Privacy

Plain-language summary of what MacBid stores.

What we store

• Listings. The link you submit and the public information we fetch about the app — its name, description, icon, version and category.
• Facts about each app. Read from the app’s own bundle, its pricing page, its update feed, Homebrew and the App Store — all of it public information about software, none of it about you.
• Clicks. A count per listing, plus a short-lived salted hash used only to avoid counting the same visitor twice.

What we do not store

• No payment details of any kind. Nothing on this site is for sale, so there is no checkout and no card to handle.
• No raw IP addresses. Click de-duplication uses a salted hash, and those rows are pruned.
• No accounts, no passwords, no cross-site tracking, and no advertising profiles.

What is public

Everything on a listing: the app, the facts read about it, the date each was read, and how often readers here have clicked through to it. That is the whole point of the board, and it is all information about software rather than about a person.

A submission carries no name or email. If you write to us about a listing, that email is ours alone and appears nowhere on the site.

Support

Questions, or a correction to a fact we have published — write to hey@macbid.app. We answer within three business days.

Outbound links

Clicking a listing sends you to the submitted URL with an attribution parameter added, so the app’s owner can see the traffic in their own analytics. Once you leave, that site’s privacy policy applies.