Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Page Break Tools handles information when you use the Page Break Tools add-on for Google Docs™ and this website.
1. Data accessed by the add-on
Page Break Tools needs access to the active Google Docs document to identify the cursor position, locate manual page breaks, and create the requested text selection. The add-on is designed to use the limited Google Docs access required for the current document.
2. Data collection and storage
Page Break Tools does not intentionally collect, copy, sell, or store the contents of your Google Docs documents on an external server operated by Page Break Tools. The add-on does not require a separate Page Break Tools account.
3. Use of Google user data
Google user data accessed by the add-on is used only to provide the user-requested selection functionality inside the active document. It is not used for advertising, profiling, or sale to third parties.
4. Sharing
Page Break Tools does not sell Google user data and does not share document content with third parties for advertising or marketing purposes.
5. Google API Services User Data Policy
Page Break Tools' use and transfer of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
6. Website hosting
This website is hosted using Cloudflare infrastructure. Cloudflare may process technical request information necessary to deliver and secure the website. Page Break Tools does not use this website to collect document content.
7. Website analytics
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand aggregate website usage and performance. Cloudflare Web Analytics is configured to exclude visitor data in the EU.
For visitors where Web Analytics is enabled, Cloudflare states that it does not use cookies or browser storage for analytics and does not collect or use visitors’ personal data. We use these aggregate statistics only to understand how the website is used and to improve Page Break Tools.
8. Retention
Because Page Break Tools does not intentionally store document content on an external Page Break Tools server, there is no Page Break Tools document-content retention period.
This concerns document content handled by the add-on, not email or optional pilot records. See Voluntary feedback for the retention rules for those records.
9. Security
Page Break Tools is designed to minimize the access it requests and to keep its core selection operations within the Google Workspace environment.
10. Changes
This policy may be updated as the product evolves. Material changes will be reflected on this page with an updated date.
11. Voluntary feedback
This section covers email enquiries and optional pilot feedback, separately from the document content handled by the add-on.
Who receives your email
The controller for support and pilot personal data is Alberto Olalla Ubierna, the individual owner of Page Break Tools, not a company. In this section, "we" refers to the controller. The contact address is support@pagebreaktools.app.
Enquiries and legal basis
If you choose to email support, the existing support mailbox receives your sender address, the content you choose to send and unavoidable technical email metadata, such as message dates and routing information. Email is not anonymous. We use this information to reply to and manage your enquiry. Providing an address and enough information to answer is voluntary, but without them we may be unable to reply.
We rely on our legitimate interest in responding to and managing enquiries you ask us to handle (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). We limit the information, use and retention to what is needed for that purpose, and you may object where applicable. Sending an email is not consent to research and does not subscribe you to commercial messages.
Optional pilot and follow-up
Taking part is optional and is not required to obtain support or use the add-on. Before treating your feedback as identifiable pilot research, we explain the purpose, minimum data and retention period and ask for your specific, informed consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR). Agreeing to a task or installing the add-on does not, by itself, establish that consent.
Pilot records are limited to your chosen contact method, your participation choice, a non-sensitive description of the task or problem and feedback you volunteer. We retain minimal evidence of the information and choices you accepted. We coordinate a test or later research follow-up only if expressly agreed with you. No automatic follow-up is enabled: any later research contact needs a separate choice covering its purpose, number of messages and time window. There is no commercial subscription or marketing permission.
You may stop participating, withdraw research consent or cancel follow-up by emailing support, without giving a reason. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal. It does not remove your access to support or the add-on.
Research notes
Do not send documents, access links, credentials, sensitive information or student/client data. We prefer genuinely anonymous or aggregated observations when sufficient. A participant code is not anonymous if we can link it back to you.
We will not create separate pilot notes unless we first agree with you what optional research notes to retain and for how long, whether or not a test takes place. Any identifiable notes need an agreed purpose, legal basis, minimum content and deletion date. We do not build unnecessary personal profiles, record sessions by default or publicly quote or attribute your feedback without separate permission. We do not use pilot data for solely automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.
Retention and deletion
We apply the following maximum active-retention limits to the records we control, deleting or genuinely anonymising them sooner when no longer needed:
- Ordinary enquiries: up to 90 days after the case closes.
- Interest in the pilot without a test, including any separately agreed identifiable notes: up to 30 days after the last exchange, without automatic reminders.
- For participants who complete a test, test correspondence and identifiable research notes: up to 90 days after the last separately agreed follow-up, or after the test if no follow-up takes place. Delete or genuinely anonymise notes sooner when no longer needed.
- Minimal acceptance, consent and withdrawal evidence: only while necessary to demonstrate and manage the agreed processing, within the applicable pilot-retention limit above. There is no automatic additional retention period after closure. Any exceptional longer retention requires a specific legal basis, documented necessity, restricted use and a defined expiry.
We review records and delete messages and notes when their retention limit expires. Withdrawal stops future consent-based research and follow-up. Requests to delete personal data are handled without undue delay, subject to applicable legal exceptions; the routine limits above do not postpone your rights. Deletion covers relevant active inbox, sent, trash and agreed-note copies. Where a legal duty requires restricted retention or blocking, those data are not available for ordinary research or contact.
Email providers and backups
Messages sent to support pass through Cloudflare Email Routing and are forwarded to a Gmail mailbox, where Google manages storage. Cloudflare states that Email Routing does not store the content of forwarded messages; this is not a claim that no technical metadata is processed. We use Gmail for this correspondence and any agreed identifiable pilot notes, without additional copies in Outlook, exports or other systems under our control.
Cloudflare and Google process information under their applicable service terms and privacy policies, including service, security and legal purposes. See the Cloudflare Privacy Policy and Google Privacy Policy. Their international operations may involve processing outside the EEA, including in the United States. Their published safeguards include adequacy mechanisms such as the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses where applicable. See Cloudflare's data-transfer information and Google's data-transfer frameworks for details and routes to obtain further information or copies of safeguards. You may also contact support. We do not promise EU-only processing.
Deleting a Gmail message first moves it to Trash, where it is normally kept for up to 30 days unless permanently deleted sooner. Our deletion procedure includes relevant Trash copies rather than relying only on archiving or removing an inbox label. See Gmail's deletion guidance. If synchronised copies are present, they must reflect the deletion too.
Provider-managed backups and records retained for security or legal purposes are different from active mailbox copies and Trash. Google describes its deletion and backup processes in its retention policy; they can outlast user-visible deletion and are not directly controlled by us. We cannot promise immediate removal from every backup or an account-specific deadline for Google's internal systems. Any restoration under our control must reapply relevant deletions before ordinary use resumes. Deleting our copy does not delete copies independently held by a sender or another recipient.
Your rights
Email support@pagebreaktools.app to request access and a copy of your personal data, correction, erasure or restriction. You may object to processing based on legitimate interests where applicable. Data portability applies where its legal conditions are met, including consent- or contract-based automated processing. Consent may be withdrawn as easily as it was given. These rights are subject to their legal conditions and exceptions, not absolute guarantees.
We respond without undue delay and normally within one month of receiving a request. Where necessary because of complexity or the number of requests, the GDPR allows up to two further months; we must explain the extension and reasons within the first month. Reasonable doubts about identity may require proportionate additional information, not an identity-document copy by default. If a request cannot be granted, we explain why and the available complaint and judicial remedies.
You may lodge a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) or another competent supervisory authority. See the AEPD's guidance on exercising your rights.
12. Contact
For privacy, rights requests or support, contact Alberto Olalla Ubierna at support@pagebreaktools.app.