This Cookie Policy explains how PDFNova may use cookies, local storage, and similar browser technologies. The integrated theme can remember a visitor’s appearance preference without requiring an account, while WordPress, hosting security, analytics, advertising, consent tools, or administrator-installed plugins may create additional storage. Cookies do not normally contain the documents selected for browser-based processing. Visitors can control optional categories through an available consent interface and can also remove stored data through browser settings. Blocking all storage may reset preferences or prevent certain website functions from operating as expected.
What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text records that a website asks a browser to store and return with later requests. They can support sessions, remember choices, reduce repeated prompts, measure traffic, protect forms, or help select advertising. Similar technologies include local storage, session storage, pixels, software-development identifiers, and cached application data. The name “cookie” is often used broadly for these mechanisms even though their technical behavior differs. A cookie cannot independently read an arbitrary file from a visitor’s computer. Browser permissions, website code, and security boundaries determine what information a storage mechanism can access.
How PDFNova Uses Browser Storage
The theme may store a light or dark appearance preference so the chosen mode remains active on a later visit. Tool pages can also hold temporary information in memory while a file is being processed. This temporary state is normally cleared when the page is refreshed or closed, although a downloaded output remains on the device. The core theme does not need a tracking cookie merely to convert a document. Additional cookies may appear when the site owner enables WordPress plugins, analytics, advertising, comment features, consent management, security systems, or embedded third-party content.
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies support functions that a visitor requests or that are reasonably necessary for security and website operation. Examples can include consent choices, administrative sessions, anti-spam controls, load balancing, fraud prevention, or settings needed to submit a form. These cookies should be limited in purpose and duration. Because exact names vary by hosting provider and plugin configuration, the site owner should maintain a current cookie inventory. Disabling essential storage can prevent login, comment, contact, preference, or security features from working correctly, although ordinary public content may remain available.
Preference Storage
Preference storage remembers choices such as theme appearance, language, region, or interface state. PDFNova’s light and dark mode can use local storage so the browser applies the selected appearance on future visits. Preference data is generally tied to a browser profile rather than a verified identity. Clearing site data, using a private window, or changing devices removes or separates those choices. Preference storage should not be used to infer sensitive traits. Visitors can continue using the website after clearing it, but may need to select their preferred appearance again.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics tools can help the owner understand which pages are visited, how long pages take to load, what devices are used, and where errors occur. Depending on configuration, analytics may use cookies or privacy-preserving measurement without persistent identifiers. Data can include page addresses, referral sources, approximate location, browser information, and interaction events. Analytics should not intentionally collect the contents of locally processed documents. When consent is required, analytics should remain inactive until the visitor makes a choice. The site owner should configure retention, IP handling, sharing, and advertising features carefully.
Advertising Cookies
Advertising providers may use cookies or similar identifiers to limit repetition, measure impressions and clicks, prevent fraud, or personalize ads when the visitor has given any required consent. Contextual advertising can use the current page without building a detailed profile, while personalized advertising may combine signals across services. PDFNova’s tools should remain available regardless of whether a visitor accepts optional advertising storage, subject to technical limits. Advertisements must be visually distinguishable from upload and download controls so visitors are not misled about which action belongs to the tool.
Affiliate Tracking
An affiliate link may include a parameter or cookie that tells a merchant that a visitor arrived from PDFNova. This can allow the site owner to receive a commission if the visitor completes a qualifying action. Affiliate tracking is handled by the merchant or network under its own policy and retention settings. It should not be used to access files processed by PDFNova. Editorial recommendations should remain honest, and affiliate relationships should be disclosed near relevant content. Visitors can compare offers independently and are not required to use an affiliate link to access the website’s free document tools.
