Privacy

The short version: your files never leave your computer, and PDFPane keeps only what is needed to count free downloads and to deliver a purchase.

Responsible for this site and the extension: Individual Entrepreneur Aliaksei Karatynski, Georgia — support@pdfpane.com.

The extension and the editor on this site

PDFPane works the same way as a Chrome extension and as the editor at pdfpane.com/app.

• Your PDFs are opened, edited and saved inside your browser. On the website too, the page's code does the work on your computer; the file is not sent to the site. They are never uploaded, and never sent to us or anyone else.
• What goes over the network. For a free download, PDFPane sends pdfpane.com a Google sign-in token and asks it to count one download — no file, no file name, no content. The token identifies your Google account by its account number (the same number Google gives any app you sign in to); we do not receive your e-mail or your name, and we store the number only as a keyed hash, which cannot be matched to other services, beside your monthly count. The only other request: the toolbar button on a web page showing a PDF downloads that PDF from the same site, once, so you can edit it — exactly as your browser already did to show it to you.
• Stored on this computer only (in the browser's extension storage, or this site's storage in your browser; never synced): signatures you ask it to remember, the handwriting style you picked, and — in the extension, for the browser session — your Google sign-in token.
• One cookie, on the website only. When you sign in in the website editor, pdfpane.com sets a cookie named pdfpane_session so you stay signed in for 30 days. It holds the scrambled account hash and an expiry date, is only sent to pdfpane.com's download counter, and cannot be read by page scripts or used by other sites. It is needed for the free downloads to work, so it is not optional; it is removed when it expires.
• No analytics, no tracking, no advertising. With Unlimited nothing is counted; the server only remembers that the account has Unlimited.

This website and buying Unlimited

• When you buy, we keep an order record: an order number, the price, the payment status, and the hashed account it belongs to.
• Payments are handled by Paddle.com, our reseller and Merchant of Record, under Paddle's privacy policy. Paddle collects the details needed to take payment and issue a receipt (such as your e-mail and card); we never see or store your card number.
• The site is hosted on Amazon Web Services and delivered through Amazon CloudFront, which process connection data (such as IP addresses) to deliver and protect it. CloudFront's access logs (IP address, page requested, browser and the page you came from) are kept for 90 days and used only to count visits in total. Apart from the sign-in cookie above, the site sets no cookies and runs no analytics scripts.

Deleting your data

Removing the extension deletes everything it stored on your computer; for the website, clearing pdfpane.com's site data in your browser does the same. To have your download count or an order record deleted, write to support@pdfpane.com.

Last updated 30 September 2026.