Two things this browser keeps, and nothing else

What is stored, exactly

Two names, and only if you do something that needs them.

sf-consent holds your answer to the consent question, where one is required, so you are not asked again. It contains the word “granted” or “denied” and nothing else.

steadypdf.local holds what you asked this browser to remember about the tools: the tools you pinned, the last few you opened, and the settings inside a tool's options panel — a resolution, a page size, a checkbox. It is written only when you pin something, open a tool or change a setting.

It is not an account

Nothing in that entry is sent anywhere. It is never read by the page-view counter described below, it is never put into a request, and it exists only in this browser, on this device; it is not shared with another browser you use. There is nothing to sign in to, no identifier is generated, and no profile is built. The tool list on the front page carries a Clear what this browser remembers button that removes the whole entry immediately.

Your documents

Files are held in memory while the page is open and are never written to browser storage. Neither entry above ever contains a document, a file name, text taken from a document, a search term or a password — those exist only in the tab, only while you are using it.

Advertising storage, later

No advertising code runs on this build. When it does, Google AdSense and its partners may use cookies or similar storage for delivery, frequency capping, fraud prevention and measurement. In the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland Google’s certified consent platform will ask first, and refusing is one tap, in the same place, in the same style as accepting.

Analytics storage

None — and that is the reason our analytics is not in the list above. Every page does load a page-view counter from our own service at analytics.pagefabrica.com, but it is a cookieless one: it sets no cookie, writes no local-storage entry, keeps no session value and creates no identifier of any kind in this browser. There is nothing for you to clear, because nothing was put here.

What that counter is sent, and the three events it is allowed to send, are set out in full on the privacy page. It honours your browser's Do Not Track setting, and it never receives anything about a document — not its contents, not its name, not its length.