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Privacy and cookie policy

Last updated 10 November 2026

This policy explains what ReinstallOS does with information when you visit, and what it deliberately does not do. It is written to be read rather than to be quoted: if a clause is load-bearing, it says so in plain language.

Current state, stated plainly: this site carries no advertising, uses no analytics and sets no cookies of its own. There is no consent banner, because there is nothing to consent to.

1. Who we are

ReinstallOS is a small, independently run website at reinstallos.com. The person responsible for it — and for requests about your data — can be reached at [email protected], or through the contact page.

Scope. This policy covers reinstallos.com and www.reinstallos.com only. Our sister site InstallShelf ↗ is a separate site with its own policy; this one does not describe it. It also does not cover Microsoft, Apple, or any other site you reach by following a link from here — once you leave, their policies apply.

2. What this site does not do

3. Information we process

Server and security logs. Like any website, ours is delivered through a content delivery network, which processes the request in order to send you the page. That necessarily includes your IP address, the page requested, the time, and your browser's user-agent string. These records are used for delivering the site and for detecting abuse, and are retained for a short period by the network provider. We do not use them to build a profile of you.

Nothing from embedded third parties. The pages load only assets from this domain. There is no advertising script, no analytics tag, no social widget, no web font host and no external tracker. The content-security policy blocks third-party scripts by default.

Anything you send us. If you email us, we receive whatever you chose to include, including your address. We keep it for as long as needed to answer you and to keep a record of the correction or complaint, then delete it.

We do not knowingly collect information from children, and the site is not directed at them.

4. Cookies

The guides are static pages. There is no session to maintain and nothing to remember about you between visits, so this site sets no cookies of its own and loads no code that would set one. Blocking or deleting cookies in your browser has no effect on your ability to read anything here.

If this ever changes — for example because advertising is introduced after an approval — this section, the consent mechanism and the footer notice will be updated together before it happens.

5. Advertising

There is no advertising on this site as of 10 November 2026. No ad slots, no ad scripts, no advertising partners and no advertising cookies. The ads.txt file exists so crawlers receive a plain-text response; it currently declares no authorised seller. There is no consent banner, because no advertising data is processed.

If advertising is introduced later, it will be disclosed in this policy, in the terms, on the about page and in the footer before it goes live, and a consent mechanism will be added at that time rather than described in advance.

6. Affiliate links and sponsored placements

There are none. Links to Microsoft and Apple exist because those are the only safe sources for the files, and no commission is received for them. No link on this site carries a referral identifier, and nothing here is a paid placement. Our sister site InstallShelf ↗ follows the same rule today; if either site changes it, both disclosures will be updated.

7. Who we share data with

We do not sell personal information. Sharing is limited to the service providers that make the site work:

RecipientWhy
Hosting and CDN provider To deliver the pages and protect the site from abuse. Processes requests and standard technical logs.

There is no advertising network and no analytics provider in that list. We may also disclose information where we are legally required to — for example in response to a valid legal request — or where necessary to protect the rights and safety of the site or its visitors.

8. How long we keep things

Technical logs are kept only as long as the provider needs them for delivery and abuse prevention. Email you send us is kept only as long as needed to deal with it, after which it is deleted. We hold no advertising or analytics data to retain.

9. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or restrict processing of your personal information, to object to processing, and to data portability. Because this site collects so little, the practical answer is often that we hold nothing about you to act on — but the right stands regardless.

To make a request, email [email protected]. Tell us what you want and enough about your visit that we can identify anything relevant. We will respond within the period the applicable law requires. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

10. Security

The site is served over HTTPS and sets a restrictive content-security policy that blocks third-party scripts by default. There is no database of visitor information to breach, which is the most effective security measure available: the safest data is the data never collected.

No method of transmission over the internet is perfectly secure, and we cannot promise absolute security. We can promise that there is very little here worth attacking.

11. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it. Material changes — anything that widens what is collected or who it is shared with — will be noted on the page rather than slipped in silently. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated policy.

12. Contact

Questions about this policy, or about data we might hold: [email protected]. The contact page explains what to include.