Privacy Statement


Ghostly is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement.

Collected telemetry

Ghostly does not collect any telemetry that can identify a single user. Telemetry is collected for development purposes only. The user can at any time opt-out from collection of telemetry.

Application-Level

Includes:

  • Error information
  • Version number (e.g. 1.0.x)
  • Location (country and city)
  • Features used by the user
    • Data collected from features only identified the event taking place such as Created Rule, Deleted Filter. No telemetry identifying the data itself is collected. This gives the developer insight into what features that are actually being used and helps focus future development.

Operating System-Level

Includes:

  • Architecture (e.g. 32-bit)
  • Version (e.g. Windows 10.0.18956.1000)
  • Available processors/cores (e.g. 8 cores)

External data sources

OS information and IP address

When Ghostly makes web requests to https://github.com to retrieve data, it includes user's machine's OS information in the User-Agent header. The author of Ghostly does not have access to this information, but the website https://github.com does and it logs this information. The website will also log user's IP address. Again, the author of Ghostly does not have access to this data.

Third-party data source

When user specifies a different data source than the default source at https://github.com, they will be subjected to the privacy policy of that website. Ghostly does not send any such data to its author.

Third-Party Policies