Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 7th, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Horror Encyclopedia collects, uses, stores, and shares information when you visit or interact with HorrorEncyclopedia.com.

Horror Encyclopedia is owned and operated by Christina Escamilla Publishing, a Texas DBA.

This Privacy Policy applies only to HorrorEncyclopedia.com. It does not apply to other websites, platforms, or services operated by Christina Escamilla Publishing unless those websites link to this Privacy Policy.

By using this Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

For privacy questions or requests, contact:

Christina Escamilla Publishing
Email: Hello@stinaesc.com

1. Information We Collect

We collect information in a few different ways, depending on how you use the Site.

Information You Provide Directly

You may provide personal information when you:

  • Contact us through a form

  • Submit a writing inquiry or contributor submission

  • Leave a comment on a post

  • Communicate with us by email

  • Provide information for an accepted writer or contributor profile

This information may include:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Message content

  • Website link, if submitted as part of a writing or contributor inquiry

  • Comment text

  • Contributor biography

  • Contributor headshot

  • Contributor website link

  • Contributor email address, if approved for public display

  • Published article information connected to an accepted contributor profile

We do not ask general visitors to create accounts.

2. Contact Forms and Writing Submissions

If you contact us through the Site, we may collect your name, email address, and message so we can respond to your inquiry.

If you submit a writing or contributor inquiry, we may also collect a website link or sample link so we can review your work.

We use this information only to review your message, respond to you, evaluate possible contributor relationships, communicate with accepted contributors, and manage Site operations.

3. Comments

The Site may allow visitors to leave comments under posts.

When you submit a comment, the Site may collect your name, email address, website URL, and comment text. Squarespace’s comment system may display your name with your comment, while email addresses are used for comment-related functions such as reply notifications depending on the Site’s settings.

Comments may publish automatically. We reserve the right to review, remove, edit, hide, restrict, or moderate comments at any time.

Please do not submit private, sensitive, confidential, or personal information in public comments.

4. Contributor Profiles

Accepted writers or contributors may have public profiles on Horror Encyclopedia.

Contributor profiles may include:

  • Name

  • Bio

  • Headshot

  • Website link

  • Published articles

  • Email address, if approved for display

Contributor profiles are created manually by Christina Escamilla Publishing or its team. General visitors cannot create their own accounts or profiles.

If you are a contributor and want your profile updated, corrected, or removed, contact Hello@stinaesc.com.

5. Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Site, certain information may be collected automatically through Squarespace, analytics tools, cookies, advertising tools, affiliate tracking, spam prevention tools, security tools, and similar technologies.

This may include:

  • IP address

  • Browser type

  • Device type

  • Operating system

  • Referring pages

  • Pages visited

  • Time spent on pages

  • Approximate location based on IP address

  • Search terms or referral sources

  • Interactions with ads, links, comments, or Site features

  • Cookie identifiers and similar tracking data

The Site is built on Squarespace. Squarespace uses cookies and similar technologies to provide, protect, evaluate, improve, and promote its services.

6. Analytics

We may use analytics tools to understand how visitors find and use the Site.

These tools may include:

  • Squarespace Analytics

  • Google Analytics

  • Google Search Console

Analytics tools may collect information about traffic, page views, browser behavior, search performance, referral sources, device information, and general visitor activity.

We use analytics information to improve the Site, understand reader interests, identify technical issues, evaluate content performance, and support search visibility.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The Site may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, and similar technologies for:

  • Analytics

  • Advertising

  • Affiliate tracking

  • Comment functionality

  • Spam prevention

  • Security

  • Site performance

  • Embedded or third-party functionality, if added in the future

Cookies are small files stored on your browser or device. They help websites function, remember preferences, measure traffic, and support advertising or affiliate features.

You can disable or limit cookies through your browser settings. If you disable cookies, some Site features may not work properly, and analytics data may be less accurate. Squarespace notes that disabling analytics cookies can affect the completeness and accuracy of visitor behavior data.

At this time, the Site does not use a cookie banner or consent popup.

8. Advertising

Horror Encyclopedia may display ads, including through Google AdSense or similar advertising services.

Advertising providers may use cookies, pixels, or similar technologies to serve ads, measure ad performance, prevent fraud, and understand user interactions.

These third-party advertising providers may collect or receive information from your browser or device when you visit the Site or interact with ads.

9. Affiliate Links and Sponsors

The Site may use affiliate links, including Amazon Associates links, and listed sponsors.

If you click an affiliate link or sponsored link, third parties may collect information about your visit, click, purchase, or interaction. Horror Encyclopedia or Christina Escamilla Publishing may earn compensation from qualifying purchases, clicks, referrals, sponsorships, or similar arrangements.

Affiliate partners and sponsors may have their own privacy policies and data practices. We are not responsible for third-party privacy practices.

10. Third-Party Links

Horror Encyclopedia may link to third-party websites, books, articles, research materials, image sources, public records, educational resources, products, or other external content.

If you click a third-party link, you will leave Horror Encyclopedia and be subject to the privacy policy and terms of that third-party website.

We are not responsible for the content, privacy practices, security, or data collection practices of third-party websites.

