Privacy & Accessibility
PDF Tools is an in-browser PDF merger and splitter with no upload, no page limit and no watermark. It is free, carries no ads, and is made by Sky Wolf Studios.
Where your data goes
Nowhere. Everything you load — the PDF files themselves, and the page order, rotations and deletions you set up is kept in this tab's memory only and nowhere else: the app deliberately writes no localStorage, no IndexedDB and no cookie for your documents, which is why closing or refreshing the tab discards your arrangement and starts over.
There is no upload, no server-side processing, no account, and no copy held anywhere we can reach. We could not hand your data to anyone if we were asked for it, because we do not have it.
How to check that for yourself
Turn off your Wi-Fi or unplug the network, reload this page, and merge some PDFs. It works, because the whole app is cached on your device by its service worker — and an app that can run with the network off is an app that cannot be sending your documents anywhere. To look directly, open DevTools → Network and use the app: you will see no requests while you work.
What we do not do
- No account, no sign-in, no email address collected.
- No ads, no analytics, no advertising trackers, no cookies, no fingerprinting.
- No selling, sharing or brokering of anything you type here. There is no data to sell.
- No paywall, no trial, no subscription, no watermark, no export limit.
Permissions
The app asks for access to the PDF files you pick, through your browser's own file picker or by dragging them in — the app can only see the files you hand it, and only at the moment you use the feature that needs it. Your browser asks you, not us, and you can refuse — the rest of the app keeps working.
Who else is involved
- Stripe — only if you tap the tip jar, which opens buy.stripe.com in a new tab. We never see or store card details.
- Firebase Hosting (Google) serves the app's static files and keeps ordinary short-lived web-server logs such as IP addresses. It cannot record anything about your PDFs, because your PDFs are never sent to it.
Tips
The tip jar links out to a checkout page hosted by the payment provider on their own site. We never see or store card details. Tipping changes nothing in the app — every feature is free either way.
Hosting
The app's files are served by Google's Firebase Hosting, which — like any web host — keeps standard, short-lived server logs such as IP addresses, for security and operations. That log records that a browser fetched a page. It cannot record anything you type, because what you type is never sent to the host.
Children
This app is made for adults. It is not directed at children, and it collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.
Accessibility
We aim for WCAG 2.1 AA: labelled fields, keyboard-operable controls that keep their focus when the page redraws, visible focus rings, 44px touch targets that grow with the text-size setting, screen-reader announcements for changes, and colour contrast checked by build-time solver in both light and dark mode. The display panel in the header sets text size, spacing, contrast, reading style and motion, and those settings follow you across all of our apps.
If anything gets in your way, email us and we will fix it: stephenfurpahs@gmail.com.
Changes
If this policy ever changes in a way that affects what happens to your data, the change will appear here and the date below will move.