Privacy Policy

1. Overview & Core Philosophy

Welcome to Web Online Board ("we," "our," or "the Service"), accessible at webonlineboard.com. This Privacy Policy outlines how your information is handled when you use our free web-based whiteboard and digital drawing platform.

Most modern productivity software requires user registration, phone numbers, and cloud database storage where your visual thoughts and proprietary diagrams are stored on third-party servers. We engineered Web Online Board to stand in stark contrast to this surveillance model:

2. Information We Do NOT Collect

To protect your privacy by design, our architecture excludes the collection of any personally identifiable or creative data. Specifically, we do not collect:

• Personal Account Credentials: No usernames, email addresses, passwords, phone numbers, or social logins.
• Canvas Stroke & Diagram Content: We cannot see, read, reconstruct, or access what you draw, diagram, write, or calculate.
• Imported Media: Any images or vector graphics you drop or upload onto the canvas stay inside your browser's client memory.
• Financial or Billing Data: Web Online Board is 100% free; we do not collect credit cards, billing addresses, or payment tokens.
• AI Training Telemetry: We do not feed your canvas data into machine learning models or artificial intelligence training sets.

3. Information That May Be Collected Automatically

When you visit webonlineboard.com, minimal, standard technical metadata may be processed temporarily by our hosting infrastructure strictly for operational security and performance delivery:

• Web Server Log Records: Standard HTTP request logs including IP address, browser user-agent, operating system, referring URL, and timestamp. These logs are maintained exclusively for anti-DDoS mitigation, bot prevention, and web server health.
• Performance Diagnostics: Aggregate, anonymized performance metrics (such as Core Web Vitals, page rendering latency, and cache hit ratios) to monitor platform speed and reliability.
• Browser Capability Detection: Client-side detection of features such as WebGL, Canvas 2D, touch support, and screen dimensions solely to render the canvas appropriately on your display.

4. Local Browser Persistence (IndexedDB & LocalStorage)

To provide a seamless experience where your drawings and settings persist across page reloads without requiring a login, Web Online Board uses client-side web storage technologies:

5. Peer-to-Peer Real-Time Collaboration

When you initiate a live collaboration session to draw with friends or teammates:

• Peer-to-Peer Data Channels: Collaboration uses WebRTC mesh connections where participants exchange stroke coordinates directly between browsers.
• Signaling Infrastructure: A lightweight signaling server is used solely to facilitate the initial connection handshake (exchanging Session Description Protocol (SDP) tokens and ICE candidates).
• Zero Server Canvas Persistence: The signaling server does not record or store your whiteboard content. Once the session ends or all peers disconnect, the ephemeral room state is destroyed immediately.

6. Third-Party CDNs & Fonts

To deliver high-fidelity typography and fast global page loading, our website utilizes standard, privacy-respecting Content Delivery Networks:

• Google Fonts: Web fonts (such as Geist, Inter, and handwritten fonts) are loaded from Google's font delivery network. Google's font servers may collect your IP address during font asset delivery according to Google Fonts Privacy terms.
• Open Source Libraries: Vector icons (Lucide) and diagramming parsers (Mermaid.js) are bundled locally within our application build and run entirely inside your browser sandbox without making third-party telemetry calls.

7. Children's Privacy (COPPA & FERPA Compliance)

Web Online Board is heavily utilized in educational environments, K-12 schools, universities, and tutoring centers:

Because Web Online Board does not require accounts, does not collect names, ages, emails, or personal identifiers, and does not conduct behavioral advertising, our platform complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Students and minors can safely practice math, sketch diagrams, and take notes with zero risk of digital profiling.

8. Data Protection Rights (GDPR & CCPA/CPRA)

Whether you reside in the European Union, the United Kingdom, California, or elsewhere, you possess comprehensive data sovereignty rights:

• Right to Access & Portability: You can export your canvas boards at any time as standardized JSON backup files, 4K PNG images, SVG vector graphics, or PDF documents.
• Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): Because your creative data lives entirely on your device, you have instant, sovereign control to delete it at any time by clearing your browser cache or using our in-app canvas reset.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: Web Online Board is free for everyone, with full feature access and zero paywalls, regardless of your privacy preferences.

9. Data Retention & Erasure

Because we do not store your canvases on remote databases, there is no server-side user data retention schedule for your boards. Your drawings remain securely stored on your local computer or mobile device until you:

1. Click "Reset Canvas" or delete individual board sheets inside the app.
2. Clear your browser's site data or cookies for webonlineboard.com.
3. Uninstall the Progressive Web App (PWA) container.

10. Policy Updates & Contact Details

We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect technical improvements, new canvas capabilities, or statutory requirements. When modifications occur, the revision date at the top of this document will be updated.

If you have questions, feedback, or inquiries regarding our privacy architecture, feel free to reach out to our privacy team: