What this covers
Accessible Workspace is a pair of apps, Accessible Workspace for Mac and Accessible Workspace for Windows, made by Eliezer Andres. They work with your Google mail, calendar, contacts, and Drive. This policy explains what happens to your Google data when you use them. The apps were previously called Accessible Mail.
Google data the apps access
With your permission, the apps use your Google account to:
- read, send, label, and organize your Gmail messages;
- read and manage your Google Calendar events;
- read and manage your Google Contacts;
- suggest addresses from your Google Contacts and the Other contacts list while you write;
- browse your Google Drive, including Shared with me and shared drives; upload, download, rename, move, and trash files; share them with other people; and attach Drive files to mail or save attachments to Drive.
While an app is open, it also checks Google in the background to keep your information up to date and to tell you about new mail. Actions such as sending mail or sharing a file happen only when you ask for them.
Where your data goes
The apps run on your own computer and talk directly to Google. There is no server run by the developer. The developer does not receive, store, copy, or see your email, calendar, contacts, files, or sign-in tokens.
To start quickly and keep working smoothly, the apps store some information only on your computer, in your user account's private app folder:
- sign-in tokens;
- mail lists and previews, including sender, subject, and date, plus drafts and files attached to drafts;
- your contacts and calendar events;
- on Mac, your notes, signatures, recent copies of sent mail, and the names and details of your Drive files, but never the contents of those files.
On Windows the sign-in tokens are encrypted with Windows data protection, and the other stored information is protected by your Windows user account but not separately encrypted. On Mac this information is not encrypted, and its folders are readable only by your user account. The Windows app also keeps a log of app errors on your computer, and that log is not sent to the developer.
The Windows app checks GitHub for new versions and downloads updates from there. GitHub can see your computer's IP address, as with any download, but no Google data is sent. The Mac app does not contact GitHub.
How data is used
Google user data is used only to provide the features you see in the apps. It is not sold, shared with third parties except where you ask, such as when you send mail or share a file, used for advertising, or used to train artificial intelligence models. No person reads your data.
The apps' use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Your control
You can remove an account inside either app, which deletes its sign-in tokens and saved information from your computer. The Windows app also asks Google to cancel the app's access. On Mac, or if that request fails, you can cancel access yourself at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
Deleting the app's data folder also removes what it stored there. That folder is .accessible-workspace in your home folder on Mac, and AccessibleMail in your AppData Roaming folder on Windows. On Mac, display settings and read and flag markers are kept separately in the app's WebKit storage. Files you choose to download stay where you saved them.
Contact
Questions about this policy: [email protected].