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Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 4, 2026

Claire is a calm, AI-assisted email client for Gmail, available on Mac, web, and iPhone. This policy explains what data Claire accesses, where it goes, and what we do — and don't — do with it. Plain language, no surprises.

The short version

Your email is processed primarily on your device. Claire does not store the contents of your mailbox on our servers.
We never sell your data, never show ads, and never use your email content to train AI models.
Two small, clearly-described server touchpoints exist: push notifications and cross-device settings sync. Both are described below.
AI features are opt-in and, on desktop, can run fully locally so nothing leaves your device.

1. Your Google account & Gmail data

When you sign in with Google, Claire requests permission to access your Gmail, calendar, and basic profile so it can show, organize, and send your mail. The specific permissions and why each is needed are listed on our Permissions page.

Email content (messages, attachments metadata, labels) is fetched from Google's API directly to the app on your device and displayed there. Claire's servers do not receive or store your email content, except for the two specific, limited purposes below.

2. Where data leaves your device

a) Push notifications (Cloudflare)

To notify you of new mail in real time, Claire stores — in Cloudflare's encrypted key-value storage, isolated per account — your OAuth refresh token (encrypted) and a Gmail sync marker. When new mail arrives, our notification service uses this to fetch only the metadata needed for the notification (such as sender and subject) and deliver it to your devices. It does not retain your message bodies.

b) Cross-device settings sync (Cloudflare)

So your to-dos and snooze/reminder times stay consistent across your devices, Claire syncs those small settings values (timestamps keyed to your email address) through the same encrypted storage. This contains scheduling metadata, not email content.

c) AI features (opt-in)

Claire's AI summaries and the daily briefing are optional and only run when you enable them:

Local (Ollama, desktop): runs entirely on your Mac — nothing leaves your device.
Cloud (Groq): if you provide a Groq API key, the relevant text is sent to Groq to generate the result — for "Summarize," the email's text; for the daily briefing, subjects, senders, and event titles. This is governed by Groq's privacy policy; per Groq's API terms, API data is not used to train their models.

d) Diagnostics (Sentry)

If enabled, Claire reports crashes and errors (stack traces and technical context) to Sentry so we can fix bugs. These reports are not intended to include the contents of your email. We are actively working to strip any incidental personal data from diagnostics.

3. What we store on your device

Authentication tokens in your operating system's secure storage (macOS Keychain / iOS secure storage).
Settings and cached mail in the app's local storage, so the app is fast and works offline.

4. What we never do

We never sell or rent your data.
We never use your email content to train AI models.
We never show advertising.
We do not share your data with third parties except the infrastructure providers named above (Google, Cloudflare, Groq if you enable it, Sentry if enabled), each only for the function described.

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

5. Deleting your data

You can sign out at any time to clear local data, and revoke Claire's access from your Google Account permissions. To purge the server-side items (your encrypted token and settings-sync values), see our Data Deletion page.

6. Contact

Questions about privacy? Email support@clairemail.app.