Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of the Annota browser extension, the Annota service it connects to, and this website. Using any of them means you accept these terms. If you do not, do not install or use Annota.

Annota is pre-release software. It is not published on the Chrome Web Store, nothing is sold, and features described here may change.

Annota is a browser extension that adds a workspace layer to the ChatGPT web interface. It lets you capture passages from a conversation as highlights, bookmarks, notes or tasks; keeps a link back to the message each one came from; organises them; and — if you choose to switch it on — synchronises them between your devices.

Annota keeps the provenance of a saved passage. It does not verify whether the passage is true. A source link tells you where something was said, not that it was correct.

Annota is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or connected to OpenAI. ChatGPT and OpenAI are trademarks of OpenAI, used here only to say what Annota works with.

Annota runs on top of an interface that OpenAI controls and can change at any time. Your use of ChatGPT is governed by OpenAI’s terms, not these, and you remain responsible for complying with them. Annota has no control over ChatGPT’s availability, behaviour, pricing or content, and does not guarantee any of them.

Annota requires an Annota account, and Google sign-in is the only way to create and access one. You are responsible for the Google account you sign in with and for what is done through your Annota account.

You may sign out at any time. Signing out clears the session on that device; it does not delete your account or anything already synchronised.

Annota grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the extension for its intended purpose, on the terms of this document.

You may not:

• copy, redistribute, sell or sublicense the extension;
• reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except where the law expressly permits that despite this restriction;
• remove or obscure any notice of ownership or attribution in it;
• use it to build a competing product from its internals rather than from its published behaviour.

The passages you capture, the notes and tasks you write, the tags you apply and the prompt templates you create are yours. Annota claims no ownership of them and no right to use them for its own purposes.

Enabling cloud synchronisation gives Annota the narrow technical permission it needs to do what you asked: to receive, store and return your encrypted workspace payload for your account. That permission exists only to run the feature and ends when you stop using it.

You are responsible for what you capture. Saving a passage into Annota does not give you rights in it that you did not already have, and you should not use Annota to store material you are not allowed to keep.

Annota records enough about a message to find it again: the conversation, the message, the position of the passage, and hashes of the surrounding text. When you return to a saved item, Annota tells you how precisely it could place it — the exact message, the nearest position in a conversation it could still reach, or that the conversation is no longer available.

That degradation is expected rather than a fault: conversations get deleted, edited and regenerated, and the page structure changes. Annota keeps a short excerpt so a saved item remains meaningful even when the original cannot be reached, but it cannot guarantee that any saved item will remain linkable.

• Do not use Annota to break the law or anyone else’s rights.
• Do not attempt to gain access to accounts, data or parts of the service that are not yours.
• Do not interfere with the service, overload it, or work around its technical limits.
• Do not use Annota to circumvent ChatGPT’s own terms or technical protections.
• Do not automate the extension at a scale it is plainly not intended for.

The Annota software, its name, its interface and this website are proprietary and all rights are reserved. Nothing here transfers any of those rights to you beyond the licence in this document. Third-party components included in Annota remain subject to their own licences.

Annota relies on services it does not control: the ChatGPT web interface, Google sign-in and Firebase, your browser and its extension platform, and raw.githubusercontent.com for the configuration file that keeps the extension aligned with ChatGPT’s interface. What each one receives is set out in the Privacy Policy.

If one of them changes or becomes unavailable, parts of Annota may stop working until Annota is updated.

Annota is under active development, and features may be added, changed or withdrawn. Changes that remove something you rely on, or that affect data you have saved, will be communicated rather than made silently. Because the extension works against an interface that changes outside Annota’s control, Annota does not promise uninterrupted compatibility.

You may stop using Annota at any time by signing out and removing the extension.

Annota may suspend or end access to the service where it is being used in breach of these terms, where doing so is necessary to protect the service or other people, or where the law requires it.

What happens to your data on termination — what is removed, what remains, and what you can still get out — is described precisely in the Deletion section of the Privacy Policy, including the parts that are not yet implemented. Export your work before you stop using Annota if you want to keep it.

Annota is not sold today. No plan can be purchased, no payment is taken, no payment provider is integrated, and no subscription exists. Any pricing shape shown on this website is illustrative and is not an offer.

These terms may be updated as Annota changes. The effective date at the top records the current version, and a change that materially affects your rights will be brought to your attention rather than left for you to find. Continuing to use Annota after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms.