Gmail local

Privacy policy

Effective October 25, 2026. Gmail local is a personal tool used by one person, its owner, for his own Gmail accounts.

Who it's for

Only the owner. It has no other users and no sign-up, and it isn't offered to the public.

What it accesses

Only the Gmail accounts the owner connects himself, on Google's sign-in page, after Google's consent screen. With the Gmail access he grants, it can search and read his messages and attachments, add and remove labels, mark messages read, create and send drafts, and move messages to the trash. It doesn't read his Google password, and it reads no other Google data.

How it's used

Only to help the owner with his own email: when he asks his assistant (Claude), and when his daily brief reads new mail to find what needs him. It sends an email only when he says to. Never sold, never shared, never used for advertising.

Where it goes and where it's kept

On the owner's computer: the sign-in tokens, in its keychain, and any attachment he asks it to save, in his Downloads folder. Messages are otherwise read from Gmail when needed and aren't stored by the tool.

In the owner's Claude conversations and scheduled-task runs: what the tool returns (for example, a message he asked about), kept as his history until he deletes it.

In his own notes that Claude keeps for him: for example a to-do filed from an email, with a reference to that message, on his computer and on his private Daily Brief page.

Nothing else is sent anywhere except the requests to Google's Gmail API.

Google API Services User Data Policy

Gmail local's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Keeping and deleting it

Third parties

Google provides the Gmail API; see Google's privacy policy. Anthropic runs Claude, the assistant the owner uses to read his data; see Anthropic's privacy policy. No other third party receives this data.