Privacy

Mic Drop is a hobby project designed to know as little about you as possible. The short version: no accounts, no audio, no ads, and everything about a game is deleted within days.

What the game stores

Your display name

Whatever you type when joining — it can be anything. Your browser also remembers it locally so the form is prefilled next time. It is never linked to an identity.

A room token in your browser

Joining a room stores a random token in your browser's localStorage, scoped to that room. It's what lets a refresh put you back in your seat. It identifies your seat in one room, nothing else.

Game records

Rooms, players, rounds, and votes live in the database while a game runs. A room is marked abandoned 30 minutes after everyone leaves and deleted entirely 7 days after it ends — names included.

Anonymous gameplay statistics

Aggregate events (a room was created, a game finished, a word was skipped) are kept for up to a year to answer questions like "how long is a typical game?". They are unlinked from rooms and players when those are deleted.

What the game never does

• No audio. There is no microphone permission, no recording, no audio processing. Singing happens on your own voice chat, which Mic Drop is not part of.
• No accounts, no emails, no passwords.
• No ads or data sales.

Analytics

The production site uses Google Analytics to count visits (and only on www.micdrop.gg — local and test traffic is excluded). If you block it, the game works identically. The one outbound link with an affiliate tag is the Amazon link to the physical Grab the Mic game, marked as sponsored.

Questions

Mic Drop is built and run by John Sillings — get in touch through that site.