Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

[Your Site Name] provides free, browser-based file conversion tools. This page explains exactly what that means for your privacy — in plain language, not legal filler.

Last updated: [Month, Year]
✓ No files ever uploaded ✓ No account required ✓ No file storage ✓ Nothing sold to third parties
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The short version: Every conversion tool on this site runs entirely inside your own browser using JavaScript. The files you convert — PDFs, images, Word documents, and so on — are never uploaded to our servers, never seen by us, and never stored anywhere outside your device.
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Runs In-Browser

Conversion happens on your device using JavaScript — not on a remote server.

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No File Uploads

Your files never travel over the internet to reach us. We simply never receive them.

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Nothing Retained

Once you close or refresh the tab, anything you converted is gone from memory — we hold none of it.

This Privacy Policy describes how [Your Site Name] ("we," "us," "our," or "the Site," accessible at yourdomain.com) handles information when you use our free online file conversion tools, including but not limited to our PDF, image, and document converters. By using this Site, you agree to the practices described below.

1. Information We Do Not Collect

This is the most important section on this page, because it's the core design principle behind every tool we build:

  • The files you convert. Every conversion tool on this Site — merging or splitting PDFs, converting images between formats, extracting PDF pages to JPG, converting Word documents, and so on — runs entirely client-side using JavaScript libraries loaded into your browser (such as pdf-lib, PDF.js, mammoth.js, and SheetJS). Your files are read directly from your device's memory, processed locally, and the result is offered to you as a direct download. At no point is a file you select or convert transmitted to our servers.
  • File contents or metadata. Because we never receive your files, we have no visibility into what they contain — including any personal, financial, or confidential information they may hold.
  • Account information. This Site does not require registration, sign-up, or login to use any tool, so we do not collect names, passwords, or account credentials.

2. Information We May Collect

While your files stay private, some limited, non-file information may be collected automatically when you visit the Site, similar to most websites:

  • Usage analytics. We may use privacy-respecting analytics tools to understand aggregate traffic patterns — for example, which pages are visited, how long visitors stay, approximate geographic region (derived from IP address, not stored as a precise location), device and browser type, and referring website. This data is used only to improve the Site and is not linked to your identity.
  • Technical log data. Our web hosting provider may automatically log standard technical information such as IP address, browser type, and timestamps for security and performance purposes, consistent with normal web server operation.
  • Voluntary contact information. If you email us directly (for example, at privacy@yourdomain.com), we will have access to your email address and whatever information you choose to share in that message.

3. Cookies & Local Storage

This Site may use a small number of cookies or browser storage mechanisms for the following limited purposes:

  • Essential functionality — for example, remembering a light/dark theme preference for your current visit.
  • Analytics cookies — set by third-party analytics tools (see Section 2) to distinguish unique visitors and sessions.
  • Advertising cookies — if advertising is enabled on the Site (see Section 5), our advertising partners may set their own cookies.

Some individual conversion tools may briefly hold your uploaded files or a theme preference in your browser's memory or session storage purely to power the tool while the page is open — this data lives only on your device, is never transmitted anywhere, and is cleared when you close or refresh the tab. You can disable cookies entirely through your browser settings; doing so may affect optional features like theme preference but will not affect your ability to use any conversion tool, since none of them depend on cookies to function.

4. Third-Party Services & Libraries

Our conversion tools are built using open-source JavaScript libraries loaded from public content delivery networks (CDNs), such as cdnjs.cloudflare.com and jsdelivr.net. When your browser loads one of our tool pages, it may request these libraries directly from the CDN operator, which means the CDN provider can see technical request information (such as your IP address) in the same way any website resource load works — this is standard, unavoidable behavior for any website using CDN-hosted libraries, and it does not involve your files, only the code needed to run the tool.

We may also use the following categories of third-party services:

  • Web hosting and content delivery infrastructure
  • Website analytics providers
  • Advertising networks (see Section 5)

These third parties have their own privacy policies governing how they handle any data they receive, and we encourage you to review them if you have concerns.

5. Advertising

This Site may display advertisements served by third-party advertising networks, such as Google AdSense, to help support free access to our tools. These networks may use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. You can opt out of personalized advertising through your browser settings or via tools such as the Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out page. Advertising, if present on the Site, never has access to the files you convert.

6. Children's Privacy

This Site is not directed at children under the age of 13 (or the relevant minimum age in your jurisdiction), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Since our tools require no account or personal information to use, we do not knowingly collect any data that would identify a child user.

7. Data Retention

Because we never receive the files you convert, there is nothing for us to retain or delete on that front — retention simply doesn't apply to file content. Aggregate analytics data may be retained by our analytics provider according to their own retention schedule. Any email correspondence you send us is retained only as long as needed to respond to and resolve your inquiry.

8. Your Rights (GDPR / CCPA)

Depending on where you live, you may have rights under data protection laws such as the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including the right to know what data is held about you, request its deletion, or opt out of its sale. Because this Site does not require accounts and does not collect or sell personal file content, most of these requests will have little practical data to act on beyond aggregate analytics. To make a request or ask a question about your data, contact us using the details in Section 11.

9. Security

Because your files are processed locally in your browser and never transmitted to us, they are not exposed to the kind of server-side data breach risk that affects services which do require file uploads. We still take reasonable measures to secure the Site itself (for example, serving pages over HTTPS) to protect the limited technical and analytics data described above.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our tools, legal requirements, or business practices. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date at the top. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how this Site operates, please reach out:

[Your Site Name]

Website: yourdomain.com

Email: privacy@yourdomain.com

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you store the files I convert? +
No. Every conversion tool on this Site processes your file entirely inside your own browser. We never receive, see, or store the files you upload or convert.
Are my files uploaded to a server at any point? +
No. All conversion happens client-side using JavaScript. Your file never leaves your device over the network — it's read, processed, and downloaded locally.
Do I need to create an account to use these tools? +
No. Every tool on this Site is free to use with no sign-up, login, or account required.
Do you use cookies? +
We may use a small number of cookies for basic analytics, theme preference, and — if enabled — advertising. None of these cookies are required for the conversion tools to work.
Is this Site GDPR and CCPA compliant? +
We've designed our tools to collect as little personal data as possible by default — no accounts, no file uploads. See Section 8 of this policy for details on your rights and how to reach us with a request.
Do you sell my data to third parties? +
We do not sell your files, since we never have access to them. Limited aggregate analytics or advertising data may be shared with third-party providers as described in Sections 2 and 5.
Can I use these tools without an internet connection? +
You'll need an initial connection to load the page and its JavaScript libraries. After that, the actual file conversion runs locally and doesn't require ongoing internet access.
How do I contact you about a privacy question? +
Email us at privacy@yourdomain.com and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.
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