Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 2, 2026

Let’s Scream (“Let’s Scream,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, disclosed, stored, and otherwise processed when you visit LetsScream.com or interact with websites, pages, content, features, communications, and services operated by Let’s Scream (collectively, the “Site”).

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through the Site and through related interactions with Let’s Scream, such as when you contact us, subscribe to communications, participate in a promotion, or otherwise interact with us.

By using the Site, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Who We Are

Let’s Scream is an entertainment and pop-culture publication covering movies, television, video games, theme parks, entertainment, food, collectibles, and other topics.

Our website is:

LetsScream.com

Privacy-related questions or requests may be sent to:

privacy@letsscream.com

2. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with the Site and which features and services are enabled.

Information You Provide

You may voluntarily provide information when you:

  • contact Let’s Scream;
  • send us a news tip or other message;
  • subscribe to a newsletter or mailing list;
  • enter a contest, sweepstakes, or giveaway;
  • participate in a survey or promotion;
  • submit content;
  • communicate with us through social media; or
  • otherwise interact with the Site.

Depending on the interaction, this information may include:

  • your name;
  • email address;
  • mailing address;
  • social-media username;
  • message contents;
  • subscription preferences;
  • contest or promotion information; and
  • other information you choose to provide.

Please do not send sensitive personal information unless it is specifically requested and necessary for the applicable interaction.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Site, we and service providers that assist us may automatically collect certain technical and usage information.

This information may include:

  • IP address;
  • browser type and version;
  • device type;
  • operating system;
  • referring website or page;
  • pages and articles viewed;
  • links clicked;
  • dates and times of visits;
  • approximate geographic location derived from an IP address;
  • time spent on pages;
  • advertising identifiers;
  • cookie identifiers;
  • general device and network information;
  • information about how you navigate and interact with the Site; and
  • other similar technical and usage information.

This information may be collected through server logs, cookies, pixels, web beacons, scripts, local storage, and similar technologies.

3. How We Use Information

We may use information collected through the Site to:

  • provide, operate, maintain, and improve the Site;
  • publish and deliver articles, videos, features, and other content;
  • understand how visitors use the Site;
  • measure readership, traffic, and engagement;
  • identify popular content;
  • improve Site design and performance;
  • diagnose technical problems;
  • remember preferences;
  • respond to inquiries and messages;
  • operate newsletters or other communications;
  • administer contests, sweepstakes, giveaways, and promotions;
  • display, personalize, and measure advertising where permitted;
  • measure affiliate or commercial referrals;
  • detect and prevent fraud, spam, abuse, and security incidents;
  • enforce our Terms of Use;
  • protect our rights and the rights of others;
  • comply with legal obligations; and
  • establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

We may also use information for other purposes disclosed when information is collected or with your consent where required.

4. Comments and Public Accounts

Let’s Scream does not currently require visitors to create public user accounts in order to read Site content.

If public comments, user accounts, community features, or similar functionality are introduced, additional information may be collected to operate those features, such as names, usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, account information, and submitted content.

This Privacy Policy may be updated if those features materially change how information is collected or used.

5. Media and User Uploads

If Let’s Scream allows users to upload photographs, videos, files, or other media in the future, those files may contain embedded metadata.

For example, photographs can contain location information or other metadata depending on the device and software used to create them.

Users should remove information they do not want disclosed before submitting media intended for public publication.

Material intentionally submitted for publication may become publicly accessible.

6. Contact Forms and Direct Communications

If you contact Let’s Scream through a contact form, email address, or similar communication method, we may collect the information you provide, including your name, email address, message contents, and related information.

We generally use this information to:

  • respond to your inquiry;
  • provide requested information;
  • review news tips or submissions;
  • maintain necessary correspondence;
  • prevent spam or abuse; and
  • maintain records where reasonably necessary.

We do not use the contents of ordinary customer-service or editorial inquiries for unrelated marketing unless you separately consent to receive marketing communications.

Contact communications may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to the matter, maintain appropriate business records, resolve disputes, or satisfy legal obligations.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The Site may use cookies and similar technologies to operate Site features, remember preferences, measure audience activity, provide analytics, prevent fraud, support advertising, and improve performance.

Cookies are small data files that websites and service providers may store on your browser or device.

