Privacy Policy

What We Collect

When you use the Ghost Artist Detector browser extension or website, we collect only the minimum data needed to check if an artist is a ghost artist:

• Artist names from Spotify pages you visit
• Spotify artist IDs (the unique identifier in Spotify URLs)

This data is sent to our API at ghost-detect.com to perform the classification.

What We DON'T Collect

We do not collect, store, or have access to:

• Your personal information (name, email, etc.)
• Your Spotify account credentials or login info
• Your browsing history outside of Spotify artist pages
• Your listening habits or playlists
• Any data from other websites or tabs
• Your IP address (beyond standard server logs)

How We Use Your Data

Artist names and IDs are used solely to:

• Look up the artist in our database
• Run our ML classification model if the artist isn't cached
• Return the ghost/human classification to you

Classification results are cached to speed up future lookups for all users.

Data Sharing

We do not sell your data to anyone.

We do not share data with third-party advertisers, analytics companies, or data brokers. Artist classification data may be used in aggregate (e.g., "X% of artists scanned were classified as ghost") for research or public reporting, but never in a way that identifies individual users.

Data Retention

Artist classification results are cached indefinitely to improve performance. Server logs containing request metadata are retained for up to 30 days for debugging and security purposes.

Open Source

The Ghost Artist Detector extension and website are open source. You can review exactly what data is collected by inspecting the code on GitHub.

Contact

Questions about this privacy policy? Email us at privacy@ghost-detect.com.