Privacy Policy

Information We Collect

We may receive technical information such as your IP address, browser and device type, referring page, pages viewed, approximate location, and interaction data. We also receive information you voluntarily send to us by email or through a contact form.

How We Use Information

We use information to operate and secure the website, understand readership, improve stories and site performance, respond to messages, prevent abuse, and comply with legal obligations.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Short Tale Hub and its service providers may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar identifiers for essential site functions, analytics, fraud prevention, and advertising.

We also use browser session storage and local storage to count a story view once per browsing session and to remember when a reader has liked a story. These controls help prevent accidental duplicate interactions and do not require a reader account.

Google Advertising

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s previous visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this site and other sites on the Internet.

Users may manage or opt out of personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings. Users may also learn about choices offered by participating companies at aboutads.info.

Service Providers

We may use hosting, security, analytics, content delivery, and advertising providers to operate the website. These providers may process limited information on our behalf or under their own published privacy terms.

Your Privacy Choices

You can control cookies through your browser and, where available, through the consent controls displayed on this website. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, or deletion of personal information associated with you.

Data Retention and Security

We retain information only as reasonably necessary for the purposes described above and use reasonable safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information. No online system can be guaranteed completely secure.

Children

Short Tale Hub is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Policy Updates

We may update this policy when our services or legal obligations change. The effective date at the top identifies the latest revision.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, email contact@shorttalehub.com.