diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index eafdcdb..97d74fd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ const dataUrl = editorRef.current?.editor?.getImage();
 Two distinct channels:
 
 - **`onLoadError`** — the editor loaded fine, but the _image_ couldn't be loaded into the canvas (CORS, dead URL, decode error).
-- **`onError`** — the wrapper couldn't reach a working editor: the embed script failed to load, editor creation was rejected, or re-applying a changed `image` failed. After a CDN failure the wrapper automatically resets its loader state, so a later remount retries from scratch.
+- **`onError`** — the wrapper couldn't reach a working editor: the embed script failed to load, editor creation was rejected, or re-applying a changed `image` failed. A later remount retries from scratch after a CDN failure. The wrapper also clears its own loader state, but only tears down a script tag it injected itself — an embed the host page loaded is left intact for its other consumers.
 
 ## Tools
 
diff --git a/src/ImageEditor.tsx b/src/ImageEditor.tsx
index a01c9e8..84f3831 100644
--- a/src/ImageEditor.tsx
+++ b/src/ImageEditor.tsx
@@ -133,10 +133,13 @@ function ImageEditorInner(
         }
       })
       .catch((error) => {
-        // If the versioned bundle never evaluated, the CDN loader has
-        // cached a rejected promise it will return forever — hard-reset it
-        // so the next mount attempt can retry from scratch. When the impl
-        // global exists, the failure was a mount error; keep the loader.
+        // If the versioned bundle never evaluated, drop the loader state
+        // we own so the next mount starts from a fresh embed.js. This is
+        // not what makes recovery possible — embed.js nulls its own cached
+        // promise on failure — so on a host-loaded page resetLoader leaves
+        // the tag and global in place and only our cache is cleared. When
+        // the impl global exists the failure was a mount error, not a
+        // bundle-load one; keep the loader.
         if (!window.__ImageEditorImpl__) {
           resetLoader(scriptUrl);
         }
diff --git a/src/loadScript.ts b/src/loadScript.ts
index 8cceb77..d1554ac 100644
--- a/src/loadScript.ts
+++ b/src/loadScript.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ interface TrackedLoad {
 // share a single <script> tag.
 const loads = new Map<string, TrackedLoad>();
 
+// The tags this module injected. Anything else matching the script URL was
+// put there by the host page, which may have other consumers of the embed:
+// a reset must not remove it, or delete the global it installed, from under
+// them. A tag that has provably failed is still removed either way — see
+// failWith.
+const ownedTags = new WeakSet<HTMLScriptElement>();
+
 const resolveUrl = (scriptUrl: string): string =>
   new URL(scriptUrl, document.baseURI).href;
 
@@ -54,15 +61,18 @@ export const loadScript = (
     const tag = existing ?? document.createElement('script');
     let timeout: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | undefined;
 
-    const failWith = (error: Error) => {
-      // A tag that fired `error` never fires again — evict the cache and
-      // remove the dead tag so a retry injects a fresh one.
+    const failWith = (error: Error, removeTag: boolean) => {
+      // A tag that fired `error` (or timed out) never fires again — evict
+      // the cache and remove the dead tag so a retry injects a fresh one,
+      // even when the host injected it: a failed tag is no use to anyone.
+      // A reset is different — the tag there may be perfectly alive — so it
+      // removes only what we own.
       if (timeout !== undefined) clearTimeout(timeout);
       loads.delete(scriptUrl);
-      tag.remove();
+      if (removeTag) tag.remove();
       reject(error);
     };
-    abort = failWith;
+    abort = (error: Error) => failWith(error, ownedTags.has(tag));
 
     tag.addEventListener(
       'load',
@@ -83,7 +93,8 @@ export const loadScript = (
         failWith(
           new Error(
             `Failed to load the image editor embed script: ${scriptUrl}`
-          )
+          ),
+          true
         );
       },
       { once: true }
@@ -97,11 +108,13 @@ export const loadScript = (
         failWith(
           new Error(
             `Timed out waiting for an existing embed script tag: ${scriptUrl}`
-          )
+          ),
+          true
         );
       }, REUSED_TAG_TIMEOUT_MS);
     } else {
       tag.src = scriptUrl;
+      ownedTags.add(tag);
       document.head.appendChild(tag);
     }
   });
@@ -111,18 +124,31 @@ export const loadScript = (
 };
 
