Privacy policy

Effective 2026. Written in plain English because it is short enough to be.

The important part

Your documents are never uploaded to MapMyPDF. Every tool runs inside your browser. We have no technical way to read the files you open, because no copy of them is ever sent to us.

What we record

We keep a small amount of information about visits to the site, so we can tell which tools are useful and where they break:

  • The page you visited and, if you press one of the action buttons, the tool you used and whether it succeeded.
  • The referring website, if you arrived from a link or a search result.
  • An approximate location derived from the connection (country level), the browser and operating system, and whether the device is a phone, tablet or desktop.
  • An anonymous visitor identifier stored in your browser so repeat visits are not counted twice.

We do not record file names, file contents, page counts, document sizes or anything else about the documents themselves.

Feedback you send us

The feedback form is the only place where you can send us information on purpose. Your message is stored on our server so we can read it and reply. Name and email are optional; if you leave an email address we use it only to answer you, so add one if you want a reply. We never ask for a document and you should not paste one in. You can ask us to delete a message at any time through the same form.

IP addresses

To count visits accurately and filter out bots, the server sees the connection's IP address. It is stored only as a salted one-way hash — never as a readable address — and the hash changes each year. We do not share it, sell it, or use it to identify individuals.

Cookies

One first-party identifier is kept in your browser (a cookie and a local storage value) to count unique visitors. There are no advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking pixels and no browser fingerprinting. Clearing your browser storage resets the identifier.

Third parties

Tool pages load open-source libraries (PDF.js, pdf-lib, SheetJS, JSZip) from this domain. Fonts are self-hosted. If we later add advertising, this policy will name the provider and describe what it collects before it goes live.

Retention

Visit statistics are kept in aggregate for up to 18 months and then deleted automatically. Because documents are never stored, there is no document retention period to describe.

Your choices

  • You can block our analytics script in your browser or an extension; every tool keeps working normally.
  • We honour the Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals: if your browser sends one, the analytics script does not run.
  • You can ask us what aggregate data relates to your visits, and ask for it to be removed.

Children

The site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that affects you, the effective date above changes and the difference is described here rather than quietly edited in.

Contact

Privacy questions go through the same feedback form as everything else. Use the button in the footer, or open it from the contact page. Add your email address if you want a reply.