may contact john@anime-talk.com. Untruths, scams, links to unsafe or inappropriate landing pages or products deemed to not be a fit for the website will not be accepted. Other advertisements will be accepted or rejected by the webmaster’s discretion, without the obligation to communicate a reason for this decision.
What personal data we collect
The webmaster of https://www.anime-talk.com currently does not collect any personally identifiable information. However, some of the third-party services used on the site collect limited personal data. More information about this is listed below.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded ads or other content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites may behave in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Affiliate links
Some of the links on our website are affiliate links. Clicking these link will lead you to external websites with which we have an affiliate deal, meaning we get a percentage of any purchases you make within a certain timeframe after clicking this link.
In order to make this possible, a tracking cookie is stored on your PC at the time you click this affiliate link. https://www.anime-talk.com transfers no personal information this way, rather an ID with no connection to your personal data is stored. Users of https://www.anime-talk.com are advised to consult the privacy policy of any site linked to from https://www.anime-talk.com before making use of these sites.
Some links on https://www.anime-talk.com lead to Amazon products. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Google Analytics
https://www.anime-talk.com makes use of Google Analytics to study non-personal identifiable information about the traffic about the site. This includes the country visitors reside in when they visit the site, age categories of users, time spent on different pages, etc.
https://www.anime-talk.com uses this information to identify the strong and weak points of the site and to make the necessary adjustments. No attempt is made to use the data provided by Google Analytics to identify the visitors to the site.
Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor (aka user) interactions on Google Analytics customers’ websites. Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie. Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”).
Google provides a browser add-on allowing users to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics.
You can find Google’s Privacy Policy here.
YouTube
Some articles have embedded videos from YouTube in them. These embedded videos are set to the privacy-enhanced version. This version prevents YouTube from gathering any data on you if you do not start the embedded videos. If you choose to start a video out of your own accord, however, YouTube gathers your data in accordance with Google’s Privacy Policy which you can read here.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you may always request we remove your account and/or any specific comments you point out. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Use of images and videos
All images and videos used on the site are used under the Fair Use Policy, respecting its multiple pillars:
1. Materials are not used as is but are transformed into new content, such as:
- Reviews of work
- Opinion pieces meant for entertainment
- Comparisons between different pieces of fiction with the intent of helping users discover new material
- Answering of questions which were not answered directly in the source materials
All of these have the goal of adding new insights, information, and understandings not present in the source material.
2. The amount of material used is limited, the nature of it is not the core
The amount of material used under the “Fair Use” policy serves to prove points made by my own content and to break the text a little, making for a more enjoyable read. Not much is used in comparison to the amount of own created content. In addition, effort is made to focus on details not so obvious in the original work, rather than a focus on its most memorable moments. In other words, the “core” of the original source work is not used and users not familiar with the work will still need to purchase the original to comprehend the content.
3. There is no negative effect on the market
The content on this site has the goal to enrichen the experience of the user. This can either be by discussing source material the user is familiar with or by making comparisons between source material the user is familiar with and other source material the user is not yet familiar with. Neither of those options replaces the source material. To follow and take advantage of the original content on this site, users must already have a grasp of the source content and are thus at worst not stopped from buying it. They may even be encouraged to buy further additional source material).
4. The purpose of the material used under Fair Use is not to generate profit
Although the site features ads and affiliate links (disclosed above), the material used under Fair Use is not meant to generate profit. It is the original content on the site as well as the specific content of the Ads and affiliate links (which do not use material under Fair Use) that are for profit.
5. No Copyright Infringement Intended
Although this is normally used as an empty claim, it is not used as such here. Despite my best efforts to follow Fair Use, give credit where credit is due and the intent to support rather than obstruct the series discussed on this site, Fair Use is a grey area. If any copyright holders feel that the above precautions are insufficient and that their material not a valid case of Fair Use, they can always contact john@anime-talk.com to discuss this or even have their images/videos removed. I will gladly work with everyone involved in the series I love to make sure they are ok with the way their material is covered. Just don’t remove my hard worked materials with the use of majorly flawed bots – any such attempt will be severely resisted.