PDF Splitter
Privacy policy

Your PDFs stay on your computer

PDF Splitter reorganizes the pages of a PDF file on your own device: split a document into parts, extract or remove the pages you select, rotate, crop or reorder pages, and run the same job on a batch of up to 20 files, then save the result as a PDF or a ZIP. This PDF job happens inside your browser. Your files are processed in your browser and never uploaded. No account is needed.

What stays on your device

  • The PDF you open. One file, or a batch of up to 20. Each file lives in the open workspace tab until you press New file, reload or close the tab. No page bytes are written to browser storage, and no part of the file is uploaded.
  • The password of a protected PDF. If your file is protected, you can type the password you already have so that it can be opened. It lives only in the open tab for that conversion. It is never written to browser storage, never put into a file name, an error message or a log, and never sent anywhere. The extension does not recover, guess or remove a password you do not know; after three wrong attempts you simply get a plain error.
  • Page thumbnails. They are drawn only while the working tab is open, and are discarded when they scroll out of view or when you close the tab.
  • What you selected. The pages you picked, a range such as 1-3,5,7-10, the file name and the page count are used for the job and are not saved.
  • The result. Your new PDF, or a ZIP when the job produces several files, is written straight to your own disk by the browser download. It does not pass through anything of ours.

Settings we remember

The extension keeps three entries in the browser's own extension storage, on this device. None of them carries your name, address or account. Two of them never leave your device, because there is no server of ours for them to go to; the third is sent once, with the one-time install-count request described below.

  • pdfSplitterPrefs - the controls you last used, so that the working page opens the way you left it instead of resetting itself every time: the last operation you used (split, extract, remove, rotate, crop or reorder), the last split mode, and the last rotation angle. Three values, each one overwritten the next time you move that control. The same object also holds one yes-or-no flag, guideSeen, set the first time the working page loads its own short instruction document, so that you get it once and not on every visit.
  • pdfSplitterRatePrompt - whether we have already asked you to rate the extension: a timestamp for when the short rating line was shown, and, if you answered it or waved it away, the fact that you did. That record is the only reason the line can stop: it appears once in 30 days, and never again once you have answered. It holds nothing about you, your files or your jobs.
  • A random counting number - generated once, the first time you install the extension, and sent with the one-time install-count request described below, so the same install is not counted twice. It is not your name, address or account.

Those three entries are everything the extension stores. No file contents, no thumbnails, no page ranges, no file names, no page counts, no passwords, and no list of the files you have worked on. To change what is remembered, use the controls. Each one overwrites the value it remembers. To delete it, remove the extension: uninstalling deletes everything it stored.

Pages and information sent

  • The welcome page you see after installing is part of the extension itself. When it opens, it sends one install-count analytics event. No information about your files reaches it.
  • The optional uninstall survey. When you remove the extension, Chrome opens a feedback page in a new tab. The page address includes the extension version and interface language. Answering is optional, and no file names, page counts or settings are sent.
  • The rating line inside the extension. After the first successful job, the extension shows a short row of five stars once in 30 days. Nothing opens until you click a star, and a click never attaches anything from your work to the address. One, two or three stars open the hosted rating page, where you can send optional feedback. Four or five stars open this extension's reviews page in the Chrome Web Store.

Analytics and feedback

The welcome page and hosted goodbye and rating pages carry analytics used to count installs and removals by country. The welcome page's request goes through this site, which derives the country from the connection and stores nothing.

If you send optional feedback after a low rating, or from the page that opens after you remove the extension, we receive the reason you picked, any comment you typed, the extension version, and the interface language. Rating feedback also includes the star count you selected. We do not collect your email, your name, an install identifier, or your IP address. Comments are delivered to us through Telegram so we can read them. Submissions without a comment are stored only as counts. We do not sell this information.

You can open the uninstall survey or the rating feedback page directly.

Legal bases

Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, we handle data on the basis of your consent and to perform the feature you asked for. Your PDF is read only in order to produce the file you asked for, because that is the job you started. You can withdraw consent at any time by stopping the job or removing the extension.

Retention and deletion

  • Your PDF, its pages and thumbnails: the source and recent results live in workspace memory while this window is open, within a 10-card limit and a 200 MB memory budget. New file clears the results strip. A download URL is revoked 30 seconds after the browser receives the download, or when the tab closes. Nothing is written to extension storage except the three entries described on this page. Workspace PDF jobs do not upload files.
  • The password: it is never written anywhere. It lives only in the open tab for that conversion.
  • Page ranges, file names, page counts: they live with the loaded document in the open tab until New file, reload or close; nothing of them is written to storage.
  • The remembered controls (pdfSplitterPrefs): until you change them or remove the extension.
  • The rating record (pdfSplitterRatePrompt): until you remove the extension. Answering the rating line or waving it away does not erase the record. That is what keeps the line from coming back.
  • Files you saved: yours, on your own disk, for as long as you keep them.
  • On our side: we do not receive your PDFs, settings or job details. Analytics and optional feedback are described above.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you have rights over your personal data:

  • GDPR / UK GDPR: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, withdrawing consent, and lodging a complaint with a supervisory authority (such as the ICO).
  • CCPA / CPRA (California): to know, access, delete and correct your data, and not to be discriminated against for exercising those rights. We do not sell your personal information.

Your files and settings stay on your own computer, so you can manage most of them yourself. Removing the extension erases the local data it stored. Analytics and feedback sent to us are handled as described above. If you would still like to make a request or ask a question, use the feedback pages below.

Security

Your files are handled inside your browser by the extension's own code, in the same browser process as the page you are looking at. No part of a PDF is sent to us. The install-count event and optional feedback are the only information sent from the extension, as described above. Everything the extension needs to read and rewrite a PDF is packaged inside it, so no code is fetched from the internet while it runs. Your files are protected by your own device and browser profile, the same way the rest of your documents are.

Children

PDF Splitter is intended for users 13 and older. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

What we do not do

  • No accounts, no sign-up, no subscription.
  • No advertising and no ad networks.
  • No user profiles. The install-count event is described above.
  • No persistent history of the files you have processed. Recent results remain in memory only for the open workspace window.
  • We do not sell your personal information. We do not receive PDF files or job details.
  • All features in this version are free; this extension does not offer purchases.

Limited Use

The use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Changes to this policy

This policy takes effect on 3 September 2026. What changed on 13 September 2026: the operations list now names crop, reorder and a batch of up to 20 files, which this version already runs. What changed on 28 September 2026: added the install-count analytics event and the optional uninstall and rating feedback pages. If it changes again, we will update the date at the bottom of this page, and the current version always lives here.

Contact

Privacy contact: use the uninstall survey or the rating feedback page. No email address is published.

Last updated: 28 September 2026.