DMCA and Copyright Policy

Last updated: 18 September 2026

Our position

PDFDad respects intellectual property rights and expects its users to do the same. This page explains how to notify us of claimed copyright infringement and how we respond.

Please read this first. PDFDad hosts no user content. Our tools run entirely in visitors' browsers; files are never uploaded to us and we operate no storage, no gallery and no sharing feature. There is therefore no user-uploaded material for us to remove. If you have found infringing material that you believe is hosted here, it can only be part of our own site content, and we will act on that quickly. If you have found a document processed by one of our users, it is on their device, not on our servers, and we have no ability to reach it.

Filing a notice of claimed infringement

If you believe material on this site infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent at dmca@pdfdad.com. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must include all of the following:

A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorised to act on their behalf.
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, for multiple works at a single site, a representative list of them.
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it — a full URL is best.
Your contact details: name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or are authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

What we do with a notice

We acknowledge valid notices within five business days and remove or disable access to the material expeditiously where the claim is substantiated. We keep a record of notices received and the action taken. Where we can identify a user responsible for the material — which, given that we host no user content, is unlikely — we notify them and give them the opportunity to respond.

Filing a counter-notice

If material of yours was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same address, containing:

Your physical or electronic signature.
Identification of the material removed and the location at which it appeared before removal.
A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
Your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if outside the United States, any judicial district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the complainant.

On receipt of a valid counter-notice we forward it to the original complainant. If they do not notify us within ten business days that they have filed an action seeking a court order, we may restore the material.

Misrepresentation

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages including costs and legal fees. Please be sure of your claim before sending a notice.

Repeat infringers

It is our policy to terminate, in appropriate circumstances, access for users who are repeat infringers. Since the site requires no account, this is effected by blocking network access where we are able to identify the source.

Open-source attribution

This site is built on open-source libraries including pdf-lib, PDF.js, Tesseract.js, JSZip, SheetJS, jsPDF, html2canvas, docx, mammoth and PptxGenJS. Each is used in accordance with its licence and remains the property of its authors. If you believe we have failed to comply with a licence — missing attribution, for example — please tell us at dmca@pdfdad.com and we will correct it promptly rather than argue about it.