1. Who We Are & Scope Our website address is: https://pdf.forsale. We operate an e-commerce platform offering downloadable PDF publications and digital products.
2. Payment Processing (Paddle as Merchant of Record) All financial transactions on https://pdf.forsale are processed by Paddle.com Market Limited (“Paddle”), our Merchant of Record.
- Payment Data Handling: When purchasing downloadable PDFs, you provide your billing name, email address, country, postal code, and payment details (such as credit card or PayPal info) directly to Paddle.
- Merchant Responsibilities: Paddle manages payment processing, tax calculation and remittance (e.g., VAT, GST, Sales Tax), fraud prevention, and order-related billing support.
- Storage Limitations: https://pdf.forsale does not collect, process, or store raw credit card information or bank credentials on our web servers.
- Paddle Privacy Policy: Personal data submitted during payment is subject to Paddle’s Privacy Policy, accessible at: https://paddle.com/privacy.
3. Account Registration & Digital Delivery Data
- Order & Account Records: We store your name, email address, order details, and account preferences to maintain your purchase history and ensure continuous access to your purchased PDF downloads.
- Download Activity Logging: Whenever you download a purchased PDF file, we log your IP address, download timestamp, and browser user agent string. This data is used for file delivery verification, system security, digital rights monitoring, and abuse prevention.
- User Profile Rights: Registered users can view, edit, or delete their profile information at any time (username alterations excluded). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.
4. Cookies & Technical Tracking
- E-Commerce & Session Cookies: We use session cookies to keep track of shopping cart contents as you browse our digital download library.
- Authentication Cookies: Logging into an account creates temporary cookies to store login details and display settings. Login cookies persist for two days, screen options cookies persist for one year, and selecting “Remember Me” keeps your session active for two weeks.
- Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.
- Browser Verification: Visiting our login page sets a temporary, non-identifying cookie to verify if your browser accepts cookies. It is discarded upon closing your browser.
5. Customer Support, Comments & Media
- Comments & Support Queries: When visitors leave comments or submit support inquiries, we collect the form input data, visitor IP address, and browser user agent string to assist in automated spam detection.
- Gravatar Service: An anonymized hash generated from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check for an associated profile picture. The Gravatar privacy policy is located at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon comment approval, your profile picture becomes public within the context of your comment.
- Media Uploads: If you upload images to the site, avoid embedding location data (EXIF GPS), as visitors can download and extract location details from publicly accessible images.
6. Data Sharing & Retention
- Third-Party Services: We share order information with Paddle to execute transactions and deliver customer support. Visitor comments and support forms may be routed through automated spam and security screening services.
- Password Resets: Password reset requests automatically record the requesting IP address inside the generated reset email for account security verification.
- Retention Periods:
- Purchase & License History: Retained indefinitely to allow customer access to purchased PDF files via account libraries and to meet legal, accounting, and tax compliance requirements.
- Comments & Metadata: Retained indefinitely to automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments.
- Account Data: Maintained until you update or request account deletion.
7. Your Data Rights If you have an account or have left comments on https://pdf.forsale, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request the erasure of your personal data. This excludes any data we or Paddle are legally required to keep for administrative, accounting, legal, tax, or security obligations.