GhostLab Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 16, 2026 · Applies to “GhostLab: Paranormal Toolkit” on iOS and Android (formerly SpectralEVP)

GhostLab is built to be private by design. There are no user accounts, no advertising, and no servers of our own. Your investigation recordings, videos, notes, and settings are stored only on your device unless you choose to export or share them. The one piece of information that leaves your phone on its own is a purchase-attribution signal that credits the creator who referred a sale, described under Affiliate attribution below.

Summary

Your recordings stay with you. Nothing you record in GhostLab is transmitted to us.
No accounts and no advertising. We never build an advertising profile of you and we never sell your information.
Everything stays on your device unless you export, share, or save it somewhere yourself.
One exception: when you buy GhostLab Pro, an app-scoped device identifier and the details of that purchase go to our affiliate partner so the right creator gets paid.

Data the app uses on your device

GhostLab asks your phone for permission to use the following, strictly to power the features described. All of this processing happens on your own device:

Microphone - records EVP investigation sessions and powers Spirit Speak Live Chat. Recordings are saved to the app’s on-device Library.
Speech recognition - Spirit Speak uses Apple’s speech recognition to loosely match spoken questions to dictionary words. Depending on your device settings, Apple may process speech audio on its servers to provide recognition; see Apple’s Privacy Policy. GhostLab itself never receives or stores this audio off-device.
Camera - provides the low-light overlay, Motion-Grid, SLS body-tracking view, and optional session video recording. Video is saved with the investigation on this device.
Photos (add only) - only when you tap “Save to Photos,” the app writes a video to your Photos library. GhostLab cannot read your existing photos.
Location (while using the app) - shows haunted places near you, logs compass heading, and tags where a session was recorded so it can appear on your in-app map. Location stays in the session files on your device.
Motion & Fitness (barometer) - reads barometric pressure during sessions to log environmental pressure trends alongside your recordings.
Local network (Team mode) - offline Multipeer connectivity shares session tags and live levels directly between nearby investigators’ phones. This is peer-to-peer on your local network; nothing passes through the internet or any server.
Nearby Interaction (ultra-wideband) - measures distance to a second U1-capable device used as a trigger object during investigations.
Apple Watch companion - start/stop/tag commands sync between your Watch and iPhone via Apple’s WatchConnectivity, device-to-device.

You can decline or revoke any permission in your device settings; the related feature simply won’t function.

Purchases

The optional GhostLab Pro lifetime unlock is processed entirely by Apple through the App Store or by Google through Google Play. We never see or store your name, payment details, or billing information. Your entitlement is verified on-device through Apple’s StoreKit or Google Play Billing.

Affiliate attribution

Creators who recommend GhostLab earn a share of the sales they bring in. To work out which creator referred a purchase, GhostLab includes the GoMarketMe affiliate SDK. On first launch and again when a Pro purchase completes, it sends the following to GoMarketMe:

An app-scoped device identifier. On iOS this is Apple’s identifier for vendor, which is unique to GhostLab on your device and resets when you delete the app. Android uses an equivalent installation identifier.
Basic device information: model, operating system version, screen size, language, and country.
Details of the purchase itself: the product, price, currency, transaction identifier, and time.

GhostLab does not use the Apple advertising identifier or the Android advertising ID, and it never asks for permission to track you across other companies’ apps and websites. This information is used to credit an affiliate and to report sales totals. It is not used to show you advertising, it is not combined with data from other apps, and it is never sold. GoMarketMe processes it on our behalf under their privacy policy.

Data sharing

We do not sell or rent personal data to anyone. The only information shared with a third party is the affiliate attribution described above, which goes to GoMarketMe so creators can be paid. Apple and Google handle your payment and tell us only whether you own Pro.

Everything else leaves your device only through actions you take yourself: exporting a session package, generating and sharing a PDF report, saving a video to Photos, or sharing tags with nearby teammates in Team mode.

Data retention and deletion

All sessions, recordings, and settings live in the app’s storage on your device. Delete any session from the Library, or delete the app to remove everything at once. We hold no copies of any of it.

The affiliate attribution records held by GoMarketMe are kept while they are needed to calculate creator payouts and to meet tax and accounting obligations. You can ask us to delete them at any time. See Data deletion requests for how to do that.

Children

GhostLab is rated 9+ for infrequent horror/fear themes and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If a future update ever changes how data is handled, we will update this page and note it in the App Store and Google Play release notes before the change takes effect.

Contact

Questions about privacy in GhostLab: [email protected]