Privacy Policy

Open Edit PDF was built on a simple promise: your documents are yours, and they stay yours. This page explains, in plain language and with no legal fog, exactly what data this site does and does not touch — including a small anonymous usage counter described below.

Your files never leave your device

Every tool on Open Edit PDF runs entirely inside your web browser using client-side JavaScript (libraries such as pdf-lib, PDF.js, and Tesseract.js). When you open, edit, merge, split, OCR, or otherwise process a PDF on this site, the file is read and modified directly in your device's own memory. At no point is the file itself, its filename, or its contents uploaded, transmitted, or copied to our servers or to any third party. We physically cannot see, store, or access the contents of any document you work with here — because it never reaches us.

If you close the tab or refresh the page (and you haven't used one of the auto-save tools described below), your file is gone from memory, just like any other unsaved work in your browser. We do not keep a record of it, because we never had it in the first place.

The anonymous usage counter (new)

When you successfully download a processed file from any tool, your browser sends one small "increment" signal to our own server. That signal contains nothing but a bare event — it does not include your file, your filename, any text or metadata from your document, your name, or your email. This single number powers the live usage counter shown on the homepage and also sends the site owner a one-line notification (via Telegram) that a download happened — purely so we know the tools are being used, not who used them or on what.

One honest caveat: this signal is still an ordinary network request, so like any request made to any website, it is briefly visible to our hosting infrastructure's standard connection logs, which typically include your IP address, a timestamp, and your browser's user-agent string. This is standard web server behavior, not something our application code specifically collects, links to a profile, or stores long-term against you — but we'd rather tell you plainly than pretend the request is invisible. If you want to use the tools without sending this signal at all, you can do so by disabling JavaScript-based network requests in your browser (this will also disable the tools themselves, since they need JavaScript to run) or by using a network-level content blocker.

What other data we collect

Since we don't require an account or login, we don't hold any personal profile data about you. Beyond the usage counter above, we do not currently run any third-party analytics, tracking pixels, or behavioral profiling on this site. If that changes in the future, this policy will be updated first and the "Last updated" date will reflect it.

Data stored locally in your own browser

Several tools store data only inside your own browser — usinglocalStorage or IndexedDB — so features like resuming your work or remembering a preference work smoothly. None of this is ever transmitted to us. Specifically:

• Resume-later auto-save — the PDF Editor, Organize PDF, and Alt Text Tagger tools can save your in-progress work in your browser's IndexedDB so you can close the tab and pick up where you left off. This includes the PDF's bytes and your edits (text, images, form fields, page order, alt-text tags, and similar). It is stored unencrypted in your own browser's storage for this site only, is never transmitted anywhere, is capped at roughly 50MB per session so one large file can't fill up your browser's storage quota, and is automatically cleared after 48 hours. You can also clear it sooner at any time via your browser's site-data/storage settings.
• Document Template Generator drafts — if you use the invoice, resume, or cover letter generator, the field values you type (such as names, addresses, and invoice details) are saved to your browser's localStorage as you work, so you don't lose a draft if you navigate away. This data is stored unencrypted, stays only on your device, is never transmitted to us, and is kept until you clear that specific draft from within the tool or clear this site's browser storage yourself — it does not currently auto-expire, so we recommend clearing a draft once you're done with it, especially on a shared computer.
• Clipboard Dashboard snippets — text and image snippets you save in this tool are stored only in your browser's IndexedDB, never transmitted anywhere, and stay until you delete them yourself or clear this site's browser storage.
• Interface preferences — smalllocalStorage entries remember non-sensitive display choices such as your Light/Dark theme, dyslexia-friendly reading mode, and reading-view font size or sepia setting. These contain nothing beyond the preference itself.

Because all of the above lives in your browser's own storage for this site, clearing your browser's site data/cookies for openeditpdf.com at any time removes every item listed above, instantly and completely, on your end.

Third-party network requests made by tools

A small number of tools load supporting code — not your file — from a third-party content delivery network. Specifically, the OCR tool (powered by Tesseract.js) downloads its recognition engine and language files from a public CDN (cdn.jsdelivr.net) the first time you use it. This request carries no part of your document; it only fetches the software needed to run OCR locally in your browser. We list this here for full transparency, since a privacy-conscious user inspecting their browser's network activity would otherwise reasonably ask about it.

Advertising

Open Edit PDF may in the future display ads (for example, via Google AdSense or a similar network) to help cover hosting and development costs while keeping every tool free. As of this policy's last update, no ad network is active on this site; if and when one is enabled, this policy will be updated first, and ad networks will never be given access to the content of files you are editing, since those files never leave your browser.

Cookies

We do not currently set any cookies of our own. The interface preferences described above use localStorage, not cookies. If an ad network is enabled in the future, it may set its own cookies under its own privacy policy, which we encourage you to review separately at that time.

Children's privacy

Open Edit PDF is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children.

Your rights

Because we don't hold accounts, profiles, or files belonging to you on our servers, there is generally nothing on our end to request, export, or delete — the data described above lives on your device, under your control, and you can remove it at any time through your own browser settings. If you have questions about how the anonymous usage counter is handled on our infrastructure, contact us using the details below.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Continued use of the site after a change means you accept the revised policy.

Questions

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, reach out at contact@openeditpdf.com.