Privacy policy

Last updated November 14, 2026

im bored is a small app for telling your friends you’re bored and finding out who’s in. It’s made by My Cliques (“we”). This policy says what the app collects, who can see it, how long it’s kept, and how to delete it.

The short version: your friends see where you are while the app is open, and the things you send them. We don’t sell your data, show ads or track you across other apps.

What we collect

• Your email address, or your Apple ID’s email (which can be a private relay address)
  Why: Signing in. Who can see it: Only you.
• Your name and color
  Why: So friends know it’s you. Who can see it: Your friends, and people you send an invite to.
• Your location, rounded to about 50 m (0.0005 degrees), and when you last had the app open
  Why: Putting you on your friends’ map, and sending yells to friends nearby. Who can see it: Your friends, while you haven’t turned on Hide my location.
• Yells and pssts, including any yell photo
  Why: Telling friends you’re bored, or nudging one friend. Who can see it: The friends you send them to.
• Group chat messages and chat names
  Why: Chatting with the friends who are in. Who can see it: The people in that chat.
• Your friends list, and who you’ve blocked
  Why: Running the app. Who can see it: Your friends list: you and each friend. Blocks: only you.
• “I’m in” counts (clout)
  Why: Showing how often you and your friends say yes. Who can see it: Your friends.
• Reports you make about another user
  Why: Keeping people safe. Who can see it: Only us.
• A push notification token for your phone
  Why: Sending you yells, pssts and chat messages. Who can see it: Only us.
• Crash reports: the error, your phone model and the app version
  Why: Fixing crashes. Who can see it: Only us. Not linked to your account.

The app only uses your location while it’s open. It never collects it in the background.

What stays on your phone: your settings (theme, sounds, alerts), when you last read each chat, and a copy of your friends list so the app opens fast. Adding a friend by “nearby” or by touching phones uses Bluetooth and your local network to find their phone, and nothing about that is sent to us. Inviting someone from your contacts opens the contact picker. Only the one contact you pick is handed to the app, and it’s used to write a text message on your phone. We never see your address book.

Who we share it with

We don’t sell or rent your data, and we don’t use it for ads. We use these services to run the app:

• Google Firebase (Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Functions, Cloud Messaging) stores your account and everything in the table above, and sends notifications.
• Apple handles Sign in with Apple, and delivers notifications to your iPhone.
• Sentry receives crash reports. They don’t include your name, email or IP address.

We’d also share data if the law requires it, or to protect someone’s safety.

How long it’s kept

• Yells end after an hour, or sooner if you end them. They’re deleted within an hour after that. Yell photos are deleted when the yell ends.
• Pssts are deleted after a day.
• Invite codes expire after 7 days.
• Your location is replaced each time it updates. Only the latest one is kept.
• Group chats stay until everyone has left. When the last person leaves, the chat and all its messages are deleted.
• Reports are kept while we look into them, and as long as we need them to keep the app safe.
• Everything else stays until you delete your account.

Deleting your account

Go to Settings › Delete my account in the app. That deletes your account, profile, location, friends, blocks, yells, pssts, invites, and your messages in every group chat, straight away. Chats where you were the last person left are deleted completely. You can also email us at the address below and we’ll delete it for you.

Hiding

Turn on Hide my location in Settings, and friends stop seeing where you are until you turn it off. You can also turn off location for im bored in the iPhone’s Settings app.

Age

im bored is for people 18 and older. We don’t knowingly collect data from anyone younger. If you think someone under 18 is using it, tell us and we’ll delete their account.

Changes

If we change this policy, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. If a change is big, we’ll tell you in the app.

Contact

Email support@mycliques.app with any question about your data.