TypePDF

How your documents are handled

The short version: TypePDF has no server to send anything to. Your PDFs are opened, read, edited and exported by code running in your own browser, and they stay on your device.

Last updated 10 September 2026

What is never collected

There is no account, no sign-up and no login, so there is no name, email address or password to collect. There is no advertising network and nothing you type into a form is transmitted anywhere.

Counting visits

Nothing counts your visit. There is no analytics script, no advertising network and no third-party tracker on this domain.

What is stored, and where

Everything below lives in your browser’s own storage (IndexedDB) for this site, on this device:

  • The PDFs you open — kept so you can close the tab and carry on later.
  • What you have filled in — the text, tick marks, dates, drawings and their positions and formatting, saved separately from the original file so the original is never altered.
  • Your signature — only if you ticked “Remember this for next time” when you created it.
  • Your settings — default font, size, ink colour, date format and similar preferences.

TypePDF asks the browser to treat this storage as persistent, so your documents are not evicted when the device is short on space. Browsers can decline that request.

Passwords on protected PDFs

If a PDF is password protected you are asked for the password so the file can be opened. It is used in memory to decrypt the document and is never written to storage and never sent anywhere.

How to delete everything

Open Settings and choose Delete all documents, or remove documents one at a time from Your documents. Clearing this site’s data in your browser removes everything as well, including your saved signature and settings.

Because the data is only ever on your device, deleting it is final — there is no copy elsewhere to recover it from. Download anything you still need first.

Hosting and logs

The page itself has to be downloaded from a web host, so that host may keep ordinary server logs — the kind every website produces, such as IP address, timestamp and which file was requested. Those logs record that a page was loaded. They cannot record the contents of your documents, because your documents are never sent.

Fonts

The typefaces used on this site are served from the site itself rather than from a font network, so loading a page does not tell a third party that you visited.

Changes

If how any of this works changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top is updated.