TERMINAL.EXE — PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: 14 August 2026.Cathode Ray Games (“we”, “us”) respects your privacy. This policy covers the Terminal.exe Android application.

Terminal.exe does not collect, transmit, sell or share any personal data. There is no account system, no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting and no third-party SDK of any kind in the application.

The game casts you as a hacker who must avoid leaving a trace. It would be a poor joke to write that game and then quietly instrument it, so what follows is precise rather than reassuring: exactly what the build does, the one place your data can leave the device, and how to check each claim yourself.

1. The game makes no network requests

Everything Terminal.exe needs is inside the app package. The interface, the simulation, the narrative and the audio all run on your device. The fonts are packaged into the app rather than fetched from a font service, so there is no request there either.

The application issues no HTTP requests. It contacts no server of ours, and no server belonging to anyone else. It works in aeroplane mode, permanently and by design.

In the interest of not overstating this: the Android package does declare the INTERNET permission. It is added automatically by Capacitor, the framework that wraps the game for Android, and this version of Terminal.exe does not use it. We would rather tell you the permission is present and unused than have you find it in the manifest and wonder what else we left out.

The only other permission is VIBRATE, which is what the haptics run on. The app does not request location, contacts, camera, microphone, or access to your files.

2. No account, and nothing to sign in to

This release has no login, no registration, no profile and no leaderboard. You cannot create an account because there is nothing to create one on. We do not know who you are, how long you played, or that you played at all.

Cloud save is likewise absent: your progress exists on your device and nowhere else. We hold no copy of it and have no means of obtaining one.

Online features may be offered in a future version. If that happens they will be described here before they ship, and this page will say plainly what changed.

3. What the game stores, and where

Terminal.exe keeps a single save file in your device’s local storage, under one key: terminal-exe-save-v3. It holds your run — data extracted, nodes and upgrades bought, ghost tokens, story choices, tutorial progress and your settings.

That is the entire save. It contains no identifier, no contact detail and nothing about you personally. The in-fiction logs about surveillance and traces are fiction. Nothing is being kept on you.

Uninstalling the app deletes it. Clearing the app’s storage deletes it. Because we hold no data about you, there is nothing for you to request, correct or export from us.

4. Android’s own backup

Terminal.exe allows Android’s standard backup service to include its save file in a device backup, so your progress survives moving to a new phone.

If you have that feature switched on, a copy of that save may be stored in your own Google account. This is a platform feature operated by Google under Google’s terms, performed by the operating system rather than by the app. It can be turned off in your device settings, it is separate from anything we control, and we cannot read it.

This is the only route by which anything Terminal.exe stores can leave your device.

5. Haptics

The game vibrates in response to what you are doing — a light tick on a hack, something heavier when a raid opens. This is generated on the device from the game’s own state. It measures nothing, records nothing and sends nothing.

Haptics can be set to full, light or off in Settings under AUDIO.

6. No purchases and no advertising

This version sells nothing. There are no in-app purchases, no premium currency, no subscriptions and no advertising of any kind. No billing library is included in the app package, so there is no payment path to misuse and no ad network receiving anything about you.

If purchases are introduced in a future version, they will be handled entirely by Google Play under Google’s terms; we would never see your payment details, and this policy would be updated to say so before that version ships.

7. Children

Because Terminal.exe collects nothing from anyone, it collects nothing from children, knowingly or otherwise. There is no chat, no user-generated content shared between players, no social feature, no advertising and no external links except the one to this page.

On suitability rather than privacy: the game is a fictional hacking fantasy with no violence and no explicit content, and is rated accordingly on each store.

8. Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, the revised version will be published on this page with an updated date, and the change will be described in the app’s release notes on Google Play. We will not quietly widen what we collect and leave you to notice.

9. Contact

Questions about this policy: cathoderaygames@gmail.com
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