Terms of service

Sketchbord is an online whiteboard for drawing diagrams, notes and plans together, including with the help of AI agents. It is built and maintained by a private developer; there is no separate legal entity behind it yet.

This document sets out the terms on which you use the service. By starting to use it — by creating a board or an account — you agree to them. If something here does not suit you, write to us: this is a working document, not something carved in stone.

The law of the Russian Federation applies to the service and to this document.

The service runs in beta. We say so plainly and at the start, because we would rather you learned it here than at a bad moment.

• Features change: things appear, things get rebuilt, things may go away.
• Failures and short outages are possible — during updates, for instance.
• In rare cases data may be lost or damaged. We work to prevent that, but in beta we give no guarantee that data will survive.

So we do not recommend making Sketchbord the only home for anything important: the only copy of a working document, legally significant material, anything that cannot be recreated. For drafts, diagrams, discussions and plans — please do, that is what it is for.

This is not a disclaimer for form's sake: we use the service ourselves every day and want it to be reliable. Until it has earned that trust, keep what matters in two places.

Shared boards need an account with a working email address. You can also draw without registering — such a board stays in your browser. By registering you confirm that you are at least 14 years old.

• The password is yours to look after: do not hand it out and do not reuse one from another service.
• You are responsible for what is done under your account.
• If you notice activity that is not yours, write to us and we will help shut it off.

Everything you make on a board stays yours. We process it exactly as far as running the service requires: to store it, to show it to you and to the people you opened it to, and to synchronise it between devices and participants.

• You are responsible for what you put there: for the rights to the material and for it being lawful.
• We do not read the contents of your boards out of curiosity. Technical access is possible while investigating a failure you reported, or where the law requires it.
• Board contents do not reach our technical statistics — we record that a board was created, but not its name and not what is drawn on it.

An invitation link is itself a key: whoever opens it gets access within the role it grants — to look only, or to look and edit. We do not check who followed the link.

Hence a simple rule: share links deliberately, and revoke the ones you no longer need in the board's sharing settings. A revoked link stops working immediately.

The service accepts commands from AI agents through an API key. A key is access too: with it an agent can read your boards, create new ones and change existing ones.

• Keep a key like a password and do not publish it in open repositories.
• A key issued for one board is confined to it; an account key sees all your boards and can create new ones.
• Any key can be revoked at any moment, and stops working the instant it is.
• What an agent does with your key is your responsibility: to the service those are your actions.

A short list, and it is about the obvious:

• Posting anything unlawful, or anything of somebody else's without the right to it.
• Distributing malicious content or links to it.
• Interfering with the service: deliberately overloading it, probing for vulnerabilities without our agreement, working around plan limits.
• Using other people's accounts and keys.

If we run into that, we will restrict access. Where we can we will write first and work it out — a misunderstanding is likelier than bad intent.

We try to keep the service available at all times but do not promise it: updates, work at our infrastructure providers, and plain circumstance happen. We give notice of planned work when we know of it in advance.

While the beta lasts, the set of features may change. If something you use has to be removed or substantially reworked, we will try to say so beforehand rather than after the fact.

The service is free for the duration of the beta. The limits in force — how many boards, elements and agent calls you get — are shown in your account settings.

Paid plans will arrive. When they do we will say so in advance, and no amount will be charged without your explicit agreement. If your boards stop fitting the free limits they will not vanish: we will tell you and offer options.

The service is provided "as is". So far as the law permits, we are not liable for lost profit, indirect losses, or the consequences of the service being unavailable or of data being lost.

That is the usual wording for a beta, and it does not undo section 2: if something breaks we will look into it and help, not point at this paragraph.

Any board can be deleted by you, together with its levels and uploaded images; the links handed out for it stop working. Deletion cannot be undone.

If you need the whole account deleted, write to us and we will do it. There is no separate button for that yet, and we are not pretending there is.

Signing in needs an email address — the same one is used for password recovery and important notices. We keep technical logs and events about how the service is used ("a board was created", for instance) in order to find faults and see what gets used. Board contents do not reach such events.

How personal data is processed, who its operator is, where it is stored and what rights you have is set out in the privacy policy. It forms part of this agreement.

We may update this document. The date of the last change is at the top of the page. We will give notice of substantial changes in advance — by email or by a visible message in the interface, rather than editing the text quietly.

Questions, remarks and bug reports — to support@dev-sketchbord.ru or on Telegram @kizilov_yura. The developer answers.