markitdown.dev

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-05-01

markitdown.dev is designed around one principle: your documents belong to you, not to us. This page explains exactly what happens when you use the service.

Files you upload

When you upload a file for conversion, it is streamed into the server's memory, passed to the conversion engine, and the resulting Markdown is returned to your browser. After that request finishes, the uploaded file and its Markdown output are released from memory.

  • Files are never written to disk.
  • Files are never logged, copied, or forwarded to any third party.
  • We do not use your content to train, fine-tune, or evaluate any model.
  • We do not retain any copy of your file or its converted output.

Request metadata

To keep the free service stable and prevent abuse, the server applies a per-IP rate limit. Your IP address is used in memory only for this purpose and is not written to persistent storage.

The hosting provider may record standard HTTP access logs (IP address, timestamp, path, status code, user agent) at the infrastructure layer. These logs are kept briefly for security and operational reasons and are not combined with any other data.

Analytics

We use Umami, a privacy-friendly, self-hosted analytics tool, to understand aggregate usage — how many visits each page receives and which referrers send traffic. Umami:

  • does not use cookies;
  • does not track users across websites;
  • does not collect personal information;
  • stores anonymized, aggregate counts — not individual session histories.

Cookies

markitdown.dev does not set cookies. No login, no preferences sync, no advertising partners.

Third-party services

The site is delivered through standard web hosting and CDN infrastructure. These providers may process requests in transit as a normal part of serving HTTPS traffic. They do not receive your uploaded documents as stored artifacts, because the documents are never persisted.

Children

markitdown.dev is a general-purpose developer tool and is not directed at children under 13.

Your rights (GDPR / CCPA)

Because we do not retain uploaded documents or link IP addresses to identities, there is typically no personal data associated with you for us to access, correct, or erase. If you believe otherwise, or have any privacy question, please reach out via the GitHub repository linked in the site footer.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated date at the top of the page will reflect that. Material changes will be highlighted in the repository commit history.