Last updated: July 28, 2026

Every good mystery involves clues. When you visit Getaway to Murder, certain digital clues may be collected so the website can operate properly, show relevant content and advertising, measure performance, prevent fraud, and track qualifying affiliate referrals.

Getaway to Murder (“Getaway to Murder,” “GTM,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) operates https://getawaytomurder.com.

This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected, how it may be used or shared, how long it may be retained, and what choices may be available to you when you visit the website, browse event listings, submit an event, leave a comment, interact with advertisements, click affiliate links, subscribe to communications, or otherwise engage with our content.

1. The Information We May Collect

Information You Choose to Provide

You may voluntarily provide information when you:

• Submit a murder mystery event
• Complete a contact form
• Subscribe to our newsletter
• Leave a comment
• Send an event tip, correction, recommendation, or clue
• Communicate with us by email or through the website
• Participate in a survey, promotion, contest, or other website feature

This information may include:

• Your name
• Email address
• Organization or venue name
• Website or ticket link
• Event name, location, date, time, description, pricing, and images
• Comments and messages
• Other information you choose to submit

Information submitted for an event listing may be published on the website. Please do not submit private or sensitive personal information that you do not want placed in the public record.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the website, we and certain service providers may automatically collect digital clues such as:

• Internet Protocol address
• Browser and device type
• Operating system
• Referring website or traffic source
• Pages and event listings viewed
• Links clicked
• Advertisements viewed or interacted with
• Search queries entered on the website
• Date and time of access
• Approximate location
• Time spent on the website
• Cookie and device identifiers
• Website performance and interaction information

2. How We Use the Clues We Collect

We may use information to:

• Review, verify, edit, and publish event listings
• Respond to questions, submissions, and corrections
• Send newsletters and requested communications
• Moderate comments and prevent spam
• Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and improve the website
• Measure website traffic and content performance
• Recommend relevant events and content
• Display, personalize, or measure advertising
• Track affiliate referrals and qualifying transactions
• Calculate or receive advertising and affiliate revenue
• Detect fraud, suspicious activity, misuse, or security threats
• Maintain business and legal records
• Comply with legal, regulatory, contractual, and accounting obligations
• Enforce our policies and protect our rights, visitors, and website

3. Event Submissions and the Public Record

When you submit an event, you represent that you have the authority to provide the submitted information and any accompanying images or materials.

We may publish information such as:

• Event and venue name
• Event description
• Dates and times
• Location
• Ticket price
• Ticket or registration link
• Organizer or venue website
• Public contact information
• Submitted images

Once published, this information may be viewed, copied, indexed, archived, or shared by search engines, social networks, website visitors, and other third parties.

Submitting an event does not guarantee that it will be published. We may edit, decline, update, investigate, or remove a listing at our discretion.

4. Comments and Gravatar

When visitors leave comments, we may collect the information shown in the comment form, along with the visitor’s Internet Protocol address and browser user-agent information for spam detection, moderation, and security.

An anonymized string created from an email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether the commenter uses that service. After a comment is approved, a corresponding profile image may become publicly visible with the comment.

Approved comments and associated public information may remain visible indefinitely unless removed.

Please do not place private, confidential, or sensitive personal information in a public comment.

5. Cookies and Other Digital Evidence

We may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, tracking links, and similar technologies. These tools help us follow the digital trail of how visitors use the website.

These technologies may be used to:

• Operate essential website functions
• Remember visitor preferences
• Enable comments or login features
• Prevent spam, fraud, and malicious activity
• Measure website traffic and performance
• Understand how visitors use our articles and event listings
• Display, personalize, and measure advertising
• Limit how often an advertisement is displayed
• Track affiliate referrals and qualifying transactions
• Improve website functionality and visitor experience

Cookies may be classified as:

• Necessary cookies: Required for website security and basic functions
• Functional cookies: Remember choices or provide enhanced features
• Analytics cookies: Help us investigate traffic, performance, and usage patterns
• Advertising or affiliate cookies: Support advertising, referral tracking, and commission attribution

Where required by applicable law, nonessential cookies and similar technologies will not be activated until you provide consent.

