Bored Games

Privacy Policy for Bored Games

Last Updated: July 24, 2026

Introduction

Bored Games ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you use our mobile application ("App"). By using the App, you agree to the practices described in this policy.

Information We Collect

Information You Provide

  • Account Information: When you register using Sign in with Apple or Sign in with Google, we collect your email address and display name.
  • Profile Photos: Optional profile pictures you upload or capture with your camera.
  • Game Data: Game history, scores, ELO ratings, and preferences you create within the App.
  • Social Data: Friend connections and social interactions within the App.
  • Safety Data: When you block another user or submit a report, we store your user ID, the other user's ID, the report category, optional details you provide (up to 1,000 characters), and relevant context such as a game room ID or chat message ID.

Information Collected Automatically

  • Usage Data: Information about how you use the App, including game sessions, features used, and interactions.
  • Device Information: Device type, operating system version, and unique device identifiers (including a per-device analytics identifier and a per-install device identifier used for fraud prevention).
  • Product Analytics (opt-in): When you enable Analytics & Crash Reporting in Settings, we collect usage events (for example, screens viewed, features used, and gameplay actions) and may share them with Google Analytics 4 to help us improve the product. Product analytics is off by default and requires your explicit consent.
  • Crash and Error Reporting (opt-in): When you opt in to analytics, we also enable crash and error reporting via Sentry (including performance traces to help diagnose issues).
  • Operational Diagnostics (always on when signed in): To keep online multiplayer reliable, we collect non-personally-identifying technical diagnostics after you sign in — even if product analytics is off. This includes sync health signals (for example, game state resyncs, stuck-turn recovery, optimistic play reconciliation outcomes), connection failure categories, match transition timing, and similar reliability metrics tied to your account ID and active game room ID. We do not use operational diagnostics for advertising, and we do not include chat text, display names, email, hand cards, or other sensitive gameplay content in these events.
  • Coarse Location: If automatic profile creation is needed during sign-up fallback, we may use a third-party IP geolocation service (ipapi.co) to derive a coarse matchmaking region (for example, "us-east" or "eu-west"). We do not store your IP address; only the derived region bucket is saved to your profile. Most sign-ups use the default global region without an IP lookup.

App Permissions

  • Camera: Used for in-game video chat (an opt-in feature) and capturing profile photos.
  • Microphone: Used solely for in-game voice chat (an opt-in feature).
  • Notifications: Used to send you game-related alerts such as your turn notifications, game invites, and friend requests. You can customize notification preferences in Settings.
  • Photo Library: Used for attaching images to bug reports, selecting profile photos, and updating group chat photos.

How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information to:

  • Provide and maintain the App's functionality
  • Authenticate your identity and manage your account
  • Match you with other players and run games
  • Improve and personalize your gaming experience
  • Analyze usage patterns to enhance App performance (product analytics, when opted in)
  • Diagnose multiplayer sync, connectivity, and voice/video reliability issues (operational diagnostics)
  • Send you important notifications about the App (with your consent)
  • Monitor for cheating, fraud, and abuse
  • Review user reports, enforce our community standards, and take moderation action when needed
  • Apply your block preferences (for example, preventing matchmaking, direct messages, and friend requests with blocked users)
  • Comply with legal obligations

Safety, Blocking, and Reporting

The App includes in-app tools to help you stay safe:

  • Block users: You can block another player from their profile, during a game, or in social chat. Your block list is stored on our servers. Blocking prevents matchmaking together, joining the same private room, sending direct messages, and sending friend requests. Blocked users' chat messages may be hidden on your device.
  • Report users: You can report another player for harassment, hate speech, cheating, inappropriate content, spam, or other concerns. Reports include the category you select, optional details, and context such as the game room or message involved.
  • Moderation: We review reports and may warn, suspend, or permanently ban accounts that violate our Terms of Service. We aim to review reports within 24 hours.
  • Safety contact: For urgent safety concerns, email us at bigtwoapp@gmail.com.

We retain report records as long as needed to investigate issues and enforce our policies. Block relationships remain until you unblock the user or delete your account.

Data Sharing

We do not sell your personal information. We may share data with:

  • Supabase: Our backend database provider, for storing game data, user accounts, product analytics (when opted in), and operational diagnostics.
  • Firebase/Google: For product analytics via Google Analytics 4 (only when you opt in) and for push notification delivery on Android via Firebase Cloud Messaging. Operational diagnostics are not sent to Google Analytics.
  • Expo Push (iOS): For relaying push notification tokens when you enable notifications on iOS.
  • Sentry: For error monitoring, crash reports, and performance traces (only when you opt in to analytics).
  • LiveKit: For real-time voice and video chat during games (only when you join a voice/video chat session). Your display name and user ID are visible to other participants in the room.
  • ipapi.co: For transient IP-based geolocation to derive your coarse matchmaking region (IP is not stored by us).
  • Apple Game Center (iOS only): For leaderboards and achievements when you choose to connect Game Center.

All third-party providers are contractually required to protect your data.

Data Retention

We retain your personal data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide services. Game history and leaderboard data may be retained indefinitely to maintain competitive integrity. Operational diagnostics are retained for reliability analysis and incident investigation. You may request deletion of your account and data at any time through the App's settings or by contacting us.

Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to:

  • Access your personal data
  • Correct inaccurate data
  • Request deletion of your data
  • Opt out of product analytics and crash reporting (available in App Settings; both are controlled by the same toggle). Turning this off does not disable operational diagnostics needed for multiplayer reliability.
  • Data portability
  • Withdraw consent for push notifications at any time

Children's Privacy

The App is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete that information promptly.

Security

We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your information, including:

  • Encryption in transit (TLS/SSL) and at rest
  • Certificate pinning on iOS and Android for Supabase API traffic to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks
  • Device attestation (Apple App Attest and Google Play Integrity)
  • Row-level security policies on all user data
  • Rate limiting to prevent abuse

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. We will notify you of significant changes via the App or email. Your continued use of the App after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Email: bigtwoapp@gmail.com

This privacy policy applies to the Bored Games mobile application available on Google Play and the Apple App Store.