11. Embedded Content

At this time, Horror Encyclopedia does not plan to embed content from platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, Google Maps, Pinterest, or Amazon widgets.

If embedded content is added in the future, those third-party platforms may collect information from you as if you visited their websites directly.

12. How We Use Personal Information

We may use collected information to:

  • Respond to messages and inquiries

  • Review writing or contributor submissions

  • Communicate with accepted contributors

  • Create and manage contributor profiles

  • Display and manage comments

  • Moderate spam, abusive behavior, or inappropriate content

  • Improve Site content and functionality

  • Understand Site traffic and reader behavior

  • Support advertising, affiliate links, and sponsorships

  • Protect the Site from fraud, spam, misuse, or security issues

  • Comply with legal obligations

  • Enforce our Terms of Service

We do not sell digital products, memberships, subscriptions, downloads, or premium resources directly through Horror Encyclopedia at this time.

13. Payments

Horror Encyclopedia does not currently process payments directly through the Site.

If paid features, products, memberships, downloads, or subscriptions are added in the future, payment information may be handled by third-party payment processors. We do not intend to store full payment card information directly on Horror Encyclopedia.

Any future payment processing will be subject to the privacy policies and terms of the applicable payment processors.

14. How We Share Information

We may share information with service providers and third-party platforms that help us operate, protect, analyze, or monetize the Site.

These may include:

  • Squarespace

  • Google Analytics

  • Google Search Console

  • Google AdSense

  • Affiliate networks

  • Spam prevention tools

  • Security tools

  • Email or communication tools

  • Contractors or team members who help operate the Site

We may also share information when necessary to:

  • Comply with law

  • Respond to legal requests

  • Protect our rights, safety, property, or users

  • Investigate fraud, abuse, spam, or security issues

  • Enforce our Terms of Service

  • Complete a business transfer, merger, sale, or reorganization if applicable

We do not knowingly sell your personal information in the ordinary sense of exchanging it for money. However, some privacy laws define “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” broadly enough to include certain advertising, analytics, affiliate, or tracking activities.

15. Data Retention

We keep personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

Contact form messages, writing submissions, contributor communications, and comments may be kept until they are no longer needed, unless a longer retention period is required for legal, security, administrative, or legitimate business reasons.

Comments may remain visible on the Site unless removed by us or unless deletion is requested and approved where applicable.

16. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights regarding your personal information.

These rights may include the right to:

  • Request access to personal information we have about you

  • Request correction of inaccurate information

  • Request deletion of certain personal information

  • Request a copy of certain personal information

  • Opt out of certain types of targeted advertising, sale, sharing, or profiling where applicable

  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

  • Appeal a denied privacy request where applicable

Texas privacy law gives Texas residents certain rights over personal data and applies to qualifying businesses that conduct business in Texas or provide products or services consumed by Texas residents. Some additional Texas provisions related to authorized agents and opt-out mechanisms became effective January 1, 2025.

To submit a privacy request, email:

Hello@stinaesc.com

We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

17. California, EU, UK, and Other Regional Rights

Visitors from California, Colorado, Virginia, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and other regions may have additional privacy rights under applicable laws.

Because Horror Encyclopedia is accessible online, visitors from different jurisdictions may access the Site. We will make reasonable efforts to respond to valid privacy requests as required by applicable law.

If you believe a specific regional privacy law applies to your request, please identify that law or your location when contacting us.

18. Email Communications

Horror Encyclopedia does not currently collect newsletter signups.

We may email you if:

  • You contact us through a form

  • You submit a writing or contributor inquiry

  • You are an accepted contributor

  • We need to respond to a direct question, issue, or request

We do not use the Site to send general marketing newsletters at this time.

19. Children’s Privacy

Horror Encyclopedia is not intended for children under 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information through the Site, contact us at Hello@stinaesc.com, and we will take reasonable steps to delete the information.

20. Sensitive Personal Information

We do not knowingly request or collect sensitive personal information such as:

  • Health information

  • Government identification numbers

  • Financial account information

  • Precise location data

  • Biometric data

  • Demographic data treated as sensitive under applicable law

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through contact forms, comments, or email unless specifically requested for a necessary and lawful reason.

21. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect information associated with the Site.

However, no website, platform, email system, or online transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that information will never be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by unauthorized parties.

You use the Site and submit information at your own risk.

22. International Visitors

Horror Encyclopedia is operated from the United States.

If you access the Site from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.

Privacy laws in those locations may differ from the laws in your country or region.

23. Do Not Track and Browser Controls

Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” or similar signals. The Site may not respond to all such signals.

You can usually control cookies, tracking, and certain browser permissions through your browser settings. You may also use privacy tools provided by third-party advertising platforms, analytics providers, or browser extensions.

Where required by applicable law, we will make reasonable efforts to honor legally recognized opt-out requests.

24. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

The “Last Updated” date at the top of this page will reflect the most recent version. Changes become effective when posted on the Site unless otherwise stated.

Your continued use of the Site after updates are posted means you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

25. Contact Information

For questions, privacy requests, correction requests, deletion requests, contributor profile updates, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, contact:

Christina Escamilla Publishing
Email: Hello@stinaesc.com