Website Privacy Policy
Data controller
- Controller: Krzysztof Cichocki
- Contact: support@pdf-manipulator.com
- Website: https://pdf-manipulator.com
Data is processed in accordance with the GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679).
Google Analytics (traffic analytics)
The website uses Google Analytics (Google Ireland Ltd.) to analyse traffic and improve content. The tool stores cookies and collects, among other things:
- subpages visited, duration of the visit, entry source (e.g. a search engine)
- approximate location (country/city), device and browser type
- anonymised IP address (IP anonymisation enabled)
Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), given via the cookie banner. You may withdraw your consent at any time. The analytics data is aggregated and is not used to identify a specific person.
Opting out: you may install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on or reject analytics cookies in the banner.
Contact form
When you use the contact form on the website, we process the data you provide solely for the purpose of responding to your enquiry:
- first name / name (if provided)
- e-mail address
- content of the message
Purpose: responding to the enquiry submitted. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b)/(f) GDPR (taking steps at the data subject's request / legitimate interest — handling correspondence).
Retention: we retain form data for as long as necessary to handle the enquiry and no longer than any further correspondence may require. We do not use it for marketing and do not disclose it to third parties.
Cookies
The consent banner distinguishes the following cookie categories:
| Category | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Necessary | Operation of the site and remembering your consent choice. Always active. |
| Functional | Remembering your language choice and page-cache variants. |
| Analytics | Google Analytics — traffic statistics. Loaded only after consent. |
| Performance | A category shown by the consent tool; we currently use no cookies of this kind. |
| Advertisement | We display no advertising and set no advertising cookies. The only cookie the tool assigns here comes from Google Translate. |
On your first visit we display a cookie consent banner. You may accept everything, reject everything except the strictly necessary cookies, or decide per category. You can change your choice at any time using the consent widget on the site, or by clearing cookies in your browser.
Hosting and server logs
The site is hosted on a server which — like any web server — may record technical access logs (IP address, date of the request, browser type) in order to ensure the security and stability of the service. These logs are used solely for technical and diagnostic purposes.
Your rights (GDPR)
With regard to the data processed by this website, you have the right to:
- access your data and receive a copy of it
- rectification (correction) of the data
- erasure of the data (the “right to be forgotten”)
- restriction of processing
- object to processing
- withdraw your consent to analytics cookies at any time
- lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (in Poland: the President of the Personal Data Protection Office, UODO)
To exercise your rights, write to support@pdf-manipulator.com.
Privacy Policy of the desktop application
Overriding principle — everything stays local
PDF Manipulator is a desktop application that runs 100% on the user's computer.
All operations — merging, splitting, encryption, conversion to DOCX, rotation, page removal, compression to ZIP, text search, password recovery — are performed exclusively locally. The application requires no account, no login and no cloud connection.
When the application connects to the internet
The application establishes network connections in three situations only:
| Purpose | When |
|---|---|
| Update check → pdf-manipulator.com | On every start |
| Anonymous statistics → pdf-manipulator.com/api/stats.php | If enabled, on closing |
| External links → system browser | Only when clicked by the user |
All connections are made over HTTPS (TLS 1.2+). Once statistics are disabled, the application establishes no network connections whatsoever.
What the anonymous statistics collect
If statistics are enabled, the application sends exclusively anonymous technical events:
- Application version and general operating system version (e.g. “Windows 11”, “Linux”)
- Interface language (e.g. “pl”, “en”)
- Counters of operations used (e.g. “Merge × 3” — with no information about files)
- Error classes (e.g. “PermissionError”) — without file context
- Interface settings (theme, panel layout)
The data is aggregated immediately upon reaching the server — it is not stored as individual session records.
What the application does NOT collect
- IP address
- Device or user identifier (UUID, MAC, hardware hash)
- System user name, computer name (hostname)
- Time zone or location
- File names, paths or contents of PDF documents
- Search phrases entered
- Passwords (whether for PDF files or of any other kind)
- Any data enabling the identification of a specific person
Your control — disabling statistics
You may completely disable the sending of statistics at any time:
Disabling takes effect immediately. You may change your decision as often as you wish.
Aggregated data — identification impossible
The statistics are anonymous by design: they contain no identifier that would allow an event to be attributed to a person or a device. The IP address is neither stored nor linked to any record.
The data is aggregated — the server maintains no individual profiles. For this reason, it is technically impossible to fulfil a request for access to, or erasure of, one person's data — not because we refuse, but because such data does not exist in a form attributable to a person.
Contact and source code
- Author and operator: Krzysztof Cichocki
- E-mail: support@pdf-manipulator.com
- Source code: github.com/kr-ci/pdf-manipulator
- This policy covers: the PDF Manipulator desktop application; it does not cover blog content or third-party services