Privacy policy
Last updated: October 2026 (between meetings).
The short version
boredatwork.fun is a collection of small browser games run by Mastech Consulting Pty Ltd, based in Melbourne, Australia. There are no accounts, no logins, and no passwords. We never ask who you are. You can play almost everything without giving us a thing. The exceptions are the leaderboards and the multiplayer rooms, where the game stores the bits you’d expect: a short name you choose, a flag you pick, and your scores. We also count, anonymously, which games get played. This page spells out exactly what all of that means.
This is our privacy policy under the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). We have players overseas too, so it’s written to make sense wherever you are.
Who we are
The site is operated by Mastech Consulting Pty Ltd (Melbourne, Australia). To reach us about privacy, see Contact at the bottom.
No accounts, ever
We don’t have a sign-up, a login, a password, or an email list. We don’t build a profile of you, and we don’t try to work out who you are.
What you choose to share when you play
- Leaderboards (Pin Drop, Daily Word, Five O’Clock, NYC Hustle). If you get a qualifying score and choose to put yourself on a board, the game saves a display name you type (up to 7 letters, filtered for the obvious rude stuff), a country flag you pick from a list, and your result (your score, or for Daily Word your number of guesses and solve time) with the date. The flag is whatever you select; we do not detect your location. Leaderboard entries are visible to other players and, because they’re meant to last, we keep them indefinitely.
- Multiplayer rooms (List Rush, Type Race, Quick Draw, Pin Drop, Brain Drain, Fibber, 9 Letter Word). When you join a room, the game stores a display name you choose (up to 24 characters) and the things you do in the game (your answers, guesses, votes, typed text, pins on the map, and scores) so everyone in the room stays in sync. A random ID kept in your browser marks your seat so you can reconnect. None of this is linked to your real identity.
Heads up: a display name is free text, so please don’t type anything you wouldn’t want others to see. It shows to other players and, for leaderboards, it sticks around.
What’s stored on your device
Most of your settings and progress never leave your browser. Using your browser’s local storage, we keep things like your theme (dark/light), Daily Word progress and stats, best scores, sound preference, your last-used name and flag (so you don’t retype them), a random session ID for rejoining multiplayer rooms, and a random analytics ID (see Analytics below). You can wipe all of it any time by clearing your browser storage for this site.
Analytics
We count how the games are used with PostHog, hosted in the EU. It records page views and a handful of anonymous game events: a room being created or joined, a game starting or finishing, which game it was, the room code, and how many players took part. It also sees the usual technical details any website gets, like your browser, device type and the page you came from.
What it doesn’t get: your display name, your answers or anything else you type, your scores, or a recording of your screen. We never tell it who you are and we don’t build a profile of you. PostHog uses your IP address only to work out your approximate country, and our settings tell it to throw the IP address away after that. To tell repeat visits apart it keeps a random ID in your browser’s local storage (not a cookie). Clearing your browser storage resets it, and blocking PostHog with an ad or tracker blocker won’t break any game.
Cookies and ads
We don’t set cookies, and there are currently no ads on the site. If that ever changes, we’ll update this page first with details of any advertising cookies and your controls.
Technical data and IP addresses
Our own code never stores your IP address. But like any website, the moment your browser loads a page or talks to a server, the companies running that infrastructure can see your IP address in their standard logs. For us that means our host (Vercel), our database provider (Supabase), our analytics provider (PostHog, which discards it as described above), and any third-party service your browser loads directly (listed below). We don’t control those logs and don’t use them to identify you.
Third-party services
To make the games work, your browser loads a few things directly from other providers. When it does, they receive your IP address and the request, under their own privacy policies:
- Supabase: stores the leaderboards and runs the live multiplayer connection.
- PostHog: anonymous usage analytics (see Analytics above).
- Mapillary and Esri: street-level imagery and map tiles for Pin Drop.
- Open Trivia DB: questions for Brain Drain (no personal data is sent).
- flagcdn: the flag images.
- unpkg: serves the map libraries Pin Drop uses.
- Google Fonts: the pixel font the site uses.
How long we keep things
- Leaderboard entries: kept indefinitely (that’s the point of a high-score table).
- Multiplayer rooms and everything in them: automatically deleted about 24 hours after the room is created. On networks that block our live connection, the game briefly logs its moves so play can continue; that log is deleted with the room.
- Analytics events: kept by PostHog for as long as our analytics plan retains them, then deleted. They carry no name or IP address.
- On your device: until you clear your browser storage.
Where your data is processed
Mastech Consulting is in Australia, but some of the services above are based overseas (including in the United States), and your browser contacts them directly. Our database is hosted with Supabase in their Northeast Asia (Tokyo) region and our analytics with PostHog in the European Union. This means information such as a leaderboard entry, in-room activity or an analytics event may be stored and processed outside Australia. By playing the games that use these features, you understand that this cross-border handling takes place. We only use reputable providers and share the minimum the games need to function.
Your choices and rights
Under the APPs you can ask us what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Because we don’t have accounts, there’s usually very little to find, but if you’d like a leaderboard entry removed, email us the name and rough date and we’ll take it down. You can clear everything stored on your device yourself at any time via your browser settings.
Children
These are workplace time-wasters, not aimed at children, and we knowingly collect nothing from anyone, child or adult, beyond what’s described here.
The boss key
What happens when you press ` stays between you and your monitor.
Changes
If we change what we collect, we’ll update this page and the “last updated” date.
Contact
Mastech Consulting Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia. Privacy questions? Email hello@boredatwork.fun.