Ghost Laps Privacy Policy
Last updated: 10 November 2026
Ghost Laps is a one-tap arcade game for iPhone and Android. This policy explains what information the game uses, why, and the choices you have. There are no accounts to create, the game never asks for your email or phone number, and we don't sell your information.
1. Leaderboard and cloud save (Google Firebase)
We use Google Firebase (Authentication and Realtime Database) for two features: the world leaderboard, and saving your progress so it comes back if you reinstall the game. For these we store:
- An anonymous player ID, created automatically. It isn't tied to your name, email, phone number or Apple or Google account. On iPhone it's kept in your device's Keychain; on Android in Google's Block Store.
- Your game progress (cloud save): coins, scores, levels, items, upgrades, missions, achievements, game settings and tutorial progress. This starts after your first run.
- Leaderboard entries, only after you reach Level 10 and pick a name: the leaderboard name you choose (or the suggested one you keep), your best score and today's Daily Challenge score, when the score was set, the ball skin you use, and a country code taken from your phone's region setting (not your location). Your name, score, skin and country flag are visible to all players.
- Reports: if you report another player's name, we store that name, the time and your anonymous ID, so we can review it.
We use this information only to run these features. It's stored on Google's servers in the United States. Google processes it only on our behalf, under the Firebase data processing and security terms (https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy), and protects it at least to the standard described in this policy.
2. Ads (free version)
The free version can show rewarded video ads from Google AdMob, but only when you choose to watch one, for example to revive or to double a run's coins. Ghost Laps Plus members don't see ads.
To show and measure ads and to prevent fraud, Google may collect information such as device identifiers, your IP address and the approximate location derived from it, the ads you see and how you interact with them, and diagnostic data. On iPhone, the advertising identifier is only available to ads if you allow tracking when iOS asks.
In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, the game asks for your consent with Google's consent form before ads are personalised, and you can change your choice at any time in the game's Settings under Ad privacy choices.
Learn more: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy.
Ad privacy choices
In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland you can change your ad consent at any time in the game's Settings under Ad privacy choices.
3. Analytics and crash reports (Google Firebase)
To see how the game is played and make it better, the app uses Google Analytics for Firebase. It records game events: opening the app, finishing a run (score, lap, level, revives and how the run ended), revives, rewarded ads watched, new levels reached, the first-launch intro, opening the Plus screen or the share sheet, and purchases (product and price). With them Google receives an identifier made only for analytics, your device model, iOS version, app version and language, and an approximate location (country or region) worked out from your IP address; Google Analytics doesn't store the IP address itself. Analytics doesn't get your leaderboard name, your player ID or your advertising identifier (the game never asks to track you).
In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, analytics stores information about you only if you agree in Google's consent form (the same form as for ads), and you can change your choice at any time in the game's Settings under Ad privacy choices. Ghost Laps Plus members there aren't shown the form, so unless they agree there, nothing that identifies them is stored.
If the game crashes, Firebase Crashlytics sends a crash report: where in the game's code it happened, your device model, iOS version and app version, free memory and storage, whether the game was open on screen, and an identifier for this installation. We use crash reports only to find and fix bugs; they aren't linked to your player ID or used for ads, and Google keeps them for 90 days.
Analytics data isn't linked to your player ID, so Delete my data can't find it; Google deletes it automatically after the retention period (at most 14 months). Learn more: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Apart from Google Analytics and Crashlytics (section 3), the game has no analytics or tracking tools.
4. On your device
Your progress and settings are also saved on your device. If you turn on the daily reminder, the notification is scheduled on your device only. The game has no analytics or tracking tools of its own.
5. Deleting your data
In the game, go to Settings > Your data > Delete my data. This removes your cloud save, your leaderboard entries and your anonymous account from our servers, and your progress from the device. It needs an internet connection. Deleting the app alone doesn't remove what's stored on the servers. Reports you sent about other players are kept until we've reviewed them.
You can also email us (below) to ask for a copy or the deletion of your data.
6. How long we keep data
Cloud saves and leaderboard entries are kept until you delete them, or until we remove old Daily Challenge boards or entries that break the rules (for example offensive names or impossible scores). Reports are kept until reviewed.
7. Children
Ghost Laps is made for a general audience. It never asks for your real name, email or other contact details. If you think a child has used personal information as a leaderboard name, contact us and we'll remove it.
8. Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR in the EEA and the UK), you may have the right to access, correct or delete your data, or to object to how it's used. Most of this is available in the game itself; for anything else, email us and we'll reply within 30 days.
9. Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top.
10. Contact
Ghost Laps is made by an independent developer (the seller shown on the App Store and Google Play pages). Questions or requests: support@bigbrain.ltd