Cookie Policy and Essential Site Functionality at Plainscan

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Plainscan) are called "first-party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies". Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics).

2. Session and Persistent Cookies

We use both session and persistent cookies on our website:

• Session Cookies: These cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser (or once your session ends). We use session cookies to maintain your login state and to ensure our document tools function securely as you navigate between pages.
• Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your hard drive until you erase them or your browser does, depending on the cookie's expiration date. We use persistent cookies to remember your preferences (like your theme or language choices) and to recognize you when you return to our platform.

3. How We Use Cookies

Plainscan utilizes cookies for several critical and analytical purposes:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are essential for the website to function. They include cookies that allow you to log into secure areas of our website, process documents, and use our billing systems securely. Without these cookies, the services you have asked for cannot be provided.
• Performance and Analytics Cookies: We use services like Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors interact with our website. This includes metrics on which pages are visited most often, how long users stay on a page, and if they receive error messages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor; all information is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
• Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
• Targeting and Advertising Cookies: We may use cookies to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign.

4. Local Storage and Session Storage

In addition to cookies, we also utilize Web Storage (Local Storage and Session Storage) technologies to store certain information locally on your device. Local Storage behaves similarly to persistent cookies and is used to save your tool preferences, draft progress, and UI state (such as dark mode toggles) without sending this data back to our servers on every HTTP request, drastically improving site performance.

5. Third-Party Cookies & Partners

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site:

• Google Analytics: To analyze traffic, user behavior, and usage patterns. Click here to opt-out of Google Analytics.
• Google AdSense: To serve contextual or personalized advertisements across our free tools.
• Payment Processors (Stripe & Razorpay): To securely process transactions, manage subscriptions, and prevent fraudulent activity. These cookies are strictly necessary for the payment gateway to operate securely.

6. Your Privacy Rights (GDPR & CCPA)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), the UK, or California, you have certain data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). You have the right to withdraw your consent to non-essential cookies at any time. We do not sell your personal data to third parties. For more comprehensive information regarding your privacy rights, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

7. Controlling and Deleting Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website, though your access to some core functionality (such as logging in or processing secure documents) may be severely restricted.

Because the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Apple Safari
• Microsoft Edge

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: