Last updated 12 September 2026
Pagenail keeps your notes on your own computer. It does not copy the pages you visit, it has no analytics, no advertising and no third-party trackers, and the only things it sends anywhere are listed in full below.
Pagenail is operated by [LEGAL ENTITY], of
[POSTAL ADDRESS], which is the controller of the personal data
described here. You can reach us at
hello@pagenail.com.
The extension writes to your browser's own extension storage. That means the data sits on your computer, under your browser profile, and is not visible to us or to the websites you visit.
| What | Why |
|---|---|
The address of each page you've noted — hostname and path, with the query string and #fragment removed | It's the key your notes are filed under, and how they're found again when you return |
| The text of your notes | It's the note |
| Where a note sits, how big it is, whether it's collapsed | So a note comes back where you left it |
| Your preferences — colour scheme, note font size, which edge the dock sits on, panel width | So the interface stays as you set it |
| If you sign in, your session tokens and the email address on the account | To keep you signed in without asking again |
It does not keep a copy of the pages you visit. To place your notes, the extension does read the page you're on — it measures the layout so a note lands where you put it. None of that reading is saved, and none of it is transmitted.
It has no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no advertising identifiers and no third-party tracking code of any kind. There is no browsing history, and no record of pages you didn't write a note on.
| Permission | What it's for |
|---|---|
storage | Saving your notes and preferences on your device |
tabs | Opening the dashboard in its own tab, reusing that tab instead of piling up duplicates, and taking you to a noted page from the dashboard |
alarms | Scheduling the renewal of a signed-in session, so it doesn't expire while you work |
| Running on web pages |
Pagenail's dock and notes are drawn onto the page itself, so it runs on
https:// pages. It does not run on http://
pages, local files, PDFs, Chrome's own pages or the Chrome Web Store.
|
Four things, and nothing else.
Pagenail's popup and dashboard load their typeface from Google Fonts. Opening
either one makes a request to fonts.googleapis.com and
fonts.gstatic.com, which discloses your IP address and browser to
Google in the ordinary way any web page does. No note text and no page
addresses are involved. This happens only on Pagenail's own screens — not on
the pages you browse.
The dashboard shows a small icon beside each site you've taken notes on, and fetches it from Google's public favicon service. Because the request carries the domain name, the domains you have taken notes on are visible to Google while the dashboard is open. Note text is never sent. If that trade isn't one you want, the dashboard is the only place it happens.
Registering or signing in sends your email address and password to Pagenail's server. With an account, the notes you write are also sent there so they survive a reinstall and appear on your other machine: the same fields listed above, including page addresses and note text.
Passwords are never stored in readable form. An account is optional and Pagenail is fully usable without one.
Creating a share link uploads that one note's text and the address of the page it was written on, so the link can display it. Only the note you shared. Anyone who has the link can read it — treat a share link as public. See Sharing a note.
An exported HTML file styles itself with the same Google font, so opening one makes that font request from wherever it's opened. Markdown and plain-text exports contain nothing but your own notes and make no requests at all. Use those two if you're sending notes somewhere sensitive.
We do not sell your data, rent it, trade it, or use it for advertising, and we do not use it to build a profile of you. We do not use your notes to train machine-learning models. Nobody at Pagenail reads your notes, except where you ask us to in order to resolve a support problem, or where we are compelled to by law.
The service providers that necessarily handle data on our behalf, if you have
an account, are [HOSTING PROVIDER], which runs the server your
notes are stored on, and [EMAIL PROVIDER], which delivers the
verification email. Google is not a service provider of ours — the two
requests above go to Google because of how the interface is built, not because
we send it anything.
On your device, for as long as you keep it: notes stay until you delete them, or until the extension is removed, which deletes them with it.
On the server, for as long as your account exists. Deleting a note removes it
from the server. Deleting your account removes the account and its notes
within [RETENTION]. There is no self-serve account deletion yet —
email us and we'll do it.
Signing out is not the same as deleting an account. It clears the notes from that computer and leaves the server copy intact, so signing back in restores them. Account and sync explains this in more detail, because it surprises people.
Two of these you can exercise yourself, immediately, without asking us:
Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to ask us for a copy of the personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to or restrict how we use it, and to complain to your local data protection authority. Write to hello@pagenail.com and we'll answer.
Pagenail isn't intended for children under [AGE], and we don't
knowingly collect their personal data. If you believe a child has created an
account, tell us and we'll remove it.
Keeping notes on your own device is the main protection here: most of the data Pagenail handles never leaves it. Account traffic travels over HTTPS and passwords are stored only as hashes. No service can promise perfect security, and we don't.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. For a change that materially affects what we do with your data, we'll tell account holders by email rather than relying on you to re-read the page.
Questions about privacy, or a request about your data: hello@pagenail.com.