Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 9, 2026

The short version: your files never leave your device. Every tool on localdobe — merge, split, compress, edit, watermark, protect, unlock, and signature validation — runs entirely in your browser. When you drop a PDF into a tool, it's read into memory on your machine, processed there, and handed back to you as a download. At no point does your file — or any data derived from its contents — travel over the network to us or anyone else.

The rest of this page describes, completely, the data that does exist when you use this site: standard hosting logs, cookieless page-view analytics, and a few preferences stored on your own device.

1. Your files

Files you process with localdobe's tools are opened in your browser's memory, transformed on your device, and offered back as a download. They are never uploaded, never logged, never cached on a server, and never seen by us. Passwords you enter in the Protect and Unlock tools are used only inside your browser's memory for the encryption or decryption operation and are likewise never transmitted or stored. After the page has loaded a tool once, most operations work with your network disconnected — the clearest proof that processing is local.

2. Hosting and server logs (Cloudflare)

The static site — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, fonts, and the files the tools use — is served by Cloudflare. Like any content delivery network, Cloudflare's edge may process and briefly log standard HTTP request metadata: the URL requested, your IP address, user-agent string, referrer, and timestamp. This covers which pages and assets were requested — never the contents of any file you process, because your files are not part of that traffic. Cloudflare processes this data as described in theCloudflare Privacy Policy.

3. Analytics (Cloudflare Web Analytics — cookieless)

We use Cloudflare Web Analyticsto understand aggregate site usage — which pages are visited and how fast they load. We chose it because it is one of the least invasive analytics products available:

• it sets no cookies and uses no localStorage;
• it does not fingerprint your device or track you across sites;
• it collects page-view events only: the page URL, referrer, browser and device type, country-level location, and performance timings;
• it never sees your files or anything you do inside a tool — it has no access to file names, file contents, or tool inputs.

This works via a small script served from cloudflareinsights.com. If you block it with an ad-blocker or a browser like Brave, every tool on this site continues to work exactly the same — we think that's how it should be. Analytics data is processed by Cloudflare under theCloudflare Privacy Policy.

4. Data stored on your device

localdobe stores a small amount of data in your browser, on your device, none of which is transmitted to anyone:

• Theme preference — if you toggle dark mode, your choice is kept inlocalStorage so the site remembers it.
• Offline caches — a service worker caches the site's pages and engines so the tools work offline and load faster. This is standard browser cache storage.

You can remove all of it at any time through your browser's site-data settings (usually under "Cookies and site data" → localdobe.com → clear), which fully resets the site.

5. What we don't collect

We have no accounts, no sign-ups, and no way to associate site usage with an identity. We set no cookies of our own. We run no advertising, no third-party trackers, and no session-recording or heat-mapping tools. We never sell or share data — we hold none to sell.

6. Your rights

Because localdobe itself stores no personal data about you, there is nothing for us to access, correct, export, or delete on request — the data described in sections 2 and 3 is processed by Cloudflare, and requests concerning it can be directed to Cloudflare under its privacy policy. Data stored on your device (section 4) is under your direct control through your browser.

7. Children

This site provides document utilities and does not target children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included — the site has no mechanism to do so.

8. Changes to this policy

If how the site works ever changes in a way that affects this page — a new analytics tool, a new third party, anything that touches data — we will update this policy and the "last updated" date above. The core promise will not change: your files are processed on your device, full stop.