This Privacy Policy explains how personal information is handled when you visit AnimeNextSeason or contact the site.
At a glance: the site does not offer user accounts, paid subscriptions, or direct purchases. Information may be processed when you contact us, visit pages, interact with advertising, or when security systems protect the site. Advertising is managed by Mediavine.
1. Who is responsible
Jan Varga (MaskaThor) operates AnimeNextSeason and is the controller for personal data handled directly through this website.
Website: animenextseason.com
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Privacy contact: contact@animenextseason.com
Some services used on the site may act as processors, independent controllers, or joint controllers for their own activities. Their notices provide more detail about their processing.
2. Information we process
Messages you send
If you email us, we receive the information you include, such as your email address, name, message, and any attachments. Please do not send passwords, payment details, or unnecessary sensitive information.
Technical and usage information
Hosting, security, analytics, caching, and content-delivery services may process IP addresses, timestamps, requested URLs, referral information, browser and device details, approximate location, cookie identifiers, and information about how pages perform or are used.
Cookies and similar technologies
The site and its providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, and similar technologies for necessary functions, security, preferences, measurement, and advertising. Where required, non-essential technologies are controlled through the site’s consent choices. Blocking or deleting cookies may affect some features but does not necessarily remove advertising.
The site does not currently provide public user accounts, accept payments, or run a newsletter. Public comments are enabled on some articles. When you submit a comment, the site may collect the comment text, the name and email address you enter, any optional website address, your IP address, and browser user-agent information. This information is used to display and moderate comments, recognize follow-up comments, prevent spam and abuse, and protect the site. Your email address is not displayed publicly. Do not include sensitive personal information in a comment. Approved comments and related metadata may be retained indefinitely so the discussion can be maintained and moderated.
3. Why we process information
- Responding to inquiries: to read, route, and reply to messages you choose to send.
- Operating and securing the site: to deliver pages, prevent abuse, troubleshoot errors, maintain backups, and protect the website and visitors.
- Analytics and improvement: to understand aggregate traffic, performance, and content use.
- Advertising: to display, measure, limit, and where permitted personalize ads.
- Legal obligations and claims: to comply with applicable law and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Depending on the activity and applicable law, processing may rely on consent, legitimate interests in operating and protecting the site, steps taken at your request, or compliance with a legal obligation. Where consent is the basis, you may withdraw it for future processing.
3 Advertising — Mediavine Disclosure
We work with Mediavine to display advertisements. The following disclosure is required by our advertising partner and reproduced here in full:
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
4. Service providers and disclosure
Information may be handled by providers supporting web hosting, WordPress functionality, caching and content delivery, security and spam prevention, analytics, and advertising. Mediavine and its partners are described in the required disclosure above.
Providers receive information needed for their services and are subject to their own terms and privacy obligations. Information may also be disclosed when required by law, to respond to valid legal process, to protect rights or safety, or in connection with a reorganization or transfer of the website. We do not claim that every disclosure by an advertising partner is a “sale” or not a “sale”; applicable privacy law may define those terms differently.
External links and embedded services may lead to third-party websites. Their privacy practices are governed by their own notices.
5. International transfers
Some providers or their infrastructure may be located outside Slovakia or the European Economic Area. Where European data-protection law requires safeguards for a transfer, the relevant provider or controller should use a recognized mechanism, such as an adequacy decision or approved contractual safeguards. Provider notices contain details applicable to their services.
6. Retention
Information is kept only as long as reasonably needed for the purpose for which it was collected, including security, troubleshooting, legal, accounting, and dispute-resolution needs. Retention varies by record and provider.
- Inquiry correspondence is kept while needed to respond and maintain an appropriate record.
- Security logs and backups are retained according to operational and security cycles.
- Analytics, advertising, and cookie data follow the settings and retention practices of the relevant provider and your consent choices.
Information may remain temporarily in backups or be kept longer when law or an active claim requires it.
7. Your privacy rights and choices
Depending on where you live and the processing involved, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, or portability of personal data; object to certain processing; and withdraw consent. These rights can have legal limits and exceptions.
Email contact@animenextseason.com with “Privacy Request” in the subject line and enough information to identify the relevant interaction. We may need to verify your identity. You may also complain to the supervisory authority where you live or work. In Slovakia, the supervisory authority is the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic.
You can manage cookies through the consent controls shown on the site and through your browser. Advertising opt-out choices are also listed in the Mediavine disclosure.
8. Security and children
Reasonable administrative and technical safeguards are used to protect information, but no internet service can guarantee absolute security.
AnimeNextSeason is a general-audience entertainment site and is not intended to collect personal information directly from children. If you believe a child has sent personal information to us, contact us so the situation can be reviewed and appropriate action taken.
9. Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated when services, practices, or legal requirements change. The revision date above identifies the current version. Material changes will be highlighted or otherwise communicated when required; a new date alone does not create consent where consent is legally required.
Privacy questions
Email contact@animenextseason.com or see the Contact page. The Terms of Use cover use of the website.