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.
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.