Privacy
Privacy
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Who is requesting your Google user data?
What data are we requesting?
To let you save and retrieve your data. The app uses your email address as the unique "key" (basically a label) for data you've saved in the app
This lets you open the app open in your Gmail user interface. It's also a prerequisite for the following three items
This allows the app to read information such as the subject and recipients, but not the content of the current message and any other message within the same thread. It's a prerequisite for the following two items
To read the current message body in order to save it to be used later. When you use any "Save" button, the app reads the body of the currently open message and saves it to your data (unless you've opted to save something else)
To add information to the message you're composing. When you use any "Insert" button, the app uses this permission to insert the data you saved earlier in to the current message. This permission also allows the app to temporarily create new drafts messages and replies, but that's not needed, so it doesn't
We store data you've saved with us in an "external" database. It's technically external as it's outside of the app's program file, but the data is still stored by us using Google services in Google locations
Sharing
We don't share your data with any third parties aside from those noted below:
Your data is stored using Google products - see Storage below. It's not explicitly shared with Google, and we understand that Google won't investigate our storage nor attempt to glean or otherwise discover any information.
If you purchase a "Premium" subscription, your email address will be sent to Stripe. This allows Stripe to generate the checkout page with your email address as the recipient, and send you a receipt on payment. This allows us to associate the completed payment with your account, removing human error. We understand Stripe is a broadly trusted credit card payment provider and are confident in (but do not guarantee) their respect for your privacy. Please review Stripe's privacy policy if you are interested in purchasing a Premium subscription.
Storage
Any data stored is stored by us using Google applications and services - please review Google's privacy policies
Your data is stored in working memory (cache) while you're using the app, and for 6 hours afterwards so it loads quickly when you need it next. This 6 hour timer resets each time you use the add-on. It can't be accessed by any other users. At rest, it's stored in Google Sheets, in and encrypted and unreadable state. The AES encryption would take billions of years of computing to crack and find any personally identifiable information.
We can decrypt the data if absolutely required for maintenance, but we can't associate the decrypted data with you. Your email address is the unique identifier for your data, and is stored in an irreversibly encrypted manner (hashed). We can only associate your data with you by knowing your email address (so we can generate the hash again and find the corresponding data). We will only ever do so to fix a problem or perform some other function necessary for the service, or to assist you with your data, or to delete your data.
Who is requesting your Google user data?
What data are we requesting?
This lets us put you in the "htmlsignature" group, which in turn allows you to install the add-on. We'll occasionally check the number of members in this group to gauge its usage. If asked to remove an address, we'll also likely incidentally see a few individual addresses unrelated to the one we're deleting
We won't send you anything unrelated to this app, and we'll never sell, give, or otherwise disseminate your email address to anyone else
To let you save and retrieve your data. The app uses this permission whenever you use the app's buttons and controls to save, update or delete data. Your data is saved to "User properties", which is described in Google documentation as a "property store that only the current user can access, and only within this script". The "current user" means that if we tried to retrieve information, we'd only get our own. We don't have access to the data you save. This permission also allows the app to fetch e.g. your email address, but that's not needed in the app, so it doesn't
This lets you open the app open in your Gmail user interface. It's also a prerequisite for the following three items
This allows the app to read information such as the subject and recipients, but not the content of the current message and any other message within the same thread. It's a prerequisite for the following two items
To read the current message body in order to save it to be used later. When you use the "Save email content as signature" button, the app reads the body of the currently open message and saves it to your user properties
To add information to the message you're composing. When you use the "Insert saved signature" button, the app uses this permission to insert the data you saved earlier in to the current message. This permission also allows the app to temporarily create new drafts messages and replies, but that's not needed, so it doesn't
Sharing
We don't share your data with any third parties
Storage
Any data stored is stored by Google - please review Google's privacy policies