Site terms, and where the app's licence lives

1 · Who this page is from

PDF Parcel is made and provided by:

Mehmet Basbayandur
Zur Jenfelder Au 21
22045 Hamburg
Germany
info@pdfparcel.com

Below, the provider means that person. You means whoever uses the app or reads this site. PDF Parcel means the macOS app of that name together with this website.

The statutory provider identification is on the imprint, and how to reach the provider is on the contact page. Both carry the same details as the block above.

2 · Apple's part, and the provider's

PDF Parcel is distributed through the Mac App Store. That arrangement decides who you are dealing with, and about what — so it is the first thing this page has to be clear about, and it settles more than the money.

Apple is the seller

You obtain PDF Parcel from Apple, under Apple's terms for its media services. Apple takes the payment. Apple shows you the price for your own country and currency before you buy, and that shown figure is the one you are charged. Apple renews a subscription until it is cancelled, and cancellation happens with Apple. A purchase is brought back with Restore Purchase, through the Apple Account that paid for it.

Anything to do with the money — the charge, the renewal, the cancellation, a request about a payment — is a matter between you and Apple, and Apple's terms say how it is handled. This page says nothing about it, because it is settled elsewhere and restating it here would only put two answers where there should be one.

What is left for this page

Three things, and they are the whole of it: this website and what may be done with it, the support the provider gives for the app, and what the provider answers for when the software is at fault. Sections 4, 8, 9 and 10 are those; the rest of this page describes the app so that the description it is measured against is written down.

The licence itself is not on this list, and section 3 is about why.

3 · Where the app's licence lives

A Mac App Store app carries that standard agreement whenever its developer files no agreement of their own. The provider has filed none, deliberately, so the standard one is the licence — and a second one written here beside it would at best repeat it and at worst contradict it.

That agreement, rather than this page, is what states the scope of the licence, the machines it reaches, what may be done with the app and what may not, and Apple's own position. This page deliberately summarises none of it. A summary drifts the moment Apple edits the original, and a drifted summary standing beside a live agreement is a contradiction rather than a convenience — so the original is linked, and left to speak for itself.

Two duties are the provider's, and they are stated in the sections below on the provider's own account rather than as a report of what Apple's document says: support for the app, in section 4, and answering for the software when it is at fault, in sections 8 and 9. Neither is Apple's work. Apple runs the store and takes the payment; the app was written here and is maintained here.

4 · Support is the provider's

A problem in the app, a question about what it does, something that behaves differently from the way this site describes it — all of that comes to the provider, at info@pdfparcel.com. The store is where the app is obtained and paid for; maintaining it is a separate job, and it is done here.

What that undertaking is, honestly: one person reads that address and answers. There is no promised response time, no ticket system and no support contract, because none has been agreed and promising one would be an invention. What is promised is that the address is real and reaches him directly.

Support is the same on both tiers. Paying lifts the two-document limit; it buys no different queue.

5 · The free tier and the paid tier

PDF Parcel is free to use for two documents in one merge. The limit counts documents, and it counts nothing else: a single 500-page PDF costs nothing, and there is no ceiling on how often you merge.

A subscription lifts that limit, and lifts that limit only. Every page tool, every keyboard shortcut, every export option and every accepted file type is in the free tier already. It costs 2.99 USD a month or 29.99 USD a year; a year works out under 2.50 USD a month. Those are the figures for the United States, and the store shows you the figure for your own country before you buy.

A subscription runs until it is cancelled, and it is cancelled with Apple. The app itself has no button that could end one. It stores a single fact about your subscription — the date the paid period runs to — and asks the store only at the moment you buy or restore, so a renewal or an ending shows up the next time you ask it.

When a subscription ends, the app stays on your Mac and keeps working. What returns is the free tier's limit of two documents in one merge. Files you have already exported are unaffected, now and always.

One workspace holds up to 2,000 pages. That ceiling sits on both tiers alike and a subscription leaves it exactly where it is; above 1,000 pages the app says so and carries on, and a drop that would cross the ceiling is refused whole rather than trimmed.

6 · Your documents

Your documents are yours and they stay on your Mac. PDF Parcel merges, arranges and exports them there. The provider receives none of them, holds none of them, and could not produce one of them if asked.

A source file is never modified. The app reaches a file you hand it through the security-scoped access macOS grants, reads it, and writes the result to the new destination you choose. Exporting onto one of the sources is refused rather than done.

Keeping your own copies remains your job, as it does with any tool. Nothing here makes the provider a custodian of your files.

You are responsible for having the right to handle the documents you open. Where a PDF is protected by a password, the app will unlock it once you supply that password; it works around no protection and removes none.

The app reaches the network only when you buy or restore a subscription. It carries your documents nowhere, at no point, on either tier. How the app handles data in detail belongs in the privacy policy rather than here.

7 · What the app does, and what it leaves alone

This section exists so that the description the app is measured against is written down somewhere. Section 8 leans on it.

PDF Parcel combines and arranges PDF pages. It accepts PDF, JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, GIF, plain text, RTF and HTML, and turns each of them into pages of one PDF. Before an export is handed to you it is validated — the file exists, it is readable, its header and trailer are sound, sampled pages render, and the page count is exactly the one you arranged. An export that fails that check is reported as failed instead of delivered.

