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Last updated 12 November 2026. This policy explains what happens to your documents and your data when you use Don’t Hate PDF. The short version: your files are processed on your device and are never uploaded.
No upload. No watermark. No sign-up. Every tool mentioned here runs inside your browser.
Every PDF tool on this site runs inside your browser using JavaScript and WebAssembly. When you pick a file, it is read from your disk into your browser tab’s memory, processed there, and handed back to you as a download.
There is no upload endpoint in this website. No account is required, and no document is stored on any server we control.
We use your browser’s local storage — not cookies — for a few small preferences: your light/dark theme choice, the tools you have starred, and (only if you use POS Billing) the product list and shop details you typed.
This data never leaves your device and is visible only to this site in your browser. Clearing your browser’s site data deletes all of it. We do not set advertising cookies, and there is no cookie consent banner because there are no cookies to consent to.
Everything else is local, but honesty requires naming the exceptions.
1. Chat with PDF. This tool sends the text of your document to Google’s Gemini API so it can answer your questions. It only runs if you paste your own API key, and the page warns you before you use it. The file itself is not sent — only extracted text, truncated. Google’s own privacy terms apply to that request.
2. P2P File Share and Collab Whiteboard. These use WebRTC, so file bytes and drawing strokes travel directly between the two browsers. To introduce the browsers to each other, the connection handshake goes through PeerJS’s public signalling server. That server sees connection metadata (peer IDs, IP addresses involved) but never your file contents or your drawing.
3. Payments. Sponsor slot purchases and donations are processed by Dodo Payments, our payment provider. When you pay you are on Dodo’s checkout page and give your details to them directly — we never see or store your card number. Dodo’s own privacy policy applies to that transaction, and your receipt comes from Dodo.
The site is served as static files by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes standard request data — IP address, requested URL, user agent, timestamp — to deliver the page and protect against abuse. We do not use that data to build profiles, and we do not combine it with anything about your documents.
Your internet provider and Cloudflare can see that you visited this site. They cannot see what you did with your files, because that happens entirely inside your browser.
There is no analytics product installed, no advertising network, no tracking pixel and no fingerprinting script on this site.
Sponsor cards are plain links. When you click one, the sponsor’s URL carries a `ref` parameter so the sponsor can see that the visit came from here — that is attribution, not tracking of you, and no script from the sponsor runs on our pages.
The site is a general-purpose document utility and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children, because we do not collect personal information at all.
Privacy laws such as the GDPR and India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act give you rights to access, correct, and delete your personal data. Because we do not hold any personal data about you, there is nothing for us to export or erase — the preferences described above live only in your own browser and you can delete them at any time through your browser settings.
If you have contacted us by email, that message exists in our mailbox and you can ask us to delete it by writing to the address below.
If a feature is added that changes any of the above, this page will be updated in the same release and the date at the top will change. Material changes will be noted on the support page.
Questions about privacy: [email protected].
No. The file is read into your browser tab, processed there, and given back to you. There is no upload step in the code.
No cookies. A few preferences are kept in your browser’s local storage, and only on your device.
None. No analytics product, no ad network, no tracking pixel.
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