Privacy

MacFound is a student project for reuniting lost items at McMaster. It is not run by McMaster University. Here is what it keeps and why.

What we collect

Your McMaster email address, to sign you in and to send you sign-in codes and notifications. Your display name is the part before the @.
What you post: titles, descriptions, the building and date, and any photos you add.
Claims and messages you send about an item.
Basic technical logs kept by our hosting provider, such as when a page was requested.

Posts and their photos are visible to anyone signed in with a McMaster email. Photo links are public to anyone who has them, so never photograph student cards, IDs or documents.
A claim’s description is seen only by the person holding the item.
Messages are seen only by the two people in the conversation.
If something is reported, a moderator can see the reported post to decide whether to take it down.
Your email address is never shown to other users.

Posts close automatically after 60 days. A closed post’s photos are deleted; its text stays readable to anyone with the link.
Deleting a post deletes its photos straight away.
Messages, claims and your account stay until you delete your account.

We email sign-in codes, and notifications about matches, claims and messages. You can turn off match and message emails on your profile page.
We don’t send marketing, and we don’t sell or share your data.

On your profile page, choose Delete my account. Your account, posts, photos, claims, messages and notifications are deleted permanently.