Privacy policy
Effective November 10, 2026
Email Client is a desktop app that runs on your own computer. There is no Email Client server: your data goes directly between your computer and Google (and Todoist, if you connect it). The developer never receives it.
What the app accesses
When you sign in with Google, the app asks for permission to use only what its features need:
- Your name and email address, to tell your accounts apart.
- Gmail: to show, search and sort your messages; to label, archive, trash, draft and send mail when you act; and to read and update your Gmail filters, signatures and send-as addresses.
- Google Calendar: to create events when you turn an email into an event.
- Google Drive: only files the app creates for you (saved attachments, receipts, documents made from emails) and a hidden app folder that holds the app's own settings. It cannot see your other Drive files.
Some permissions are only requested when you start using the feature that needs them. The app never deletes email permanently: it can only archive or move mail to Trash.
How the data is used
Only to provide the features you see in the app: showing, searching, organising and sending your email, creating the tasks, events and files you ask for, and keeping your settings in sync between your computers.
Where it is stored
- On your computer: your sign-in tokens, encrypted by your operating system (Windows Data Protection or macOS Keychain), and a local copy of recent mail for speed and offline reading. These stay on that computer.
- In your own Google Drive: the app's settings, rules, saved searches and snoozes, in a hidden app folder that only this app can read.
Apart from the tasks, events and files you choose to create, the app stores nothing anywhere else. The developer runs no servers and has no copy of your data.
Sharing
Your data is not sold, not shared with anyone, not used for advertising, and not used to train AI or machine learning models. It is sent only to Google, and to Todoist when you choose an action that creates a Todoist task. The developer has no access to your data unless you choose to share something yourself, for example when asking for help.
Email Client's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Removing your data
- Remove an account in the app: its saved sign-in and its locally stored mail are deleted from that computer, and the app asks Google to revoke its access.
- Revoke access at any time from your Google Account: myaccount.google.com/permissions.
- The hidden settings folder can be deleted from Google Drive → Settings → Manage apps → Email Client → Delete hidden app data.
Changes
If the app starts handling data differently, this page will be updated and the date above changed.