DM Adieu PDF Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 13, 2026
DM Adieu PDF is published by Dependent Media. It is a PDF reader and editor for the Mac. This policy explains what the app stores, what leaves your Mac, and what we can see.
The short version
DM Adieu PDF collects nothing. There is no account, no sign-in and no server. The app contains no code for talking to the internet: the open-source editor it is built on can check GitHub for new releases, and we removed that check, so updates come only from the Mac App Store. The app cannot upload your documents because it has no way to upload anything. We do not use advertising or analytics SDKs, and we do not track you across other apps or websites.
1. What is stored on your Mac
Your documents live wherever you save them. In its own sandboxed container the app keeps your preferences, the list of recently opened files and pinned folders (with the macOS permission to open them again), a recovery copy of documents with unsaved changes, images you paste from the clipboard, digital IDs you create in the app, and a log file for troubleshooting. None of it is uploaded. Deleting the app removes it.
2. Files and folders it can reach
The app runs in the macOS App Sandbox. It can read only the files you open yourself through the Open dialog, by drag and drop, or from the Finder, and it can write only where you choose to save. When an export makes several files, or when you pin a folder to the Home screen, it can reach the folder you chose and nothing outside it. It does not browse your documents and never asks for access to them.
3. Digital IDs and the Keychain
When you sign with a digital ID from your Keychain, macOS asks whether DM Adieu PDF may use that key. The private key stays in the Keychain; the app only asks it to sign. Nothing about your certificates leaves your Mac except what you choose to put in a signed document.
4. Printing
File › Print hands the document to the macOS print system, which sends it to the printer you choose. The app lists the printers set up on your Mac to show them in its Print dialog.
5. Documents that ask to reach the internet
Some PDFs contain links, scripts or forms that submit their data to a web address. Scripts run in a sandbox with no file or network access. The app never submits form data anywhere, and it opens a web or email link from a document only after asking you, in your browser or email app.
6. Links
The Help menu opens pages on dependentmedia.com and the PdfCraft project’s pages in your web browser. Nothing is sent when you open them beyond what your browser sends to any website.
7. Children
The app collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
8. Changes
If this policy changes, the new version appears at this address with a new date.
9. Contact
Dependent Media, Sacramento, California. [email protected]