Cookies and similar technologies may include:

  • essential or functional cookies;
  • security cookies;
  • analytics and measurement cookies;
  • advertising cookies;
  • personalization cookies;
  • affiliate-tracking technologies;
  • social-media technologies; and
  • technologies associated with embedded third-party content.

Some technologies may be placed directly by Let’s Scream. Others may be placed or read by third parties.

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may be presented with controls that allow you to accept, reject, or manage certain categories of cookies and similar technologies.

You may also manage cookies through your browser settings. Blocking or deleting cookies may affect the operation of certain Site features.

8. Google Analytics

Let’s Scream may use Google Analytics 4 (“Google Analytics”), an analytics service provided by Google, to understand how visitors use the Site.

Google Analytics may collect information including:

  • pages viewed;
  • sessions and visits;
  • approximate geographic location;
  • browser information;
  • device information;
  • referring sources;
  • interactions with Site features;
  • engagement information; and
  • other technical and usage information.

Google Analytics may use first-party cookies to distinguish users and sessions. These may include cookies commonly identified as:

  • _ga; and
  • _ga_<identifier>.

Google Analytics may also process technical identifiers and other measurement information according to its configuration and applicable user-consent choices.

We use Analytics information to understand Site readership, measure performance, identify popular content, diagnose problems, and improve the Site.

Where legally required, analytics storage or other analytics technologies will be controlled based on the visitor’s consent choices.

Information collected through Google Analytics is subject to Google’s applicable terms, privacy practices, security measures, and data-processing terms.

9. Google Consent Mode and Privacy Choices

The Site may use Google Consent Mode or similar technology in conjunction with a cookie or consent-management interface.

Consent Mode allows supported Google services to adjust their behavior based on a visitor’s privacy choices.

Depending on our configuration and applicable law, consent choices may include controls relating to:

  • analytics storage;
  • advertising storage;
  • advertising user data;
  • advertising personalization;
  • functionality;
  • personalization; and
  • security-related storage.

Where required by law, users will be given an appropriate opportunity to make applicable consent choices.

Depending on the consent implementation used, some Google tags may be prevented from loading until consent is provided, or may operate in a limited manner when consent is denied.

10. Advertising and Google AdSense

Let’s Scream may display advertising supplied by third-party advertising providers, including Google AdSense and other Google advertising services.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, advertising identifiers, device information, and similar technologies as a result of advertisements being served or advertising code being present on the Site.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user’s prior visits to Let’s Scream or other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve advertisements based on a user’s visit to the Site and/or other websites and applications.

Advertising technologies may be used for purposes including:

  • serving advertisements;
  • selecting relevant advertisements;
  • personalized advertising where permitted;
  • non-personalized advertising;
  • limiting how often an advertisement is shown;
  • measuring advertising performance;
  • detecting invalid traffic and fraud;
  • producing aggregated advertising reports; and
  • improving advertising services.

Even when advertisements are not personalized based on past browsing activity, advertising providers may still use cookies or similar technologies for functions such as frequency capping, aggregated reporting, security, and fraud prevention.

Users may control certain Google advertising personalization choices through Google’s advertising and privacy controls.

Where legally required, advertising technologies that require consent will not be used until appropriate consent has been obtained.

11. Personalized and Non-Personalized Advertising

Advertising displayed on Let’s Scream may be personalized or non-personalized depending on:

  • the visitor’s location;
  • applicable law;
  • consent choices;
  • browser or device settings; and
  • our advertising configuration.

Personalized advertising may use previously collected information such as browsing activity, interests, approximate location, or interactions with websites and applications to influence ad selection.

Non-personalized advertising does not use a user’s prior behavior for ad targeting but may use contextual information such as the content of the current page, general location, or current request.

Non-personalized advertising may still use cookies or identifiers for purposes including frequency capping, aggregated reporting, fraud prevention, and measurement.

12. Google Search Console

Let’s Scream may use Google Search Console to understand how the Site appears and performs in Google Search.

Search Console provides website owners with information such as:

  • search queries that resulted in impressions or visits;
  • clicks from Google Search;
  • search-result impressions;
  • general search position information;
  • indexed pages;
  • crawling and indexing information;
  • device categories;
  • countries or regions;
  • technical Site issues; and
  • other search-performance information.

