PRIVACY POLICY

Article to PDF — Save Pages Without Ads
https://article-to-pdf.com

Last updated: September 7, 2026


1. INTRODUCTION

Article to PDF ("we", "us", or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how our browser extension ("Extension") handles information when you use it.

The short version: Article content extraction and PDF generation happen entirely on your device. The only external communication occurs if you purchase a Pro license, in which case your license key is validated through our payment provider, Lemon Squeezy. Separately, your browser opens a page on our website twice in the life of an install: once when you install the Extension, to welcome you and show how to pin it (Section 7B), and once if you remove it, to ask why in a short, entirely optional and entirely anonymous survey (Section 7A). Neither page receives anything from the Extension, and the welcome page collects nothing at all.

This Privacy Policy applies to every distribution of the Extension, including the Chrome Web Store and Microsoft Edge Add-ons builds, and to any Chromium-based browser the Extension runs in (Chrome, Edge, Brave, and others). It complies with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the Chrome Web Store Developer Program Policies, and the Microsoft Edge Add-ons store policies.


2. INFORMATION WE DO NOT COLLECT

Article to PDF is designed with privacy as a core principle. We do not collect:

  - Personal identifiers (name, email address, phone number, etc.)
  - Browsing history or web activity
  - Location data
  - Usage statistics or analytics
  - Cookies or tracking pixels
  - Any data that could be used to identify you personally

We do not receive any article content, browsing data, or personal information from the Extension.

The one exception to "we do not operate our own servers" is our website, article-to-pdf.com, which hosts the optional uninstall feedback form described in Section 7A and the welcome page described in Section 7B. That form is the only place where we receive anything you send us, and what it records is anonymous and entirely of your choosing. The welcome page is a page of instructions and collects nothing.


3. INFORMATION PROCESSED FOR PRO LICENSES

If you purchase a Pro license, the following limited data is processed:

  a) License Key: When you activate or validate a Pro license, your license key and a non-personal instance identifier (the browser-assigned ID of your Extension installation) are sent to Lemon Squeezy (our payment processor) for verification. This is the only external network request the Extension itself makes; the two pages described in Sections 7A and 7B are opened by your browser, not requested by the Extension.

  b) License Data Stored Locally: Your license key, license status, validation timestamp, and customer portal URL are stored in your browser's synced extension storage (chrome.storage.sync) on your device. This data may sync across your profiles if you are signed into your browser (with a Google account in Chrome, or a Microsoft account in Edge), but it is never sent to us.

  c) Payment Information: All payment processing is handled entirely by Lemon Squeezy. We never receive, see, or store your credit card number, billing address, or other financial details. Please refer to Lemon Squeezy's privacy policy for how they handle payment data: https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/privacy

If you use only the free version of the Extension, no data of any kind is transmitted externally.


4. HOW THE EXTENSION WORKS

When you use Article to PDF, the following happens entirely on your local device:

  a) Content Extraction: The Extension reads the content of the active web page in your browser to extract the article text, images, and metadata (title, author, date).

  b) Temporary Session Storage: Extracted content is held temporarily in your browser's session extension storage (chrome.storage.session) solely for the purpose of rendering the article preview. This data is automatically cleared when you close your browser.

  c) PDF Generation: The PDF is generated locally on your device using your browser's built-in printing engine, driven through the DevTools Protocol (debugger API). No content is sent to any external server.

  d) File Download: The generated PDF is handed to your browser as a local blob URL, which saves it to your device. The Extension does not request the browser's downloads permission and has no access to your download history.

Article content is never transmitted to our servers or any third party. The only external communication is license validation for Pro users (see Section 3).


5. BROWSER PERMISSIONS

The Extension requests certain browser permissions to function. Here is what each permission is used for and why it is necessary:

  - activeTab: To access the content of the web page you are currently viewing when you activate the Extension.
  - scripting: To inject the content extraction script into the active page.
  - debugger: To drive your browser's built-in PDF generation engine locally on your device.
  - storage: To temporarily hold extracted content in session storage, and to store Pro license status in synced storage.
  - webNavigation: To detect the return from the checkout page after a Pro purchase, so the license can be activated automatically.
  - host_permissions (<all_urls>): To allow the Extension to extract content from any website you choose to use it on.

None of these permissions are used to monitor your browsing activity or collect personal data.


6. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

The Extension integrates with one third-party service:

  - Lemon Squeezy (https://www.lemonsqueezy.com): Used exclusively for Pro license activation, validation, and payment processing. Only your license key and extension instance ID are sent to Lemon Squeezy. Their privacy policy is available at https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/privacy.

Our website (including the uninstall feedback form in Section 7A and the welcome page in Section 7B) is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc. (https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/), which serves the pages and stores the anonymous feedback responses on our behalf. Cloudflare acts as our hosting provider, not as an analytics or advertising partner.

