Data and privacy
What this site collects
Plain English, no legal padding. This page explains what happens to data when you read Fill and Sign PDF Tools, and what to do if you would rather it did not.
This is a publishing site. You do not upload documents here, you do not create an account, and there is nothing for you to sign. That keeps this policy short.
What we do not collect
- We do not ask you to create an account or log in.
- We do not accept document uploads, so no PDF of yours ever reaches us.
- We do not collect signatures, form data, or anything you type into another service.
- We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information.
Analytics
We use a web analytics service to understand which pages people read and how they arrived. It reports in aggregate: page paths, referring sites, approximate location at country or region level, browser and device type, and how long a page was open. We use it to decide what to write next and which pages need updating.
Analytics providers typically set their own cookies or use similar identifiers to distinguish one visit from another. We do not use analytics data to build a profile of you, and we do not attempt to identify individual readers.
Cookies
A small number of cookies and equivalent browser storage entries may be set when you visit:
- Preference storage — for example, remembering that you dismissed the cookie notice so it does not reappear on every page.
- Analytics cookies — set by the analytics provider described above to count visits and sessions.
- Affiliate attribution cookies — set by a merchant, not by us, when you follow an affiliate link to their site.
You can clear or block cookies in your browser settings at any time. Blocking them will not stop the site working; nothing on it depends on being able to remember you.
Affiliate links
Some outbound links are affiliate links. When you follow one, the destination site may record that the visit came from us so that a commission can be attributed. That handoff is governed by the destination site privacy policy, not this one. We do not receive personal information about you from those merchants — commission reporting reaches us as counts, not as names.
Third parties and outbound links
Reviews and guides link out to software vendors, documentation, and reference material. Once you follow a link you are on someone else site, under their terms and their privacy policy. We have no control over what they collect and cannot answer for it.
Hosting and logs
Like almost every website, our hosting infrastructure keeps standard server logs — the requested page, timestamp, IP address, and browser user agent — for security and troubleshooting. These are operational records, not a marketing database.
Your choices
- Block or clear cookies in your browser.
- Use your browser private mode, or a tracking-blocking extension.
- Ask us what we hold about you, or ask us to delete it, by writing to [email protected]. In practice we hold very little, because we collect very little.
Children
This site is written for adults handling business and personal paperwork. It is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Changes to this policy
If the way we handle data changes — a different analytics provider, a new affiliate programme — this page is updated to match. There is no separate archive of old versions; what is published here is what applies.
Contact
Privacy questions go to [email protected]. If your question is about data held by a tool we reviewed rather than by us, contact that vendor directly — we have no access to their systems.