Last updated: 22 April 2026
letsgoPDF is a Chrome side-panel extension for PDF tasks. We've built it to do as much work as possible on your device. This page explains exactly what data is handled and where it goes.
All of the following are processed entirely inside your browser — the files never leave your computer:
Input files are read via the Chrome file picker or from the active tab, processed with the open-source pdf-lib library running inside the extension, and written back as downloads to your local Downloads folder.
These actions need more powerful tooling than what runs in a browser, so they go through a paid conversion API (ConvertAPI):
For these actions the source file is uploaded directly from your browser to ConvertAPI's servers over HTTPS, processed, and the result file is downloaded back to your device. ConvertAPI's retention defaults to 3 hours; their privacy policy is at convertapi.com/a/privacy.
We (letsgoPDF) do not receive or store a copy of the file.
If you click Notify me on the "free limit reached" screen, your email address is sent to our backend and recorded in a private Google Sheet. We will use it exactly once: to email you when a paid plan becomes available. You can ask for your email to be deleted at any time by writing to sirfcricket@googlemail.com.
We do not share, sell, or use waitlist emails for any other purpose.
We keep an anonymous count of:
These counts help us decide which features to build and whether to introduce a paid plan. No personally identifiable information is attached.
Your conversion history (file names, action type, timestamps) is stored exclusively in chrome.storage.local on your device. It is not synced and is never transmitted to our servers.
sidePanel — lets the extension open its side panel UItabs — reads the active tab's URL so a PDF opened in that tab can be one-click-acted onstorage — persists your monthly quota counter and local historyoptional_host_permissions on all URLs — requested at runtime (not at install) the first time you click an action on a tab-detected PDF. Lets the side panel fetch the PDF's bytes from the active tab so you don't have to re-download and re-upload it. The extension never reads pages you aren't actively acting on.If anything here changes, this page will be updated and the "Last updated" date at the top will change. Substantial changes will also be mentioned in a release note on the GitHub repository.
Questions or data deletion requests: sirfcricket@googlemail.com