Privacy policy
Last updated: 11 November 2026 · Version 1.0.0 · Publisher: isabilov.
Short version: PDF Maker & Merger has no servers and sends your files nowhere. PDFs and images you add are read and changed inside its own Chrome tab, on your computer, and the results are saved only where you download them. All its code and data files are inside the extension, it works offline, and its pages are not allowed to load anything from the internet (see “Security policy”). The only time anything goes out is when you click one of the two links in the page footer, which open a website in a new tab.
What PDF Maker & Merger reads
Only the files you give it: files you choose with Add PDFs / Add images, drop on its page, or drop on its toolbar popup. It reads them to show page previews, to merge, reorder, rotate, delete, extract or split pages, to make a PDF from images, and to make PDFs smaller. It does not read websites, tabs, your browsing history or any other file.
What it keeps, and for how long
| Data | Where | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Files you added (and previews, compressed copies) | The memory of the PDF Maker & Merger tab | While they are in a list, and after you remove them for as long as Undo can bring them back (up to 40 steps per tool). They are freed when no list or Undo step needs them, when you choose Clear undo history (offered when memory runs short), or when you close or reload the tab. Nothing is written to disk. |
| Files you drop on the toolbar popup | The extension's own IndexedDB on this device (not a website's storage) | Only for the hand-over to the tool page: the page takes them and deletes them at once. If no page takes them, they expire after 2 minutes (no page will use them after that) and are deleted the next time you open the popup or a PDF Maker & Merger page; until then they stay in that storage on this device. Removing the extension also deletes them. |
Results leave the tab only when you click a download button (PDF or ZIP, saved by Chrome to your Downloads folder). PDF Maker & Merger has no servers, no analytics, no tracking, no ads, no account, no usage limits and no remote code. Your files are never uploaded.
Password-protected PDFs are not opened or unlocked: the page tells you how to make an unlocked copy yourself.
Links in the page footer
- Report a bug opens a Google Form in a new tab. The link contains only the extension name ("PDF Maker & Merger") and its version (for example "1.0.0") so the form is filled in for you; opening it sends those two values to Google as part of the address. It never contains your file names or anything from your files. Whatever you type into the form is sent to Google only when you press Submit. Google Forms is run by Google under Google's privacy policy; the answers are read only by the publisher to fix bugs.
- by isabilov. opens isabilov.com.
Like any link, opening these pages lets those websites see the usual browser information (for example your IP address).
Security policy
The extension's pages run under a content security policy that allows scripts, styles, fonts and images only from the extension itself (and from blob:/data: copies it makes of your own files), allows network connections only to the extension itself, and blocks frames, media and form submissions. No code path in the extension loads anything from the internet. Clicking a footer link is a normal link to a website in a new tab and is not covered by this policy.
Permissions
None. PDF Maker & Merger asks for no permissions and no access to websites. Downloads use the browser's normal download link.
Deleting your data
Close the PDF Maker & Merger tab: everything in it, including Undo history, is gone. Removing the extension makes Chrome delete everything it stored. Files you downloaded are yours and stay in your Downloads folder.