Legal

PageComment has no accounts, so nothing here is attached to a profile. The name and colour beside your cursor are picked in your browser, and nobody checks them.

A board stores the annotations drawn on it, the address of the page it overlays, and the width that page was captured at. Boards are deleted 90 days after they are last opened. Opening one resets that clock, so a board in active use is not removed.

While people are on a board together, their cursor positions pass between browsers. Voice and video travel directly between the people on the call, and nothing records them.

A board's address contains a 21-character random id, and holding that link is what grants access. Anyone who has it can read the board and add to it. There is no separate password.

That is a deliberate trade. A reviewer can open a link and start typing without an account, which is the point. It also means the link is worth treating like a key, because it can be passed on and because holding it is enough to change or erase what is there.

To let you draw on a page, PageComment fetches it and serves it back to your browser with the headers that would otherwise block embedding removed. Our servers do the fetching, so the request carries none of your cookies, your session, or anything else that would identify you to that site.

Pages behind a login therefore will not appear the way they appear to you. Addresses on a private network or on your own machine are refused outright.

PageComment is a derivative work of MarkLayer, Copyright Vadym Rusin, used under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Substantial portions of the annotation engine, the realtime room, the page proxy and the shared operation schema originate there and have been modified.

A copy of the Apache License, Version 2.0 is available at apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

PageComment is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. The full text ships with the source as LICENSE, alongside the attribution notices in NOTICE.