• PDF Expert
  • Features
    • iPhone and iPad
      • All Features
      • Read PDF
      • Annotate PDF
      • Edit PDF
      • Fill out PDF Forms
      • Sign PDF
    • Mac
      • All Features
      • Edit PDF
      • Read PDF
      • Annotate PDF
      • Fill out PDF Forms
      • Combine PDFs
      • Sign PDFs
  • Resources
    • Blog
    • Templates
    • Help Center
    • Experience iOS
    • Experience Mac
    • How-to Guides for iOS
      • All How-Tos
      • Edit PDF
      • Fill out PDF Forms
      • Sign PDF
      • Merge PDFs
      • Annotate PDF
      • View PDF
      • Transfer PDFs
      • Convert PDF
      • Create PDF
      • Compress PDF
    • How-to Guides for Mac
      • All How-Tos
      • Fill out Tax Forms
      • Edit PDF
      • Fill out PDF Forms
      • Sign PDF
      • Merge PDFs
      • Create PDF
      • Compress PDF
    • Responsible Disclosure
    • Legal
  • Business
  • Pricing
  • PDF Expert
Free download Buy now
Legal
Legal
Terms of Service
Privacy Notice Website
Privacy Notice for App
Cookie Policy
Data Processing Agreement (EEA)
Data Processing Agreement (US)
Responsible Disclosure
Privacy FAQ
Archives

Cookie Policy
for PDF Expert Website

Last updated: December 06, 2023

Effective from: December 18, 2023


Key Changes to the Terms of Service and Privacy Notices of the PDF Expert App and Our Website

At Readdle, we care about our users, and therefore, we have improved our Terms of Service and Privacy Notices governing your use of the PDF Expert App and our website.

In a nutshell, we:

  • added the terms of use for the AI Chat;
  • updated the terms of the license to the PDF Expert App;
  • revised the structure of the Privacy Notice for the PDF Expert App;
  • updated list of the technical data we process;
  • introduced a new data subject category;
  • updated list of the personal data we process;
  • detailed the third parties from which we receive data;
  • detailed the information about our processors;
  • added data subject rights belonging to the UK and Canadian residents;
  • updated the Cookie Policy.

We encourage you to carefully review the full text of the Terms of Service, the Privacy Notice for the PDF Expert App, and the Privacy Notice for our website and Cookie Policy. The abovementioned updates will become effective as of December 18, 2023.

If you continue using the PDF Expert App or accessing our website, you automatically agree to the updated versions of the documents.

If you do not agree to the updated documents, you must cancel your subscription to the PDF Expert App, delete the PDF Expert App, and neither access nor use the PDF Expert App and our website.


Intro

Readdle Limited (“Readdle” or “we”) welcomes you. This Cookie Policy (“Cookie Policy”) applies to our website by following the link (“Website”).

The Cookie Policy describes why and how we use cookies on the Website and how long we keep them.

Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us, and how we process personal data when you use the Website in the Privacy Notice for PDF Expert Website.

Content

  • About Us
  • About Cookies
  • Cookies Usage
  • How to Turn off Cookies
  • Cookies We Use
    • Necessary Cookies
    • Statistics Cookies
    • Marketing Cookies
    • Pixels
  • Cookie Policy Updates

About Us

We are the controller of your personal data processed through the Website. This means that we determine the purposes and means of personal data processing.

Name Readdle Limited
Registration number 630281
VAT IE 3560869EH
Address Glandore Business Centre, Grand Canal House, 1 Grand Canal Street Upper, Dublin 4, D04 Y7R5, Ireland.
Email rdsupport@readdle.com – for general inquiries
dpo@readdle.com – for privacy inquiries

Our support team is happy to assist you in any matter. We kindly ask you to be polite and calm in your communication with us. Otherwise, we may not respond to offensive emails/messages.

About Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive by a web page server. Cookies contain information that a web server can later read in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

Some cookies will only be in usage if you use certain features or select certain preferences, and some cookies are essential to the Website and will always be used.

According to legislation, we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of the Website. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission. You can change or withdraw your consent from the сookies we collect anytime (please see below “How to Turn Off Cookies”).

Similar technologies

Pixels are snippets of code (HTML or JavaScript) or tiny invisible images (measuring 1×1 pixel) that are placed on web pages, usually in the footer, and are used to gather information about website visitors and track their activity. They are really just a simple line of code added to a website that tells you what users are on your site and what they’re doing on it (anonymously, of course).

Cookies Usage

We use cookies to ensure everyone using the Website has the best possible experience. We use these cookies:

  • to enable us to hold session information as you navigate from page to page within the Website;
  • to improve your experience;
  • to track and analyze usage and other statistical information.

If you elect not to activate cookies or disable cookies later, you may still visit the Website. However, your ability to use some features may be limited if it is necessary for the functioning of our service.

