Small PDFs. Plain terms.

About the service

PDF Shrink Ray is provided by Architecture Social Limited, registered in England and Wales under company number 10430707 at 1 Fore St Ave, Barbican, London EC2Y 9DT.

The service compresses and inspects PDFs locally in a supported browser. Your PDF is not uploaded to us. You are responsible for your device, browser and internet connection.

Results and limitations

We do not guarantee that every PDF will become smaller or meet a particular target. Some PDFs are already efficient, use unsupported image encodings, contain signatures, forms or complex artwork, or would require unacceptable visual changes. The service may refuse such files or return no result.

Compression can change image quality. Keep the original, open the downloaded file and check its pages, text, links, forms and images before sending, publishing or archiving it.

Your files and acceptable use

You keep all rights in your files. You must have the right to process them and must not use the service for unlawful, harmful, abusive or security-testing activity that disrupts the service or other people.

Do not rely on PDF Shrink Ray as the only copy, an archival preservation system, a digital-signature tool or a substitute for professional document checking.

Allowances and accounts

Free allowances, file-size caps and product features are shown on the service and may change reasonably as the product develops. Anonymous limits are a lightweight browser control. Account access, if enabled, is personal to you and you are responsible for keeping it secure.

Founding Plus

Founding Plus sign-up is open at £4.99 per month, VAT inclusive. You pay the same £4.99 total wherever you are; where tax applies it is contained within that total rather than added to it. It renews automatically each month until you cancel. There is no minimum term. Live checkout shows the final price, billing period and any applicable tax before you pay.

Preview prices and test checkout screens are not an offer to sell a subscription and cannot make a live charge. A live charge is taken only when the service presents live checkout.

Founding Plus provides up to 300 successful shrinks in each monthly allowance period, a 100 MB limit per PDF and the Smallest, Balanced and Crisp profiles. Compression and inspection remain browser-local in a supported browser. Actual availability, limits and profile behaviour are shown in the service and may be adjusted reasonably as the product develops.

You can cancel through your account portal at any time. Cancellation prevents the next renewal; access remains available until the end of the period already paid for, subject to these terms and any necessary suspension for security or reliability.

Payment processing, invoices and receipts are provided by Stripe. To request a full refund under this route, contact support@architecturesocial.com within 14 calendar days of the purchase. We will use the Stripe payment record to process the refund and will not ask you to send a PDF. This voluntary refund route does not limit statutory consumer rights.

If you are a VAT-registered business, you can enter your VAT number at checkout and the reverse charge will be applied where it is available.

Availability and changes

We may update, suspend or withdraw all or part of this early service, including to fix security or reliability problems. We aim to make it useful and accurate but provide it without a guarantee of uninterrupted availability.

Responsibility

To the extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for loss caused by failing to keep an original, not checking an output, using an unsupported document or relying on the service for a purpose it is not designed for. We do not exclude responsibility that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Law and contact

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. Courts with mandatory consumer jurisdiction remain available where applicable. Questions can be sent to support@architecturesocial.com.