Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

We collect information you provide directly when you create or use an account, contact us, or otherwise interact with DraftPDF.

• Account information, such as your name, email address, and account identifiers.
• Authentication information submitted through Clerk, including passwords, one-time verification codes, or federated sign-in details. We use Clerk to process authentication and do not intentionally store your plaintext password on DraftPDF infrastructure.
• Subscription and billing status information needed to determine access to paid features. Payment card details and similar billing credentials are handled by Clerk and its payment partners, not stored on DraftPDF infrastructure.
• Operational and device information such as browser type, approximate location, IP-derived geolocation, timestamps, and usage or event data generated by Clerk or other service providers when accounts and billing features are used.
• Communications and support content you send to us.

2. PDF Files and Local Processing

DraftPDF’s core editor is intended to process user PDF files locally in the browser. When you open, annotate, redact, reorder, merge, or export a PDF in the editor, those source files and edits are intended to stay on your device unless you separately choose to send them somewhere else.

Because files remain local, DraftPDF generally does not receive, index, host, retain, or review the contents of your PDF documents on its own servers. You remain responsible for your own local files, backups, and export decisions.

3. How We Use Information

• To create and administer user accounts.
• To authenticate users and secure access to DraftPDF.
• To manage subscriptions, entitlements, and billing status through Clerk.
• To operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and improve the website and account experience.
• To respond to support requests, legal requests, and abuse reports.
• To protect DraftPDF, our users, and the public against fraud, unauthorized access, misuse, and security incidents.
• To comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms and Conditions.

4. Service Providers and Third Parties

We use third-party providers to deliver specific parts of the service. In particular, Clerk helps provide account management, authentication, billing-related workflows, and associated security or fraud-prevention functions.

When you use those features, Clerk may process information such as identifiers, authentication data, payment-related metadata, device details, IP address, and location-related information according to its own policies. You can review Clerk’s current privacy policy and terms at https://clerk.com/legal/privacy and https://clerk.com/legal/terms.

We may also disclose information to vendors, advisors, law enforcement, regulators, or transaction counterparties where reasonably necessary to provide the service, protect rights and safety, comply with law, or support a merger, acquisition, financing, or asset sale.

5. Legal Bases and Consent

Depending on where you are located, we may rely on one or more of the following legal bases to process personal data: performance of a contract, legitimate interests in operating and securing DraftPDF, compliance with legal obligations, and consent where required by law.

6. Data Retention

We retain account, subscription, support, and related business records for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, maintain security, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and satisfy legal, tax, accounting, or regulatory obligations.

Because PDF files are intended to remain local, DraftPDF does not maintain a hosted retention period for user document content in the ordinary course of product use.

7. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information. No method of transmission, storage, or security control is guaranteed to be completely secure, and you use the service at your own risk.

8. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or export personal data, object to certain processing, or withdraw consent where processing depends on consent.

Account and billing records maintained by Clerk may also need to be managed through Clerk-enabled account controls or requests directed through the contact paths made available on the DraftPDF website.

9. International Data Transfers

DraftPDF and its service providers may process information in countries other than your own. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards for cross-border transfers.

10. Children’s Privacy

DraftPDF is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us so we can take appropriate action.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the revised version on this page and update the effective date above. Your continued use of DraftPDF after the revised policy becomes effective means the updated policy applies going forward.

12. Contact

For privacy questions, account requests, or legal notices, contact DraftPDF at [email protected].