You may manage your preferences through the cookie banner or cookie-settings tool available on the website. You may also delete or block cookies through your browser settings.

Blocking or deleting cookies may interfere with certain website functions, affect advertising personalization, or prevent an affiliate referral from being properly attributed to Getaway to Murder.

6. Analytics and Website Investigations

We may use analytics services to investigate how visitors discover and use the website.

Analytics information may include:

• The number of website visitors
• Traffic and referral sources
• Pages and event listings viewed
• Links and features used
• General device and browser information
• Approximate location information
• Website performance
• Advertising and affiliate-link performance

Analytics providers may collect Internet Protocol addresses, cookie identifiers, device information, approximate location, and website-usage data.

Where legally required, analytics technologies will not be activated until you provide consent.

7. Google Advertising

Getaway to Murder displays or may display advertising provided through Google services, which may include Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager, or related Google advertising technologies.

Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, pixels, tags, device identifiers, local storage, and similar technologies when you visit this website or interact with an advertisement.

The digital evidence collected or processed may include:

• Internet Protocol address
• Browser and device information
• Cookie and advertising identifiers
• Approximate geographic location
• Referring and current webpage addresses
• Pages and content viewed
• Advertisements displayed
• Advertising impressions
• Advertisement clicks and interactions
• Date and time of activity
• Information inferred from prior browsing or advertising interactions, where permitted

Google may use this information to:

• Deliver advertisements
• Select contextual or personalized advertisements
• Limit how often an advertisement appears
• Measure advertisement impressions and performance
• Detect invalid traffic, fraud, and abuse
• Create aggregated reports
• Improve advertising and measurement services

Google may combine information collected through this website with information collected from other websites or services that use Google technologies, subject to Google’s privacy policies, consent requirements, account settings, and applicable law.

Where required, personalized advertising and other nonessential Google advertising technologies will not be activated until you provide consent.

You may manage advertising preferences through:

• Our cookie-preference tool
• Your browser settings
• Google’s advertising and privacy controls
• Other legally recognized opt-out tools

Rejecting personalized advertising does not necessarily mean advertisements will disappear. You may instead receive non-personalized or contextual advertising.

Getaway to Murder does not control every advertisement selected by Google or every data-processing decision made by Google and its advertising partners.

8. Affiliate Marketing

Some links on Getaway to Murder are affiliate links. These links help us keep the investigation going.

If you click an affiliate link and complete a qualifying purchase, booking, registration, or other transaction, Getaway to Murder may receive a commission or other compensation. Affiliate relationships do not ordinarily increase the price you pay.

Affiliate networks, merchants, ticketing providers, travel companies, and advertisers may use:

• Cookies
• Tracking links
• Pixels and tags
• Device identifiers
• Referral information
• Transaction identifiers
• Other similar technologies

These technologies may be used to:

• Record referrals from Getaway to Murder
• Measure affiliate-link clicks
• Track bookings, registrations, purchases, or other transactions
• Attribute qualifying activity
• Calculate and administer commissions
• Detect fraud or invalid activity
• Evaluate affiliate-program performance

Each affiliate network, advertiser, and merchant processes information under its own privacy policies and terms.

9. Amazon Associates

Getaway to Murder participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate-advertising program designed to provide a means for websites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com and other applicable Amazon properties.

As an Amazon Associate, Getaway to Murder earns from qualifying purchases.

When you click an Amazon affiliate link, Amazon and its affiliates may use cookies, pixels, tracking links, tags, device identifiers, and similar technologies to:

• Record the referral
• Associate qualifying purchases with the referral
• Measure affiliate-link activity
• Calculate commissions
• Prevent fraud
• Analyze and improve Amazon’s services and affiliate program

Information processed may include:

• Browser and device information
• Internet Protocol address
• Referring page
• Affiliate link clicked
• Date and time of activity
• Cookie or device identifiers
• Transaction-related information

Amazon uses its own cookies and tracking technologies in accordance with its privacy notices and cookies policies.

Where required, Amazon-related nonessential technologies will be subject to your cookie-consent choices. You may also manage cookies through your browser and applicable Amazon privacy-preference tools.