Security and Anti-Abuse Storage
Security services may use cookies, tokens, or local data to distinguish legitimate visitors from automated attacks, enforce rate limits, remember challenge completion, protect forms, and reduce malicious traffic. These mechanisms can be essential even when they are provided by a third party. A security provider may receive IP addresses, browser details, request patterns, and challenge results. The site owner should configure these services to collect only what is needed and should review retention and transfer practices. Blocking security storage can cause repeated challenges or prevent a request from being accepted.
Embedded and External Content
Blog posts or informational pages may include videos, social posts, maps, fonts, libraries, or other content supplied by external providers. Loading an embed can allow that provider to receive technical request data and set cookies according to its own policy. The PDFNova theme’s document libraries may also be fetched from content-delivery networks, although the selected document is not intentionally sent with that library request. Where practical, privacy-enhanced embeds, click-to-load controls, or self-hosted assets can reduce unnecessary connections. Visitors should review third-party choices before activating optional content.
Cookie Duration
A session cookie is designed to expire when the browser session ends, while a persistent cookie remains until its stated expiration or manual deletion. Local storage can remain without a fixed expiration until website code or the visitor removes it. Security, consent, analytics, and advertising providers each set their own durations. The owner should avoid retaining identifiers longer than needed for the stated purpose and should periodically review old entries. Browser privacy features may shorten, partition, or block storage regardless of the duration requested by a website.
Consent and Preference Controls
When applicable law requires consent for optional cookies, the website should present a clear choice before activating those categories. Rejecting optional storage should be as practical as accepting it, and visitors should be able to change their decision later. Essential storage may operate without optional consent when it is genuinely necessary for a requested service or security. Consent records can be retained to demonstrate the visitor’s choice. Interface wording should identify categories and purposes without using manipulative design, preselected optional boxes, or a button that falsely suggests all cookies are required.
Managing Cookies in Your Browser
Modern browsers allow visitors to view, block, delete, or restrict cookies and site data. Controls may apply globally, to third-party storage, or to a specific website. Private browsing usually limits persistence but does not make a visitor anonymous to networks or service providers. Blocking JavaScript can stop many tools from working because browser-based document processing depends on it. Visitors should consult their browser’s current help documentation for exact steps, since menu names change over time. Deleting PDFNova data may reset appearance and consent preferences.
Do Not Track and Similar Signals
Some browsers send a Do Not Track signal or provide global privacy preference mechanisms. There is no single universal interpretation for every signal and jurisdiction. When a legally recognized opt-out signal applies, the site owner should configure relevant advertising or data-sale systems to honor it. Privacy controls should be tested after changes to analytics, consent, or advertising plugins. Browser-local document processing does not require a cross-site advertising identifier, but ordinary page delivery and security logging can still occur when a preference signal is present.
Keeping the Cookie List Accurate
Cookie names and providers can change when WordPress, themes, plugins, hosting systems, advertising networks, or consent tools are updated. The owner should scan the public site periodically in a fresh browser profile and compare observed storage with this policy and the consent interface. Unused plugins and stale tags should be removed. A current inventory should identify provider, purpose, category, duration, and whether the cookie is first-party or third-party. Accurate documentation supports visitor choice and helps prevent optional services from loading before the required consent.
Changes and Contact
This Cookie Policy may be updated when technologies, providers, legal requirements, or website features change. The latest version should describe the active configuration rather than a generic list copied from another site. Questions about a specific cookie, consent choice, or storage item can be sent through the Contact Us page. Include the cookie name, page address, browser, and a screenshot of the storage entry when possible, but remove unrelated identifiers or personal information. Visitors can clear stored data at any time through their browser settings.
Practical Cookie Review
Visitors can review storage by opening the browser's site-information or developer tools, refreshing PDFNova, and observing which entries appear before and after a consent choice. The website owner should perform the same review on the home page, blog, contact page, and representative tool pages because different components may load in different contexts. Any unexplained identifier should be investigated, categorized, and either documented or removed. A practical cookie program combines accurate policy language, a working consent interface, restrained retention, and regular testing after plugin, advertising, analytics, or hosting changes.