Privacy and cookies
Short version: this site does not track you. elsieOS promises no tracking, so its website does not track either. If you sign up for the beta, we keep only what you type into the form, only for the beta.
Last updated 14 November 2026
No cookies, no analytics
elsieos.com sets no cookies and runs no analytics, advertising or tracking scripts. There are no accounts. The only form is the beta sign-up, and it keeps only what is described below.
Nothing from other sites
Every file on these pages (text, styles, pictures, the one small script) comes from elsieos.com. No fonts, videos, maps, buttons or images are loaded from anyone else, so other companies do not learn that you visited. The links to Reddit, X, GitHub and Hugging Face are plain links: those sites only see you if you click them, and then their own privacy policies apply.
The one thing your browser keeps
When you press OK on the notice at the bottom of the page, your browser remembers that in its own
local storage (the entry elsieos-cookie-ok), so the notice does not come back. It never leaves your
browser and you can delete it by clearing this site's data.
Server logs
The web server keeps no log of visits to this site. If something goes wrong on the server itself, its error log can contain the address of the request that hit the problem; that log is deleted after 14 days. The beta sign-up service logs what happened (for example "a sign-up was confirmed"), never email addresses or IP addresses. The connection is encrypted (HTTPS).
The beta sign-up
What we keep. If you sign up at elsieos.com/beta: your email address and your answers (graphics card and its memory, system RAM, and whichever optional questions you answer: what you run today, what you would use elsieOS for, a spare drive, the BIOS question, where you heard about elsieOS). With them: when you signed up and confirmed, which version of the consent text you agreed to, when we last emailed you (so nobody can flood an address with our email), and two random codes for the confirm and leave links. No name, no location, nothing else.
Why. Because you ticked the box: to choose beta testers so that every kind of graphics card gets tested, and to email you about the beta - the confirmation, the invitations and rare updates. Never advertising, and nothing else.
Where. In our own database on our own servers, not at a mailing-list company. It is never shared or sold. The emails go out through Google Workspace, which handles all email for elsieos.com and keeps a delivery record of each one, as it does for any email.
Your IP address is not stored. To stop floods of sign-ups, the service counts recent sign-ups per network in its memory only, as a scrambled code that is forgotten after an hour; the web server likewise counts requests per address in memory. Neither is ever written to disk.
How long. Until the beta ends or you leave, whichever comes first. A sign-up that is not confirmed is deleted after 7 days. Our backups of the database are encrypted and replaced over time, so copies in them disappear at the latest six months after the deletion.
Leaving and deletion. Every email we send has a link to leave the list; it deletes your address and answers at once. Or write to hello@elsieos.com: we delete them, and tell you what we held if you ask.
If you email us, we keep your message and address only to answer you. Email for elsieos.com is handled by Google Workspace.