Annota privacy policy

Last updated 28 September 2026

Annota is made by Papermap Labs. It doesn’t collect your data. Everything you make with it stays in your browser, on your computer. There are no accounts, no analytics and no ads, and nothing is sold or shared. If you subscribe to Annota Pro, Annota checks your licence key with our payment provider, and that’s all it sends.

What Annota keeps, and where

Annota saves your notes, your drawings on pages and PDFs, the text and snapshots you collect, and your settings in your browser’s storage for extensions, on your computer. It also keeps copies of the last few PDFs you opened in its viewer there, so they open again quickly. None of this is sent anywhere. Removing Annota from your browser deletes all of it.

If you back up or share a lesson, Annota saves a file on your computer. Where that file goes next is up to you.

Pages you use it on

Annota works on a page only after you turn it on there, with its icon, its keyboard shortcut or its right-click menu. It reads that page to draw on it and to collect what you select, and what it collects stays on your computer.

When Annota uses the internet

• PDFs. When you open a PDF in Annota’s viewer, Annota loads it from the address it came from, as your browser would.
• YouTube clips. When you collect a clip of a YouTube video or put one in a note, its preview picture loads from YouTube’s image server (ytimg.com), and the player loads from youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. YouTube’s own privacy policy covers these.
• Links you click in your notes open in your browser as usual.
• Annota Pro licence checks. Only if you enter an Annota Pro licence key. Annota sends the key, and a name for your browser such as “Annota in Chrome on macOS”, to Lemon Squeezy’s licence service (api.lemonsqueezy.com). It does this when you enter the key, about once a day after that, and when you remove the key from a browser. Nothing about your notes, your drawings or the pages you visit is sent.

Annota doesn’t connect to anything else.

Annota Pro

Annota Pro is sold by Lemon Squeezy, our reseller. When you buy it, you give your name, email address and payment details to Lemon Squeezy, not to Annota, and Lemon Squeezy’s privacy policy covers them. Lemon Squeezy tells us your name, email address, country and what you bought, so we can look after your subscription and answer your questions. We don’t use them for anything else.

Your licence key is kept in your browser’s storage for extensions, on your computer. Lemon Squeezy keeps a list of the browsers your key is on, by the names above, so a key works in up to two of them. Removing the key from a browser, in Annota Pro, takes that browser off the list.

Children

Annota doesn’t collect personal information from anyone, including children. Annota Pro is bought through Lemon Squeezy, as described above.

Questions

Write to support@papermaplabs.com. If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.