Privacy Policy

Last updated 11 October 2026

Barnyard Breakroom is a small hobby website at barnyardbreakroom.com with a daily animal story and two daily puzzles, Hen Pecks and Biscuit and Marshmallow. The puzzles can also be played as Activities inside Discord. This page explains what information is collected, why, and how to have it deleted. We don't sell your information, show ads or track you across other websites.

Playing on the website

You can play without an account. Your game progress, stats, light/dark choice and similar settings are saved in your own browser (local storage) and never leave your device unless you sign in.

If you sign in

Signing in is optional and lets your stats follow you to other devices. You can sign in with an email link or with Google. We store:

• your email address and a user ID (and, if you use Google, the basic profile Google shares to confirm who you are);
• your game history and stats for Hen Pecks and Biscuit and Marshmallow, and your Hen Pecks settings;
• a random ID for each device you've played on, so stats from two devices aren't counted twice.

This is used only to sign you in and save your games. We only email you to send sign-in links.

Playing in Discord

When you start Hen Pecks or Biscuit and Marshmallow in Discord, you allow the game to know who you are (Discord's identify permission). We don't receive your email address, messages, friends list or anything else from your Discord account. We store:

• your Discord user ID and the name shown for you (your server nickname or display name);
• the server and channel IDs where you started the game, so your result can be posted there;
• your result for each day's puzzle (for example, which try you solved it on, or how many swaps it took);
• your game history and stats for each game (each day you finished, and how), your Hen Pecks settings, and a random ID for each device you've played on, so your streaks follow you to any device you play on in Discord;
• a short-lived token Discord provides to update the game's message. It stops working after 15 minutes and is deleted after 2 days.

Your results are posted in the channel where you played, and a daily recap there lists everyone's results from the day before, mentioning players by name without notifying them. Anyone in that channel can also show the results of any earlier day there with /recap, which is why results are kept. Only people who can already see that channel see these messages.

Visit counts

We count page visits and a few game moments (like "finished today's puzzle") with GoatCounter, which doesn't use cookies or identify you. It records things like the page, the referring site, your browser type, screen size and country. Your email address or user ID is never sent.

Services we rely on

• Supabase stores accounts and Discord results.
• Resend delivers sign-in emails.
• GitHub Pages hosts the website, and Google Fonts serves its fonts. Like any web server, they see your IP address when your browser loads a page.
• Google (if you choose Google sign-in) and Discord (if you play there), under their own privacy policies.
• The daily stories are written and painted with Anthropic's Claude from public news articles. None of your information is sent to it.

How long we keep it

Account data, and Discord results and game history, are kept until you ask us to delete them, so your stats, streaks and past recaps keep working. Discord launch tokens are deleted after 2 days. Information saved in your browser stays until you clear it.

Your choices

• You can play without signing in, and sign out at any time from the menu.
• You can ask to see, correct or delete your information by emailing hello@barnyardbreakroom.com. For Discord, include your Discord username and, if you can, your Discord user ID, so we can find your results. Once they're deleted, you're left out of future recaps too. We'll reply within 30 days.
• Messages already posted in a Discord channel can be removed by that server's moderators, or by us on request.

Children

Barnyard Breakroom is family-friendly, but accounts and the Discord games are meant for people aged 13 and over (Discord requires this too). If you think a child under 13 has given us information, email us and we'll delete it.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

Questions? Email hello@barnyardbreakroom.com. See also our Terms of Service.