We value your privacy. OSINT Arena collects the data needed to run accounts, gameplay, billing, moderation, analytics, and advertising.
Data we collect
- Account details such as email address, username, Firebase user ID, and authentication status.
- Gameplay data such as solved challenges, points, leaderboard position, streaks, and challenge submissions.
- Submitted content such as challenge text, answers, explanations, uploaded images, and moderation metadata.
- Billing state such as Stripe customer IDs, subscription status, plan, and timestamps. Full card details are handled by Stripe and are not stored by OSINT Arena.
- Technical and analytics data from Firebase, Google Analytics, and Google AdSense, such as device/browser information, approximate location, page interactions, and ad performance.
How we use data
We use this data to provide the site, save progress, run leaderboards, process Premium access, moderate submissions, prevent abuse, improve the product, show ads to non-paying users, and respond to support requests.
Third-party services
OSINT Arena uses Firebase for hosting, authentication, database, storage, analytics, and functions; Stripe for checkout, subscriptions, billing portal, and webhook processing; and Google AdSense for ads shown to non-paying users. These providers process data under their own terms and privacy policies.
Google AdSense, advertising cookies, and third-party vendors
OSINT Arena uses Google AdSense to show ads to guest users and signed-in non-paying users. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to OSINT Arena and/or other sites on the Internet.
Third-party vendors and ad networks may also use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar identifiers as a result of ad serving on OSINT Arena. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting aboutads.info.
Cookies, analytics, local storage, and consent
The site may use cookies, local storage, and similar technologies for login sessions, gameplay state, solved challenge records, analytics, billing return flows, fraud prevention, and advertising. Where consent is legally required, including in the UK, EEA, and Switzerland, OSINT Arena aims to use consent and privacy messaging tools for advertising and analytics choices.
Your choices
You can delete your account from the account area. You can contact us to request help with data access, correction, deletion, billing questions, or refund review. Some records may be retained where required for security, fraud prevention, accounting, dispute handling, or legal compliance.
This site is for educational use only. Contact osintarena@gmail.com for privacy, billing, refund, or data removal requests.