Cookie Policy
Last updated: September 3, 2026
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help a site remember your preferences, keep you signed in, measure traffic, or show relevant advertising. PDF Studios uses cookies to operate our tools, understand how the site is used, and support the advertising that keeps the service free.
2. Why we use cookies
We use cookies for four general purposes:
- Essential cookies — required for the website to load and for our PDF tools to work.
- Analytics cookies — help us understand which tools are used and how visitors move through the site.
- Advertising cookies — used by Google AdSense and related partners to show and measure ads.
- Preference cookies — remember choices such as language or settings, where applicable.
3. Cookie categories in use on pdfstudios.in
| Category | Purpose | Examples | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essential | Security, load balancing, and keeping the site functional. | Session cookies; security cookies from our hosting or CDN (for example, Cloudflare __cf_bm and __cflb where applicable) | Session to 1 year |
| Analytics | Anonymous traffic and usage measurement. | Google Analytics _ga (2 years), _gid (24 hours), _gat / _ga_* (1 minute) | 1 minute to 2 years |
| Advertising | Personalised and non-personalised ads, ad measurement, and fraud prevention. | Google AdSense / DoubleClick such as __gads (up to 13 months), IDE (2 years), ANID (up to 13 months), NID (6 months), DSID (2 weeks) | 2 weeks to 2 years |
| Preference | Remembering choices you make, such as language or tool settings. | None currently. If we add preference cookies in the future, we will list them here and request consent where required. | As applicable |
The exact duration and cookie names may change if we switch providers or update our setup. We will keep this table updated.
4. Google AdSense and advertising cookies
PDF Studios uses Google AdSense to display advertisements. When you visit pdfstudios.in, Google and its advertising partners may place and read cookies and use similar technologies on your browser to serve ads based on your visit to this site and/or other sites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to PDF Studios and/or other sites on the Internet. We do not sell or share personally identifiable information with Google for these purposes.
For more information about how Google uses data when you use our site or app, see How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps.
For more information, see: Google’s Advertising Privacy & Technologies, Google’s Privacy Policy, Google AdSense Terms and Conditions, Google Ads Settings (opt-out of personalised ads), or AboutAds.info.
5. Consent management and Google Consent Mode v2
For visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and any other jurisdiction that requires prior consent for non-essential cookies, we are deploying a Consent Management Platform (CMP) that supports Google Consent Mode v2.
The CMP will ask for consent before analytics and advertising cookies are loaded, will record your choices, and will allow you to withdraw or change your consent at any time. We will update this policy once the CMP is live and list its name and provider.
Until the CMP is fully deployed, we display this Cookie Policy, rely on your browser settings and the opt-out links above, and do not serve personalised advertising to users in the EEA/UK without the consent mechanism required by Google’s EU user consent policy.
6. How to manage or opt out
You have several ways to control cookies:
- Google Ads Settings — opt out of personalised Google ads at adssettings.google.com.
- AboutAds — manage some third-party advertising cookies at AboutAds.info.
- Browser settings — you can block or delete cookies through your browser. See instructions for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari.
- Google Analytics opt-out — install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Note: disabling essential cookies may prevent some PDF tools from working.
7. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. The updated date will be shown at the top of this page.
8. Contact
For questions about cookies, contact us at pdfstudios26@gmail.com.