Personal Data
JS Paint doesn't track you or sell your data.
Third-Party Services
JS Paint doesn't send any information to a server in most cases.
Imgur upload and Firebase/Discord collaboration are disabled in this deployment. Your drawing is not sent to those services.
Optional features that request external content are:
- If you paste an image URL, the app will fetch the image via the URL, or if that doesn't work, fetch via a CORS Anywhere proxy service, or if that doesn't work, attempt to fetch via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
- In Speech Recognition mode (Extras > Speech Recognition), if you say for example "draw a cat", it will try to do an anonymous Bing Images search for "cat" clipart, and then animate sketching it.
Some of these features may be defunct due to changes in the services they rely on. They may be replaced or removed in the future, to simplify the privacy policy.
Local Storage
JS Paint uses local storage to save your work in progress.
You can view and delete stored images with File > Manage Storage.
Think of this as a backup, in case you close the tab by accident or your computer crashes. Don't rely on it as your only backup.
There is currently no option to prevent the app from saving a backup, however you can use your browser's private browsing mode to prevent the data from being persisted.
If the page URL contains #local:, it's a local session, private to your browser profile.
Collaborative Sessions
Collaborative sessions are disabled. A URL containing #session: is converted to
a private #local: session without contacting Firebase or another collaboration server.