PanPDF

What is collected, and by whom.

Short version: nothing about you or your documents leaves your computer unless you switch it on, and this website keeps no record of who you are.

The program

Your documents stay on your computer. There is no account, no sync, no cloud and no upload. PanPDF opens a file from your disk and writes it back to your disk.

It collects no usage data. There is no telemetry, no crash reporter and no analytics in the program.

It makes two kinds of network request, and you switch both on:

  • The update check. If you allow it, PanPDF fetches one small file from this site, at most once a day, to learn the newest version. The request carries no identifier and nothing about your documents. Turn it off and nothing is sent.
  • The assistant. If you set up a model and ask it something, what you ask, and any part of the document you attach, goes to the provider whose key you gave, and to nobody else. It does nothing until you set it up.

Editing in your browser

The file never leaves your browser. The editor at /edit/ is the same program, running inside the page. A PDF you open is read by the page itself; it is not uploaded, stored or seen by this site.

The page downloads the editor and the fonts it draws text with from this site. Those downloads are the same for everyone and say nothing about your document. A file you export is made in the page and saved by your browser.

This website

No analytics and no login. The pages are static files.

Like any web server, it sees the address a request comes from and the browser's name while answering it. Nothing else is kept. The pages load their typefaces from Google Fonts, which receives the same two things when it sends them.

Advertising, on the home page only. The home page shows adverts served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners may use cookies to show them and to choose them from your earlier visits to this and other sites. You can turn personalised adverts off in Google's ad settings, and read how Google uses this information at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. The editor at /edit/ and this page carry no adverts.

Downloads of the program come from GitHub's release pages, under GitHub's own privacy terms.

Questions

Ask on the project's issue page.