Terms of Use

These terms apply to the Hollow Creek website (the “town”). The town is run by Michal Halabrín, a private individual, Slovak Republic, operator of Night Advisory (“we”). By claiming a house or signing in, you agree to these terms.

What Hollow Creek is

Hollow Creek is a fictional town and an interactive horror story. Every follower of @nightadvisory can claim one house. Something walks the streets at night and the story decides which lit houses it visits. Residents who are “taken” or “missing” are characters in a story. Nothing on the site describes real events, real danger or real people beyond the public name you chose to put on your mailbox. The content is spooky and meant for ages 16 and over.

Who can take part

• You must be at least 16 years old.
• One house per person. Use your own Instagram name. Don’t claim houses for other people or use someone else’s name.
• Houses are meant for followers of @nightadvisory.

Names on mailboxes

Your Instagram name is shown publicly. It must not be offensive, hateful, sexual, threatening, or impersonate another person, brand or Night Advisory. We filter names automatically and may hide a name, reassign or remove a house without notice if a name breaks these rules or someone proves the name is theirs. If someone took your name, send HOUSE in a direct message to @nightadvisory or email us.

Your resident and Night Advisory content

You keep any rights you have in your name. You give us a free, non-exclusive, worldwide permission to show your Instagram name, house and resident on the site and in Night Advisory content (videos, Reels, Shorts, posts, thumbnails and their descriptions) on any platform, for as long as you live in the town. That includes story events, for example the creature visiting your house. If you give up your house or delete your account, we stop using your name in new content. Content published before that can stay online. There are no prizes, no payments and no gambling: who the creature visits is a story decision.

Our content

The town, map, houses, characters, artwork, story and code belong to us. Please don’t copy them, except sharing your house and screenshots for personal, non-commercial use, which we love.

Things you must not do

• Use bots, scripts or many devices to claim houses or get around the limits.
• Try to break, overload or reverse-engineer the site, or access other people’s accounts.
• Use the site to harass anyone.

Reports, moderation and complaints

You can report a name with Report this name on any house, or by email at support@nightadvisory.net. We review reports and decide whether to hide or remove the name or house. If we act against your house, we tell you why when we can reach you (for example through your account email), and you can ask us to look again by replying or writing to the same address. Under the EU Digital Services Act you may also turn to a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body or to the courts.

Leaving

You can give up your house or delete your account at any time on the site. We may remove houses or accounts that break these terms, and we may close or change the town, for example when the story ends.

No guarantees

The town is a free, experimental project provided “as is”. It can be offline, change or lose data. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect damage or lost data. Nothing here limits your rights as a consumer under mandatory law, or our liability for intent or gross negligence.

Not affiliated

Hollow Creek and Night Advisory are not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Instagram, Meta, YouTube or Google.

Law and changes

These terms are governed by Slovak law. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live. If we change these terms, we update the date at the top; if you keep using the town, the new terms apply.

Privacy: see the Privacy Policy. Contact: Contact.