Privacy Policy 

Effective Date: January 1, 2018

Welcome to thehauntinatascadero.com. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website.

1. Information We Collect

(a) Personal Information: We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when registering on the website, expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, or otherwise contacting us. This information includes but is not limited to your name, email address, phone number, and any other information you choose to provide.

(b) Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the website, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the site.

(c) Data From Contests, Giveaways, and Surveys: Personal and other information you may provide when entering contests or giveaways and/or responding to surveys.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information collected about you in various ways, including to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our website

  • Improve, personalize, and expand our website

  • Understand and analyze how you use our website

  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality

  • Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes

  • Send you emails

  • Find and prevent fraud

3. How We Share Your Information

Your information may be disclosed as follows:

(a) Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.

(b) Marketing Communications: With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.

(c) Interactions with Other Users: If you interact with other users of the site, those users may see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your activity.

(d) Online Posting: When you post comments, contributions, or other content to the website, your posts may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the site.

(e) Third-Party Advertisers: We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the website. These companies may use information about your visits to the website and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

(f) Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

(g) Law Enforcement, Legal Proceedings, and as Required by Law: We may share your information with law enforcement, government officials, or other third parties when we are legally required to do so or to protect the safety of our users and the public.

4. Third-Party Websites

The website may contain links to third-party websites that are not affiliated with us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites or services that you visit.

5. Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

6. Policy for Children

We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If we learn that personal information from users less than 13 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records.

7. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date, and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to review this privacy policy