We do not use:

  - Google Analytics or any analytics service
  - Advertising or tracking scripts
  - Social media integrations
  - Error reporting or crash analytics services


7. VOLUNTARY FEEDBACK AND SURVEYS

From time to time, the Extension may show an optional, one-time invitation to fill out a short survey about how you use the Extension, or to leave a review in the extension store you installed it from (the Chrome Web Store or Microsoft Edge Add-ons).

  a) Participation Is Voluntary: Declining an invitation has no effect on the Extension's functionality, and each invitation is shown at most once.

  b) Third-Party Platforms: If you choose to participate, the survey or review page opens in a new browser tab on a third-party platform (for example, Google Forms, the Chrome Web Store, or Microsoft Edge Add-ons). The Extension itself does not transmit any data. Your responses are submitted by you directly to that platform and are governed by its own privacy policy (Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy).

  c) Anonymous Responses: Surveys do not require your name, email address, or any other identifier. We ask that you do not include personal information in free-text answers.

  d) Local Counter Only: To decide when to show an invitation, the Extension keeps a simple count of how many PDFs you have saved. This counter is stored in your browser's extension storage on your device (see Section 8) and is never transmitted to us or to anyone else.


7A. UNINSTALL FEEDBACK FORM

When you remove the Extension from your browser, Chrome and Edge open a page on our website (https://article-to-pdf.com/uninstall/) that asks a few short questions about why you removed it. This is a standard browser feature (chrome.runtime.setUninstallURL) and it is the only thing the Extension does on removal.

  a) The Extension Sends No Data: By the time this page opens, the Extension has already been removed from your browser. It transmits nothing. The only information that travels with the request is added to the web address itself, and it is limited to two non-personal values: the version of the Extension you had installed (for example "1.2.2") and which browser build it was, either "chrome" or "edge". No user identifier, installation identifier, licence key, browsing history, or page content is included, and none can be derived from those two values.

  b) Answering Is Entirely Optional: Every question on the page is optional, including the first one. You may close the tab without answering, and nothing at all is recorded. Answering has no effect on your ability to reinstall the Extension or on anything else.

  c) What We Record If You Answer: Only your chosen answers — which of the listed reasons you selected, which follow-up option you selected, and any text you typed into a free-text box — together with the two values described in (a) and the date and time of submission. If you say the PDF quality was the problem, one of those boxes asks which website it came out wrong on, so that we can reproduce and fix it. Typing a site name there is your choice, we store only the name you type, and it tells us nothing else about your browsing: we neither receive nor keep any record of the pages you visit (Section 2).

  d) What We Do Not Record: We do not record your IP address, your country, your browser's user agent string, any cookie or device identifier, or any other information that could identify you or link one submission to another. We do not set cookies on this page and it contains no analytics or tracking scripts. Responses cannot be traced back to you, which also means we cannot reply to them and cannot delete an individual response on request.

  e) One Note on IP Addresses: Your IP address is necessarily visible to our hosting provider in order to deliver the page to you, as it is for any website. It is also used momentarily as a counter, to limit how many submissions can be sent from one address in a minute and so keep the form from being flooded. That counter is held in memory at the network edge for the length of the minute and then discarded. Your address is never written into a feedback record, never written to our logs, and never linked to your answers.

  f) Please Do Not Include Personal Information: The free-text boxes are for describing the problem. Please do not type your name, email address, or any other personal detail into them. If you would like a reply, email us instead at support@article-to-pdf.com.

  g) Where It Is Stored: Responses are stored in our own database hosted on Cloudflare, our website provider, in a table that contains only the fields listed in (c). They are used solely to decide what to fix and build next, and are never sold, shared, or used for advertising.


7B. WELCOME PAGE ON INSTALLATION

The first time you install the Extension, it opens one new tab on our website (https://article-to-pdf.com/welcome/). The page congratulates you, shows how to pin the Extension's icon to your toolbar, and explains how to save your first PDF. It opens once, on first installation only — never again on an update, a browser restart, or a sign-in on another computer.

  a) The Extension Sends No Data: Nothing about you, your installation, or the pages you visit is transmitted. One non-personal value travels in the web address itself: which browser build the Extension is, either "chrome" or "edge", so that the page can name your browser and show the matching instructions. No user identifier, installation identifier, licence key, browsing history, or page content is included, and none can be derived from that one value.

  b) The Page Collects Nothing: There is no form on the welcome page, no cookie, no local storage, and no analytics or tracking script of any kind. Reading it, ignoring it, or closing the tab immediately leaves no record beyond the ordinary server delivery described in (c).

  c) One Note on IP Addresses: As with any website, your IP address is necessarily visible to our hosting provider, Cloudflare, in order to deliver the page to you. We do not write it into any record of our own, do not link it to anything, and do not use it to identify you or count installations.

  d) The Optional Feedback Link: The page includes a link to a short questionnaire hosted on Google Forms. Following it is entirely your choice. If you do, your answers go directly to Google and are governed by Google's privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy), exactly as described in Section 7(b). If you do not, nothing happens.