How to Turn off Cookies

You can generally activate or later deactivate the use of cookies through a functionality built into your web browser. If you want to disable cookies, then you can find instructions for managing your browser settings at these links:

Internet Explorer Firefox Chrome Opera
Microsoft Edge Vivaldi Safari Brave

If you want to learn more about cookies or how to control, disable, or delete them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org for detailed guidance.

In addition, specific third-party advertising networks, including Google, permit users to opt out of or customize preferences associated with their Internet browsing. To learn more about this feature from Google, click here.

If you have any other questions regarding cookies consent withdrawal or their deactivation, please contact us.

Cookies We Use

We use several types of cookies:

  • necessary cookies;
  • statistics cookies;
  • marketing cookies;
  • pixels.

Necessary Cookies

Necessary cookies help make the Website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the Website. The Website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Name Purpose Expiry
CookieScriptConsent The cookie is used by Cookie-Script.com service to remember visitor cookie consent preferences and is necessary for the cookie banner to work properly 1 year
_gid The cookie stores and updates a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews 23 hours 57 minutes
_ga_26TVGL9DXW The cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist the session state 1 year 1 month
_vis_opt_s The cookie distinguishes between new and returning visitors 3 months 9 days
_vis_opt_test_cookie The cookie tests if the browser is set to allow cookies Session
_ga The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for the Website analytics reports 1 year 1 month
_gat The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for the Website analytics reports 1 minute
_vwo_uuid_v2 The cookie ensures a visitor always sees the same version of a page and is used to track behavior to measure the performance of different page versions 1 year
_vwo_uuid The cookie ensures a visitor always sees the same version of a page and is used to track behavior to measure the performance of different page versions 10 years
_vwo_ds The cookie ensures a visitor always sees the same version of a page and is used to track behavior to measure the performance of different page versions 3 months
_vwo_sn The cookie ensures a visitor always sees the same version of a page and is used to track behavior to measure the performance of different page versions 28 minutes
ab_web The cookie is used to store the information about analytic tests 9 months
ab_app The cookie is used to store the information about analytic tests 10 months
amplitude_id The cookie is used by Amplitude to analyze the user behavior within the Website 10 years
pdfexpert_conv_r The cookie is used to store the analytic information 12 months 4 days
_hjSessionUser_{site_id} This cookie ensures data from subsequent visits to the same Website are attributed to the same user ID 11 months

Statistics Cookies

Statistics cookies help us to understand how visitors interact with the Website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Name Purpose Expiry
_ce.s The cookie tracks a recording visitor session’s unique ID, tracking host and start time 9 months
IR_gbd This cookie allows to measure the impact of affiliate marketing Session
IR_11051 This cookie allows to measure the impact of affiliate marketing Session

Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across the Website. The intention is to display relevant and engaging ads for the individual user.

Name Purpose Expiry
A3 The cookie targets ads for Yahoo ​​1 year
_uetvid The cookie is used by Microsoft Bing Ads to engage with a user that has previously visited the Website 1 year
MUID The cookie is used by Microsoft to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking 1 year
_gcl_au The cookie is used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across the Website using the services 3 months
uuid The cookie is used to optimize ad relevance by collecting visitor data from multiple Websites – a third-party data center or ad exchange normally provides this user data exchange 3 months 1 day
_uetsid The cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the Website 23 hours 57 minutes
_fbp The cookie is used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers 2 months 29 days
IDE The cookie is used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third-party advertisers 1 year

Pixels

Pixels are technology that help us to analyze the use and interaction between the users and our website.

Name Purpose Expiry
Braze pixel This pixel helps us detect and analyze the visitor activities. 12 months
Criteo pixel This pixel helps us detect whether the end-users have opened email. 12 months

Cookie Policy Updates

The Cookie Policy and the relationships falling under its effect are regulated by the General Data Protection Regulation. Existing laws and requirements for processing personal data are subject to change. Should this be the case, we will publish a new version of the Cookie Policy addressing such changes on the Website.

If we make substantial changes to the Cookie Policy or the Website that affect your data privacy rights, we will notify you by email or display information on the Website and ask you to read it. We will notify you in advance, and if you continue using the Website after the changes come into effect, it shall be deemed that you have agreed to and accepted the updated Cookie Policy.

Features

  • iPhone and iPad
  • Mac

How-Tos

  • iPhone and iPad
  • Mac

Company

  • Blog
  • Press Kit
  • Help Center
  • Become an Affiliate

Legal

  • Privacy Notice - Web
  • Privacy Notice - App
  • Terms of Service
Copyright © 2007 - 2025 Readdle Limited.

Apple, the Apple logos, MacBook, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store and Mac App Store are a service mark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

Terms of Service
Privacy Notice