PDF Partner privacy statement
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PDF Partner is an app from Vision and Beyond Pty Ltd. This statement explains what the app does with your information. In short, your documents stay on your phone, there is no account, and the only outside companies involved are the ones that run ads and take payment.
The short version
- Your documents stay on your phone. PDF Partner does not send them to us, or to any server of ours.
- There is no account. We do not ask for your name, email address or phone number to use the app.
- Ads and purchases involve other companies. Google provides the ads, and the App Store or Google Play handles payments. Both are explained below.
- You can clear what the app remembers at any time, from Help and About.
What stays on your phone
PDF Partner keeps the following on your phone only.
- Your PDFs. The app opens a file from where it is stored. Your changes are kept in a working copy until you save. Save puts them back in the original file, or into a new copy in a place you choose.
- A recovery copy. If the app closes before you save, your changes are kept in a hidden copy that only PDF Partner can reach, so you can carry on. It is removed when you save or discard your changes.
- The Recent list. The names, locations and times of up to 20 files you opened. It does not hold what is inside them.
- Saved signatures and initials. Only if you choose to save them. They are kept in the secure storage on your phone (the Keychain on iPhone, the Keystore on Android).
- Your free saves. The number you have left is kept on your phone.
- Scans. Photos you take or choose are straightened and read for text on your phone. They are not uploaded by us.
What the app asks to use
- Camera, to photograph pages you want to scan, or to take a picture of your signature.
- Photos, only the ones you choose, so they can be turned into pages or a signature.
- Your files, through your phone's own file picker, to open and save PDFs.
- The internet, to show ads, handle purchases and open links such as this statement. Reading, editing, signing and scanning do not need a connection.
You can turn the camera and photo permissions off in your phone's settings at any time.
Ads
PDF Partner shows an ad only when you choose to watch one to earn more free saves. The ads come from Google AdMob. Google may collect and use information such as your phone's advertising identifier, your IP address and how you interact with the ad, to show and measure ads and to prevent fraud. Google explains this on its page, How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
- In the UK and Europe, Google asks for your consent before the first ad.
- On iPhone, the app asks for your permission to track before it requests an ad. If you say no, you can still watch ads. They are just not personalised.
- Where privacy choices apply, you can change your consent later in Help and About, under Privacy choices.
Purchases
If you buy Pro, the App Store or Google Play takes the payment. We do not receive your card details. The app asks the store whether you own Pro, so it can switch ads and limits off. The store's own privacy policy applies to the payment.
Sharing and cloud services
When you tap Share, email a file, or save one to a cloud service such as iCloud Drive or Google Drive, that app or service receives the file and handles it under its own terms. PDF Partner does not control what happens after that.
Contacting support
If you email us, we receive your email address and what you write. The Contact support button in the app adds your app version, build number, platform and device details to the email. You can read and change the email before you send it. We use this only to help you, and keep support emails for as long as we need to deal with your request.
What we know about how the app is used
PDF Partner has no analytics or crash-reporting tools of its own. Apple and Google may give us general figures, such as downloads, countries and crash counts, under their own privacy policies. These do not identify you.
Keeping and deleting your information
Everything the app stores is on your phone, so you are in control of it.
- In Help and About, under Storage and data, you can clear the Recent list, delete saved signatures, and discard the recovery copy.
- Uninstalling the app removes its data from your phone. On iPhone, items kept in the Keychain can stay behind after an app is removed, so delete your saved signatures first.
- PDFs you saved to your own folders belong to you and stay where you put them.
Children
PDF Partner is a general-purpose tool and is not aimed at children.
Changes to this statement
If the app changes in a way that affects your privacy, we will update this page and the date at the top. The current version is always the one on this page.
Contact us
For questions about this statement, or about information we hold, email support@vision-and-beyond.com.au or write to Vision and Beyond Pty Ltd, PO Box 441, Pyrmont NSW 2009.