8. DATA STORAGE

The Extension uses two types of browser extension storage:

  a) Session Storage (chrome.storage.session): Temporarily holds extracted article content while you preview it. This data is automatically cleared when you close your browser, is local to your device only, and is never synced or transmitted externally.

  b) Synced Storage (chrome.storage.sync): Stores Pro license information (license key, status, validation timestamp, customer portal URL) and extension preferences — a count of how many PDFs you have saved and whether one-time in-extension messages (such as the survey invitation or review request) have already been shown. This data may sync across your browser profiles if you are signed in (via your Google account in Chrome, or your Microsoft account in Edge). This syncing is managed by the browser, not by us, and the data is never transmitted to us.

We do not use cookies, local storage, IndexedDB, or any other storage mechanism.


9. DATA SHARING

We do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise transfer any personal information to third parties. The only data shared externally is your license key with Lemon Squeezy for the sole purpose of license verification (see Section 3), and anonymous uninstall survey answers you choose to submit, which are stored with our website host, Cloudflare (see Section 7A). Neither is ever sold or used for advertising. This applies to all other parties, including:

  - Advertisers
  - Data brokers
  - Analytics providers
  - Government agencies (we have no data to provide even if requested)
  - Parent companies, subsidiaries, or affiliates


10. YOUR RIGHTS UNDER GDPR

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have certain rights under the GDPR. While these rights generally apply to the processing of personal data, we want to be transparent: since we do not collect or process any personal data, there is no personal data for us to provide, correct, delete, or restrict.

Your rights include:

  - Right of access: You may request confirmation of whether we process your personal data. We confirm that we do not.
  - Right to rectification: You may request correction of inaccurate data. We hold no data to correct.
  - Right to erasure: You may request deletion of your data. We hold no data to delete.
  - Right to restriction of processing: Not applicable as we perform no data processing.
  - Right to data portability: Not applicable as we collect no data.
  - Right to object: Not applicable as we perform no data processing.
  - Right to lodge a complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Uninstall survey answers (Section 7A) are collected anonymously and carry no identifier of any kind, so they are not personal data and there is no way for us — or for anyone else — to link a response back to you, retrieve it on your behalf, or delete an individual response. Where any legal basis is needed for collecting them, it is your consent, given by choosing to submit the form (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR); you can withdraw it at any point before submitting simply by closing the tab.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights or have questions, please contact us at support@article-to-pdf.com.


11. YOUR RIGHTS UNDER CCPA

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants you certain rights regarding your personal information. Since Article to PDF does not collect any personal information, the following applies:

  - Right to know: We confirm that we do not collect, use, or disclose any personal information.
  - Right to delete: We hold no personal information to delete.
  - Right to opt out of sale: We do not sell any personal information.
  - Right to non-discrimination: We do not discriminate against users who exercise their privacy rights.


12. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

Article to PDF does not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone, including children under the age of 16 (or under 13 in jurisdictions where that is the applicable age). Since we do not collect any data at all, no special provisions are necessary. However, we recommend that minors use the Extension under parental or guardian supervision.


13. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal, regulatory, or operational reasons. The updated version will be indicated by the "Last updated" date at the top of this document.

If we make material changes that affect user privacy (for example, if we begin collecting data in a future version), we will provide prominent notice through the Extension or on our website prior to the change becoming effective.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.


14. DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

Given that we do not process personal data, we have not appointed a Data Protection Officer. However, for any privacy-related questions or concerns, you can reach us at the contact details below.


15. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING (GDPR)

Under the GDPR, data processing requires a legal basis. For the limited processing that occurs:

  - License validation (Pro users only): The legal basis is performance of a contract (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) — processing your license key is necessary to provide the Pro service you purchased.
  - Uninstall survey (optional, anonymous): Where a legal basis is required, it is consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR), given by choosing to submit the form. No personal data is collected either way (see Section 7A).

For free users, no personal data processing occurs, and no legal basis is required.


16. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

Article content is never transferred externally. For Pro license validation, your license key is sent to Lemon Squeezy, which is based in the United States. Lemon Squeezy processes this data in accordance with their privacy policy. By purchasing a Pro license, you acknowledge this transfer.


17. CONTACT US

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Email: support@article-to-pdf.com
Website: https://article-to-pdf.com

For GDPR-related inquiries, EU residents may also contact their local data protection authority. A list of EU data protection authorities is available at:
https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en