This Privacy Policy applies to Boredom’s mobile apps, website, authentication flows, profiles, activities, friend connections, chats, notifications, and support interactions.
Section 1
Who We Are
Boredom
Privacy contact: privacy@getboredom.app
In this policy, “Boredom,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the legal operator of the platform.
Section 2
Scope of This Policy
This policy applies to the Boredom mobile apps, website, authentication flows, profiles, activities, friend connections, chats, notifications, and support interactions.
Third-party websites or services linked from Boredom have their own privacy policies and are not covered by this document.
Section 3
Information You Provide
Account information
Password authentication is handled securely through the authentication provider. Boredom does not need to read plain text passwords.
Profile information
Activity information
Social information
Communications
Message content is stored to provide the messaging service. This policy does not claim end-to-end encryption.
User-generated content
- Email address
- Password or authentication credentials
- Authentication provider identifier
- Account creation date
- Language preference
- Full name
- Display name or pseudo name
- Profile photo
- Biography
- Caption
- Interests
- Preferred location
- Languages
- Profile settings
- Activity title, description, category, date, and time
- Location and participant limits
- Privacy settings, invitations, join requests, participation history, and organizer settings
- Friend requests
- Friend connections
- Blocked users
- Mutual connections
- Invitations and social activity events
- Direct messages
- Activity group messages
- Message metadata and reactions
- Reports and support requests
- Profile photos
- Activity images
- Reviews
- Reports
- Uploaded media and other content users choose to share
Section 4
Information Collected Automatically
Boredom may automatically collect:
This policy does not assume advertising identifiers or precise device identifiers unless those practices are later implemented.
- Device type, operating system, app version, and language
- IP address, approximate region, time zone, and session identifiers
- Login timestamps, feature usage, notification delivery status, and network status
- Error and crash data, security events, and related service diagnostics
Section 5
Location Information
Preferred location
A city, neighborhood, or place selected manually by the user.
Approximate location
A broad area used to show nearby people and activities.
Precise device location
Collected only when a user grants device location permission and uses a feature that requires it.
Users may deny location permission, enter a location manually, change permissions in device settings, and update preferred location in their profile.
Location may be used for nearby discovery, distance calculations, map display, activity locations, and safety or fraud prevention where appropriate.
For private activities, exact activity location may be hidden until approval, and unauthorized users may see only an approximate city or area.
Boredom does not need continuous background location tracking for the MVP.
Section 6
Information From Third Parties
Authentication providers
Boredom may receive a provider account identifier, name, email, profile image, or authentication status from configured authentication providers.
Mapping or place providers
Boredom may receive place IDs, addresses, coordinates, or place names.
App stores
Boredom may receive installation information, purchase status if payments are introduced, or crash reports.
Other users
Other users may provide information about you through messages, activity invitations, reports, reviews, or uploaded content.
Section 7
How We Use Personal Data
This policy does not describe targeted advertising.
- Create and manage accounts
- Authenticate users and display profiles
- Personalize recommendations and show nearby activities and people
- Calculate approximate distance and support map features
- Create and manage activities, join requests, invitations, and friend connections
- Deliver chat messages and notifications
- Provide customer support
- Detect fake profiles, spam, fraud, and abuse
- Investigate reports and enforce Terms of Use
- Maintain security, diagnose crashes, and improve product features
- Comply with legal obligations and protect users and the public
Section 8
Legal Bases for Processing
Contract
Processing necessary to provide requested services such as account creation, chat, friend requests, activities, and notifications.
Legitimate interests
Security, fraud prevention, product improvement, abuse detection, and service analytics, balanced against user rights.
Consent
Examples may include device location permission, optional marketing emails, optional push notifications, or optional analytics where required.
Legal obligations
Examples may include responding to lawful requests, keeping security records, or complying with regulatory obligations.
Vital interests
Where necessary to protect someone’s safety in an emergency.
Section 9
How We Share Information
Boredom does not sell personal information for money.
With other users
Depending on settings, users may see profile information, interests, approximate location, activities, friend connections, participation status, messages, and reviews.
With activity participants and hosts
Hosts and participants may see display name, profile image, join status, participation status, and activity chat messages.
With service providers
Categories may include hosting, database, authentication, storage, realtime messaging, push notifications, email, maps, analytics, crash reporting, and support.
Legal and safety disclosures
Boredom may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to lawful requests, enforce Terms, investigate fraud, protect users, prevent harm, or defend legal claims.
Business transfers
Information may be transferred during a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets, with notice where required.
Section 10
Public and Private Information
Public or discoverable information
Restricted information
Users should avoid sharing sensitive information publicly.
- Display name
- Profile photo
- Biography and interests
- Preferred city
- Activities created and public activity details
- Activity history, mutual friends, and reviews where shown
- Email address
- Exact device location
- Exact private activity location before approval
- Direct messages
- Block lists, reports, and authentication data
Section 11
Chat Privacy
Reported messages and limited surrounding context may be reviewed for moderation, safety, support, or legal reasons. This policy does not claim that all messages are actively monitored or that end-to-end encryption is implemented.
- Direct and group messages are visible to conversation participants.
- Messages are stored to provide chat history.
- Activity chat access depends on participation status.
- Approved participants may gain access to activity chat.
- Leaving an activity may affect future access.
- Blocking a user may prevent new messages.
- Previously sent messages may remain visible to other participants.
Section 12
Notifications and Communications
Boredom may send new message notifications, friend request notices, activity invitations, join request updates, reminders, activity changes, safety notices, security messages, product updates, and marketing messages where permitted.
