Terms of use

A suite of file tools, of two kinds, and the difference matters more than any other line on this page:

• Tools that run in your browser. Merge, split and compress PDFs, edit a PDF, OCR, PDF to text, Markdown to PDF, webpage to Markdown, PDF to JPG, JPG to PDF, image conversion, resizing and image compression. Your file never leaves the tab. If your machine is slow or your browser is old, these are slow or unavailable, and there is nothing on our side to fix.
• Tools that use our servers. Background removal and Chat with a PDF. These have allowances, because each run costs us GPU or API time.

Tools get added, changed and occasionally retired. If a tool you rely on is going away, and you hold a paid plan, we will tell you before it happens.

You can use most of the suite without one. If you make an account, keep the credentials to yourself: an account is for one person, and everything done through it is treated as done by you. Tell us at once if you think someone else is using it.

You must be 16 or older to hold an account, and the details you give us must be true.

The browser tools are free and unmetered, and are meant to stay that way — metering something that costs us nothing to run would buy us nothing but ill will.

The server tools are metered. Signed-out visitors get the smallest allowance, a free account gets more, and the paid plans get more again; the exact figures for every level are on the pricing page and inside the tool, and they are the ones the code counts against. Nothing about the output is limited by plan — full resolution, no watermark, every format, at every level. What you buy is how many times you can run it.

• A batch spends one removal per image, from the same allowance a single removal spends.
• A batch that does not fit in what is left is refused whole, and told you how many would fit. Processing three of twenty and dropping the rest is a failure you would only find on opening the archive.
• Signed-out allowances are counted per address; account allowances are counted per account.
• Rate limits sit above every allowance to absorb bursts. A paid plan's limits are always set above what that plan permits.

Fair use means using the tools the way a person uses them. Scripting the site, running it through headless browsers, or cycling addresses and accounts to reset an allowance is not fair use, and is the one thing most likely to get an account suspended.

Your files stay yours. Whatever you make with these tools is yours too, including for commercial work, with no attribution asked for and no watermark applied at any tier.

By sending a file to one of the two server tools, you grant us a licence to store and process that file for exactly as long as it takes to do the job and to hold the result for you — ten minutes for a removal, the retention window on your plan for a chat document. The licence covers nothing else. We do not train on your files, publish them, or show them to anyone.

You confirm that you hold the rights to what you upload, and that processing it here breaks no copyright, no contract and nobody's privacy. That includes photographs of people who have not agreed to be edited.

Do not use Qikks Tools to:

• Process content that is illegal where you are, sexual content involving minors, or material made to harass or defame someone.
• Work on files you have no right to, or strip a watermark or credit from someone else's work.
• Make a deceptive image of a real person — a fake document, a fabricated record, an edited photograph passed off as genuine.
• Attack the service: probing for holes outside a report to security@qikkstools.com, flooding it with traffic, or working around a rate limit or an allowance.
• Resell access, or run the tools as the engine behind another product.

Reverse engineering is not on that list. The browser tools ship as JavaScript you already have, and pretending otherwise would be a clause we could not enforce.

• Paddle.com Market Ltd is the merchant of record. You are buying from Paddle, and Paddle's own terms apply to the transaction alongside these.
• Plans are monthly or annual and renew automatically until cancelled. The price you see at checkout includes any tax Paddle collects for your country.
• Cancel any time from your account settings. Your plan keeps working until the end of the period you have already paid for; nothing is cut off the moment you cancel.
• A downgrade takes effect at the next renewal, so you keep what you paid for until then.
• Refunds are covered by the refund policy.
• If a payment fails, the plan drops to the free level until it is fixed. We do not sell your debt or add fees.
• Prices can change. An existing subscription is billed at its current price until it renews, and we will tell you before a renewal costs more than the last one.

There is no uptime guarantee and no service credit attached to any plan. What there is instead is a status page that checks each service every five minutes and publishes every check, including the failures and the days nobody checked.

The service can go down, get slower, or be taken offline for maintenance. During an outage of our servers, every browser tool keeps working — which is the most useful thing on the status page when something breaks.

These are automated tools and they are wrong sometimes. A cutout can miss hair or thin detail. OCR misreads a bad scan. A compressor may not be able to shrink a file that is already tight — in which case it says so and offers no download rather than handing back something bigger.

Answers from Chat with a PDF come from a language model. Every quote it gives is checked against the page it claims to be on, and anything that fails that check is labelled as a paraphrase rather than quietly dropped — but a checked quote is not the same as a correct conclusion. Do not treat any answer as legal, medical or financial advice.

Check anything that matters before you rely on it. Keep your originals.

The service is provided as it is, without warranties beyond those your local law gives you and we cannot exclude. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss — lost profit, lost work, lost data, a deadline missed because a tool was down.

Where liability cannot be excluded, it is capped at whatever you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. For most visitors that is nothing, which is the honest consequence of a tool that is free to use.

Nothing here limits liability for fraud, or for anything else the law does not allow to be limited.

You can stop using the tools at any time, cancel a plan from settings, and ask us to delete your account by writing to privacy@qikkstools.com.

We can suspend or close an account that breaks clause 06, that is being used to abuse the service, or that has not paid. Except where the abuse is ongoing, we will say why and give you a chance to answer. If we close a paid account for something that was not your fault, the unused part of the period is refunded.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and the courts of Pakistan have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.

If you are a consumer in the EU, the UK or anywhere else whose law gives you the right to bring a claim in your own courts, that right stands — this clause does not take it away.

Before either of us goes to court, write to legal@qikkstools.com. Most disputes about a file tool are a misunderstanding that an email settles.

These terms change when the product does, and the date at the top says when they last did. Account holders are emailed before a change that takes something away, and continuing to use the tools after a change means accepting it. If a clause here is ever unenforceable, the rest stands.