What is shared and what stays private
Public stop information
A participating home’s exact street address appears during the published event window. Approved public activities show their venue. Home addresses are hidden after the published cutoff. Home listing pages ask search engines not to index or archive them.
Private registration and host access
Your name, email and phone are not shown on your home listing. Photos need your permission. Photos from homes on the Twin Hills address list appear right away, and the event team can remove any photo. Lost or accidentally shared sign-in links can be replaced or turned off.
Private favorites and community voting
Favorites are private and do not count as votes. Everyone in a household can vote. For each home, a household's first three ratings count, and a member who earned a visit level can replace a lower-weight one. Each voter's latest rating counts, including for their own home. Signing in on another device keeps the same profile. Votes are subject to fairness checks. Public results never identify voters or addresses. While voting is open, if you allow location, this site receives your phone's location while voting, Live Walk or Ghost Hunt is open, so a rating made at a home counts as in person. Location points are deleted within two days; only the homes you were confirmed at, and when, are kept for this season.
Live Walk and your digital ghost collection
Walking Ghost Hunt uses location while the page is visible and does not send it to the site; Live Walk keeps its trail on your device. For walking points, after you tap Start Walk your phone sends its location so the distance can be checked; the site keeps only the distance and clears the last position when you stop or at 9 PM. A phone set up to vote also sends its location while voting is open so ratings made at a home count as in person; those points are deleted within two days. Map services receive the map area you view. Seated play needs no location. Family team members with your private code share game names and collected ghosts, not locations. The leaderboard shows names and totals.
Terms of use and map services
Use this neighborhood guide to find participating homes and follow their published hours and access instructions. Participation allows visitors to approach the hosted activity, not to use the property as a shortcut.
Google Maps features are subject to the Google Maps and Google Earth Additional Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy. Map use sends requests to Google. Choosing View Street View sends the selected public home address to Google for a historical image. It opens only when you choose, is separate from contest photos and is not stored or cached by this site.
To join voting, enter your Twin Hills home address and last name. We check the address against the HOA’s property list. Your address and last name stay private. Family members do not need matching last names. A cookie keeps you signed in on this browser. Adding an email is optional and helps you recover the same profile on another device. The address check does not prove ownership or residency.
We keep private records of the IP addresses used for household registration, sign-in and voting to help protect accounts and voting. A shared connection does not prove that people live together. IP records expire after 30 days or at the event’s privacy cutoff, whichever comes first. Family invitations share household membership, not another person’s profile or home-management access.
Your home-management cookie keeps this browser signed in. Family management links grant access to trusted people you choose; you can revoke their access in Manage My Stop. They are separate from public home links and voting.
How we measure the site
We use Google Analytics to count visits and see where people get stuck, such as which registration step they stop on or which field shows an error. It receives page addresses without personal details, step numbers, field names and error messages. It never receives what you type, your name, email, phone, address, location or votes. Flyer QR codes carry a short tag so we can tell which flyer brought you here. Your browser keeps that tag for up to 45 days and sends it with a registration, and our own server counts tagged visits by day using a scrambled code made from your network and browser, never your address. Those counts are deleted within 120 days, and the tag on a registration is deleted at the privacy cutoff after Halloween.
After Halloween
Home addresses are hidden at the published cutoff. Old sign-in links expire, and contact details and photos are removed according to the HOA’s event policy.