Learn how AIO PDF Tools uses essential, analytics,
advertising, security, and functional technologies,
and how you can review or change your preferences.
Effective: July 14, 2026
Last updated: July 14, 2026
Essential technologies support the website.
Optional analytics, advertising, and functional
technologies should follow your consent choices.
Essential CookiesSupport security and requested website functions.
AnalyticsHelps measure general website performance and use.
AdvertisingSupports free access through Google AdSense.
Your ControlReview or change optional choices at any time.
AIO PDF Tools uses cookies and similar technologies
to operate and protect the website, remember privacy
choices, understand general website use, display
advertisements, and enable optional third-party
features.
This policy applies when you visit
https://aiopdftools.com/.
AIO PDF Tools is an independent project operated
from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, and serves users
worldwide.
Non-essential technologies should operate according
to your consent choices where applicable law
requires prior permission.
01
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information stored in
your browser or on your device when you visit a
website.
They may be used to:
Remember website preferences
Maintain security features
Distinguish browsers or sessions
Measure website use
Deliver or measure advertisements
Enable embedded third-party services
Similar technologies may include:
Local storage
Session storage
Pixels
Tags
Embedded scripts
Web beacons
Browser or device identifiers
This policy uses the term “cookies” to include these
related storage and access technologies where
appropriate.
02
Who Sets Cookies?
First-party cookies
First-party cookies are placed through
aiopdftools.com and may support consent
preferences, security, basic functions,
analytics, or interface settings.
Third-party cookies
Third-party technologies may be placed by
Google, Cloudflare, advertising partners,
video providers, maps, social networks,
fonts, or other embedded services.
Third-party providers control their own technologies
according to their policies, services, and the
consent signals they receive.
03
How Cookies Relate to PDF File Processing
Files selected inside verified AIO PDF Tools
features are processed locally within your browser.
Cookies do not store the complete PDF file.
Cookies do not intentionally upload the document
to AIO PDF Tools.
Analytics cookies are not intended to receive
document contents.
Advertising cookies are not intended to receive
document contents.
No server-side document-processing history is
created by locally operating tools.
Ordinary website information, such as the page
visited, browser type, cookie identifier, or
advertisement interaction, may still be processed
according to your consent choices.
Contact-form attachments are different
Files deliberately attached to the contact
form are transmitted by email. They are
governed by the Privacy Policy and File
Security and Data Processing page.
04
Categories of Cookies We May Use
Strictly necessary
These may support security, consent
preferences, page delivery, fraud
prevention, network reliability, and
services specifically requested by users.
Analytics
These may measure page visits, sessions,
referral sources, browser types, device
categories, approximate regions, engagement,
and general errors.
Advertising
These may support ad delivery, measurement,
frequency limits, invalid-traffic detection,
contextual ads, and personalization where
legally permitted.
Functional
These may enable videos, maps, social
content, fonts, widgets, remembered
preferences, and other optional features.
05
Current Cookie Inventory
This table lists confirmed technologies or cookies
that may appear when the relevant service or feature
is active.
Cookie or technology
Provider
Category
Purpose
Expected duration
Consent preference record
Selected consent platform
Necessary
Remembers whether you accepted,
rejected, or customized optional
categories.
Add the exact duration after the CMP
is configured.
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Google Analytics
Analytics
Distinguishes browsers or users for
general website measurement.
Google default: up to two years,
subject to configuration and
browser limits.
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Google Analytics
Analytics
Maintains session state for the
relevant Analytics property.
Google default: up to two years,
subject to configuration and
browser limits.
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Cloudflare
Necessary / security
Supports bot detection when the
relevant Cloudflare bot-protection
feature is active.
Commonly expires after about
30 minutes of continuous inactivity.
cf_clearance
Cloudflare
Necessary / security
Records successful completion of a
Cloudflare challenge when used.
Depends on Cloudflare configuration.
Advertising cookies and
identifiers
Google and selected advertising
partners
Advertising
Supports ad delivery, measurement,
frequency control, personalization,
and invalid-traffic prevention.
Varies by provider, technology,
region, and consent choice.
Embedded-content storage
Relevant video, map, font, social,
or widget provider
Functional or advertising
Enables optional third-party
content and interactive features.
Varies by provider.
Inventory must match the live website
Review this table after configuring your
consent platform, Analytics, AdSense,
Cloudflare, and embedded services. Remove
cookies that are not active and add any
verified technologies identified by a live
scan.
06
Google Analytics Cookies
AIO PDF Tools uses Google Analytics to understand
general website activity and improve the usefulness
and performance of its pages.
Analytics may measure:
Page visits
Tool-page traffic
General session activity
Referral sources
Browser and device categories
Approximate location
Website interactions
General performance information
We do not intend to send names, email addresses,
contact messages, contact attachments, passwords,
payment information, PDF contents, extracted
document text, generated file contents, or
confidential document metadata to Google Analytics.
Analytics storage should follow your consent choices
where prior consent is required.
07
Google AdSense and Advertising Technologies
AIO PDF Tools uses Google AdSense to display
advertisements that support free access to the
website.
