How ImageAndPDF Handles Your Files: A Privacy Explainer

Privacy is a fair thing to ask about before you upload a contract, a payslip, or a personal photo to any website. This page explains, honestly, how ImageAndPDF handles your files and your data — including the parts that are not "everything stays on your device."

Many tools process files in your browser

Most of our common tools — compressing and merging PDFs, splitting and reordering pages, converting images, resizing, cropping, rotating, HEIC-to-JPG, and even the AI background remover and upscaler — run directly in your browser using open-source libraries (such as pdf-lib, PDF.js, and on-device models). For these tools, the file is processed on your own device and is not uploaded to our servers to do the work. That is genuinely useful for documents you would rather not send anywhere.

Some features use secure server processing

Not everything can run in a browser. A few heavier features — for example some video tasks, OCR, and certain document conversions — use secure server processing. For these, your file is uploaded, processed to produce your result, and then deleted automatically after processing. We do not keep or share those files. Whenever a tool needs the server, its page tells you before you start, so you can decide. In short: many tools process files in your browser; some features use secure server processing.

What this means in practice

• For browser-based tools, there is nothing for us to store — the file never leaves your device.
• For server-side features, files exist only long enough to produce your result and are removed automatically afterward.
• Each tool page states which method it uses, so you are never guessing.

Cookies, analytics, and ads — stated plainly

We are not a "zero tracking" site, and we will not pretend to be. ImageAndPDF uses cookies and analytics to understand traffic, and it displays ads (including Google AdSense) to keep the tools free. With Google Consent Mode, advertising and analytics cookies stay disabled until you choose in the cookie banner, and you can change your choice at any time. For the full details, see our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

What we don't do

• We don't add watermarks to your files.
• We don't require an account for everyday tasks.
• We don't sell your files, and we don't retain server-processed files after your download.

Privacy works best when the claims are accurate. If a tool runs in your browser, we say so; if it needs a server, we say that too — and either way, your file is only ever used to give you the result you asked for.