Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is https://www.hauntscout.com.
Comments
When visitors share their thoughts on our site, we gather the info they provide in the comments form, as well as their IP address and browser user agent string. This helps us keep our community safe by detecting and filtering out spam! Your voice matters, and we’re committed to creating a genuine space for discussion. An anonymized string generated from your email address, known as a hash, may be shared with the Gravatar service to check if you have an account.
You can view the Gravatar service privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be displayed publicly alongside your comment.
Media
When you upload images to the website, just remember to skip the embedded location data (like EXIF GPS). Visitors can easily download and extract any location information from the images posted, so taking this precaution helps protect your privacy.
Cookies
When you comment on our site, you can save your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. This makes it easier for you, so you won’t have to fill in your details again for future comments. These cookies stick around for a year.
When you hop onto our login page, we’ll drop a temporary cookie in your browser just to see if cookies are cool with it. This cookie doesn’t store any personal info and gets deleted when you close your browser.
Once you log in, we’ll set up a few cookies to remember your login info and display choices. Login cookies expire after two days, whereas screen options cookies remain active for one year. If you hit “Remember Me,” your login will stay active for two weeks. If you log out, those login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, we’ll save another cookie in your browser. This one doesn’t hold any personal data; it just shows the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one day.
Embedded content from other websites
You might find that articles on this site include some cool embedded content, like videos, images, and other articles. This embedded content operates just like visiting the original website.
These external sites may gather data about you, utilize cookies, incorporate additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interactions with the embedded content, particularly if you have an account and are logged in.
Who do we share your data with
When you ask to reset your password, we’ll include your IP address in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
When you leave a comment, both the comment itself and its associated metadata are preserved indefinitely. This lets us quickly recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically, so we don’t have to hold them up in a moderation queue.
When users sign up on our website, we keep the personal info they share in their profiles. All users have the ability to view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, with the exception of changing their username. Website admins can also check out and edit this info whenever they need to.
Your Data Rights
If you have an account here or have left comments, feel free to ask for a copy of the personal data we have about you, including anything you’ve shared with us. You can also ask us to delete any personal data we have on file. Please be advised that this does not encompass any data we are obligated to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
We can check visitor comments using an automated spam detection service.
Listings
During the ad listing process on our site, we gather information about you. This may include, but is not limited to, your name, IP address, email address, phone number, address, location details such as GPS coordinates, and any other information we may request to facilitate the addition of your business or personal listings.
Handling this data enables us to:
- Present information publicly (such as through a webpage or API request), allowing users to search and view submitted listings.
- Communicate important account, order, or service information to you.
- Facilitate user contact through provided contact details in listings.
- Notify you of user interactions, including but not limited to reviews and contact alerts.
- Address your inquiries or complaints.
- Set up and manage your account, deliver technical/customer support, prevent spam, and verify your identity, all based on our legitimate business interests.
Reviews
We collect information during the review process on our site. This may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, IP address, website URL, images, review ratings, and review text.
Handling this data allows us to:
- Showcase this information publicly (such as through a webpage or API request).
- Notify you of interactions, such as the approval or rejection of your review.
- Inform you of user interactions, including reply notifications.
- Prevent spam.
Listing Contact Forms
We may gather information when you submit a contact form for a listing. This could encompass a range of details, including your name, email address, IP address, and any messages you choose to share with us.
Handling this data allows us to:
- Forward your contact message and details to the listing’s contact email.
- Keep an eye on the contact system for any spam or abuse.
User Data/Profile
We collect information during the registration and profile editing processes on our site. This may encompass but is not limited to, your name, email address, phone number, physical address, IP address, and any additional information necessary to construct your public profile.
Handling this data allows us to:
- Send you important account, order, or service updates.
- Present this information publicly (such as through a webpage or API request), enabling users to search and view submitted data.
- Address your inquiries or complaints.
- Set up and manage your account, provide technical/customer support, and verify your identity, based on our legitimate business interests.
Any profile information provided may be displayed publicly.
Akismet
We collect information about visitors who comment on sites utilizing our Akismet Anti-spam service. The info we collect really depends on how the user sets up Akismet for their site. Generally, we get things like the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and site URL. Plus, if they provide it, we also see their name, username, email address, and the comment itself.