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Updated 9 November 2026. Questions or data requests: hello@murdetective.com.

Case Zero and announcements

When you request Case Zero, we first email a verification link. Confirming that request provides the download, sends an email copy and activates your subscription to MURDETECTIVE case announcements, including Case One, as disclosed beside the form. No account, password or payment details are needed to download the book. We store your email address, subscription status, the version of the enrollment notice, request and confirmation timestamps and email delivery reference. Unconfirmed requests remain pending and do not join the active newsletter list.

Subscription emails include an unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing removes your subscription record from our database. It does not delete your hints account. Confirmation links expire after 24 hours. Expired pending requests are removed when a subsequent request is processed.

Your free hints account

Hints, answer checks and the Case Zero resolution require an email-and-password account with a verified email address. We store your email, a salted and protected password hash, account creation and verification dates, the terms version you accepted and its acceptance time. We do not store your password in readable form. Verification and password-reset tokens are stored as hashes and expire. Resetting your password invalidates existing signed-in sessions.

An essential, secure account cookie keeps you signed in for up to 30 days. It is used for authentication, not advertising. The server stores a hash of the session token and its expiry. Sign out to end the current session. You can delete your account from My account after confirming your password, with a separate choice to remove your newsletter subscription too. Creating a hints account by itself does not change newsletter preferences.

Messages and investigation activity

Contact enquiries send your name, email, topic and message through Resend to our Zoho mailbox, hello@murdetective.com. We use your email to reply. A contact message does not subscribe you to announcements. The website does not keep a separate database of contact messages; messages remain in our email services while we handle enquiries. Contact us to request their deletion.

Hints are revealed only when you choose them. We do not store your investigation notes or conclusions. No advertising trackers have been added by the site creator.

Services, retention and security

The site and account/subscription database run on Cloudflare. Resend processes email addresses and messages to deliver requested case files, account verification, password recovery and announcements. Zoho hosts our contact mailbox. These providers may process data outside your country and retain their own delivery and security logs.

We keep account records until account deletion and subscription records until unsubscribe. Expired sessions and temporary abuse-prevention records are cleaned during subsequent requests; expired tokens cannot be used. Temporary salted digests of request information limit abuse; this application does not save raw IP addresses in its account or subscription database. Hosting and email providers may maintain separate security logs and backups, so removing an application record does not promise immediate removal from every provider backup.

You may contact us to request access, correction or deletion of your information. We may need to verify ownership before fulfilling a request. Cloudflare privacy policy · Resend privacy policy · Zoho privacy policy.