PDFTrail does not collect any data. The app works fully offline. Your PDFs, your converted files, and your app settings stay on your Mac. PDFTrail does not send your documents, your data, or any usage information to us or to anyone else. We built PDFTrail this way on purpose, for financial analysts and other professionals who handle sensitive documents.

Nothing. PDFTrail collects no personal data, no document content, and no usage analytics. We have no server, no account system, and no database of users. We cannot see your documents, your exports, or how you use the app, because the app never sends that information anywhere.

Everything stays on your device. This includes:

• The PDF files you open.
• The Excel, Word, Markdown, and text files PDFTrail creates.
• Your app settings and preferences.
• The export-quota counter that tracks your one-time free Markdown export and one-time free DOCX export.
• The on-screen table preview.

PDFTrail reads and writes these items using normal file and settings storage on your Mac. None of it leaves your device through PDFTrail.

PDFTrail extracts text from born-digital PDFs directly. For scanned pages, PDFTrail uses Apple's Vision framework, which runs on-device. Recognizing text in a scanned page happens on your Mac; PDFTrail does not send page images or recognized text to any server to do this.

A note on verification. We checked the app's source code for network calls and found none. We also inspected the shipped conversion engine binary and confirmed it links no networking library — only Apple system frameworks and compression libraries. No feature in PDFTrail requires internet access. We will update this policy at once if that ever changes.

You download PDFTrail and buy the "Unlock Full Version" in-app purchase through the Mac App Store. Apple, not PDFTrail, handles your payment, receipt, and account details for that purchase. We never see your payment information. Apple's own privacy policy covers what Apple collects for App Store purchases: apple.com/legal/privacy.

If your Mac is set up to share crash reports with Apple, and PDFTrail crashes, macOS may send a crash report through Apple's own mechanism. This happens through the operating system, not through PDFTrail, and you control it in System Settings. We do not run our own crash-reporting or analytics service, and we do not receive these reports.

PDFTrail does not collect data from anyone, including children.

If we ever change what PDFTrail collects or how it works, we will update this policy and change the effective date above.

Questions about this policy: ghosharkya90@gmail.com