Plugsquire
Privacy Policy
Plugsquire runs on your Mac. It has no account and no server of its own. When "Online details" is on, the app sends a public model name and a maker name to four public reference sources; nothing else leaves your Mac. This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics.
1. Information we collect
In the app
The app reads, on your Mac, the system report for every connected device: names, vendor and product IDs, serial numbers, firmware versions, link speeds, power figures, battery levels and Bluetooth addresses. It also stores the names you give devices and the list of devices you removed from the list (as device IDs only), in the app's preferences on your Mac.
The storage breakdown reads file sizes and dates only, from a fixed list of folders, on your Mac. It never opens a file's contents.
The Bluetooth diagnostic reads the Bluetooth report, the last five minutes of the Bluetooth and HID system logs, the running process list and the Magic Mouse button setting, on your Mac. Nothing it reads is stored or sent anywhere.
None of this is sent to us. We have no server that could receive it.
On this website
We collect nothing through this website. If you email contact@luongnv.com, for example to request an early build, we receive your email address and your message.
2. How we use it
- Device details are used by the app, on your Mac, to build the inventory and run the audit.
- The public model name and maker name are used to look up registered product names, a product photo and description, and firmware release information.
- Your email address and message are used to reply to you and, if you asked, to send you a build.
3. Cookies and analytics
The app contains no analytics or tracking. This website sets no cookies, loads no analytics, and makes no requests to third-party servers: no web fonts, no scripts, no embedded content.
4. Sharing and processors
When "Online details" is on (the default), the app sends a public model name (an owner prefix such as "Sam's" is removed first) and a maker name to:
- The USB ID Repository, for registered product names.
- Wikipedia and Wikidata, for a product photo, description, release date and company profile.
- Apple Support, for the latest firmware and release history.
Generic names (such as "USB3.1 Hub") are not looked up. A name or maker you type for a device is looked up too, because you entered it as a product name. Serial numbers, Bluetooth addresses, volume names and the names you gave your devices are never sent.
This website is hosted on GitHub Pages. GitHub receives the standard request data your browser sends when you load a page, such as your IP address, and handles it under its own privacy statement.
Email to contact@luongnv.com is forwarded by Cloudflare Email Routing to a Gmail inbox.
5. Retention
- Wikipedia and Wikidata details are stored in
~/Library/Application Support/Plugsquire/after the first fetch and kept until you delete that folder. A name with no matching article is asked about again after 30 days. - Other answers are cached in
~/Library/Caches/Plugsquire/: a day for the firmware list, a month for the USB ID Repository. - Your settings, device names and removed devices stay in the app's preferences on your Mac until you change them or remove the app.
- Emails: [proof needed — how long emails are kept]
6. Your choices
- Turn "Online details" off in the app's settings to stop every lookup and image download. The app stays fully usable offline with its bundled data.
- Delete
~/Library/Application Support/Plugsquire/and~/Library/Caches/Plugsquire/to remove every stored detail. - Email contact@luongnv.com to ask what we hold about you, or to have your emails deleted.
7. Children
[proof needed — minimum age]
8. Changes to this policy
Changes are published on this page with a new effective date.