Search Console is different from visitor analytics software placed on the Site. Using Search Console to verify ownership of LetsScream.com or review search-performance reports does not, by itself, mean that Let’s Scream places an additional Search Console analytics cookie on Site visitors.

Google generates Search Console information through its search, crawling, indexing, and search-result systems and applies its own privacy protections to the information it reports.

13. Other Google Services

Let’s Scream may use additional Google services in connection with operating, measuring, promoting, securing, or monetizing the Site.

Where a Google service results in information being collected directly from Site visitors, we will provide disclosures and privacy controls appropriate to that service and applicable law.

We do not knowingly send information to Google through Analytics or advertising products that Google prohibits publishers from providing as personally identifiable information.

14. Targeted Advertising, Sale, and Sharing

Some U.S. privacy laws define terms such as “sale,” “sharing,” and “targeted advertising” broadly.

These definitions may include disclosures of identifiers, cookie data, device information, or internet activity to advertising or analytics companies even where no money is exchanged specifically for that information.

Let’s Scream does not knowingly sell personal information in exchange for money.

However, our use of advertising or analytics technologies could constitute a “sale,” “sharing,” or processing for “targeted advertising” under certain state privacy laws.

Where applicable law provides a right to opt out of these practices, eligible users will be provided an appropriate method to exercise that right.

This may include a:

  • “Your Privacy Choices” link;
  • “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link;
  • cookie or privacy-preferences interface; or
  • recognized browser-based opt-out preference signal.

15. Global Privacy Control

Some browsers and browser extensions support Global Privacy Control (“GPC”), which allows a user to communicate certain privacy preferences automatically.

Where applicable law requires us to recognize GPC or another legally recognized opt-out preference signal, we will process supported signals as required by law.

A GPC signal may apply only to the browser or device from which the signal is received unless applicable law requires otherwise.

16. Affiliate Links

Some Let’s Scream articles or pages may include affiliate links.

If you click an affiliate link and purchase a product or complete another qualifying transaction, Let’s Scream may receive a commission or other compensation.

Affiliate networks, retailers, and other partners may use cookies or similar technologies to determine whether a referral or transaction originated from Let’s Scream.

These third parties process information according to their own policies.

17. Sponsored Content and Commercial Partnerships

Let’s Scream may publish sponsored content, branded content, paid promotions, or other material produced in connection with a commercial relationship.

Advertising and sponsorship partners may receive information relating to campaign performance, such as aggregated impressions, clicks, or engagement.

Where required by law or applicable advertising standards, sponsored or paid content will be appropriately identified.

18. Newsletters and Email Communications

If you subscribe to a Let’s Scream newsletter or other email communication, we may collect information such as:

  • email address;
  • name, if provided;
  • subscription preferences; and
  • information about interactions with our emails.

We may use an email service provider to manage subscriptions and distribute messages.

Such providers may use technologies to determine whether messages were delivered, opened, or clicked.

You may unsubscribe from promotional email communications using the unsubscribe mechanism included in those messages.

We may retain necessary suppression information after an unsubscribe request so that we can honor the request.

19. Contests, Sweepstakes, and Giveaways

Let’s Scream may occasionally conduct contests, sweepstakes, giveaways, or similar promotions.

If you participate, we may collect information necessary to administer the promotion, including:

  • name;
  • email address;
  • mailing address;
  • social-media information;
  • age or eligibility information;
  • contest-entry information; and
  • other information described in the applicable promotion.

Individual promotions may have separate Official Rules and additional privacy disclosures.

Information may be provided to sponsors, fulfillment providers, prize suppliers, shipping providers, or other service providers as reasonably necessary to administer the promotion or deliver a prize.

20. Embedded Content

Articles and pages may contain embedded content supplied by third-party services.

Examples may include:

  • YouTube videos;
  • social-media posts;
  • trailers;
  • audio players;
  • images;
  • widgets; and
  • interactive features.

When third-party content loads or when you interact with it, the provider may receive information such as your IP address, device information, browser information, cookies, or information about your interaction.

Third-party providers may use cookies or similar technologies according to their own policies.

Your interactions with embedded services are subject to the policies and terms of the applicable provider.

21. Social Media

Let’s Scream may maintain accounts and pages on third-party social-media platforms.

When you interact with Let’s Scream through one of those platforms, information may be processed by both Let’s Scream and the applicable platform.

