Privacy Policy

Overview

Simple PDF Capture is a browser extension that saves your active browser tab as a PDF file on your computer. It is designed with privacy as a core principle.

Data Collection

Simple PDF Capture does not collect, store, transmit, or share any personal data.

• No personal information is collected.
• No analytics or tracking of any kind inside the extension.
• All PDF creation happens entirely on your device.
• No data is sent to any server.

Page to PDF Capture

When you click “Save as PDF”, the extension reads the current tab’s content and builds a PDF. This file is:

• Saved as a PDF file to your local Downloads folder.
• Built entirely in your browser and never transmitted over the network. Images in the article are fetched from the site that serves them, as your browser would when showing the page.
• For the full-page image PDF (Pro), the extension scrolls the page and assembles the image locally.
• If you click Save this PDF or Download all, the PDF files the page shows or links to are downloaded from the site that serves them, straight to your Downloads folder.

A PDF is only created when you explicitly click the button. The extension does not read pages in the background: it looks only at the tab its popup or side panel shows, while that is open.

Permissions

The extension requests the following permissions, each used solely for its core functionality:

• activeTab. To read and capture the active tab when you click a button.
• offscreen. To assemble the captured content into a PDF file in the background (required by Chrome’s Manifest V3 architecture).
• downloads. To save the PDF to your Downloads folder.
• storage. To remember your settings and your Pro license key. No personal data is stored.
• scripting. To read the page’s main content for the clean article PDF, and to scroll the page for a full-page image PDF. Only runs when you click capture.
• sidePanel. To open the extension in Chrome’s side panel when you click the expand icon in the popup.
• Site access (optional). Only if you allow it. Asked for when you click Save as PDF in the side panel on a tab the extension was not opened on, or when the article’s images come from another site that would otherwise refuse them. It is used only for the tab you are looking at and the images it shows, when you click. You can say no, and remove it at any time on the extension’s Details page in Chrome.

Pro License Activation

If you purchase the optional Pro upgrade, the following user-initiated network requests are made:

• Clicking “Upgrade to Pro” opens a Stripe checkout page in a new browser tab (outside the extension). Payment data is handled entirely by Stripe and never passes through the extension.
• Entering a license key sends it to simple-pdf-capture.com for one-time validation. Only the license key string is transmitted; no other data.
• The “Lost your key?” feature opens the Simple PDF Capture website in a new tab, on a page that says how to get your key back by email. This happens on the website, not within the extension.

Apart from the images and PDF files described above, which come from the site you are viewing, no network requests are made while a PDF is created.

Third-Party Services

The PDF is built locally using open-source libraries bundled within the extension (jsPDF, Readability and DOMPurify). No third-party analytics, tracking, or advertising SDKs are included. The only request to our server is the optional Pro license validation described above.

Feedback

The Feedback link in the extension and on this site, and the page that opens if you uninstall the extension, lead to a Google Form. It is optional. Nothing is sent unless you type something and submit it. Google hosts the form, and its own privacy policy applies to what you submit.

This Website

This website, not the extension, uses Google Analytics (placed by Google Site Kit) and Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits and clicks on the install and buy links. Google Analytics sets cookies in your browser (named _ga and _ga_ followed by an ID) to tell visits apart. Neither service receives anything from the extension.

Changes to This Policy

If this privacy policy is updated, the changes will be reflected on this page.

Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy, please email support@simple-pdf-capture.com.