The short version: 282 of the 282 tools process your files inside your browser, so nothing is uploaded; the other 67 are office conversions that use a secure server and delete your file immediately after processing. We hold no lasting copy either way.
iLovePDF is free to use because it carries advertising. There is no subscription, no paid tier and no account to upgrade. Google AdSense is one of the advertising services on the site, under publisher id pub-8928122502589555.
Google and other third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet. Those cookies also support frequency capping, so the same ad does not follow you through every page, and measurement, so advertisers can tell whether an ad was seen. Google and its partners may use cookies and device identifiers for ad personalisation, frequency capping and measurement.
You can opt out of personalised advertising at any time. Google’s ad settings are at https://adssettings.google.com, and the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page is at https://www.aboutads.info/choices/. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, a consent banner appears before any advertising cookie is set. Advertising and analytics cookies default to denied under Google Consent Mode v2, and nothing in the advertising category is written to your device until you make a choice. You can change that choice whenever you like through the “Cookie settings” button, which appears on the site and reopens the same banner.
Advertising money pays for hosting, the domain, and the hours spent building and checking the 282 tools. It does not buy influence. Advertisers do not see your files, cannot see whether you used a tool, and have no say in what a tool does or produces. Our Cookie Policy lists the advertising cookies involved and explains how to withdraw consent.
Some of the most useful privacy information is a list of things that do not happen here. We would rather state them plainly than leave you to infer them from careful wording.
Where the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation applies, we rely on two legal bases, and which one applies depends on the activity.
Consent covers advertising cookies and any similar technology set through Google AdSense, together with the choice you record in the banner. Consent is collected before those cookies are set, it can be withdrawn at any time through the “Cookie settings” button, and withdrawing it does not affect the lawfulness of anything done before you withdrew. We do not rely on consent for anything else.
Legitimate interests covers security, fraud prevention and basic server logs. Keeping the site online, blocking abusive traffic and understanding a service failure are interests we and our visitors share, and the data involved is limited to what a web request carries: IP address, user agent, requested URL and timestamp. There is no analytics product behind those logs, and no profiling. Where our interests could be overridden by your rights, we do not process the data.
You are not obliged to provide personal data to use any tool. Files stay on your device, so no file data is processed by us at all. If you email us, we process your address and message to answer you.
If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information is collected, used or disclosed, and to request a copy of it. You have the right to delete personal information we hold about you, and to correct information that is inaccurate. You have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, and to limit the use of sensitive personal information. You also have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights. We will not charge you more, serve you worse or reduce a service because you asked.
Stated clearly: we do not sell personal information, and we have not sold any. Because there are no accounts and no file storage, the personal information we hold is usually nothing more than an email you chose to send us. Even so, the “Cookie settings” button on this site is the control to use for opting out of the sharing of personal information for advertising. Press it and decline, and no advertising cookies are set.
Our own processing is minimal, but Google and its advertising partners operate globally. Where personal data from the EEA, the UK or Switzerland is transferred to the United States, those providers rely on recognised transfer mechanisms, including the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and its UK extension where the recipient is certified, and otherwise on Standard Contractual Clauses or an equivalent safeguard permitted by law.
iLovePDF is a general-audience tool site. It is not directed at children under 13, or under 16 where a higher age applies locally, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. There are no accounts to create and no content to post, so there is little for a child to submit in the first place. If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, write to [email protected] and we will delete it.
We keep very little, and not for long. Basic server logs, which sit behind Cloudflare, are retained briefly, typically 30 days, and then deleted. Network providers and our security provider may keep their own logs for their own periods under their own policies. We keep no file data whatsoever, the 282 browser-based tools never send it to us, and the 44 office conversions delete the upload the moment they finish. There is no file retention period to describe: no upload, no queue, no temporary copy, no stored output. Email you send us is kept while we deal with your question and for a reasonable period afterwards, so we can find the thread if you write again, and you can ask us to delete it sooner.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, to receive it in a portable format, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to withdraw consent to cookies at any time. Exercising these rights is free.
Email [email protected] with your request, or use the contact page. We will respond within 30 days, and we will tell you if a request needs longer and why. We may ask a question or two to confirm we are dealing with the right person, particularly if a request relates to email correspondence. If you are unhappy with how we handled a request, you can complain to your local supervisory authority. In the EU and the UK that is the data protection authority in your country or region, and you are entitled to go to it directly.
We will update this policy when the site changes in a way that affects privacy, and we will not quietly widen what we collect. Any material change will be described here, with a new date at the bottom of the page. If a change affects cookies, the banner and the Cookie Policy will be updated at the same time.
Questions about any of this can go to [email protected]. A real person reads that inbox, and we answer.