 /**
- * Hard-reset the embed loader. The CDN loader caches its versioned-bundle
- * promise forever — including rejections — so after a bundle-load failure
- * the only way to retry is to reload embed.js with fresh module state.
- * Rejects any still-pending load for the URL (waiters fail fast through
- * their normal error paths instead of hanging on a removed tag), removes
- * the embed script tag, deletes window.ImageEditor, and evicts the cached
- * load; the next loadScript call starts from scratch.
+ * Reset this module's loader state for a script URL. Rejects any
+ * still-pending load (waiters fail fast through their normal error paths
+ * instead of hanging on a removed tag) and evicts the cached load, so the
+ * next loadScript call starts from scratch.
+ *
+ * The script tag and window.ImageEditor are only torn down when we injected
+ * the tag ourselves. On a page that loaded embed.js itself the embed may be
+ * in active use by other consumers, and removing a working global out from
+ * under them is not ours to do.
+ *
+ * Recovery does not depend on any of this: embed.js nulls its own cached
+ * promise when a bundle load fails, so a later createEditor retries whether
+ * or not the tag was ours. This only clears the state we own.
  */
 export const resetLoader = (scriptUrl: string = defaultScriptUrl): void => {
+  // Captured before abort(), which may remove the tag itself.
+  const tag = findScriptTag(scriptUrl);
+  const ownedTag = tag && ownedTags.has(tag) ? tag : null;
+
   const tracked = loads.get(scriptUrl);
   loads.delete(scriptUrl);
   tracked?.abort(new Error(`The image editor loader was reset: ${scriptUrl}`));
-  findScriptTag(scriptUrl)?.remove();
-  delete window.ImageEditor;
+
+  if (ownedTag) {
+    ownedTag.remove();
+    delete window.ImageEditor;
+  }
 };
diff --git a/test/loadScript.test.ts b/test/loadScript.test.ts
index 90002b4..3789486 100644
--- a/test/loadScript.test.ts
+++ b/test/loadScript.test.ts
@@ -192,3 +192,42 @@ it('resetLoader removes the global, the tag, and the cached promise', async () =
   fire(scriptTags()[0], 'load');
   await retry;
 });
+
+it('resetLoader leaves a host-injected tag and its global alone', async () => {
+  // The host page loaded embed.js itself and other consumers may be using
+  // the global — tearing it down here would break them.
+  const hostTag = document.createElement('script');
+  hostTag.src = 'https://cdn.unlayer.com/image-editor/embed.js';
+  document.head.appendChild(hostTag);
+
+  const promise = loadScript();
+  const embed = mockEmbed();
+  window.ImageEditor = embed;
+  fire(hostTag, 'load');
+  await promise;
+
+  resetLoader();
+
+  expect(window.ImageEditor).toBe(embed);
+  expect(scriptTags()).toEqual([hostTag]);
+});
+
+it('resetLoader rejects waiters on a reused host tag without removing it', async () => {
+  const hostTag = document.createElement('script');
+  hostTag.src = 'https://cdn.unlayer.com/image-editor/embed.js';
+  document.head.appendChild(hostTag);
+
+  const pending = loadScript();
+  const rejection = expect(pending).rejects.toThrow(/loader was reset/);
+
+  resetLoader();
+  await rejection;
+
+  // Our cache is cleared, but the host's still-loading tag is untouched.
+  expect(scriptTags()).toEqual([hostTag]);
+});
+
+it('resetLoader is a no-op when nothing was ever loaded', () => {
+  expect(() => resetLoader()).not.toThrow();
+  expect(scriptTags()).toHaveLength(0);
+});