Your use of third-party social-media services is governed by their respective privacy policies and terms.

22. External Links

The Site contains links to websites and services operated by third parties.

We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, products, or services of third-party websites.

We encourage users to review the privacy policies of third-party websites and services they visit.

23. Who We Share Information With

We may disclose information to companies and individuals that provide services to Let’s Scream or assist us in operating the Site.

These may include providers of:

  • website hosting and infrastructure;
  • content delivery;
  • website security;
  • analytics and audience measurement;
  • advertising;
  • consent management;
  • email and newsletters;
  • affiliate tracking;
  • contest administration;
  • social-media functionality;
  • video and embedded media;
  • cloud services; and
  • other technology or business services.

Depending on which services are enabled, these providers may include Google and other third-party service providers.

We may also disclose information:

  • when you request or consent to the disclosure;
  • where reasonably necessary to provide a requested feature;
  • to investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or unlawful activity;
  • to enforce our agreements or policies;
  • to comply with law, regulation, subpoenas, court orders, or other lawful legal process;
  • to establish, exercise, or defend legal rights;
  • to protect the rights, property, or safety of Let’s Scream, our users, or others; or
  • in connection with a merger, sale, acquisition, restructuring, financing, transfer, or other business transaction.

We may also disclose aggregated, anonymized, or deidentified information that does not reasonably identify an individual.

24. Information We Receive From Third Parties

We may receive information from third-party service providers or business partners in connection with operating the Site.

This can include:

  • analytics and audience reports;
  • advertising reports;
  • affiliate conversion information;
  • search-performance information;
  • newsletter engagement information;
  • contest or promotion information;
  • fraud and security information; and
  • aggregated or statistical information.

For example, advertising providers may report aggregated advertising performance, Google Analytics may provide audience and traffic information, and Google Search Console may provide search-performance information.

25. How Long We Retain Information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or as otherwise permitted or required by law.

Retention periods depend on factors such as:

  • the type of information;
  • why the information was collected;
  • whether an ongoing relationship exists;
  • applicable provider settings;
  • security and fraud-prevention needs;
  • legal obligations;
  • applicable statutes of limitation; and
  • the need to establish, exercise, or defend legal rights.

For example:

  • ordinary correspondence may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to the matter and maintain appropriate records;
  • newsletter subscription information may be retained while the subscription remains active and as necessary afterward to honor unsubscribe requests;
  • contest records may be retained as necessary to administer the promotion and comply with legal obligations;
  • security logs may be retained for an appropriate period for fraud prevention, troubleshooting, and Site security;
  • analytics information is retained according to our configured analytics settings and the applicable provider’s retention practices; and
  • information required for legal, accounting, regulatory, or dispute-resolution purposes may be retained longer where necessary.

We may retain anonymized, aggregated, or deidentified information for longer periods where permitted by law.

26. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and whether a particular law applies, you may have rights relating to personal information.

These may include the right to:

  • know whether we process personal information about you;
  • request access to personal information;
  • request correction of inaccurate information;
  • request deletion of certain information;
  • request a portable copy of certain information;
  • object to or restrict certain processing;
  • withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
  • opt out of certain sales or sharing;
  • opt out of targeted advertising;
  • limit certain uses of sensitive personal information;
  • appeal certain privacy-request decisions where required; and
  • lodge a complaint with an appropriate data-protection authority.

These rights vary by jurisdiction and may be subject to legal limitations and exceptions.

To submit a privacy request, contact: privacy@letsscream.com

We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.

Where permitted by law, an authorized agent may submit certain requests on your behalf.

We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights provided by applicable law.

27. California Privacy Rights

California residents may have additional rights under applicable California privacy laws.

Depending on whether applicable legal requirements and thresholds apply to Let’s Scream, these may include the right to:

  • know what personal information has been collected;
  • know the sources from which it was collected;
  • know the purposes for which information is used;
  • know categories of third parties to whom information has been disclosed;
  • request correction;
  • request deletion;
  • obtain certain personal information;
  • opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information;
  • limit certain uses of sensitive personal information; and
  • exercise rights without unlawful discrimination.

Advertising technologies can sometimes constitute “selling” or “sharing” under California law even where personal information is not directly exchanged for money.

Let’s Scream does not knowingly sell personal information in exchange for money.