Blocking or deleting cookies may prevent a qualifying purchase from being attributed to Getaway to Murder.

10. Expedia Affiliate Links

Getaway to Murder may participate in affiliate programs offered by Expedia Group or its affiliated travel brands.

Some links to hotels, vacation rentals, flights, cars, cruises, activities, packages, or other travel services may be Expedia affiliate links.

When you follow one of these travel clues to an Expedia Group website, Expedia Group, its affiliated brands, affiliate-platform providers, or other technology partners may use:

• Cookies
• Tracking links
• Pixels and tags
• Internet Protocol addresses
• Device and browser identifiers
• Referral information
• Booking or transaction identifiers
• Dates and times of activity
• Limited booking or transaction information

These technologies may be used to:

• Record that you were referred from Getaway to Murder
• Track searches, clicks, bookings, or other qualifying activity
• Attribute reservations or purchases
• Calculate and administer commissions
• Measure affiliate-program performance
• Detect fraud or invalid activity
• Improve travel products and services

If you complete a qualifying booking or transaction, Getaway to Murder may receive compensation at no additional cost to you.

Expedia Group and its affiliated brands process information under their own privacy notices and terms. When you leave our website or complete a booking through an Expedia Group property, that company controls its own data practices.

You may control nonessential Expedia affiliate cookies through our cookie-preference tool and browser settings. Blocking or deleting cookies may prevent a booking from being credited to us.

11. CJ Affiliate Tracking

Getaway to Murder may participate in affiliate-marketing programs administered through CJ Affiliate.

When you click a CJ affiliate link, CJ Affiliate, the participating advertiser, or both may use cookies, pixels, tracking links, tags, device identifiers, and similar technologies to record the referral and determine whether a qualifying purchase, booking, registration, lead, or other transaction occurs.

CJ primarily processes pseudonymous information. This may include:

• Cookie identifiers
• Internet Protocol addresses
• Hashed email addresses
• Mobile advertising identifiers
• Browser and device information
• Referring and current webpage addresses
• Clicks and advertising impressions
• Approximate location
• Order or transaction identifiers
• Transaction dates and timestamps
• Limited purchase, booking, or transaction information

A hashed email address is transformed into a coded identifier but may still be treated as personal information under applicable privacy laws.

CJ may use this information for:

• Referral and transaction attribution
• Commission calculation and administration
• Cross-device reporting
• Analytics and audience insights
• Fraud detection
• Auditing
• Security
• Debugging
• Product development
• Technology and service improvement

Cross-device reporting may allow CJ to connect a referral across different browsers or devices. For example, a visitor may click a link on one device and complete a qualifying transaction later on another.

CJ may share pseudonymous or aggregated information with participating advertisers, publishers, promotional partners, sponsors, companies affiliated with CJ or Publicis Groupe, technology providers, fraud-prevention providers, regulators, and other parties described in CJ’s privacy notices.

According to CJ’s Services Privacy Notice, CJ may retain pseudonymized information collected through its services for up to six years. Aggregated or de-identified information may be retained longer.

You may control nonessential CJ technologies through our cookie-preference controls and browser settings. Blocking or deleting these technologies may prevent a transaction from being credited to Getaway to Murder.

CJ’s collection, use, sharing, retention, and protection of information are governed by CJ’s own privacy notices.

12. Sponsored Content and Paid Clues

Getaway to Murder may publish sponsored or compensated content.

Where appropriate, sponsored articles, paid placements, complimentary products or services, affiliate relationships, and other material connections will be disclosed.

An advertiser’s payment or provision of a product or service does not necessarily mean that Getaway to Murder endorses every aspect of that advertiser, product, event, or service.

13. Email Communications

When you subscribe to our communications, we and our email-service provider may process:

• Your name and email address
• Subscription status
• Date and source of subscription
• Email delivery information
• Opens and link clicks, where enabled

We may send newsletters, event alerts, featured mysteries, new listings, promotions, and other requested updates.

You may unsubscribe at any time using the link included in each marketing email. We may retain limited suppression information so that we can honor your request and avoid sending future marketing messages.

