Please read these Privacy Policy carefully before using the https://lucidcreations.media/ website (the “Service”) operated by Lucid Creations Media (Lucid’s Writing Website – Lucid Creations Cove – The Cove) (“us”, “we”, or “our”).

Our website is https://lucidcreations.media/ and it’s sole purpose is to host the work of Lucid’s writing projects, commissions, and to sell his hypnosis files. It is also to allow you to purchase, comment on, rate, and review said work by using your website account.

If you have any questions or concerns about this policy or would like to know more information you may reach out to us in our Discord server.

Upon signing up you are required to enter a name, which doesn’t have to be your real name, and your email address.

We collect your billing address and payment information during checkout through our eShop. This information is used to: calculate tax, verify the billing address provided with the card provider, and to have our our payment processing service verify if funds are available and then transfer funds from you to us.

To learn more about who our payment processing service is and how we calculate sales tax in the who and where we send your data section.

We collect a name or alias to know how to identify you. We collect your email address to verify you are not a bot by having you activate your new account with a link sent to the email you provide to use. This email can also be used to send you order confirmations, notifications about your account on the website, updates to our Terms of Service or Privacy Policy, and you may use it to opt-in to email notifications about new posts within the website.

We use an age gate system to keep minors from accessing certain restricted content. This form only collects the date of birth you provide and doesn’t store it anywhere on your account or in the site. If the submitted date of birth is older than 18 then you will be granted access to the content, if it is not over 18 you will not be allowed to access that content or any other adult content on the website. When submitting this form a cookie is created so the age gate system can remember if you are older than 18. This cookie is cleared after the session is closed unless the user opts for the “remember me” function, then the cookie will be saved for 365 days.

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

In the community

Currently we do not host or provide any internal systems or platforms for the community. We fully rely on other platforms and services for our community. Here are the list of services we use and their individual privacy policies:

Telegram Privacy Policy
Discord Privacy Policy
Ko-fi Privacy Policy

Age Verification

Within our Telegram Communities you may be asked for you age, date of birth, or both when joining NSFW/18+ groups. We do this because Telegram has no age checks built into their platform and don’t appear to accept or handle underage user reports.

Under normal circumstances we do not share age or dob information with anyone unless a user is found to be under the age of 18 while in one of our NSFW/18+ groups, in which case we reserve the right to report this information and the user’s age to other Telegram admins, and other Telegram communities, and networks to help keep the NSFW/18+ side of Telegram safe.

We store your age, date of birth, or both depending on which you provided within an internal admin log that all community admins have access to. The purpose of this is to be able to cross reference in the event of an investigation, report, or when a user verifies age more than once. Such as in the event the user has left the community for a period of time then joins again.

ID Checks – Why we Check – When We Check

In some instances you may be asked for ID during the Age Verification process as an extra precautionary measure. You may also be asked for ID in the event you are reported to be underage and we have enough evidence to substantiate the report.

When conducting an ID check we expect a valid photo identification and a face pic to compare to the provided identification.

We highly recommend you not only secure the transmission of these items with Telegram’s built-in encryption, but censor out any personal information such as real name, address, social security number, ID number, etc. You can securely share images through Telegram using secret chats or by setting an image to self destruct while creating the message.

We do not store or share these images anywhere under any circumstances. Not even within internal admin messages or logs.

For the safety of this website and any users within we rely on 3rd party services such as Google’s ReCaptcha, Akismet, and SolidSecurity, to automatically detect and prevent spam, attacks, and any other malicious activity during account registration, login and logout requests, when a user submits a comment, and any requests for suspicious URLs.

We anonymously track website analytic data through Google Analytics. (your ip is anonymized by our website before being sent to Google’s servers)

Here are Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s Terms of Use for the ReCaptcha and analytics services we use.

More information about the 3rd party services we use, including their individual privacy policies, can be found in the Plugins Section on the privacy policy.

We collect billing address and payment information during checkout through our eShop. The billing address provided is used to automatically calculate the appropriate tax with Jetpack through WooCommerece and both billing and payment information is sent to our payment processing service, Stripe, where they will: verify the billing address provided with the card provider, verify if funds are available, transfer funds from you to us, and send confirmation of payment back to us.

Here are the privacy polices for Jetpack, WooCommerce, and Stripe.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

We retain any pending, failed, or cancelled orders for 6 months. We retain completed orders indefinitely. This information is used purely for analytical purposes.

When you register for the site, you may be asked to provide certain personal data for display on your profile. The “Name” field is required as well as public, and user profiles are visible to any site visitor. Other profile information may be required or optional, as configured by the site administrator.

User information provided during account registration can be modified or removed on the Profile > Edit panel. In most cases, users also have control over who is able to view a particular piece of profile content, limiting visibility on a field-by-field basis to friends, logged-in users, or administrators only. Site administrators can read and edit all profile data for all users

We use a cookie to show success and failure messages to logged-in users, in response to certain actions, like joining a group. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted immediately after the next page load.

We use cookies on group, member, and activity directories to keep track of a user’s browsing preferences. These preferences include the last-selected values of the sort and filter dropdowns, as well as pagination information. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted after 24 hours.