Where our activities constitute a sale or sharing under applicable California law, eligible users will be provided an appropriate method for exercising applicable opt-out rights.

28. European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Similar Jurisdictions

Visitors located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom, Switzerland, and certain other jurisdictions may have additional rights under applicable privacy laws.

Where those laws apply, our processing may rely on one or more lawful bases, including:

  • consent;
  • performance of a contract;
  • compliance with a legal obligation;
  • our legitimate interests;
  • protection of legal rights; or
  • another basis permitted by law.

Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to:

  • access personal data;
  • correct inaccurate data;
  • request deletion;
  • request restriction of processing;
  • object to certain processing;
  • withdraw consent;
  • obtain certain data in portable form; and
  • lodge a complaint with a data-protection authority.

Where consent is legally required for analytics, advertising, or similar technologies, appropriate consent controls will be provided.

29. International Data Transfers

Let’s Scream is operated from the United States.

Information collected through the Site may be processed or stored in the United States or other countries in which our service providers operate.

Data-protection laws in those countries may differ from the laws where you live.

Where applicable law requires safeguards for transfers of personal information outside a particular jurisdiction, we and/or our applicable service providers may rely on lawful transfer mechanisms such as:

  • adequacy decisions;
  • Standard Contractual Clauses;
  • applicable data-privacy frameworks;
  • contractual safeguards; or
  • other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.

30. Automated Processing and Profiling

Let’s Scream does not currently use automated decision-making to make decisions about individuals that produce legal or similarly significant effects, such as decisions about employment, credit, insurance, housing, or eligibility for essential services.

Advertising and analytics providers may use automated systems to categorize interests, measure audiences, detect fraud, or select advertising where permitted.

For example, personalized advertising may involve automated processing of browsing activity or inferred interests to determine which advertisements are displayed.

Where applicable law provides rights regarding such processing, eligible users may exercise those rights through the privacy controls made available on the Site or by contacting us.

31. How We Protect Information

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information under our control.

Depending on the system involved, these measures may include:

  • encrypted network connections;
  • access controls;
  • authentication measures;
  • restricted administrative access;
  • software updates and security maintenance;
  • server and application security controls;
  • backups;
  • monitoring; and
  • other measures appropriate to the nature of the information.

No website, network, transmission system, database, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

32. Data Breach Procedures

If we become aware of a suspected security incident involving personal information, we may take steps appropriate to the circumstances, including:

  • investigating the incident;
  • securing affected systems;
  • limiting further unauthorized access;
  • determining what information may have been affected;
  • working with service providers or security professionals;
  • preserving appropriate records;
  • notifying law enforcement or regulatory authorities where appropriate; and
  • notifying affected individuals when required by applicable law.

33. Children’s Privacy

Let’s Scream is a general-audience entertainment website and is not directed to children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 in a manner requiring parental consent.

We do not knowingly use Google advertising products to target personalized advertising based on activity by users known by us to be under 13.

If we learn that information from a child under 13 has been collected in violation of applicable law, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

Parents or guardians who believe a child has provided personal information in violation of applicable law may contact us at: privacy@letsscream.com

34. Business Transfers

If Let’s Scream or some or all of its business or assets are acquired, sold, merged, reorganized, financed, transferred, or involved in another business transaction, information associated with the Site may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

35. Do Not Track

Some browsers include a traditional “Do Not Track” setting.

Because there is not currently a universally accepted standard governing how all websites should respond to traditional Do Not Track signals, the Site may not respond to those signals.

This does not affect our obligation to recognize Global Privacy Control or another legally recognized opt-out preference signal where required by law.

36. Industry and Regulatory Requirements

Let’s Scream is a general entertainment and media publication and is not intended to provide services in a specially regulated industry such as healthcare, banking, insurance, or consumer credit.

If our business activities change in a manner that creates additional regulatory privacy obligations, we may update this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices accordingly.

37. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in:

  • Site features;
  • technologies;
  • analytics services;
  • advertising providers;
  • business practices;
  • privacy laws; or
  • other operational requirements.

When we revise this Privacy Policy, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.

Where required by law, we may provide additional notice or request consent regarding material changes.

38. Contact Information

For questions about this Privacy Policy or to submit a privacy-related request, contact:

Let’s Scream
Website: letsscream.com
Email: privacy@letsscream.com