Privacy
Who runs this site
Contact: contact@pdfronin.com.
Your documents
To edit a PDF, the file you open is sent to our server over an encrypted connection. It is held only in the server's memory while you edit it. It is never written to a database or kept as a file. It is deleted when you close its tab, after 60 minutes without use, or when the server restarts. We do not look at your documents, share them, or use them for anything except showing and applying your edits. Files you save go straight from the server to your device.
What we record
Your IP address is kept in the server's memory for up to an hour, to limit how many requests one visitor can make. This protects the service from abuse. Our web server keeps no access logs with IP addresses.
Visit counts. To know whether the site is used, our server counts page views and visitors per day. To tell visitors apart within a day, your IP address and browser identification are scrambled, together with a random key, into a code that can't be turned back into either. The key and the codes exist only in the server's memory and are deleted at the end of each day, so visits on different days can't be linked. What is kept is only totals: views and visitors per page, phone or computer, the website that linked to us (its name only), and how many documents were opened and saved. No cookies are used for this and nothing is shared with anyone.
The editor itself uses no cookies. It remembers your open tabs in your browser's own storage (session storage and IndexedDB), and, only if you tick "Remember this signature", your signature (local storage). None of this leaves your device.
Everything the editor needs, including its PDF viewer, is served from our own server. The editor loads nothing from other sites.
Advertising
The information pages of this site (not the editor) may show ads from Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies to show ads, including ads based on your earlier visits to this and other sites, only with your consent where the law requires it (EU, EEA, UK, Switzerland). You can change your choice at any time with the "Privacy and cookie settings" link that appears at the bottom of pages with ads. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services, and turn personalised ads off at Google's ad settings.
Legal basis and your rights
We process your documents to provide the service you ask for (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR), and your IP address for the security of the service and, scrambled as described above, for counting visits (Art. 6(1)(f): our legitimate interest in running and improving the site). Advertising cookies are used only with your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)). You can ask us what data we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, and complain to your data-protection authority.
Where the server is
Our server is in Germany (netcup GmbH). The hosting provider processes data for us under a data-processing agreement.