Last updated: 10 October 2026
iLovePDF is free to use because it carries advertising. There is no subscription, no paid tier and no account to upgrade. Google AdSense is one of the advertising services on the site, under publisher id pub-8928122502589555.
Google and other third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet. Those cookies also support frequency capping, so the same ad does not follow you through every page, and measurement, so advertisers can tell whether an ad was seen. Google and its partners may use cookies and device identifiers for ad personalisation, frequency capping and measurement.
You can opt out of personalised advertising at any time. Google’s ad settings are at https://adssettings.google.com, and the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page is at https://www.aboutads.info/choices/. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, a consent banner appears before any advertising cookie is set. Advertising and analytics cookies default to denied under Google Consent Mode v2, and nothing in the advertising category is written to your device until you make a choice. You can change that choice whenever you like through the “Cookie settings” button, which appears on the site and reopens the same banner.
Advertising money pays for hosting, the domain, and the hours spent building and checking the 282 tools. It does not buy influence. Advertisers do not see your files, cannot see whether you used a tool, and have no say in what a tool does or produces. Our Cookie Policy lists the advertising cookies involved and explains how to withdraw consent.
Some of the most useful privacy information is a list of things that do not happen here. We would rather state them plainly than leave you to infer them from careful wording.
Where the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation applies, we rely on two legal bases, and which one applies depends on the activity.
Consent covers advertising cookies and any similar technology set through Google AdSense, together with the choice you record in the banner. Consent is collected before those cookies are set, it can be withdrawn at any time through the “Cookie settings” button, and withdrawing it does not affect the lawfulness of anything done before you withdrew. We do not rely on consent for anything else.
Legitimate interests covers security, fraud prevention and basic server logs. Keeping the site online, blocking abusive traffic and understanding a service failure are interests we and our visitors share, and the data involved is limited to what a web request carries: IP address, user agent, requested URL and timestamp. There is no analytics product behind those logs, and no profiling. Where our interests could be overridden by your rights, we do not process the data.
You are not obliged to provide personal data to use any tool. Files stay on your device, so no file data is processed by us at all. If you email us, we process your address and message to answer you.
If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information is collected, used or disclosed, and to request a copy of it. You have the right to delete personal information we hold about you, and to correct information that is inaccurate. You have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, and to limit the use of sensitive personal information. You also have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights. We will not charge you more, serve you worse or reduce a service because you asked.
Stated clearly: we do not sell personal information, and we have not sold any. Because there are no accounts and no file storage, the personal information we hold is usually nothing more than an email you chose to send us. Even so, the “Cookie settings” button on this site is the control to use for opting out of the sharing of personal information for advertising. Press it and decline, and no advertising cookies are set.
Our own processing is minimal, but Google and its advertising partners operate globally. Where personal data from the EEA, the UK or Switzerland is transferred to the United States, those providers rely on recognised transfer mechanisms, including the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and its UK extension where the recipient is certified, and otherwise on Standard Contractual Clauses or an equivalent safeguard permitted by law.
iLovePDF is a general-audience tool site. It is not directed at children under 13, or under 16 where a higher age applies locally, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. There are no accounts to create and no content to post, so there is little for a child to submit in the first place. If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, write to [email protected] and we will delete it.
We keep very little, and not for long. Basic server logs, which sit behind Cloudflare, are retained briefly, typically 30 days, and then deleted. Network providers and our security provider may keep their own logs for their own periods under their own policies. We keep no file data whatsoever, because files stay on your device for the 282 browser-based tools, and the 44 office conversions delete the upload the moment they finish. There is no file retention for the 282 browser-based tools, because the file never reaches us period to describe: no upload, no queue, no permanent copy and no stored output, because a server-side conversion deletes the upload the moment it finishes. Email you send us is kept while we deal with your question and for a reasonable period afterwards, so we can find the thread if you write again, and you can ask us to delete it sooner.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, to receive it in a portable format, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to withdraw consent to cookies at any time. Exercising these rights is free.
Email [email protected] with your request, or use the contact page. We will respond within 30 days, and we will tell you if a request needs longer and why. We may ask a question or two to confirm we are dealing with the right person, particularly if a request relates to email correspondence. If you are unhappy with how we handled a request, you can complain to your local supervisory authority. In the EU and the UK that is the data protection authority in your country or region, and you are entitled to go to it directly.
We will update this policy when the site changes in a way that affects privacy, and we will not quietly widen what we collect. Any material change will be described here, with a new date at the bottom of the page. If a change affects cookies, the banner and the Cookie Policy will be updated at the same time.
Questions about any of this can go to [email protected]. A real person reads that inbox, and we answer.
Last updated: 10 October 2026