Legal Document

Cookie Policy

Last Updated: June 25, 2026

Control

You Are In Charge

Consent Standard

Google v2 Strict

Default State

Tracking Off

Compliance

GDPR & ePrivacy

1 What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) by websites you visit. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, enhance user experience, and provide analytical information to the site owners.

At PDF AI (gopdfai.com), we believe in absolute transparency. We use cookies and similar technologies, such as local storage, to ensure the security of your document processing, understand how our tools are used, and deliver relevant advertisements.

2 How We Use Cookies

We use cookies primarily for the following purposes:

Security & Functionality: To protect against CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks and manage your active file sessions.
Preferences: To remember if you have accepted or rejected our consent banner, ensuring you are not repeatedly prompted.
Performance Monitoring: To analyze server load, error rates, and user interactions to improve our tools.
Advertising: To fund our free service by serving relevant ads through our partners, solely based on your explicit consent.

3 Types of Cookies We Use

Strict Default Settings

By default, when you first visit PDF AI, only Strictly Necessary cookies are active. Analytics and Advertising cookies are blocked until you explicitly grant permission.

Category	Purpose	Can be disabled?
Strictly Necessary	Required for the website to function securely. These handle tasks like load balancing (Cloudflare), temporary session management for your active PDF edits, and saving your privacy choices.	No
Analytics & Performance	Allows us to count visits and traffic sources. We use this to know which PDF tools are popular and identify bugs. Processing is fully anonymized.	Yes
Marketing & Ads	Used by our advertising partners (Google AdSense) to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on this or other sites.	Yes

5 Third-Party Tracking Technologies

Some cookies are placed by third-party services that appear on our pages. We do not control these cookies directly, but we restrict their loading based on your consent.

Cloudflare: Places a strictly necessary cookie (e.g., `__cf_bm`) to distinguish between humans and malicious bots. This does not track your identity.
Google Analytics: (If consented) Places cookies (e.g., `_ga`, `_gid`) to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data.
Google AdSense: (If consented) Places cookies to evaluate ad efficiency and deliver targeted advertising.

6 Manage Your Preferences

You have the absolute right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. PDF AI provides an integrated, on-site tool to manage your preferences instantly.

Browser-Level Controls

In addition to our on-site tool, you can set your web browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. Note that if you disable strictly necessary cookies at the browser level, some parts of PDF AI (like file uploading) may become inaccessible or not function properly.

7 Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact our privacy team:

Response Time

Within 48 hours (business days)