Privacy Policy — Spectral Vision

Effective date: October 10, 2026  ·  Applies to the Android app “Spectral Vision” (com.bogglingbrain.spectralvision)

1. What stays on your phone

Spectral Vision asks for these phone features. All are optional — the game still works if you say no.

2. What leaves your phone — exactly

Like any website, our server’s host (Cloudflare) sees your phone’s internet address in order to send replies back. We don’t store it or use it to identify you. Every request is encrypted (HTTPS).

If you turn location off, the app makes no weather or Network requests at all, and the game stays fully playable offline.

3. The Network (optional)

The Network lets players leave ghosts for each other. You’re asked once, in the app, whether to join; until you say yes, the app doesn’t contact it at all. You can leave any time in Settings → The Network.

• Joined: when you scan, the app asks which ghosts are haunting your roughly 10 km area, so you may meet ghosts other players set loose.
• Setting a ghost loose ties it to the spot you’re standing in for 7 days. Anyone scanning there may meet it. Please don’t set ghosts loose at your home or anywhere you’d rather people didn’t gather.
• Halloween intrusions (Oct 24 – Nov 2, after dark): a ghost set loose nearby may break into the app for a few seconds — sound, vibration and brief flashes — and, when the app is closed, at most one notice a night may say something was detected. This uses only the nearby-hauntings list described above; nothing extra is sent. Turn it off inSettings → Halloween intrusions.
• No chat, no messages, no profiles and no player names exist on The Network.

4. The 90-day rule, and the one reminder

Your anonymous Network record is erased automatically 90 days after you last set a ghost loose. The app shows the exact date in Settings, shows a notice in the last 10 days, and — if you allowed notifications — sends onereminder 10 days before. Setting another ghost loose keeps the record. Letting it go costs you nothing you can see: your journal stays on your phone either way, and next time you set a ghost loose you simply get a fresh anonymous record.

5. What we don’t do — and what we can’t do

• We don’t ask for your name, email, phone number or a password, and there are no accounts to sign up for.
• We don’t show ads, use analytics, track you across apps, read advertising IDs, or sell or share data.
• We can’t see your journal, your pictures, or where you go — they never reach us.
• We can’t tell who set any ghost loose.
• We can’t restore an erased Network record or link old hauntings back to you.
• We can’t recover your journal if your phone loses it — it only ever exists on your phone (and in your own Android backup, if you use one).

6. Deleting your data

• One journal entry: delete it in the journal; its picture goes too.
• Your whole journal: Settings → Purge Archive.
• Everything on The Network: Settings → Delete my Network data calls your ghost home and erases your record from our server at once.
• Uninstalling removes the app and its data from your phone. If your phone backs up apps to your Google account, Android may keep a copy there and restore it if you reinstall — that backup is controlled by your Google settings, not by us.
• No app any more? Your Network record is anonymous, so we can’t find it from an email or a name — which also means nobody else can. It’s erased automatically within 90 days of your last ghost, and any ghost you left fades within 7 days.

See the Data Deletion page for step-by-step instructions.

7. Sharing features (always your choice)

• Share cards: sending a picture of a ghost through your phone’s share menu is entirely up to you. Share cards never include coordinates.
• Spirit tether (QR): showing a QR code to another player passes a game ghost directly between two phones through the camera. No internet is involved, and the code contains no personal information.

8. Children

Spectral Vision is designed for players aged 13 and over. Its content — mild horror, fictional ghosts, ominous sounds — is rated suitable for younger players, but the game, and especially The Network, is not directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has set a ghost loose, contact us and we’ll help remove it.

9. Security

Every request the app makes is encrypted (HTTPS). Your Network secret key never leaves your phone in readable form — our server keeps only a scrambled (hashed) copy. We keep as little as possible, for as short a time as possible.

10. Changes to this policy

When a new version of Spectral Vision changes what goes online, this policy is updatedbefore that version ships, the effective date above changes, and the release notes say so.

Spectral Vision is fictional entertainment — nothing is detected, everything is generated.