Privacy
What Boredom keeps about you.
Boredom is a private, invite-only project run by one person for a few friends and family. There are no ads, no analytics and no trackers, and nothing is sold or passed on.
What is stored
- From Google, when you sign in: your name, email address, the address of your profile picture, and the sign-in tokens Google hands back. Boredom never sees your Google password and asks for nothing else from your Google account.
- What you tell it: the genres you pick, and for each title whether you've seen it, how far you got, your stars, your watchlist and what you turned down.
- What it works out: your lists of picks, and a log of what you rated and saved (this is what friends see as activity).
- Titles you and friends send each other.
- For keeping you signed in and the app safe: each sign-in records the internet address and browser it came from, and short-lived counters stop anyone hammering the app.
Who can see it
- Friends means everyone with an account here: the handful of people who were invited. They see your name, what you've watched, saved and rated, and how closely your taste matches theirs.
- They never see titles you turned down, titles you answered "haven't seen", or your email address.
- You can mark any title only me on its page, or switch sharing off altogether on your account page. Hidden ratings still shape your own picks, and nobody else's.
- The person who runs Boredom can see who has an account (name and email), and, because they look after the database, could technically read anything in it.
Others involved
- Google handles sign-in.
- Vercel runs the app and Neon holds the database; both process the data above on Boredom's behalf.
- TMDB and AniList serve the posters, so your browser fetches images straight from them, as it would on any site that shows them. They are not told who you are.
- YouTube serves trailer preview images, and the trailer itself only once you tap play.
On your device
One cookie keeps you signed in. Another holds your invite code for half an hour while you sign up. If you install the app, its own files are kept on the device so it opens quickly; none of your pages or data are stored there.
Your copy, and deleting it
On your account page you can download everything stored about you, and delete your account. Deleting removes all of it straight away; the database host may hold it in its restore history for a short while after that. Questions go to whoever invited you.