Google and participating advertising providers may
use cookies, browser storage, pixels, or identifiers
to:
Select and display advertisements
Measure impressions and interactions
Limit advertisement frequency
Detect invalid activity
Protect the advertising system
Deliver personalized ads where permission and
law allow
Deliver contextual, non-personalized, or limited
advertisements where appropriate
Advertisements should not be selected using the
contents of a PDF that remains inside your browser.
Advertising vendor list
The current advertising-vendor list should
be displayed through the live consent
platform because available partners may
differ by region and AdSense configuration.
08
Consent for Visitors in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland
Where applicable law and Google requirements apply,
visitors should receive clear information and
meaningful choices before optional technologies
operate.
The consent interface should allow users to:
Accept optional technologies
Reject non-essential technologies
Customize cookie categories
Review processing purposes
View relevant providers
Change choices later
Withdraw earlier consent
Continuing to browse should not be treated as valid
consent where an informed positive action is
required.
09
Cookie Consent Controls
The cookie banner should provide clear and equally
accessible options such as:
Your Privacy Choices
Use the live consent panel to accept, reject, or
customize optional technologies.
Accept All
Allows permitted optional categories.
Reject Non-Essential
Keeps only required technologies.
Customize Choices
Lets visitors review individual
categories and providers.
Visitors should not be required to accept analytics
or advertising technologies to use the core PDF
tools.
10
What Happens When You Reject Optional Cookies?
Rejecting optional technologies should not stop you
from:
Opening the website
Accessing the PDF tools
Processing supported files locally
Reading policy pages
Using essential website functions
Contacting AIO PDF Tools
Some optional features may behave differently:
Embedded videos may remain blocked.
Maps or social content may not load.
Advertising may be less personalized.
Analytics measurement may be limited.
Some third-party preferences may not be
remembered.
Necessary security and consent-preference
technologies may still operate where legally
permitted.
11
Cloudflare Security Cookies
AIO PDF Tools uses Cloudflare to support security,
reliability, performance, and protection from
malicious traffic.
__cf_bm
This cookie may appear when a relevant
Cloudflare bot-protection feature is active. It
supports bot detection and commonly expires
after a short period of inactivity.
cf_clearance
This cookie may be placed after a successful
Cloudflare security or JavaScript challenge. It
helps avoid immediately repeating the same
challenge.
Other Cloudflare technologies
Additional cookies may appear only when
corresponding services, such as load balancing,
waiting rooms, or other security features, are
enabled.
Only list active cookies
Do not describe a Cloudflare cookie as
active merely because Cloudflare supports
it. Confirm it through the live website and
current Cloudflare configuration.
12
Embedded Third-Party Content
Some pages may contain resources supplied by
external providers, including:
Videos
Social media content
Maps
Externally hosted images
Fonts
Advertisements
Interactive widgets
Loading or interacting with embedded content may
allow its provider to process:
Your IP address
Browser and device information
The page being viewed
Cookie or account identifiers
Your interaction with the embedded feature
Where required, optional embedded content should
remain blocked until you accept the relevant
category.
13
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most browsers allow you to:
View stored cookies
Delete individual cookies
Delete all cookies
Block third-party cookies
Block all cookies
Clear local storage
Configure site-specific permissions
Use private or incognito browsing
Blocking all cookies may affect security controls,
consent preferences, embedded services, or other
website functions.
The website’s consent panel is the preferred method
for managing AIO PDF Tools categories.
14
Cookie Duration
Session cookies
Session cookies normally expire when the
browser session ends.
Persistent cookies
Persistent cookies remain until their
expiration date, deletion, provider removal,
configuration changes, or browser privacy
limits.
Durations shown in the inventory are expected or
provider-defined periods. Your browser may apply a
shorter practical lifespan.
15
No Accounts, Payments, or Newsletter Cookies
AIO PDF Tools does not currently operate:
Public user accounts
User login sessions
Paid subscriptions
Shopping carts
Payment processing
Newsletter subscriptions
We therefore do not intentionally use cookies to
maintain public account logins, purchases,
memberships, billing sessions, or newsletter
profiles.
Administrative WordPress cookies may still be used
for authorized website administrators. They are not
part of the normal public visitor experience.
16
Children’s Use
AIO PDF Tools is a general-audience website. It is
not specifically directed toward children under 13.
A parent or legal guardian should supervise a
child’s use of the website and browser privacy
settings where appropriate.
Advertising and analytics choices should follow
applicable law, consent settings, and provider
requirements.
17
Changes to This Cookie Policy
This policy may be updated when:
A consent platform is introduced or changed
Cookie names or durations change
Google Analytics settings change
Advertising providers change
AdSense requirements change
Cloudflare features change
New embedded content is introduced
Legal requirements develop
Website functionality changes
A live scan identifies additional technologies
The revised policy will display an updated
“Last updated” date.
Contact
Contact AIO PDF Tools
Contact us with questions about cookies, consent
choices, advertising technologies, analytics, or
this policy.