The game never asks who you are. To back up your progress, it creates an anonymous account (a random ID, with no name or email) and saves your game progress to our server. There are no ads. The game records anonymous usage events (for example which case you opened or that a hint was used) to help us improve it; you can turn this off in Settings.
CrimeGhost: Detective Mystery ("the game") is made by Yohanes Debebe Yilma ("we", "us"). If you have any question about this policy or your data, email us at yohanes@adulislabs.com.
To save your game, the app stores the following on your phone and backs it up to our server:
This is linked to a random anonymous ID, not to you. We don't sell it or share it with anyone.
The game progress listed above, the random account ID it's stored under, and anonymous usage events (below). There is no advertising and no crash reporting, and the game never asks for your name, email or phone number.
To see which parts of the game work and where players get stuck, the app sends anonymous game events to our analytics provider, PostHog: the app opening, a case being opened, a question answered right or wrong, a hint used, a case solved (with stars), the Premium screen being viewed or a product tapped, a setting changed, and which app inside a case device was opened. Each event carries the same random ID as your cloud save, your device type and app version.
It never includes your name, email, phone number, contacts, location, IP address, what you type as answers, or anything from your phone. There is no screen recording. You can turn usage data off at any time in Settings → Privacy → Share anonymous usage data; the app then sends nothing more. PostHog's privacy policy: posthog.com/privacy
Your progress is stored by our backend provider, Supabase, on our behalf. Data is encrypted in transit. Supabase's privacy policy: supabase.com/privacy
The game never asks for your contacts, photos, location, microphone or camera.
The game has no share features. Nothing you do in it is posted or sent anywhere on your behalf.
The phones and laptops you investigate contain messages, photos, names, phone numbers, addresses and health data. All of it is made up. Any resemblance to real people or companies is coincidental.
The game is meant for players aged 13 and over and is not directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.
In the game, go to Profile → Delete account. That deletes your progress from our server and from your phone straight away. You can also email us, and we'll delete it within 30 days.
Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR in Europe or the CCPA in California), you have the right to ask what personal data we hold about you, and to have it corrected or deleted. The only data we hold is your game progress. Contact us at any time and we'll answer within 30 days.
If we add features such as purchases or account linking, we'll update this policy before those features ship, describe exactly what they collect, and change the date at the top. The current version will always be on this page.
yohanes@adulislabs.com