How file privacy works

Plan2Scale is built so your plans never leave your machine.

The web tool

When you use the browser trial, your PDF is processed inside your own browser. It is not uploaded to us, and it is not sent to anybody else.

What that means in practice:

• Your plan is never uploaded. The file stays in your browser’s memory while the tool works on it, and the resized PDF is handed straight back to you as a download.
• The reader comes from this site. When a plan is a scanned or image-only sheet, the trial reads its printed scale labels with a small in-browser reader. Its files (~16 MB of models plus runtime) are served by this site itself — no third-party service — loaded once in the background after the trial opens and cached for later visits. The reading happens on your machine; your plan is never part of that exchange.
• No account needed. The trial doesn’t ask you to sign up, and we never see what you process.
• No analytics, no tracking scripts. There is nothing watching which plans you open. Pages are served without third-party scripts or tracing pixels.
• No cookies for the trial. The web tool doesn’t set cookies to follow you around.
• When you close the page, it’s gone. The tool holds nothing on our side after your session ends.

What the website host does

The website itself is hosted on Cloudflare. This part is not “nothing”:

• Cloudflare receives the ordinary requests needed to serve the page and its assets to you (the page you ask for, your browser’s request details).
• Cloudflare keeps standard security and operational logs for the site, under Cloudflare’s own terms and settings.

We are honest about this: Plan2Scale does not see your plan, but the host of a website always sees normal web requests. We do not claim “we collect nothing”. We claim something narrower and true: your plan file and its contents are never sent to Plan2Scale.

What the site does not do

• No third-party analytics services, and no crash or error reporting.
• No advertising pixels or marketing cookies.
• No session replay.
• No accounts, tracking cookies, or email collection for the trial — an email address is only collected if you contact us.

The desktop app

The desktop version runs entirely on your computer, and your plan stays on your computer. It works offline: no internet connection required after installation. It never sends your files anywhere, and there is no cloud update service — new versions are files you choose to download. (If you ever run it on the local network of the workshop that publishes it, its optional update check fetches one tiny version file from that same local network; it contains no data from you either way.)

Aggregate metrics: not enabled

Plan2Scale currently collects no product metrics — no counters, no “most used scales” statistics. If that ever changes (for example, optional diagnostics to fix bugs), it will be a separate, disclosed decision first: off by default with a real way to turn it off; a published, exact list of what is counted (choices like paper sizes and scales only); and never filenames, document text, page images, geometry, device identifiers, or identity. Until such a decision is made and disclosed, nothing beyond normal web-hosting requests leaves your browser.

This page may change

These statements are checked against the actual deployed site before publishing. If hosting, logging, or metrics change, this page is updated and re-dated before the change goes live.