Merging is one of the few PDF jobs that doesn't touch the content at all — it copies the page objects from each source file into a new document, in order, and rebuilds the table that points to them. Nothing is re-rendered or re-encoded, so image quality and text fidelity are exactly what they were in the originals.
That also means it's fast: a 200-page merge across a dozen files typically finishes in under a second once the files are loaded, because there's no recompression step to wait on.
Everything runs in your browser. Your files are never uploaded, never queued on a server, and never deleted from one — because they were never there.