Cookie Policy
Last Updated and Effective Date: February 2026
Operated By: Fikirizma Media (Antalya, TĂĽrkiye)
Website: www.freepdf.co
Contact Email: [email protected]
This Cookie Policy explains how Fikirizma Media (“Company”, “we”, “us”, and “our”) uses cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, local storage, and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit www.freepdf.co and use our document processing tools (the “Service”). It explains what these technologies are, why we use them, and your rights to control our use of them, in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the ePrivacy Directive, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK).
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
- First-Party Cookies: Cookies set by the website owner (FreePDF).
- Third-Party Cookies: Cookies set by parties other than the website owner (e.g., our payment processor Paddle or Google Analytics).
- Session Cookies: Temporary cookies that expire and are automatically deleted when you close your web browser.
- Persistent Cookies: Cookies that remain on your device for a set period or until you manually delete them.
We also use other tracking technologies, such as Local Storage and Session Storage, which function similarly to cookies to store data in your browser for performance and quota-tracking purposes.
2. Why Do We Use Cookies?
We use cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons for our Service to operate, and we refer to these as “Strictly Necessary” or “Essential” cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Service. Third parties serve cookies through our Service for analytics, payment processing, and security purposes.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
3.1. Strictly Necessary (Essential) Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its core features. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Service, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our website functions.
- Authentication & Security: We use cookies (via NextAuth) to verify your account, keep you logged in securely, and prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.
- Quota Management: We use local storage and cookies to track your daily usage (e.g., the 3-file free tier limit) to prevent abuse and enforce our Acceptable Use Policy.
- Infrastructure Security: Our network provider (Cloudflare) places cookies to distinguish malicious bots from legitimate human users and to mitigate DDoS attacks.
3.2. Functional & Preference Cookies
These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make when you use the Service.
- Localization (i18n): We use cookies to remember your preferred language (e.g., Turkish, English, Spanish) among our 10 supported locales, so you do not have to re-select it upon every visit.
3.3. Analytics & Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Service is being used, how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Service for you.
- Google Analytics 4 (GA4): We use GA4 to analyze traffic, user behavior, and site performance. If you are visiting from the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK, these cookies will only be placed on your device if you explicitly consent via our Cookie Consent Banner.
3.4. Payment and Third-Party Cookies
- Paddle.com: When you initiate a purchase for a Pro subscription, our Merchant of Record, Paddle, may place strictly necessary cookies and tracking scripts to securely process your checkout, calculate local taxes (VAT/GST), and prevent fraudulent transactions.
4. How Can You Control Cookies?
4.1. Cookie Consent Banner
Upon your first visit to FreePDF (especially if accessing from regions requiring explicit consent like the EU/EEA), you will be presented with a Cookie Consent Banner. You can choose to accept all cookies or decline non-essential cookies (such as Google Analytics). You can change your preferences at any time by clearing your browser cookies and refreshing the page to trigger the banner again.
4.2. Browser Controls
You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject strictly necessary cookies, you may still use our website, but your access to some functionality and areas of our website (such as logging in or tracking your free limits) may be severely restricted or broken. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
4.3. Disabling Google Analytics
To opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
5. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The “Last Updated” date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last revised.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us at:
Fikirizma Media
Antalya, TĂĽrkiye
Email: [email protected]