Privacy at HorrorBooks

Updated 8 November 2026. HorrorBooks, a publication at horrorbooks.co, publishes this policy.

Reading and searching

You can read the guides without an account. There are no email subscriptions, reader profiles or advertising on this version of the site. The site search runs in your browser against the site's page information. It does not send your search words to a separate search provider.

The search box also has a normal form that can open /browse/?q= with your search words in the address, including when scripts are unavailable. That page request sends the address and its query to this site's host. Avoid entering private information in a search.

Requests made by this site

Your browser requests pages, images, local fonts and scripts from the site's own address. The consent script requests /api/geo to learn the country and region supplied by the hosting service. It uses that result to select consent controls. A visit also passes ordinary connection information, including an IP address and browser request details, to the host so it can deliver the page.

No advertising tags, third-party font files or embedded social feeds load on these pages. A product card without a cover makes no external image request. Restored product cards use locally hosted publisher cover images. They do not request external cover images or a merchant catalog API.

Our cookieless analytics provider measures page views and load speed without cookies. It loads only after consent in the UK and EEA, and never when Global Privacy Control is enabled. If the location check fails, analytics stays off. Google Analytics 4, provided by Google, uses analytics cookies and may collect pages viewed, approximate location, device and browser details, and outbound link clicks. The country of the connection alone determines whether the banner appears. In the UK and EEA, visitors see it until a choice is saved: a saved Accept loads analytics and a saved Decline keeps it off. Elsewhere, including when the country is unknown, analytics loads without a banner. A failed location lookup leaves it off. Global Privacy Control blocks analytics everywhere, including after Accept. To withdraw your choice, clear this site's data in your browser. Read Google's information for partner sites.

Following an affiliate link sends referral and request information to our affiliate partners and link-redirect provider. Those services may use cookies to attribute a purchase. Their privacy policies apply to their processing.

Storage in your browser

The consent controls can save a choice named site-consent in local storage. The script can show an accept or decline control to visitors in the EU or UK. This stores the preference in that browser; it does not create a reader account.

After analytics consent in the UK and European Economic Area, and never with a Global Privacy Control signal, the site's own measurement script sends the offer identifier and page path when a sponsored link is clicked, and the page address, the referring site, campaign tags and time on page. Our hosting provider adds country, device and browser type and a daily-changing code derived from your IP address and browser, which it does not store, and keeps these counts for about three months.

Outbound offer measurements

We process the outbound offer and referring page to measure referral activity.

Messages you choose to send

The contact form sends your reply address, optional name and subject, and message to this site's hosting service. A protected server-side queue holds the message for delivery to our publication's mailbox and expires queued messages after 90 days. We use it to handle your question or correction. Please omit children's names, private reading records and information about other people. The website does not subscribe correspondents to a mailing list.

The form uses a signed fill-time check, spam filters and a per-IP rate limit. These checks process your connection information to limit automated submissions.

Your choices

You can clear local storage in your browser. Where the consent control appears, you can decline. Global Privacy Control blocks analytics in every region. The site does not offer reader information for sale or targeted advertising.

For a question about information you sent, use the contact form. Describe the message and request without sending more private details than needed. Applicable rights depend on your location and circumstances; this page does not narrow them.

Changes

If the site's data flows change, this page needs a corresponding update. The date identifies this version. Our contact page explains how to send a correction.

IP-based contact spam-limit records expire within 25 hours.

Delivered contact messages remain in our mailbox until deleted. You can request deletion through our contact page.

Subject to applicable law, you can request access to, correction or deletion of your personal data, restrict or object to processing, and withdraw consent. Use our contact page to exercise these rights or raise a privacy question.