Documents are processed locally
When you choose a file in any PDFVan tool, it is read into your browser's memory and processed by JavaScript code running on your device (pdf-lib, PDF.js and JSZip). Your files are not uploaded to PDFVan or to any server. We do not see, store, copy or analyse their contents, file names or page counts.
Results are created in memory and offered to you as a download. When you start over, navigate away or close the tab, the working copies are released by your browser.
No accounts
PDFVan has no sign-up, login, or user database. We do not ask for your name or email address.
Website analytics
PDFVan uses Google Tag Manager to manage Google Analytics measurement of website visits and navigation between pages. Google may receive page-view events and technical information about your browser and device. PDFVan does not send document contents, file names or page counts in analytics events. Our app-generated page-view events exclude URL query strings and fragments.
We also measure tool actions: file selection, validation failures, processing starts, successful results, processing errors, download clicks and successful text copies. Events contain only tool identifiers, fixed setting categories, interaction types, broad error categories and processing duration—not document details or error messages. When project analytics is enabled on our hosting service, these custom events may also be collected there.
Analytics storage and advertising consent signals default to denied. Consent-aware Google tags may still send cookieless measurement requests while storage is denied. A consent-management service must update these signals when you make a choice; denying storage does not mean that no network requests are made to Google.
Advertising and cookies
To keep PDFVan free, some pages may show advertisements served by Google AdSense. Ads are placed in clearly labelled areas, separate from the tools. Ads never have access to your documents, because documents are never sent anywhere.
Where required, we ask for your consent before personalised advertising is loaded. Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads based on your visits to this and other websites, to measure ad performance, and to limit how often you see an ad. If you decline, non-personalised ads may still be shown, which use cookies for frequency capping and fraud prevention.
- Learn how Google uses data: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
- Manage personalised ads: adssettings.google.com
- Opt out of third-party vendors: aboutads.info/choices
Hosting logs
Like any website, the server that delivers PDFVan's pages may record standard technical logs (such as IP address, browser type and time of request) for security and reliability. These logs never contain your documents.
Local storage
PDFVan may store small preferences in your browser, such as your advertising consent choice. You can clear them at any time in your browser settings.
Children
PDFVan is a general-audience utility and does not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date above.