14. Embedded Content and Third-Party Features

Pages may include embedded videos, maps, social posts, images, event widgets, ticketing tools, advertisements, or other third-party content.

Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly. The provider may collect information, place cookies, and monitor your interaction, particularly when you are logged into an account with that provider.

Third-party social-sharing buttons may also transmit information to the applicable social network.

15. Who May Receive Information

Depending on how you use the website, information may be disclosed to:

• Website-hosting and maintenance providers
• Email-marketing providers
• Analytics providers
• Google and its advertising or measurement partners
• Amazon and other affiliate merchants
• Expedia Group and its affiliated travel brands
• CJ Affiliate and participating advertisers
• Other advertising and affiliate networks
• Spam-detection and website-security providers
• Event, ticketing, venue, and travel partners
• Form and database providers
• Professional advisors, such as attorneys or accountants
• Government authorities or other parties when legally required
• A successor involved in a merger, sale, restructuring, or transfer of the website or business

We do not exchange newsletter email addresses with unrelated businesses for their independent email-marketing campaigns.

We do not knowingly sell personal information for money. However, certain digital advertising or affiliate activities may be legally classified as “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or a “sale” under some privacy laws.

Where applicable, you may opt out through our cookie controls or by contacting us.

16. Following Links to Third-Party Websites

Event listings and articles may link to organizers, venues, ticketing platforms, Amazon, Expedia Group, hotels, travel providers, advertisers, and other third parties.

Getaway to Murder generally does not host, organize, operate, or control the listed events unless expressly stated.

Once you leave our website, the trail leads to a third party. That third party controls its own privacy practices, security measures, prices, policies, and terms.

Please review those policies before submitting information, purchasing tickets, making a booking, or completing another transaction.

17. How Long Information May Remain in the Case File

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

• Operate the website
• Maintain event listings
• Respond to submissions and inquiries
• Manage subscriptions and comments
• Meet legal, accounting, or recordkeeping requirements
• Resolve disputes
• Enforce agreements and policies

Comments and published event information may be retained indefinitely unless removed. Subscription information may be retained until you unsubscribe, after which limited suppression records may be kept.

Third parties, including Google, Amazon, Expedia Group, CJ Affiliate, advertisers, merchants, and other affiliate networks, determine their own retention periods under their respective privacy policies.

18. Protecting the Evidence

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, communication method, advertising system, tracking platform, or electronic storage system is completely secure.

We cannot guarantee absolute security.

19. Your Privacy Rights and Choices

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Request access to information about you
• Correct inaccurate information
• Request deletion
• Obtain a portable copy of certain information
• Restrict or object to certain processing
• Withdraw consent
• Opt out of marketing communications
• Opt out of certain personalized advertising, targeted advertising, sale, or sharing
• Appeal the denial of a privacy request
• Complain to an appropriate privacy regulator

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Exceptions may apply where information must be retained for legal, security, administrative, archival, fraud-prevention, or free-expression purposes.

Google, Amazon, Expedia Group, CJ Affiliate, and other third parties may require you to contact them directly to exercise rights concerning information they independently control.

20. Children’s Privacy

Getaway to Murder 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. A parent or legal guardian who believes a child submitted personal information may contact us to request its deletion.

Advertising and affiliate technologies must not be configured to knowingly transmit personal information concerning children in violation of applicable law or provider requirements.

21. International Visitors and Data Transfers

Getaway to Murder operates from the United States.

Information may be processed or stored in the United States or other countries where our service providers, advertising partners, affiliate networks, or other vendors operate.

Those countries may have privacy and data-protection laws that differ from the laws in your location.

22. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Signals

There is no universally accepted standard for responding to every browser “Do Not Track” signal.

Where legally required and technically supported, we may recognize applicable browser-based opt-out signals, including the Global Privacy Control.

23. Changes to This Privacy Policy

New clues, technologies, advertising services, affiliate relationships, legal requirements, or website features may require us to update this Privacy Policy.

When we revise the policy, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.

24. Contact the Investigators

For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, contact:

Getaway to Murder
Website: https://getawaytomurder.com
Contact page: https://getawaytomurder.com/contact/