Privacy Policy

The short version

• The Windows desktop app and Excel add-in convert your files entirely on your own computer. Your spreadsheets are not uploaded to us.
• The free web converter sends your file to our server to convert it. The file is deleted right after each request — it is never stored.
• The desktop app updates itself without asking. On launch it checks for a newer version, and if there is one it downloads it, replaces the installed copy and restarts. No prompt, no setting to turn it off.
• Installing it can download one thing from Microsoft — the Edge WebView2 runtime the app's window is drawn with, if your PC does not already have it.
• No accounts. You never register, sign in, or hand over your name or email to use CrazySmartPDF.
• Payments are handled by Whop, a third-party checkout. We never see your card details.
• Google Analytics runs only if you accept the cookie banner. On a fresh visit nothing analytics-related loads at all — decline and it never loads. Vercel's built-in analytics is cookieless and counts visits either way. Nothing here is advertising, and nothing else tracks you.

The free web converter

When you drop a workbook into the converter on our home page, your browser sends that file over HTTPS to our conversion service (running at crazysmartpdf-convert.fly.dev, hosted on Fly.io). The service converts it with the CrazySmartPDF engine and returns the PDF to your browser. Your file is processed in a temporary folder that is deleted right after each request — uploaded files are never stored, and they are used for nothing except producing your PDF.

The Windows desktop app and Excel add-in

Conversion in the desktop app and the Excel add-in happens entirely on your machine. Your workbooks and the PDFs made from them stay on your computer — they are never uploaded to us — and your original files are never modified.

Once installed, the desktop app makes two kinds of network request. Neither one carries any part of your files:

• It updates itself, without asking. On launch the desktop app checks its GitHub Releases feed for a newer version. If there is one, it downloads that version, replaces the copy installed on your PC, and restarts — there is no prompt, and there is no setting to turn it off. Nothing of yours is sent with the check. It also means the copy running next month may not be the file you downloaded and inspected today.
• Pro activation. If you buy Pro and paste in your license key, the app sends that key — and nothing else — to our validation endpoint (crazysmartpdf.com/api/validate-license), which asks Whop whether the key is valid and passes the yes/no answer back. The endpoint keeps no copy of your key. The app stores the key on your own computer so you don't have to enter it again.

Installing it can reach Microsoft. The app's window is drawn with the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime. If your PC does not already have that runtime, the installer downloads it from go.microsoft.com, which redirects to msedge.sf.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com. That happens once, while installing, and asks Microsoft for nothing but the runtime itself. If the runtime is already on your PC, nothing is downloaded.

One more thing you would find if you looked inside the installer: the desktop app ships the same interface as the free web converter, so that converter's address (crazysmartpdf-convert.fly.dev) is sitting in the bundle. That path only runs in a browser. The desktop app converts on your machine and never sends your workbook there.

No accounts, no sign-up

CrazySmartPDF has no user accounts. There is nothing to register for, no login, and no profile — so we do not collect names, email addresses, or passwords. The one way we ever receive personal information is if you email us yourself (see below).

Website analytics

Two analytics tools can run on this website, both only on the live site (crazysmartpdf.com) — never on preview deployments or local copies. Neither is an advertising tool, and neither is used to build a profile of you.

• Google Analytics 4 — only after you accept. When you first arrive you see a cookie banner. Google Analytics does not load at all until you choose "Accept analytics"; if you decline, or simply ignore the banner, the tag is never loaded and it sets no cookies. When you do accept, it tells us which pages get visited and roughly where visitors come from — aggregate usage (pages, countries, devices), not who you are — and it sets its own cookies to tell returning visitors apart. We ask Google only for analytics; we never enable its advertising or ad-personalization signals (Google Consent Mode v2). You can withdraw at any time via "Cookie settings" in the footer, which also clears the analytics cookies. See Google's privacy policy.
• Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights — page-view counts and real-world page-speed measurements, provided by the host that already serves this site. These are cookieless: they set no cookies, store nothing on your device, and do not track you between sites or sessions. Speed Insights reports timing numbers (how fast the page rendered and responded), not content. See Vercel's privacy policy.

Cookies

The only cookie our own code sets is a small first-party consent-choice cookie (cspdf_consent_v1): once you accept or decline the banner, it remembers that choice for about six months so we don't ask again on every page. It is strictly necessary — it stores only your yes/no analytics choice and the date, sets no tracking, and is the record of the consent you gave.

Any Google Analytics cookies exist only if you accepted analytics (see above); decline and there are none. Vercel's analytics are cookieless. There is no cookie-based login because there are no logins.

Payments

CrazySmartPDF Pro is sold through Whop, a third-party checkout. When you buy, payment happens on Whop's site: Whop processes your payment and issues your license key, and your card and billing details stay with Whop — we never receive them. When a license key is validated, Whop tells us only whether the key is valid and which product it belongs to. See Whop's privacy policy. In the desktop app, the button that takes you to Pro opens Whop's checkout page in your own browser — the app itself does not handle the payment. The Team plan is arranged over plain email — there is no form and no form backend.

Downloads

The installer, the portable app, and the Excel add-in are served from GitHub Releases, and the desktop app's updates come from the same feed. Downloads are subject to GitHub's privacy statement.

Third-party services

The complete list of outside services involved in running CrazySmartPDF, and what each one does:

• Vercel — hosts this website and the license-validation endpoint, and provides the cookieless page-view and page-speed analytics described above (privacy policy).
• Fly.io — runs the web converter service (privacy policy).
• Google — site analytics (live site only) and the fonts this site loads from Google Fonts (privacy policy).
• Whop — Pro checkout and license validation (privacy policy).
• GitHub — hosts downloads and the update feed (privacy statement).
• Microsoft — supplies the Edge WebView2 runtime the desktop app's window is drawn with, downloaded by the installer from go.microsoft.com if your PC does not already have it (privacy statement).

Like any service on the internet, these providers handle standard technical request data (such as your IP address) when your browser or the app connects to them.

If you email us

If you write to crazysmartpdf@gmail.com, we receive your email address and whatever you choose to include, and we use it to reply and sort out your question. We don't add you to any mailing list — there isn't one.

Changes to this policy

If our data practices change, we will update this page and the date at the top.

Who we are

CrazySmartPDF is a product of LeftPunch.ai. Questions about this policy or your data: crazysmartpdf@gmail.com.