Privacy Policy

How Online PDF Edits protects your data and privacy

Last updated: January 26, 2026
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Privacy-First by Design

Online PDF Edits is built with privacy as a core principle. We minimize data handling, avoid permanent storage, and process files only for the time required to complete your request.

How We Handle Your Files

When you edit a PDF, your file is uploaded to our servers, processed securely over an encrypted connection, and removed right after your edit. We do not store your documents or use them for any purpose other than completing your request.

  • Ephemeral Processing: Files are processed temporarily and automatically deleted immediately after completion.
  • No Permanent Storage: We do not save, archive, or reuse your documents.
  • Secure Transport: All data transfers use HTTPS with TLS encryption.

No Accounts. No Personal Data.

We do not require user accounts and do not collect names, email addresses, phone numbers, or uploaded document content for identification purposes.

Cookies & Local Storage

We use only essential cookies and local storage required for core functionality:

  • Theme and interface preferences
  • Cookie consent status

These values remain on your device and are not transmitted as document data.

Security Measures

We implement technical and organizational safeguards including request validation, rate limiting, encrypted connections, and controlled API access to protect against unauthorized usage or abuse.

Third-Party Services

We use analytics tools to understand aggregate usage patterns. These services do not receive uploaded document files and operate under anonymized data policies.

Advertising. Pages on this site, including the PDF tool pages, may display ads supplied by Adsterra, a third-party advertising network. Where ads are shown, Adsterra and its partners may set cookies or similar identifiers and use your IP address, device type and browsing activity to select which ad to show and to measure it. Ads are shown to all visitors. You can limit ad tracking through your browser’s privacy settings or an ad blocker.

On the PDF tool pages, banner ads run inside isolated frames that cannot read the page, and advertisers receive no access to your documents, their contents, their filenames, or anything derived from them. Adsterra operates under its own privacy policy, which governs the data it collects.

Children’s Privacy

Our service is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Legal Jurisdiction

This privacy policy is governed by applicable data protection laws. By using our service, you consent to this policy.

Policy Updates

We may update this policy periodically. Changes will be reflected on this page with a revised date.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding privacy or security, please contact us through the website.