Privacy Policy for PDFLyra

Last updated: 13 October 2026

Developer: SaudulHaq Apps, Pakistan

Contact: saudapps01@gmail.com

PDFLyra is a PDF reader and toolkit for Android. This policy explains what happens to your information when you use it.

1. Your documents stay on your phone

• Every PDF, picture and scan you open, create or change in PDFLyra is processed on your phone.
• PDFLyra never uploads your documents, your pictures, the text in them, their file names or your passwords to us or to anyone else. We do not have a server that receives them.
• Passwords you type to open or protect a PDF are used only for that moment. They are never stored and never written to logs.
• Text recognition (OCR) runs on your phone. The pictures and the recognised text do not leave your phone.
• If you allow it in Settings (it is on by default), words that OCR reads are kept in a search index inside the app on your phone, so Home search can find them. You can delete this index in Settings at any time.

2. What is stored on your phone

PDFLyra keeps, only on your phone and only inside the app: a list of recent and favourite files, bookmarks, saved signatures, your settings, the search index above, the text read from scanned PDFs (so they can be selected without reading them again), and counters that limit how often full-screen ads appear (counts and times only). When you open a PDF from another app that only lends it for a moment (for example WhatsApp or an e-mail app), PDFLyra keeps a private copy inside the app so you can open it again later from Recent. Nobody else can see these copies. A copy that is not opened for 30 days is deleted by itself, and Settings > Storage > Copies of files from other apps deletes them all at once. Files you choose from your phone's own storage are not copied. Uninstalling the app deletes all of this. We cannot see any of it.

3. No account, no analytics by us

PDFLyra has no account or sign-up, and we do not use our own analytics or tracking.

4. Advertising (Google AdMob)

PDFLyra is free and shows ads from Google AdMob (Google Mobile Ads SDK). To show ads, measure them and prevent fraud, Google's ads software on your phone collects and shares with Google:

• your IP address (which can indicate an approximate location),
• device and advertising identifiers (such as the Android advertising ID and the app set ID),
• how you interact with the ads and the app (for example app launches and taps on ads),
• diagnostic information (for example app launch time and crash-related performance data).

This data is encrypted in transit. The ads never receive your documents or their contents. Google's use of this data is described in Google's policy: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites .

You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings (Settings > Privacy > Ads, or similar).

Your choices: where the law requires it (for example in the European Economic Area and the UK), PDFLyra shows Google's consent

form before any ad is requested. You can review or change your choice at any time in Settings > Ads privacy options.

5. Google ML Kit (text recognition)

Text recognition uses Google ML Kit on your phone. ML Kit may send Google technical usage information — for example the device model, Android version, app version, performance numbers, error codes and a per-installation identifier — for diagnostics and usage statistics. It does not send your pictures, documents or recognised text. Details: https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/android-data-disclosure .

6. Permissions

• Camera: only when you choose to scan with the camera. Photos stay on your phone.
• Notifications: only to show the progress of long or batch jobs.
• Internet / network state / advertising ID: only for ads and Google's consent form. All PDF tools work without internet.
• Foreground service, wake lock, start after reboot: so long and batch jobs can finish in the background.

PDFLyra does not ask for your contacts, location, microphone, phone or broad access to all your files.

7. Children

PDFLyra is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from children.

8. Security

Your documents never leave your phone because of PDFLyra. Password protection uses AES-256 encryption. No method is perfect; please keep your own backups of important files.

9. Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the "Last updated" date.

10. Contact

Questions: saudapps01@gmail.com.