Privacy

Your documents

When you drop a PDF onto an avalpdf tool, the browser reads it straight from your disk into the memory of that tab. All the work — merging, splitting, compressing, stamping — happens there. The finished file is handed back to you as a download. No copy is sent to us or to anyone else.

Close the tab and it's gone. There is no file store to clear out, and no retention period to trust us on.

Accounts

There aren't any. We don't ask for your name, your email address, or a password, because nothing here needs one.

Passwords you type

The password you set when protecting a PDF, or enter to unlock one, is used inside the tab and then discarded. It isn't transmitted or stored. That also means we can't help recover a password you've forgotten.

What the site itself needs

Loading avalpdf fetches the usual things a website does: page code, fonts and icons. Your browser records your visit in its own history, and our hosting provider keeps standard server logs of requests, which contain no document content.

Cookies and tracking

We don't set advertising cookies and don't sell data, because we don't collect any to sell.

Questions

If something here is unclear, ask us on the contact page and we'll spell it out.