Privacy policy

Foldline is operated by Foldline. This page explains what happens to your files and data when you use the site. Questions or requests: support@foldline.org.

Your files

• Browser tools (merge, split, rotate, crop, page numbers, watermark, images to PDF, PDF to JPG, organize and remove pages) run on your device. Those files are not uploaded.
• Server tools (compress, repair, convert to and from Office formats, HTML to PDF, OCR, PDF/A, protect, unlock, PDF to Markdown, summarize) upload your file to our servers so it can be processed.
• Uploaded files are deleted as soon as the job finishes. The result is kept so you can download it, and deleted after 60 minutes. A cleanup job also removes anything older than that.
• Passwords you type into Protect PDF or Unlock PDF are encrypted while the job waits in the queue and removed when it ends. They are not stored.
• We don't read your files, and we don't use them to train any model.

AI features

Summarize PDF extracts the text of your document and sends it to an AI provider, which writes the summary. The provider is chosen by the site operator and is either Anthropic or OpenAI. The text leaves our servers and is handled under that provider's own terms and privacy policy. Don't use this feature on documents you aren't allowed to share with such a provider. You need an account to use it.

Your account

• If you create an account we store your email address, your name (if you give one), and a salted hash of your password. We never store the password itself.
• You can delete your account at any time from the Account page. That removes this information.
• We use your email only to run your account. We don't send marketing email and we don't sell or share your data.

Cookies and tracking

When you log in we set one cookie that keeps you signed in. It is needed for the site to work, so there is no cookie banner. We don't use advertising or analytics cookies.

Network addresses and logs

To limit abuse we keep a count of requests per network (IP) address for a short time, from one minute up to a day. Our hosting provider and web server may also keep ordinary access logs containing IP addresses and request times.

Where data lives

Data is stored on the servers where this site is hosted. Contact us if you need to know the location.

Your rights

You can ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to how it's used, by writing to support@foldline.org. Account deletion is also available yourself on the Account page. If you believe we handled your data wrongly, you can complain to your local data protection authority.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.