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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 3, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to Mystery Murders (murders.info). This website is owned and operated by Jack Minkin ("we," "us," or "our"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it.

This policy applies to all information collected through our website (murders.info), including any related services, sales, marketing, or events.

If you have any questions or concerns about this policy or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at info@murders.info.

2. What Information Do We Collect?

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register for a membership, subscribe to our newsletter, post comments, or otherwise contact us.

The personal information we collect includes the following:

  • Information You Provide:
    • Email Address: We collect your email address when you sign up for a free or paid membership to create your account, send you newsletters, and provide you with access to content.
    • Name: We may collect your name if you choose to provide it in your member profile.
    • Comments: We collect the content of any comments you post on our articles, which are linked to your member profile.
    • Payment Information: When you purchase a paid subscription, you are redirected to our payment processor, Stripe. We do not collect or store your full credit card details. We only receive a confirmation of payment, your subscription plan, and basic contact details from Stripe.
  • Information Automatically Collected:
    • Usage and Log Data: We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the website. This information is processed by our analytics provider, Tinybird, and may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, device name, country, and information about how and when you use our website. This data is used to maintain the security and operation of our site and for internal analytics purposes.

3. How Do We Use Your Information?

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

  • To Provide and Manage Our Service: To create and manage your account, provide you with access to free and paid content, and send you important administrative information.
  • To Send You Newsletters: To send you email newsletters with our latest articles and updates, if you have subscribed. You can unsubscribe from these emails at any time using the "unsubscribe" link in every email.
  • To Enable User-to-User Communications: To allow you to post comments and interact with other users on the site.
  • To Improve Our Website: To analyze usage data to understand what content is popular, how our website is performing, and how we can improve the user experience.
  • To Protect Our Site: To monitor for fraudulent or unauthorized activity and keep our website secure.

4. Sharing Your Personal Information

We only share your information with the following third-party service providers who help us operate our website:

  • Ghost: Our website is built on the Ghost platform, which hosts our content and manages our membership and newsletter system. Ghost processes your data on our behalf as part of their service.
  • Stripe: We use Stripe for processing payments for our paid subscriptions. When you subscribe, you provide your payment information directly to Stripe. Their use of your personal information is governed by their privacy policy. You can view their policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.
  • Tinybird: We use Tinybird for website analytics. Tinybird processes anonymized or pseudonymized data about your interaction with our website to provide us with traffic statistics and performance insights.

We will not share, sell, rent, or trade any of your information with any other third parties for their promotional purposes.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our website uses cookies necessary for its proper functioning, such as keeping you logged in. The Ghost platform may use cookies to manage your session and membership status. We do not use third-party advertising cookies.

6. Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

  • Right to Access: You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you.
  • Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
  • Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
  • Right to Data Portability: You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable format.
  • Right to Object: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data.

You can manage most of your personal information by logging into your account on our website. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@murders.info.

7. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain your data as long as you have an active account with us. If you delete your account, your personal data will be removed. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

8. Children's Privacy

The content on this website is intended for individuals who are 18 years of age or older. We do not knowingly collect or solicit any personal information from anyone under the age of 18. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 18, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at info@murders.info.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by a "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

10. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may contact us by email at: info@murders.info