Microsoft isn’t the only one running a preview program that collects data from participants: so does Apple.

OS X Yosemite’s public beta — the sneak peek Apple launched on July 24 — collects a variety of data from users who download and install the preview.

“In order to test and improve Apple’s products and services, and unless you opt out as set forth below, you acknowledge that Apple and its subsidiaries and agents will be collecting, using, storing, processing and analyzing (collectively, ‘Collecting’) diagnostic, technical, usage, and/or related information from your computers that are running pre-release versions of OS X as part of this Beta Program,” Apple states in the preview’s program agreement (download PDF).

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