Ghost Protocol was created around a simple idea: your online identity should not exist forever. Unlike traditional social platforms that archive years of posts, comments, likes, searches, and behavioral history, Ghost Protocol is designed to minimize permanence wherever possible.
1. Information We Collect
Account Information
When you create an account, we may collect:
- Username
- Display name
- Email address
- Date of birth or age verification status
- Authentication credentials through third-party login providers
We intentionally minimize the amount of personal information required to use the platform.
Content You Create
Ghost Protocol allows users to create posts, comments, reactions, profile information, images, GIFs, media uploads, temporary rooms, and other temporary interactions.
Important: Content on Ghost Protocol is designed to expire automatically. Once expired, content is scheduled for deletion from active systems and storage infrastructure. We do not build permanent public archives of expired user content.
Payment Information
Paid memberships and purchases are processed by third-party payment processors. Ghost Protocol does not store full payment card numbers on our servers.
2. Operational Metadata
To operate securely and prevent abuse, we may temporarily process limited operational metadata such as device type, app version, session information, temporary diagnostic logs, approximate regional information, and security or anti-spam signals.
Where technically possible:
- IP addresses are minimized, anonymized, hashed, or discarded
- Temporary logs are automatically purged
- Behavioral tracking is minimized
- Persistent analytics profiles are avoided
- Search history retention is minimized
- Expired content is removed from active systems
We intentionally avoid building long-term behavioral profiles of users.
3. Automatic Content Expiration
Ghost Protocol is built around temporary identity and temporary interaction. Depending on the feature used, content may automatically expire after a defined period.
This may include:
- Profiles
- Posts
- Comments
- Reactions
- Temporary rooms
- Search indexing
- Activity visibility
When content expires, it is removed from public visibility, removed from active feeds and search, scheduled for deletion from active systems, and cached copies are purged where commercially reasonable.
4. Important Limitation
No internet-connected system can guarantee absolute or immediate deletion from every possible backup, cache, screenshot, third-party capture, or external archive.
Users should avoid sharing highly sensitive information on any online service, including Ghost Protocol.
5. What We Do Not Sell
Ghost Protocol does not sell personal user data to advertisers. We are not building an advertising surveillance platform.
We do not intentionally create long-term behavioral advertising profiles based on private interactions, likes, social graphs, search history, or long-term activity timelines.
6. Third-Party Services
Ghost Protocol may use third-party providers for authentication, payments, media delivery, GIF services, hosting infrastructure, content moderation, analytics, and security monitoring.
Examples may include Expo, Clerk, Stripe, Google Play, Apple App Store, GIF or emoji providers, and cloud infrastructure providers.
We attempt to minimize data exposure to third parties wherever possible.
7. Content Moderation & Safety
Even privacy-focused platforms require safeguards. We may monitor, review, remove, or restrict content that violates applicable laws, safety policies, harassment rules, exploitation policies, abuse prevention standards, or spam prevention systems.
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that misuse the platform.
8. Age Restrictions
Ghost Protocol is intended only for users who are at least 18 years old.
We may use privacy-conscious age verification methods to reduce underage access while minimizing unnecessary data collection. If we learn an underage user has created an account, we may remove the account and associated content.
9. Security
We use commercially reasonable safeguards intended to protect user information, including encryption in transit, secure authentication systems, access controls, infrastructure monitoring, rate limiting, and abuse detection systems.
However, no platform can guarantee absolute security. Users are responsible for protecting their own devices and account credentials.
10. User Rights
Depending on your location, you may have rights to access your data, delete your account, request removal of information, object to certain processing, or request a copy of stored information.
Because Ghost Protocol is intentionally designed around temporary retention, some information may already be deleted automatically before requests are processed.
11. Data Retention
We attempt to retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary to operate the service, protect platform integrity, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce terms.
Expired content and temporary operational logs may be automatically purged on rolling schedules. Retention periods may vary depending on system architecture, security needs, abuse prevention, legal requirements, and backup cycles.
12. International Use
Ghost Protocol may operate using infrastructure located in multiple countries. By using the service, you understand that information may be processed in jurisdictions with different privacy laws than your own.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. If material changes are made, we may provide notice through the app or website.
Continued use of Ghost Protocol after updates means you accept the revised policy.
14. Contact
For privacy-related questions or requests, contact:
Ad Ops Solutions
Email: INSERT_EMAIL_HERE
Transparency Statement
Ghost Protocol is an attempt to rethink what social media could look like if platforms were designed to forget instead of remember.
We believe users deserve less permanence, less surveillance, less profiling, more control, more privacy, and more freedom to move on.
That philosophy shapes how we build the platform.