Privacy
This site exists to share what works on old Macs. It doesn't need to know who you are, so it doesn't try to find out.
TLDR;
- No ads, no analytics, no tracking, no accounts, no cookies.
- We keep as little as possible, and nothing that identifies you.
Visiting the site
- What our server records: each request's method, page, response code and how long it took. Not your IP address, your browser, where you came from, or what you searched for.
- AI assistants (MCP): when an assistant uses our MCP server, we record which tool it called, not what it asked. To stop floods, the server counts requests per IP address for a minute, in memory only.
- What stays on your device: your colour theme, saved in your browser and never sent to us.
- Nothing from elsewhere: fonts, icons and scripts all come from this site. No Google, social networks or ad companies.
Identify my Mac
Your browser reads what you paste and sends only the model identifier, board ID, CPU name and device IDs. Thousands of Macs share each one. Nothing is stored unless you choose to share it. Without JavaScript, our server picks out the same IDs and throws the rest away at once.
Sharing from Identify my Mac
- Only if you tick the box: it's never ticked for you, and we ask again every time.
- What we keep: the IDs shown on your result, your answers to the two optional questions, and the date. Not what you pasted, your IP address, the time of day or anything you type.
- Limits: to stop floods, our server counts shares per IP address for an hour, in memory only. It's never written down or logged.
- No take-backs: nothing links a share to you, so we can't find yours to delete it.
- What it's for: a maintainer compares shared IDs with the catalog and fixes it by hand. Shares never change the catalog by themselves.
Diagnostic reports
- What we keep: your Mac's hardware details, the test results and the Omarchy version. A public name and a contact address are optional; the contact is kept only as a one-way hash that even we can't read back.
- What we remove first: serial numbers, network and IP addresses, computer and user names, and e-mail addresses.
- What becomes public: once accepted, the results, the hardware and your public name, if you gave one. The full report stays with maintainers for now, but may be published later so anyone can check our work.
- Changing your mind: reports aren't deleted, so the history stays honest. We can withdraw one so it no longer counts, and take your name off it.
Registering a test tool
- What we keep: the tool's name, its source ID and links, what it tests, a contact email and the date. Only a hash of its key and of its private link, never the key itself.
- Who sees it: maintainers. Once approved, the tool's name appears on the reports it sends; the contact email is never public.
- How long: while the source is registered. If a request is declined, its contact email is deleted after 30 days.
- Limits: to stop floods, our server counts requests per IP address for a day, in memory only.
Who else is involved
- Cloudflare delivers the site and guards it from abuse, so it sees visitors' IP addresses. It may set a short-lived cookie if it has to check you aren't a bot. It also handles sign-in for maintainers.
- DigitalOcean runs our server, in Toronto.
- Cloudflare R2 keeps encrypted database backups for 30 days.
- GitHub hosts the code. Issues and pull requests there are public.
Maintainers
Only maintainers see reports waiting for review and full reports. They sign in with their e-mail address, and every decision is recorded with their name.
Questions
E-mail [email protected]. To withdraw a report, include its code, from its page address (like /report/3f9a1c07be).
Changes
Any change is listed here with its date.
- : added Sharing from Identify my Mac.
- : first version.