Privacy policy

File4Edit never uploads the files you open. Every image and PDF tool runs as JavaScript in your own browser: the file is read from disk into the tab’s memory, processed there on your own device, and handed back to you as a download. It is never sent to File4Edit or to anyone else, and the memory holding it is released when you close the tab.

You do not have to take this on trust. Open your browser’s developer tools, switch to the network panel and process a file: no request carries it. You can also disconnect from the internet and keep working in any tool you have already used.

Some formats need code a browser does not have, and File4Edit downloads it from its own site the first time it is needed: a HEIC decoder when you open an iPhone photo in a browser that cannot read HEIC, and its own WebP encoder when you save a WebP in Safari or on an iPhone or iPad. Your file is still processed on your own device and never uploaded.

When a page is served, the server that delivers it writes one row recording the date and time, the page address that was asked for, whether that page existed, how long the site took to answer, the country the request came from, and the host name of the site that linked to it, if any, filed under a source name such as a search engine. Your browser’s user-agent line is reduced to a few coarse words, such as phone, Chrome, Android or a known search-engine crawler, and the line itself is not kept.

No IP address, cookie, account or identifier is stored, so nothing in a row separates one visitor from another, or one visit from the same person’s next one. Your browser does nothing extra for this: everything is read from the request it had already made.

Rows are deleted automatically after a retention period set by the site owner. It is 90 days unless the owner changes it, and it cannot be set longer than 365 days.

If you write to us through the contact page, the name, email address, topic and message you enter are stored with the time they arrived, so that we can read and answer them; the name is optional. Messages are deleted 180 days after they arrive, or sooner if you ask. To limit abuse of the form, a keyed one-way hash of your network address (for IPv6, of the /64 block it belongs to) is kept with a message for its first 30 days; the address itself is never stored, and the hash is never shown to anyone.

File4Edit sets no cookies for visitors. The only cookie the site ever sets is the site owner’s own sign-in cookie for the private admin area.

Your preferences, such as your default format, quality, filename pattern, theme and pinned tools, are kept in your own browser’s local storage and are never sent anywhere. So that a tool you have used keeps working offline, your browser also caches the site’s own files. The Clear stored settings button on the settings page, or clearing your browser data, removes all of it.

No third-party script runs on File4Edit: no analytics service, no advertising, no social widgets and no error reporting. The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which, like any web host, handles your IP address in order to deliver pages, under its own privacy policy. File4Edit’s own records never include it.

Once a day, if the site owner has connected them, the server downloads the search reports that Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools give site owners: how often File4Edit pages appeared in search results and were clicked, and their average position, by search query and by page. Google and Bing compute these totals from their own search logs and leave out rare queries. Nothing on File4Edit’s pages takes part in this, and each download replaces the one before.

File4Edit does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13. The contact form is the only place on the site where personal information can be entered.

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date. Questions about privacy are welcome through the contact page.

Last updated September 14, 2026.