Privacy Policy

1. Scope of this policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the website pdfcoretools.com, its public file tools, informational pages, contact form, and related website features operated under the name PDF Core Tools. It explains what information may be handled when you visit the site, use a tool, contact us, or interact with advertising and consent features.

A specific tool page may provide additional processing details. Where a tool-specific notice is more precise, that notice should be read together with this policy.

2. Website operator and contact

PDF Core Tools is the website operator responsible for the practices described in this policy. Privacy questions, access requests, objections, deletion requests, or complaints may be sent to pdfcoretools@gmail.com.

Please do not send confidential documents by ordinary email. Describe the issue first so an appropriate method can be considered.

3. Files selected in the tools

Current browser-processing model

As of the last-updated date, the installed PDF, image, compression, resize, social, text, and calculator tool code is designed to read selected files through browser file APIs and process them in browser memory. The current tool plugins do not contain a document-upload form or a remote document-conversion endpoint for sending the selected file contents to PDF Core Tools.

Temporary browser memory

Selected files, previews, page data, editing state, and generated results may remain temporarily in your browser memory while the tool page is open. Reloading or closing the page normally clears the active workspace. A downloaded output remains on your device, browser download folder, cloud-synced folder, or other location you selected.

Future or exceptional processing

If a future tool needs to transmit file contents to our server or a third-party processor, the tool page will disclose that before processing and will describe the purpose, recipient, and expected retention period. We will update this policy when the general processing model materially changes.

4. Information generated by normal website use

Like most websites, the hosting environment, security systems, and content-delivery services may receive technical information needed to deliver and protect the site. This can include:

• IP address and approximate network location;
• browser type, device type, operating system, language, and screen characteristics;
• requested URL, date and time, referring page, response status, and basic performance data;
• security events, error messages, rate-limit events, and suspected automated or abusive traffic;
• cookie choices and consent signals when a consent platform is active.

These records are not intended to contain the contents of documents processed locally in the browser.

5. Contact messages and support information

When you use the contact form or email us, we may receive your name, email address, selected request category, subject, message, and any information you voluntarily include. The built-in contact form sends the message to pdfcoretools@gmail.com through the website hosting mail system. The Layout plugin does not create its own database copy of the message.

When you use the Report an Error form, we may also receive the tool name, problem page, browser and device details, the steps you describe, and up to three optional screenshots. Screenshot uploads are temporarily handled by the web server only so they can be attached to the support email. The temporary files are deleted after the send attempt, while the report and attachments may remain in the receiving email account until they are deleted under normal support-record practices.

We use contact information to answer questions, investigate technical problems, process privacy or copyright requests, prevent abuse, and maintain records when reasonably necessary.

6. Cookies, local storage, and similar technologies

The site may use cookies, session storage, local storage, or comparable browser technologies for essential functions such as remembering workspace state, preserving interface preferences, preventing repeated notices, recording consent choices, securing forms, and supporting advertising.

Detailed categories, purposes, controls, and advertising information are provided in the Cookie Policy.

7. Google AdSense and advertising data

PDF Core Tools plans to display advertising through Google AdSense. When advertising is enabled, Google and other authorized advertising partners may place or read cookies, use device identifiers, receive IP addresses, or use web beacons and similar technologies in connection with ad delivery, fraud prevention, frequency control, measurement, reporting, and—where permitted—personalized advertising.

Google may use advertising cookies to select ads based on visits to this and other websites. Depending on your region and choices, ads may be personalized, non-personalized, or limited. You can learn more through Google’s pages about information from partner sites, advertising technologies, and Google cookies.

Where required, advertising storage and personalization will be controlled through a Google-certified consent management platform. Users in supported US states may also be offered a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” or equivalent privacy choice through the consent system.

8. Hosting, content delivery, libraries, and other recipients

PDF Core Tools may rely on service providers that support website delivery. The current code loads some browser libraries—such as PDF, ZIP, image, font, or document-processing components—from the website itself or established content-delivery networks including jsDelivr and cdnjs. A CDN request can expose ordinary connection data such as IP address, browser information, requested library file, and referrer, subject to that provider’s practices.

The PDF-to-Word system may request verified open-font resources from the PDF Core Tools font cache. If a verified font is not yet cached, the website server may retrieve that font package from a CDN, validate its integrity, and store the font resource. This process concerns the font file, not the contents of the user’s PDF.

We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect users or the service, investigate abuse, establish legal claims, or complete a legitimate business transfer subject to appropriate safeguards.

9. Why information is used

Technical and communication data may be used to:

• deliver pages, tools, libraries, and requested outputs;
• maintain security, prevent fraud, and diagnose failures;
• remember preferences and consent choices;
• respond to support, privacy, and copyright requests;
• measure site performance and improve usability;
• display, limit, measure, and protect advertising;
• comply with legal duties and enforce the Terms of Use.

10. Legal bases where applicable

Depending on your location, processing may rely on one or more of the following grounds:

• Performance of a service: providing the page, tool, download, or support response you requested;
• Legitimate interests: securing the site, preventing abuse, maintaining reliability, and understanding non-intrusive performance issues;
• Consent: optional advertising storage, personalization, or other non-essential technologies where consent is required;
• Legal obligation: responding to valid legal requests and preserving records that must be retained;
• Establishment or defence of claims: documenting misuse, disputes, or rights requests.

You may withdraw consent at any time through the available consent controls. Withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.

11. Retention

12. Your privacy rights

Rights vary by jurisdiction. You may have the right to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, objection, withdrawal of consent, or information about recipients and processing. You may also have the right to complain to a competent data-protection authority.

Send requests to pdfcoretools@gmail.com. We may need enough information to understand and verify the request. Because locally processed files are not held by our server, we generally cannot retrieve or delete a document that remained only in your browser.

13. US state and other regional privacy choices

Residents of certain US states may have rights to know, delete, correct, opt out of targeted advertising, or opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, subject to legal definitions and exceptions. When Google advertising is active, the consent system may provide a regional opt-out link and transmit appropriate privacy signals to advertising partners.

We do not sell the contents of files processed in the browser. Advertising-related disclosures and choices concern website and advertising data, not ownership of your documents.

14. Security

Local browser processing reduces the need to transmit document contents, but no website, browser, device, network, or storage method can be guaranteed completely secure. Keep your browser updated, use a trusted device, review downloads before sharing them, and avoid processing highly sensitive material on a public or managed computer.

More technical detail is available on the File Security & Processing page.

15. Children’s privacy

PDF Core Tools is a general file-utility service and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly request personal information from children. A parent or guardian who believes a child has submitted personal information may contact us for review and deletion where applicable.

16. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when tools, advertising, providers, laws, or processing practices change. The date at the top will be revised. Material changes may also be highlighted on the website or through a consent notice where appropriate.