Last updated: August 17, 2026
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store and hand back on later visits. Related technologies, local storage and session storage, do much the same job without being sent with every request. This page lists what mymypc.com stores, what each item is for, and how to get rid of any of it. Our privacy policy covers the wider question of what personal data we handle.
What we do not use
There are no advertising cookies on this site. No ad network, no retargeting pixel, no conversion tracker for a third party marketing platform, and no cross site profile building. Everything below is either needed to serve the page or used to count visits.
Strictly necessary cookies
These make the site function. Blocking them breaks things rather than protecting you from anything.
- WordPress test cookie. Written briefly so the software can confirm that your browser accepts cookies at all. It is removed almost immediately.
- Login and preference cookies. Set only if somebody signs in to the site’s administration area. They keep that session authenticated and remember screen preferences. An ordinary reader never receives them.
- Storefront session cookies. The site runs on storefront software, so a session cookie can be created to hold state for the current visit. Nothing is for sale here, so these carry no order or payment data.
- Cache cookie. The caching layer that serves pages quickly may store a small value indicating which cached version of a page you should be given, for example a mobile layout rather than a desktop one.
Measurement cookies and storage
We count visits with analytics software we run ourselves rather than handing traffic data to an advertising company. It stores the following:
dd_vidis a randomly generated visitor identifier that lets us tell a returning browser from a new one. It can persist for up to two years unless you clear it.ddc_sidis a short lived session identifier that groups the pages you view in one sitting. It expires after roughly thirty minutes of inactivity.- Local and session storage entries hold supporting values such as whether the current page view has already been counted, so a refresh does not register twice. These are not transmitted with every request the way a cookie is.
None of these values contain your name, email address or any identifier you gave us. Alongside them we record the page URL, the referring page, coarse device and browser details and an approximate location worked out from your IP address. We use that to see which write-ups people actually read and which are ignored.
Cookies set by Amazon, not by us
This is the most important paragraph on the page. When you click a product link and leave this site for Amazon, Amazon sets its own cookies in your browser. One of them records that the visit came from us, which is how a qualifying purchase gets credited to our affiliate account within the window Amazon sets. We do not create those cookies, cannot read them, and cannot delete them for you. They are governed entirely by Amazon’s own cookie and privacy notices, which you can read on Amazon’s site. The same applies to any other outside site you reach from a link here. Our affiliate disclosure explains the commercial side of that relationship.
Social sharing buttons
Some pages offer buttons for sharing an article to a social network. Following one takes you to that network, where the network’s own cookies and policies apply. Embedded content from another site, such as a video player, can also set cookies as if you had visited that site directly.
How to control cookies in your browser
Your browser, not this website, is the reliable place to manage cookies. Every current browser lets you view stored cookies, delete individual entries, delete everything for one site, block third party cookies, or refuse cookies altogether.
- Chrome: Settings, then Privacy and security, then Third party cookies and Site settings.
- Firefox: Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Cookies and Site Data.
- Safari: Settings or Preferences, then Privacy, then Manage Website Data.
- Edge: Settings, then Cookies and site permissions.
Private or incognito browsing discards cookies when you close the window, which is a quick way to read the site without leaving anything behind. Clearing cookies for mymypc.com removes the measurement identifiers described above, and they will be created again on your next visit unless you have blocked them. Blocking the strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of the site working properly, and browser extensions that block scripts can prevent the analytics from loading at all, which is an entirely legitimate choice.
Changes and questions
If the cookies or storage this site uses change, we will update this page and revise the date at the top. Questions go to [email protected].