Show policy links is ticked off, but still showing on site, after cache refresh and hard reboot,

Technical Q&A
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Topic summary

A Shopify store owner using the Dawn theme encountered an issue where policy links remained visible on their site despite disabling the “Show policy links” option in settings. The problem persisted after cache clearing and hard refresh, but only affected Chrome—Firefox displayed correctly.

Resolution:

  • A community member provided a CSS workaround: adding .footer.policies { display:none; } to the base.css file
  • Initial implementation fixed desktop view but caused the menu to reappear on mobile
  • Root cause: The CSS code was placed incorrectly within the file (before closing curly braces)
  • Final solution: Moving the CSS snippet to the end of base.css, after all curly braces close, resolved the issue across all views

The issue is now fully resolved on both desktop and mobile.

Summarized with AI on November 12. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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@ISOLYD Hope you are doing well.

If you want to hide those policies links then add below line of CSS code at the end of your base.css file.

.footer .policies{
display:none;
}