It converts no Office document, edits no text inside a page, fills in and creates no forms, signs nothing, and recognises no text in a scan. It is a tool for merging and arranging, rather than a document suite, and this page describes it as that and as nothing wider.

Two consequences of merging are worth stating plainly, because they are properties of the operation rather than faults in it. Interactive form fields are not carried into a merged PDF. A digital signature on a source PDF does not survive a merge either, since the bytes it vouched for are no longer the bytes of the file. Where either matters to you, keep the original — and the original is untouched, which is the point of the section above.

8 · The product, and what the provider answers for

Two different things can go wrong, and they are answered in two different places. Telling them apart is most of what this section does.

If the purchase is at fault

You were charged wrongly, the subscription did not arrive, the download failed: that concerns the contract you concluded with Apple, and Apple's terms describe how such a claim is made and where it goes.

If the software is at fault

That one is the provider's, and this page does not try to move it. German law holds the maker of a product answerable for the product itself, whoever collected the money for it — so a defect in PDF Parcel is the provider's to answer for and the provider's to fix, and the address in section 1 is where it is reported.

Your statutory rights are untouched by anything here. A consumer cannot sign such rights away, and this page does not ask you to: nothing on it shortens them, waives them or makes them harder to use.

Above that statutory floor the provider gives no guarantee in the sense of § 443 BGB: no promise that the app is free of every defect, and no promise that it will serve a purpose of your own lying outside what section 7 describes. The provider builds PDF Parcel with care and intends it to behave as this page and the app's own description say it does — and that intention is the measure, not a warranty beyond it.

9 · Liability

German law fixes most of this, and what it fixes cannot be written away. The clause below says what German law says, in the order German law says it.

Data loss deserves its own sentence. The provider's liability for lost data is bounded by the effort it would have taken to restore that data from backups you kept with the care an ordinary user would use. Keeping backups is worth it on its own account, and the app is built so that the original is still there: a source file is never modified.

10 · This website

This site has no accounts, no sign-up, no forms and no comments. There is nothing to log in to and nothing for you to submit, which is why this page carries no rules about user conduct or user content: a rule for a thing that does not exist would only suggest the thing exists.

The text, images and design of this site belong to the provider, and that copyright is the provider's own — it is the one thing on this page that Apple's agreement has nothing to do with. Quote from the site with attribution, and link to it freely. Republishing it as your own is a different matter and is not permitted.

Pages here describe what the app does. They are kept accurate, and where a page and the app disagree, the app is the truth and the page is the error — tell the provider and it gets fixed.

Apple, Mac, macOS and Mac App Store are trademarks of Apple Inc. PDF is a standard published by ISO. Naming them here identifies them; it claims nothing about them.

11 · Governing law, and no venue clause

German law governs this page, to the exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. What law governs Apple's agreement is Apple's agreement's business, and it says so itself.

If you are a consumer resident in another country, that choice of law leaves untouched every protection your own country's law gives you that cannot be contracted away (Article 6 of the Rome I Regulation). Where your law is the stronger, your law applies.

This page names no court. A clause fixing a venue against a consumer would be void, and printing a void clause would mislead the reader it is void against. A consumer may bring a claim at the court for the place they live and may be sued only there; the rules that decide this are the law's, and repeating them here would add nothing.

If one provision here turns out to be ineffective, the rest stays in force, and the ineffective provision is replaced by the statutory rule.

12 · Changes to this page

This page changes when the app changes or when the law requires it. The version published here is the version in force, and the date at the foot of the page says when it was last changed. Apple's agreement changes on Apple's own schedule, which is another reason section 3 links it instead of copying it.

There is no account and no mailing list here, so there is no channel by which the provider could reach you individually — which is exactly why the published page is the one that counts. A change that would worsen your position under a subscription already running does not reach back to it.

13 · Still to be settled — the owner's decisions

This block is a working note, and it comes down before the app is published. Each line is a decision that belongs to the owner and was deliberately left open rather than guessed at.

1. Apple's links have not been read from here. The owner has settled that no agreement of the provider's own goes into App Store Connect, so Apple's standard one is the licence and section 3 says so. The three addresses in section 3 were written from the owner's brief and from a search index: this machine could reach none of them, and every attempt is recorded in the working notes. Someone with a browser should open all three, confirm which one a Mac app actually carries, and cut the other.
2. What the app itself links to. The project's own record notes that the app points at neither a privacy policy nor terms of use. Both are published on this site now, and the app has to point at them before it goes out.
3. The monthly plan. Section 5 names a monthly price beside the yearly one, because the site does. The app today offers a single yearly product and its purchase sheet reads a year. Either the app gains the second product before it goes out, or this page names one plan, and the site follows. A decision record is owed for whichever it is.
4. The project record is behind this page. Its legal planning was written around a Turkish establishment and names KVKK beside the GDPR, and it still calls the price model open. The privacy policy beside this page names a controller in Germany under the GDPR, and both prices are decided. The record has to catch up, or the next reader will follow the older answer.
5. Which language binds. This English page says the German version binds. That is the instruction it was written to; a consumer who reads only English may see it differently, and it is worth a lawyer's minute.
6. A legal review, and an effective date. No lawyer has read this page. It is written to be enforceable in Germany rather than copied from elsewhere, but that is an intention, not a clearance — and the date below is a drafting date, not yet the day this page takes effect.