Privacy
10 September 2026
The DriveChk app collects nothing. No account, no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting. The app has no way to send your drive data anywhere, because it never asks for one.
What stays on your Mac
Drive models, serial numbers, health readings and history are stored in a local database under your Application Support folder. That file never leaves your machine. Deleting the app and that folder removes everything DriveChk has ever recorded.
When the app does talk to the internet
- Update checks. DriveChk asks GitHub whether a newer version exists. That request carries nothing about you or your drives beyond what any HTTP request necessarily reveals.
- Licence checks. If you buy a licence, the app verifies it with Polar, our payment provider. That request contains your licence key and a label for the Mac you are activating — nothing about your drives.
Neither request includes drive serial numbers, health data, or file contents. The app does not read your files at all; it reads the drives' own health registers, and during a surface scan it reads raw sectors without interpreting what is in them.
This website
This site counts visits with Google Analytics, configured so that every consent signal is denied. It writes no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. Google receives the page you opened, the site you came from, and an approximate location from your IP address — nothing that identifies you, and nothing that connects one visit to another. There is no consent banner because nothing is stored to ask you about. Downloads are served from GitHub, which keeps its own logs under its privacy statement.
Payments
Purchases are handled entirely by Polar, who act as merchant of record. They receive your payment details; I never do. I can see that a purchase happened and the email attached to it, so I can help with licence problems.