GhostLab: Dead Channel Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 13, 2026 · Applies to the iPhone, iPad, and Android app “GhostLab: Dead Channel”, which was called GhostLab Signal until September 22, 2026

GhostLab: Dead Channel is a spirit box instrument for entertainment. It plays prerecorded and generated voices at random and records each session on your phone. It has no user accounts and no servers of our own. The app counts how it is used through Google Analytics for Firebase, described under Usage statistics.

Summary

Usage statistics. The app counts how it is used through Google Analytics for Firebase, on iPhone, iPad, and Android. It never sends your recordings, the voices the app plays, anything you type, your name, or your location from GPS.
The microphone is never used. The app does not ask for microphone access and never listens.
No ads in the app and no advertising identifier. Our Google Ads campaigns use the Android usage statistics to measure how they perform, as described under Usage statistics.
No accounts and no sign-in.

Data the app keeps on your device

Session recordings — when you stop a session, the audio the app played is saved in the app’s own storage on your phone, with its date and length. Recordings are never uploaded. Deleting a recording in the Library, or deleting the app, removes them.
Words already heard — so the same words do not keep coming back, the app keeps a list of the words and whispers it has played and when, and holds each one back for an hour (half an hour for the quietest whispers). The list is about the app’s own voices and says nothing about you. Words drop off it after a month, and deleting the app removes it.
Settings — your echo, reverb, white noise, and sweep rate choices are kept on the device so the app opens the way you left it.

Backups

On iPhone and iPad, the app’s files are part of your device backup to iCloud or a computer, when you have backups turned on, like any other app’s. On Android, the app includes only your settings and the start of your free trial in the backup Google keeps for your account, so a reinstall remembers them. Recordings and the list of words heard stay on the phone. These backups belong to your Apple or Google account; we cannot see them.

Purchases

GhostLab: Dead Channel offers a free 48-hour trial and a one-time lifetime unlock.

iPhone and iPad — the trial and the unlock are App Store purchases, handled entirely by Apple through StoreKit.
Android — the unlock is handled entirely by Google Play Billing. The trial starts when you tap for it and is timed by the phone’s own clock; its start time is kept on the device. The Android app’s internet permission is used by Google Play’s billing library to reach Google Play, and by the usage statistics described below.

We receive no payment details and nothing that identifies you. You can restore the unlock on a new device from inside the app.

Usage statistics

GhostLab: Dead Channel uses Google Analytics for Firebase on iPhone, iPad, and Android to count how the app is used, so we can see how many people start a session, start the trial or unlock the app, and where they stop.

It records:

What you do in the app, in general terms: finishing the first screen, starting a session, saving a take and how long it ran, opening the share sheet for a take and the app you shared it to when it is a well-known one such as TikTok or YouTube, opening the unlock screen, starting the free trial, and how an unlock purchase ended, with its price and currency.
An app-instance identifier that Firebase creates for Dead Channel on your device. It is not linked to your name, your Apple or Google account, or your device’s advertising identifier, and it resets if you delete the app (or, on Android, clear its data).
Basic device and app details: device model, iOS, iPadOS, or Android version, app version, language, and country.
Your approximate area, such as your city and country, which Google works out from your IP address. Google Analytics does not store the IP address.

It never records your takes or any sound, the words and whispers the app plays, your settings, anything you type, or your location from GPS. Dead Channel does not collect the advertising identifier on any device. On Android the permission is removed from the app and collection is switched off. The iPhone and iPad app does not include Apple’s advertising framework and never asks to track you.

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, the app does not send usage statistics on any device.

Google processes this information for us as a service provider. We have turned off Google’s options to use it for its own products, and the app tells Google that it may not be used for personalized advertising.

We link the Android usage statistics to our own Google Ads account, so we can see how many people who found Dead Channel through one of our ads went on to start a session, start the free trial, or unlock the app. Google Ads uses those results to measure our campaigns and to decide where to show our ads. We do not send Google Ads any audiences or lists of users, and the statistics from iPhone and iPad are not used for advertising at all.

The recorded actions are kept for 2 months, and the identifier until 2 months after you last use the app. Then Google deletes them automatically.

What we do not do

We do not sell personal data.
We do not run advertising SDKs or trackers. The app’s only analytics is the usage statistics described above.
We do not record your voice or the room around you.

Children

The app carries the age rating shown on its App Store and Google Play pages. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and the app collects no personal information from anyone. The app’s usage statistics are described above.

Changes

If our practices change, we will update this page and the effective date above before the change takes effect.

Contact

Privacy questions about GhostLab: Dead Channel are welcome at [email protected]. GhostLab apps are published by ADK Cyber / Jack Miller.