Users may manage push notifications, email notifications, certain categories in Settings, and device-level permissions. Essential security, legal, and transactional communications may still be sent.
Section 13
Cookies and Website Storage
The website may use local storage, session storage, or essential cookies for core functionality. Analytics cookies may be introduced later if implemented.
This policy does not claim use of cookies or browser storage categories that are not currently implemented.
Section 14
Analytics and Product Improvement
Boredom may collect usage and diagnostic data to understand feature usage, improve performance, fix crashes, measure reliability, and prevent abuse.
Boredom may introduce privacy-conscious analytics in the future.
Section 15
Data Retention
Boredom retains data only as long as reasonably necessary for service operation, account management, safety, fraud prevention, legal obligations, disputes, and backups.
- Account information: while the account is active and for 90 days after deletion
- Messages: while needed to provide chat and subject to deletion and legal obligations
- Security logs: for a limited period
- Reports and moderation records: as needed for safety, enforcement, legal obligations, and disputes
Section 16
Account Deletion
Users may delete their profile through Settings → Delete my account.
Deletion may remove profile details, friend connections, preferences, access to chats, and activity participation data.
Some data may remain in backups for a limited period, in messages already delivered to other users, where required by law, for fraud or security investigations, in anonymized or aggregated form, or in records needed to resolve disputes.
Privacy contact: privacy@getboredom.app
Section 17
User Rights
Depending on applicable law, users may have rights to:
- Access personal data
- Correct inaccurate personal data
- Request deletion
- Request portability
- Object to or restrict certain processing
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority
- Rights may vary by location. Identity verification may be required before fulfilling a request.
- Request contact: privacy@getboredom.app
Section 18
California Privacy Rights
If applicable, California residents may have rights to know, access, correct, delete, and limit certain uses of personal information. Boredom does not sell personal information for money and does not currently describe disclosure as “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Section 19
International Data Transfers
Service providers may process data outside the user’s country. Where required, Boredom may rely on standard contractual clauses, adequacy decisions, or other lawful transfer mechanisms.
Country of processing: Morocco
Section 20
Data Security
Boredom uses reasonable technical and organizational safeguards that may include encryption in transit, access controls, authentication, row-level database security, secure service providers, monitoring, backups, and least-privilege access.
No online service can guarantee complete security.
Users are responsible for protecting their account credentials.
Section 21
Fake Profiles, Safety, and Moderation
Boredom may process data to detect fake accounts, detect spam, investigate suspicious activity, review reports, enforce restrictions, and protect users.
Trust signals such as email verification, profile completeness, activity history, mutual friends, and reviews may be displayed to other users.
These signals do not guarantee identity or safety.
Section 22
Children’s Privacy
Boredom is not intended for children under 18.
Boredom does not knowingly collect personal information from children below the minimum age. If such information is discovered, Boredom may delete the account and related data.
Section 23
Automated Decisions and Recommendations
Boredom may use automated systems to rank activities, suggest people, calculate match scores, recommend nearby content, and detect spam or suspicious behavior.
These systems may use interests, location, mutual connections, activity history, profile completeness, and recent platform activity. Recommendation outputs may be imperfect.
This policy does not claim that automated systems make legally significant decisions.
Section 24
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This policy may change over time. For material updates, Boredom may update the last-updated date, provide reasonable notice, and request consent where legally required.
Users should review the policy periodically.
Section 25
Contact Us
Boredom
Privacy email: privacy@getboredom.app
Terms: terms.html
Summary
Data Category Summary Table
| Data category | Examples | Purpose | Typical recipients | Retention basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Account | Email, provider identifier, language | Account creation, authentication, access | Authentication and service providers | While active and for 90 days after deletion |
| Profile | Name, photo, bio, interests | Display profiles and personalize discovery | Other users, service providers | While needed for the profile feature |
| Location | Preferred city, approximate area, optional precise location | Nearby discovery, distance, maps | Other users where applicable, map providers | While needed for location-based features |
| Activities | Titles, descriptions, schedules, join status | Create and manage activities | Hosts, participants, service providers | While active and for dispute or safety needs |
| Social connections | Friend requests, blocks, mutuals | Relationship and safety features | Other users where applicable, service providers | While needed for social features |
| Messages | Direct messages, group chats, reactions | Provide chat history and communications | Conversation participants, service providers | While needed for messaging and legal obligations |
| Notifications | Push tokens, delivery status | Send reminders, alerts, updates | Notification and email providers | While notification settings remain active |
| Device and usage | App version, IP, time zone, crash data | Security, diagnostics, improvement | Infrastructure and support providers | Limited period based on operational need |
| Safety and reports | Reports, moderation notes, block actions | Investigate abuse and enforce rules | Moderation and legal support providers | As needed for safety, enforcement, and claims |
| Support | Requests, issue descriptions, responses | Customer support and troubleshooting | Support and infrastructure providers | As needed for support, records, and follow-up |
Controls
Privacy Controls in the App
Users may have controls to manage visibility, participation, and privacy choices within the app.
- Edit profile — Update visible profile details and preferences.
- Change preferred location — Adjust city or area used for nearby discovery.
- Manage notifications — Control optional push or email categories where available.
- Block users — Prevent new interaction from specific profiles.
- Report users — Flag profiles, activities, or messages for review.
- Leave activities — Stop participating in activities when the feature allows.
- Delete account — Remove the profile from Settings when available.
- Revoke location permission — Change device-level location access in system settings.
Access
Want a Copy of Your Data?
Contact privacy@getboredom.app to request access or portability where applicable.