PDF Tastic is an Android PDF reader and editor built by an independent developer (m.i.n.a.r.). This page explains, in plain language, what data the app touches and what it does with it. The short version: PDF Tastic has no server backend, no account, and no analytics or advertising SDK. The app works entirely on your device, with one exception you trigger yourself: two "Create" tools that fetch a web address you type in, turning a web page into a PDF, or downloading a PDF linked on a page. Those are the only times the app uses the network, and it talks only to the address you entered, never to the developer.
PDF Tastic declares the INTERNET permission for exactly two features in the Create tab, both started by you: "Web page to PDF" (renders a web address you type into a PDF) and "Extract PDF from page" (reads a page you enter and downloads a PDF linked on it). A network request is made only when you use those tools, and only to the web address you provide. Nothing is sent to the developer, there is no tracking or telemetry, and the rest of the app (reading, editing, converting, scanning) never touches the network.
One more thing uses the network, once: the first time you ask "Recognize text" on a scanned PDF, Google Play services downloads the text recognition model to your device. Your pages are not part of that request and are never uploaded: the download fetches the model, and the recognition itself then runs entirely on your phone, offline, every time.
Translation in the Reader works the same way. The first time you translate from or into a language, the translation model for that language (about 30 MB) is downloaded from Google's servers through ML Kit. The text you select is not part of that request: it is translated on your phone, offline, and never uploaded anywhere.
The network scanner is the one feature that talks to your local network, and it asks for permission to do so before it can. When you open it, the app listens for scanners announcing themselves on your Wi-Fi and then speaks to the one you pick, directly, over your own network. Scanned pages travel from the machine to your phone and stop there. Nothing is sent to the developer or to anyone else, and nothing happens at all until you open that screen.
Finally, when you give a scanned photo a place, the words you type are looked up through Android's own address service so the photo can carry its coordinates. Only what you type is sent, only while you are typing in that field, and only if you use it. Your location is never read: the app asks where a place name is, not where you are, and it holds no location permission with which it could ask that second question.
These are read locally to make the app work, and never leave your phone:
PDF Tastic never scans your storage on its own. You choose a file or a folder yourself through Android's standard system picker (Storage Access Framework); the app can then read that file or folder, nothing else. No storage permission is requested: the picker itself grants access to only what you selected.
Rendering, search, text selection, annotations, page reorganizing, signing, form filling, password protection and file conversions (images, text extraction, SVG) all run entirely on-device, using open-source PDF libraries bundled in the app. None of it is sent anywhere to be processed.
The "Scan a document" feature uses Google's ML Kit Document Scanner, a Play Services component that detects edges and corrects perspective on-device. No camera permission is requested in the app's own manifest; the scanner runs as its own system activity.
The list of recently opened files, the folder you picked, your theme and reading preferences are stored locally in the app's own private storage on your device. Deleting or renaming a file from within PDF Tastic acts on the real file at its actual location, the same as doing it from a file manager.
PDF Tastic is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect personal data from anyone, of any age. The app has no account system, and its only network use is fetching a web address you type in, so there is no mechanism by which it could.
Everything described above lives in your device's local storage. Uninstalling PDF Tastic (or clearing its app data from Android settings) permanently deletes all of it. There is nothing on our end to delete, because nothing is stored on our end.
If this policy changes, the "last updated" date above will change accordingly. Meaningful changes will also be reflected in the app's release notes.
Questions about this policy or how PDF Tastic handles data: reach out at minar.tastic@gmail.com.