Privacy, plainly.

What Dogears handles

When you open Dogears on a webpage, the extension sends the page URL and title to the Dogears service to retrieve the shared dog-ears for that page. When you leave a dog-ear, Dogears also stores your chosen visitor name or ATProto DID and handle, your optional note, and the time of the dog-ear.

Dogears does not collect the contents of pages, your full browsing history, passwords, payment information, or advertising identifiers.

Why it is used

This information is used only to show signs of life on pages: who dog-eared a page, what they chose to say, and which pages are being noticed now, today, or this week. Dogears does not sell data or use it for advertising or profiling.

Where it lives

Shared page records are stored by the Dogears service. If you connect ATProto, your dog-ear is also written to your own personal data server. OAuth credentials remain in the hosted sign-in session and are not stored in the shared Dogears database.

Control and deletion

You can remove a dog-ear from the same page where you left it. Removing an ATProto dog-ear removes both the shared record and the record in your personal data server. You can revoke Dogears access through your ATProto account.

Limited use

Dogears’ use of information received from Chrome APIs follows the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. Data is used only to provide and improve Dogears’ single purpose, is not transferred for advertising, and is not used for unrelated purposes.

Questions

Questions or deletion problems can be reported through the Dogears GitHub repository.