Privacy Policy & Terms of Service
Who we are
Spooky Boo’s Scary Story Time is a podcast featuring scary stories sent in by listeners and collected over the internet. Spooky Boo sometimes even writes her own stories when possible.
Who is allowed to use this website?
Anyone over 13 to 17 with permission of their parents to be on the internet and anyone over the age of 18 as long as spooky, scary stories are allowed in your area. How you handle that is your reponsibility. People offended by paranormal, scary, or horror content should go find something else to do. If we have an article that may contain offensive content, we will mark it as such. This might include certain swear words by the person submitting a story or certain topics that contain certain levels of violence such as our serial killer exposé episodes.
Anyone over the age of 18 is allowed to send in stories or from a website where the story has aged to when the person would be 18+. This is simply because telling a story online and sending one in is a contract between the submitter and this website and someone under 18 is not old enough to sign a written contract. If you do send in a story then you have agreed that you are at least 18 years old and do not need parental constent.
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.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
We do not allow members to upload their own images. Members may send images to the webmaster at webmaster@scarystorytime.com. Members must own the rights to their own photos.
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. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact 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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. 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.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Who is allowed to use this site?
As long as this site is legal in your area, you’re allowed to visit the website. We do not include any illegal content. We do ask that anyone who signs up for an account here be at least 13 or older and has parental permission to do so if under 18 years of age. We do not share private information of the users on the website unless the person telling the story would like us to tell their name and/or location. We only ask for an name, email, and IP address when someone registers for an account to comment. All abusers of the website are terminated and harassment is not allowed. If anyone somehow contacts another person from this website or any of our social media profiles, we will cooperate with law enforcement to gather the information. Do not use our services for a hunting ground for illegal activity. Ever.
Copyright and DCMA Take Down Notices
We require that all stories sent in to us are stories written by the original author as we have made every attempt to tell people this when they submit a story. If possible, we include the links to the story. If you feel your story has been used without your permission, please send the link to your original story and an explanation. We will not share the private information of the person who posted the story, but we will research. If we feel the person did not copy your story, then it will not be removed. If you can provide evidence the story has been copied, then we will remove the story. We do retain all information from story submitters and, if requested by a legal source of a copyright notice, we will provide the information to that legal source. No private information will be shared with the person requesting the information unless forced by a court of law. Note that many paranormal stories share the same details because of the nature of the activity. It will be the responsibility of the person sending in the complaint to show that he or she owns the story to begin with. Please do not send false requests. Any attempt of false copyright complaints will get you blocked from the site.
If requested, data is sent to agencies for legal matters when a warrant is issued.