Olinks — Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 23, 2026

Olinks is a macOS menu bar utility that routes http and https links to the browser and profile you choose per rule. This page explains what data Olinks handles and what it doesn’t.

Short version

Olinks does not collect, transmit, or store any personal data. Everything happens locally on your Mac.

What Olinks handles locally

To do its job, Olinks needs to process two kinds of information on your device:

• URLs you click. When macOS hands Olinks a link, Olinks evaluates it against your rules and immediately forwards it to the selected browser. URLs are never saved to disk, logged, or sent anywhere.
• Installed browsers and their profiles. Olinks scans your Applications folder for supported browsers and, with your explicit consent via a security-scoped bookmark, reads the profile names from browser configuration files. This information stays on your Mac.

Your rules, browser list, and preferences are stored in macOS UserDefaults, in your user account, on your Mac.

What Olinks does NOT do

• No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, or usage tracking.
• No user accounts, sign-in, or cloud sync.
• No network requests of any kind. Olinks never phones home.
• No advertising identifiers, cookies, or fingerprinting.
• No data sold or shared with third parties (there are none).

Permissions Olinks asks for

• Default browser. So macOS routes http/https links through Olinks. You can revoke this in System Settings → Desktop & Dock → Default web browser at any time.
• File access to browser profile directories (optional). Only used to list profile names (e.g. “Personal”, “Work”). You grant this per browser via a standard macOS open panel; Olinks stores the permission as a security-scoped bookmark.

User Privacy Choices

Olinks does not collect, store, or share any personal data, so there is nothing to access, correct, export, delete, or opt out of on our side. You remain in full control of your data because it never leaves your Mac:

• Your rules and preferences live in ~/Library/Containers/io.ryvik.olinks/ (macOS UserDefaults). Deleting Olinks and that container removes everything.
• Default browser status can be revoked at any time in System Settings → Desktop & Dock → Default web browser.
• Browser profile access (security-scoped bookmarks) can be revoked per browser from the Browsers tab in Olinks, or by resetting the app.
• No tracking to opt out of. Olinks has no analytics, no crash reporting, no ads, and no third-party SDKs, so there is no tracking toggle to flip — tracking is permanently off by design.

If you believe you have a privacy request under GDPR, CCPA, or similar regulations, email [email protected] and we will respond within 30 days. Because Olinks holds no user data on our side, most requests will simply confirm that no data exists.

Children

Olinks does not knowingly collect data from anyone, including children under 13.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be published at the same URL and the date above will be updated.

Contact

Questions about privacy: [email protected]
General support: [email protected]