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Privacy Policy

The short version: this site has no accounts, no forms and nothing to sign up for, so there is nothing for you to hand over. We use Google Analytics to count visits, our web host keeps standard access logs, and your light/dark preference is saved in your own browser. We do not sell or share anything, and there are no ads.

Last updated: 13 August 2026.

Who we are

Refresh My Cache is published by LinuxGnut Media at refreshmycache.com. This policy covers that website and nothing else.

What we don’t collect

It is worth being specific, because “we value your privacy” usually is not. This site does not have:

  • user accounts or registration — you cannot create one, and we do not have a customer database
  • contact forms, comment boxes, surveys or newsletter sign-ups
  • file uploads, so nothing you own ever reaches our server
  • advertising, ad networks or behavioural profiling
  • social media buttons, share widgets or embedded trackers
  • third-party fonts or script CDNs — our fonts are served from our own domain, so simply loading a page does not announce your visit to anyone else

We never ask for your name, your email address, your payment details or anything else about you, and we have no way to accept them.

What is collected, and by whom

Server access logs

Like effectively every website, our web server records requests it receives. A log line typically holds your IP address, the date and time, the page requested, the referring page and your browser’s user-agent string. These logs exist to keep the site running and secure — diagnosing errors, spotting abuse — and they are not used to build a profile of you or combined with anything else. They rotate and are discarded in the ordinary course of running the server.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand which browsers and versions people actually need help with. That genuinely shapes the site: it tells us which instructions to check first and which browsers deserve a page. We look at totals and trends, never at individuals.

Google Analytics sets cookies in your browser and collects information including your IP address, approximate location derived from it, the pages you view, how long you stay, your device and browser type, and the site or search that sent you. Google processes this as our service provider, and processing may take place on servers outside your country, including in the United States. We do not send Google your name or email address, because we do not have them, and we have not enabled Google’s advertising or remarketing features.

Google’s own explanation of what it does with this data is at policies.google.com/privacy, and policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites covers data collected on sites that use its services.

If you would rather not be counted, you have several options: install Google’s official Analytics opt-out browser add-on, block analytics with a content blocker or a privacy-focused browser, or turn on your browser’s tracking-protection setting. Nothing on this site depends on analytics, so blocking it costs you nothing — every page works exactly the same.

Your light/dark preference

When you choose light, dark or system appearance, we save that choice in your browser’s local storage under the key appearance. It is not a cookie, it is never transmitted to our server, and it holds nothing but that one word. It stays on your device until you clear your browsing data for this site — which, given what this site is about, you now know how to do.

Cookies, in one place

We set no cookies of our own for visitors. The only cookies on the site come from Google Analytics, as described above. WordPress, which this site runs on, sets cookies only for logged-in administrators — that is us, not you.

You can delete cookies and block new ones from your browser’s settings at any time, and the site will keep working.

What we do with any of it

We use analytics and logs to keep the site working and to decide what to write next. That is all. We do not sell your personal information, we do not rent or trade it, and we do not share it with anyone beyond the service providers named here who host the site and provide the analytics. We would disclose information if the law genuinely required it, and not otherwise.

Your rights

Depending on where you live — the UK, the EU, California and other places have rules of this kind — you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, or to object to how it is used.

In our case the honest answer is usually that we hold nothing that identifies you. We have no account for you, no email address and no record tying a visit to a person. Analytics data reaches us already aggregated, and log entries are not indexed by anything we could look you up with. To exercise a right against the analytics data itself, the browser opt-out above is both more effective and more immediate than asking us, because it stops the collection outright rather than asking us to find it afterwards.

Children

This site is a general-audience technical reference and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included.

Other sites we link to

We link out to browser vendors’ release notes and support pages, and some instructions may include an embedded video. Once you follow a link or play an embedded video, that site’s privacy policy applies rather than ours, and we have no control over what it collects.

Changes to this policy

If we change what we collect or add a service that collects something, we will update this page and change the date at the top. There is no mailing list to notify, so the date is the honest signal — check it if you want to know whether anything has moved.

Contact

We are adding a contact form, and questions about this policy will go there once it is available. In the meantime, note that the browser-level opt-out described above works immediately and does not need our involvement.