Limited-use policy
Draft for review. This page is a good-faith draft prepared for the owner and is pending final legal review before launch. It reflects how Sortwell actually handles Google user data today.
Sortwell connects to your Gmail to organize your inbox. Because that involves access to Google user data through a restricted Gmail scope, our handling of that data is governed by Google's policies. This page states our commitment plainly.
Our Limited Use commitment
What that means in plain terms
- Provide and improve user-facing features only. We use the data we receive from Google APIs solely to provide and improve the features of Sortwell that you can see and use, that is, organizing your inbox: filing receipts, sweeping newsletters and notifications, flagging real mail, learning from how you file, and letting you undo any action.
- No transfer except as necessary. We do not transfer Google user data to third parties except as necessary to provide or improve those user-facing features, to comply with applicable law, or in connection with a merger or acquisition with your explicit prior consent. The service providers we rely on to run Sortwell are listed in our Privacy Policy and process data only on our instructions.
- Never for advertising. We do not use Google user data for any advertising purpose, and we do not build advertising or marketing profiles from it.
- Humans do not read your data, except in the narrow cases Google permits: when you give us specific consent (for example, to resolve a support request you raise), when it is necessary for security purposes such as investigating abuse, or when required by applicable law.
- No selling, no model training. We never sell Google user data, and we never use it to develop, improve, or train generalized or third-party AI/ML models.
The scopes we request
Sortwell asks for the least it needs:
| Scope | Why |
|---|---|
openid, email, profile | To sign you in and identify your account. |
gmail.modify | To read messages and add or remove labels, the actions needed to file, archive, and undo. We do not request the send scope, so Sortwell cannot send, reply to, or forward mail. |
The AI tie-breaker
For the small share of messages our rules cannot confidently classify, Sortwell sends a compact record (sender, domain, subject, a short snippet truncated to about 200 characters, and the message's Gmail category labels) to a third-party AI model (Anthropic's Claude, via the Vercel AI Gateway) only to get a routing suggestion. This runs under zero data retention: the provider does not retain that data and does not train on it. Full detail is in the Privacy Policy.
Learn more
This page summarizes the commitment; the complete detail of what we access, store, share, and how to control or delete your data is in our Privacy Policy. Questions? Email privacy@sortwell.io.