I’m submitting documents to a third party and I need to remove hidden metadata to meet privacy or compliance requirements.

This feature helps you remove hidden metadata from documents before sharing them with third parties. It reduces the risk of unintentionally exposing private, sensitive, or compliance-relevant information embedded in files.

When you share documents externally, they can contain hidden metadata that reveals details you did not intend to disclose. This feature is designed to sanitize documents by removing embedded metadata prior to submission to a third party. It supports privacy and compliance workflows by helping ensure only the intended visible content is shared. You can use it as a pre-submission step whenever sending contracts, reports, forms, or supporting materials outside your organization. Removing metadata can help prevent leakage of information such as author or editor details, internal comments, revision history, and other file properties (where applicable). It also helps standardize documents for external review by reducing extraneous or identifying traces. This is particularly useful when responding to audits, regulatory requests, procurement processes, or vendor onboarding. It can be used by individuals or teams that routinely prepare documents for external partners. The main benefit is increased confidence that the document you submit contains only what you explicitly meant to share.