Terms of Use
Effective September 19, 2026. Last updated September 19, 2026.
Welcome to Hauntly.
These Terms of Use govern your use of Hauntly.co and its content. By accessing or using this website, you agree to these Terms.
If you do not agree with these Terms, please discontinue use of the website.
1. About Hauntly
Hauntly is an independent editorial travel website exploring historic places, distinctive stays, documented history, and the stories, legends, and folklore associated with them.
Our goal is to provide useful, engaging travel and historical information.
2. Informational Purposes Only
Content published on Hauntly is provided for informational and editorial purposes.
Although we make reasonable efforts to research and maintain accurate information, details can change.
This includes:
- Hotel availability
- Prices
- Policies
- Tour schedules
- Attraction hours
- Access restrictions
- Property ownership
- Renovations
- Transportation
- Local regulations
- Booking conditions
You should confirm important travel information directly with the applicable property, attraction, tour provider, transportation provider, or other organization before making travel plans.
3. History, Legends, and Reported Hauntings
Hauntly covers both documented history and stories that are part of local folklore.
Whenever practical, we distinguish between:
- Historically documented information
- Reported experiences
- Local traditions
- Legends
- Folklore
- Unverified claims
The inclusion of a ghost story, reported haunting, legend, or unexplained experience does not constitute a claim by Hauntly that a supernatural event has been scientifically verified.
These stories are presented because they form part of the cultural history, identity, tourism, or storytelling tradition associated with a place.
4. Travel Decisions
Travel inherently involves personal judgment and risk.
Hauntly does not guarantee the safety, accessibility, quality, suitability, availability, or experience of any destination, hotel, attraction, tour, restaurant, business, or activity mentioned on the website.
You are responsible for evaluating travel conditions and making your own travel decisions.
5. Third-Party Bookings
Hauntly may provide links to hotels, booking platforms, tours, attractions, retailers, or other third-party services.
Any transaction you complete with a third party is between you and that third party.
Hauntly is not responsible for:
- Reservations
- Payments
- Cancellations
- Refunds
- Booking errors
- Changes in price
- Availability
- Service quality
- Third-party terms
- Third-party privacy practices
Review the applicable provider’s policies before completing a transaction.
6. Affiliate Relationships
Hauntly may participate in affiliate or referral programs in the future.
If Hauntly receives compensation when a visitor purchases or books something through a link, that relationship will be disclosed clearly.
Affiliate relationships do not change Hauntly’s commitment to editorial independence.
See our Affiliate Disclosure for additional information.
7. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise indicated, the original text, branding, design elements, graphics, research presentation, editorial organization, and other original materials appearing on Hauntly are owned by or licensed to Hauntly.
You may:
- Read and share links to Hauntly content
- Quote brief portions with appropriate attribution and a link to the original page
You may not, without permission:
- Republish complete articles
- Copy substantial portions of our content
- Scrape the website for republication
- Reproduce our branding
- Create derivative commercial products from our original content
- Present Hauntly content as your own
Third-party photographs, trademarks, quotations, and other materials remain the property of their respective owners.
8. User Communications
If you submit a correction, story, suggestion, photograph, message, or other material to Hauntly, you confirm that you have the right to provide that material.
Unless otherwise agreed, submission of material does not guarantee publication.
We will not knowingly publish copyrighted photographs or other protected material without appropriate permission or another lawful basis.
9. Corrections
We care about historical accuracy.
If you believe information published on Hauntly is incorrect, outdated, or missing important context, contact:
Please include the URL of the page and, when possible, supporting documentation or sources.
10. External Links
Hauntly contains links to websites operated by others.
A link does not necessarily constitute an endorsement of every statement, product, policy, or practice of the linked website.
We are not responsible for third-party content or websites.
11. No Warranties
Hauntly is provided on an “as available” basis.
To the extent permitted by law, we make no guarantees that:
- The website will always be available
- Every fact will remain current indefinitely
- External links will remain active
- A particular destination or experience will meet your expectations
- Website content will be free from every technical error
Nothing in these Terms excludes rights that cannot legally be excluded.
12. Limitation of Liability
To the extent permitted by applicable law, Hauntly and its owners, contributors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or similar damages arising from use of the website or reliance on information published through it.
This includes losses connected with travel decisions, third-party purchases, bookings, cancellations, or external services.
13. Prohibited Use
You may not use Hauntly to:
- Violate applicable law
- Interfere with website security
- Attempt unauthorized access
- Distribute malicious software
- Harvest personal information
- Copy content for unauthorized commercial use
- Misrepresent your affiliation with Hauntly
14. Privacy
Your use of Hauntly is also subject to our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.
15. Changes
We may update these Terms as the website develops.
The date at the top of this page identifies the most recent revision.
16. Governing Law
To the extent permitted by applicable law, these Terms will be governed by the laws of the State of Florida and applicable United States federal law, without limiting consumer rights that may apply in another jurisdiction.
17. Contact
Questions regarding these Terms may be sent to: