Ghostline: One-Take Heists — Privacy Policy
Octane Studios
Effective date: October 14, 2026
Privacy contact: octanestudios11@gmail.com
This Privacy Policy explains how Octane Studios processes information when you use Ghostline: One-Take Heists ("Ghostline"), including its optional online leaderboard, Google Play purchases, and advertising features.
1. Game data on your device
Ghostline stores game progress, scores, settings, content unlocks, and purchase entitlement information on your device. The game also creates installation-specific identifiers or credentials for online features and purchase verification. These identifiers are not your Google password or payment-card number.
Local game saves are distinct from the information sent to online services. Clearing app storage or uninstalling can remove local progress and settings. Device backup and restore behavior may also affect locally stored data.
2. Optional leaderboard
If you choose to join the online leaderboard, Ghostline sends gameplay results, including case scores and eligible completion times, along with an installation-specific credential and player callsign. Your callsign, score, and rank can be visible to other players. Avoid using personal information in your callsign.
The leaderboard uses Cloudflare services. Requests include network information such as an IP address, which is used for request limiting and service protection. A derived identifier associates your submissions with your leaderboard entry; your private credential is not displayed publicly.
You can leave the leaderboard using the game's leaderboard controls. This requests deletion of your leaderboard entry. If you are offline, the request is queued and needs a later successful connection to complete. Leaving the leaderboard does not erase your local game progress. Uninstalling alone does not send an online deletion request.
3. Google Play purchases
Google Play processes payments for optional purchases, including Remove Ads and Mara's Files. Octane Studios does not receive your complete payment-card information from Google Play.
To verify purchases, grant and restore purchased content, and recognize invalid or refunded purchases, Ghostline sends the product identifier, Google Play purchase token, and an installation identifier to its purchase verification service. That service checks purchase information with Google Play and maintains purchase verification records using Google Cloud infrastructure. Entitlement information is also stored on your device.
4. Advertising
Ghostline supports Google AdMob advertising, including advertisements between eligible cases and optional rewarded advertisements. Remove Ads disables automatic advertisements; optional rewarded advertisements remain available.
When advertising services operate, Google may process IP addresses and approximate location derived from them, device or advertising identifiers, app and advertisement interactions, and diagnostic information. This information supports advertising, measurement, reliability, and fraud prevention. The data processed depends on SDK configuration, your device settings, consent choices, and applicable requirements.
Where required, Google's consent interface presents advertising privacy choices. Applicable choices can also be revisited through the game's privacy controls when available. Android settings provide controls for the advertising identifier. Removing automatic advertisements does not by itself delete information already held by an advertising service.
5. Information you choose to share or send us
If you use the game's sharing feature, the selected image or content is passed to the app you choose. That app processes it under its own policies. If you contact Octane Studios, we receive the message and contact information you provide and use them to respond to your request.
6. Service providers and purposes
Ghostline uses Google Play for purchases, Google Cloud for purchase verification and associated records, Cloudflare for the leaderboard, and Google AdMob and Google's User Messaging Platform for advertising and related privacy choices. Information is processed as needed to operate these features, recognize purchases, protect services against misuse, diagnose problems, and respond to support or privacy requests.
Providers may process information in countries other than your own. Their policies also explain their processing:
Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
7. Retention and deletion
We retain online information for as long as reasonably needed to provide the relevant feature, restore and verify purchases, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, and meet applicable obligations. Leaderboard entries can be removed through the leave function described above. Purchase verification records may need to be retained separately to recognize ownership and prevent invalid grants. Service providers also apply their own retention practices.
To request access, correction, or deletion of information held by Octane Studios, contact octanestudios11@gmail.com. Available rights depend on your location. We may need information sufficient to identify the relevant record and verify the request. Do not send passwords or complete payment-card details. Deleting local app data does not automatically erase Google Play purchase history or provider-held information.
8. Security
Ghostline's leaderboard and purchase verification requests use encrypted HTTPS connections. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure.
9. Children's privacy
Ghostline is intended for players aged 13 and older and is not directed at children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information through Ghostline, contact octanestudios11@gmail.com so we can investigate and address the information, including deletion where appropriate. Additional privacy protections may apply to teenagers depending on their location.
10. Changes and contact
We may update this policy as Ghostline or its services change. The effective date above will identify the current version.
Octane Studios
Ghostline privacy questions and requests: octanestudios11@gmail.com