Last updated: 10 October 2026
This policy explains what information is processed when you use SampleTestFiles at https://sampletestfiles.com ("the site"), why, and what choices you have. The site has no user accounts and does not ask you for personal information in order to browse or download.
Summary
- You can use the site without registering or giving your name or email address.
- The site is funded by advertising from Google AdSense, which uses cookies.
- Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs.
- We do not sell personal information.
Information processed when you visit
Server logs
Like almost every website, the site is delivered by a hosting provider whose servers automatically record technical information about each request. This typically includes your IP address, the date and time, the page or file requested, the referring page, and your browser and operating system as reported in the user-agent string.
These logs are used to operate and secure the service, to diagnose faults and to understand overall traffic. They are kept by the hosting provider for a limited period in line with its own retention policy. We do not use them to identify individual visitors.
Preferences stored in your browser
If you switch between light and dark appearance, your choice is saved in your browser's local storage under the key stf-theme so that it is remembered on your next visit. This value stays on your device, is not sent to us and can be removed by clearing site data in your browser.
The site's own code sets no cookies.
Downloads
Downloading a sample file is an ordinary web request and appears in the server logs described above. We do not ask who you are or what you will use a file for.
Search
The site search runs entirely in your browser against an index file. Your search terms are not sent to us. They do appear in the page address, so they may be visible in your browser history.
Advertising
The site is funded by advertising supplied by Google AdSense, a service of Google LLC and Google Ireland Limited. When advertisements are displayed:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
- Google and its partners may also collect information such as your IP address, device identifiers and details of your browser in order to deliver ads, limit how often you see an ad, measure performance and detect fraud.
You can opt out of personalised advertising from Google at Ads Settings. You can opt out of personalised advertising from many other vendors at aboutads.info/choices or, in Europe, at youronlinechoices.eu.
For details of how Google uses information from sites that use its services, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
Where the law requires it, including in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, you are asked for your consent before cookies are used for advertising, through a consent message provided by a Google-certified consent management platform. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using the privacy settings link shown with that message.
Emails you send us
If you write to us, we receive your email address and whatever you include in your message. We use it only to reply and to deal with your request, and we keep correspondence for as long as needed for that purpose and for our records.
How information is shared
We do not sell personal information. Information is shared only:
- with service providers that deliver the site, namely our hosting provider and Google for advertising, as described above;
- when required by law, or to protect the rights, safety and security of the site and its users.
These providers may process information in countries other than your own, under their own safeguards.
Your choices and rights
- Cookies. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The site works without them.
- Personalised advertising. Use the opt-out links in the Advertising section.
- Your rights. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask for access to personal information held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to or restrict its processing, and to complain to your local data protection authority. Because the site has no accounts, we hold very little that identifies you, but we will respond to any request sent to the address below.
Children
The site is intended for a general technical audience and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Links to other sites
Guides and reference pages link to external documentation and standards. Those sites have their own privacy practices, which this policy does not cover.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when the site or the services it uses change. The date at the top shows when it was last revised.
Contact
Questions about this policy or about your information can be sent to contact@sjwebtechwork.com.