Haunted Waters Press is an independent publisher located in Warren County, Virginia. Our website address is: https://www.hauntedwaterspress.com. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of the website or your dealings with the website, please contact: editor(at)hauntedwaterspress(dot)com.

During the course of carrying out our business and performing our services, Haunted Waters Press collects personal data to conduct our business, provide and market our services, and meet our legal obligations. Likewise, we may also collect personal data for other purposes, which we would describe in more detail to you at the point we collect the personal data. You may refuse to provide us with some or all of your personal data; however, this may limit the ways in which we can interact with you, including providing you with our services.

READERS AND VISITORS: We collect the following personal information for the purposes listed below:

• When visiting this site, your personal information including IP address may be collected for the purpose of analyzing traffic on the site. Please see the Google Analytics section below for more details.
• When commenting on this site, your personal details are collected as requested on the comment form. Please see the Comments section below for more details.
• When contacting Haunted Waters Press via a contact form, your personal details are collected as requested on the contact form. Please see the Comment Forms section below for more details.
• We will share all collected information to the extent necessary and as required by law or to comply with any legal obligations, including defense of our company.
• We do not share your information for any reason outside what is listed here or what is required by law without your consent.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS FOR CONTRIBUTORS: We utilize the following OFF-SITE third parties to collect your information for the purposes listed below:

• We use a third party, Submittable, to collect your name, byline, email address, mailing address, phone number, and submitted works for consideration in upcoming publications. Your submitted works are shared with our editorial staff and reading panel. No other information is shared without your consent. Submitted works are archived.
• We use a third party, Submittable, to collect your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, byline, author profile, publication history, author headshot, and optional reviews. Submission constitutes consent to share the above details listed in bold publicly on our website.
• We use a third party, JotForm, to collect your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, byline, author bio, and details about your work for the purpose of securing an Author's Agreement and consent to publish. The items listed in bold are shared publicly upon publication and for marketing purposes according to the terms of the agreement.
• We use a third party, PayPal, to process contributor payments and share all necessary details collected in the Author's Agreement for processing.
• We will share all collected information to the extent necessary and as required by law or to comply with any legal obligations, including defense of our company.
• We do not share your information for any reason outside what is listed here or is necessary to publish and market your work or what is required by law without your consent.

HAUNTED WATERS PRESS may make comments available to its users beneath certain content. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes publicly available, and therefore you should exercise caution when disclosing personal information. When you choose to leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your 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. Again, please do not share information in your comments that you do not want to be available to the public.

When contacting Haunted Waters Press via a contact form, your personal details are collected as requested on the contact form and are used for the purpose of responding to your question or comment. Upon conclusion of business, your contact form details are archived or deleted.

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

If you leave a comment on our site or fill out a contact form, HWP may provide an option to 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.

Protecting the rights of children is important to us. We do not collect or maintain any information from individuals we know to be under 13 years old, and no part of the website is intended to attract anyone under 13 years old.

Content on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, links to publications 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. The website may contain links to websites operated and maintained by third parties, over which we have no control. Privacy policies on such linked sites may be different from our privacy policy. You access such linked sites at your own risk. You should always read the privacy policy of a linked site before disclosing any personal information on such websites.

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, www.google.com (“Google Analytics” or “Google”). Google Analytics employs cookies that are stored to your computer in order to facilitate an analysis of your use of the site. The information generated by these cookies, such as time, place and frequency of your visits to our site, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there. In using Google Analytics our website employs the extension “anonymizeIp”. In doing so, Google abbreviates and thereby anonymizes your IP address before transferring it from EU/EEA member states. Google uses this information to analyze your use of our site, to compile reports for us on internet activity and to provide other services relating to our website. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process this data on Google’s behalf. Google states that it will in never associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly as noted elsewhere in this Privacy Policy. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website. Google Analytics also offers a deactivation add-on for most current browsers that provides you with more control over what data Google can collect on websites you access. The add-on tells the JavaScript (ga.js) used by Google Analytics not to transmit any information about website visits to Google Analytics. However, the browser deactivation add-on offered by Google Analytics does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analysis services we may engage. Google Analytics also uses electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called single pixel gifs) and are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how our site is used. You can find additional information on how to install the browser add-on referenced above at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. For the cases in which personal data is transferred to the US, Google has self-certified pursuant to the EU-US Privacy Shield (https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework).

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Likewise, any data collected in a contact form and its metadata may be retained indefinitely.

If you have an account or featured profile on this site, or have left comments, you can request to have your account, profile, and/or comments removed from our site. 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. Authored works published on this site are held by separate agreement. Please contact the editors.

Wordfence: HWP utilizes the Wordfence plugin to protect your data. Wordfence plugin includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that were built from the ground up to protect WordPress. Threat Defense Feed arms Wordfence with the newest firewall rules, malware signatures and malicious IP addresses it needs to keep your website safe. Rounded out by a suite of additional features, Wordfence is the most comprehensive WordPress security solution available. Please read the Wordfence Privacy Policy for more information. Activity Log: This is a security plugin used on our website to protect against hackers. This plugin tracks who has logged into the site and records their IP address and any changes they made to the backend of the system. Please read the Activity Log Privacy Policy for more information.

HAUNTED WATERS PRESS will not use or disclose your personal information without your consent, except (i) as described in this Privacy Policy or (ii) as required by law, court order or as requested by other government or law enforcement authority. This Privacy Policy does not protect information you post to any comment forum within the website.

HAUNTED WATERS PRESS reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time without notice, and only the current Privacy Policy may be deemed effective. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy in whole or in part, we will inform you by posting a notice on the website. Those changes will go into effect on the date posted in the notice. The new Privacy Policy will apply to all current and past users of the website and will replace any prior policies that are inconsistent.