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Privacy Policy

Last updated: January 2025

TL;DR

Your files never leave your device. All PDF processing happens entirely in your browser using client-side JavaScript. We do not upload, store, or have access to your files. We don't use cookies, trackers, or analytics. We don't collect personal data. This is a privacy-first tool by design.

1. Data We Collect

We collect nothing. Online PDF Editor does not collect, store, or process any personal data. There are no accounts, no registration, no cookies, no analytics scripts, and no tracking of any kind.

2. File Processing

All PDF processing is performed entirely within your web browser using WebAssembly and JavaScript libraries (pdf-lib). Your files are never transmitted to any server. They remain on your device at all times. Once you close the page, all file data is automatically cleared from memory.

3. Cookies & Local Storage

We do not use cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage, or any other browser storage mechanism on this site. There is nothing for us to opt out of because we store nothing.

However, third-party vendors — including Google — may use cookies to serve ads on this site based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

4. Third-Party Services (Including Google AdSense)

This site uses Google AdSense, a web advertising service provided by Google. AdSense uses cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website and other websites on the Internet.

Google's use of the DART cookie

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies — including the DART cookie — to serve ads on our site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.

Ad personalization and opt-out

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings (or by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page). You may also review Google's advertising policies at any time.

Other third-party resources

In addition to Google AdSense, the site loads the following external resources for functional purposes:

  • Google Fonts (Inter typeface) — loaded from fonts.googleapis.com
  • jsDelivr CDN (for some JavaScript libraries)
  • Google Analytics (anonymized usage statistics)

Reference

For more information about how Google uses data from partner sites, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

5. Hosting & Infrastructure

This website is hosted on static hosting infrastructure (Vercel/Cloudflare Pages). Our hosting provider may collect anonymized server logs (IP addresses, user agents) for security and DDoS protection. These logs are not accessible to us and are governed by the hosting provider's privacy policy.

6. Children's Privacy

This service is not directed at children under 13. Since we collect no personal data from anyone, there is no risk of inadvertently collecting data from children.

7. Changes to This Policy

If we ever change how this service works (e.g., adding optional server-side processing), we will update this policy and clearly communicate the changes. The current "all in-browser" approach is a core design principle.

8. Contact

For privacy-related questions, contact us at privacy@onlinepdfeditors.com.